[LINK] Australian internet fails pigeon test

[Stilgherrian]

On 02/11/2009, at 4:31 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
> Or about half the speed of the normal slowest ADSL products  
> _outbound_ (ie,
> 256KBits/sec), and of course that's the catch with this entire test  
> - they
> were testing the slower of ADSL's upload and download speeds, which  
> means
> they were testing the upload speed, which for 99% of the population  
> will
> rarely if ever be a limiting factor.

I dunno whether it's 99% any more, 'cos more and more people are  
participating and making stuff for the tubes.

That said, you're right about testing the slowest link.

Stil


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