Re: Internet Speed (Speedtest.net)
The first one is to a datacenter 200 miles away in Bucharest, at the other major ISP (the two major ones have peering agreements)
The second is 600 miles away in Germany...
later edit: Oh.. I do live in one of the major cities of Romania, though. Smaller cities or villages or as you say the boonies (most of them) don't have the infrastructure to get 100 mbps, at this ISP for example they're still connected through DOCSIS 2 standard, which can deliver a max of about 35 mbps. I'd say they may have a bit more unstable connections, but overall it's not as bad as what I see from shovenose for example.
And even in those boonies, you could still get ADSL+ (about 8-24mbps/1-3 mbps up) as the old phone company pretty much upgraded all their telephone systems to digital.
There's also several phone networks which have coverage pretty much everywhere (but 3G and internet access has less coverage)... For example you can get for 12 euro a month this: http://www.orange.ro/internet-mobil/...-10/index.html (3 GB at 21.6/5.6 mbps, 128kbps after, free between midnight and 7 am)
Vodafone has something similar starting from 9 euro a month, but with no free traffic during the nights : https://www.vodafone.ro/personal/int...e-pc/index.htm
I wouldn't say 110-150 ms is bad, for going across the ocean and in the last picture, quite a long way to Dallas (5800 miles).
Speaking of money... yeah, 31 dollars here is more like if you'd pay 80-100 dollars in US, as the average salaries here are much lower, the majority being probably about 700-800 dollars a month. The majority of people would choose the plans that go up to about 25 mbps and they'd pay for plans with less TV channels.
Still, there's quite a lot of people working at IT or foreign companies with offices here that get paid over 1000-1500$ which is quite a lot, so it makes sense to have such plans available. Myself, I make close to 2000$ as a freelancer, and considering I work from home, it's quite a comfortable living.
As for content distribution, it works great... the ISP has Akamai servers within the network - I get 100mbps from those servers. Youtube delivers videos from their German and French datacenters so no issues there...
Most content delivery networks have a lot of servers in Europe also.
The first one is to a datacenter 200 miles away in Bucharest, at the other major ISP (the two major ones have peering agreements)
The second is 600 miles away in Germany...
later edit: Oh.. I do live in one of the major cities of Romania, though. Smaller cities or villages or as you say the boonies (most of them) don't have the infrastructure to get 100 mbps, at this ISP for example they're still connected through DOCSIS 2 standard, which can deliver a max of about 35 mbps. I'd say they may have a bit more unstable connections, but overall it's not as bad as what I see from shovenose for example.
And even in those boonies, you could still get ADSL+ (about 8-24mbps/1-3 mbps up) as the old phone company pretty much upgraded all their telephone systems to digital.
There's also several phone networks which have coverage pretty much everywhere (but 3G and internet access has less coverage)... For example you can get for 12 euro a month this: http://www.orange.ro/internet-mobil/...-10/index.html (3 GB at 21.6/5.6 mbps, 128kbps after, free between midnight and 7 am)
Vodafone has something similar starting from 9 euro a month, but with no free traffic during the nights : https://www.vodafone.ro/personal/int...e-pc/index.htm
I wouldn't say 110-150 ms is bad, for going across the ocean and in the last picture, quite a long way to Dallas (5800 miles).
Speaking of money... yeah, 31 dollars here is more like if you'd pay 80-100 dollars in US, as the average salaries here are much lower, the majority being probably about 700-800 dollars a month. The majority of people would choose the plans that go up to about 25 mbps and they'd pay for plans with less TV channels.
Still, there's quite a lot of people working at IT or foreign companies with offices here that get paid over 1000-1500$ which is quite a lot, so it makes sense to have such plans available. Myself, I make close to 2000$ as a freelancer, and considering I work from home, it's quite a comfortable living.
As for content distribution, it works great... the ISP has Akamai servers within the network - I get 100mbps from those servers. Youtube delivers videos from their German and French datacenters so no issues there...
Most content delivery networks have a lot of servers in Europe also.
Comment