time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

[John Abreau]

When I talk to actual non-technical people who tell me their Internet
connection is too "slow", I almost always find that they're complaining
about slow browser response, or video that keeps buffering during play, or
other latency issues. The number of complains I hear about large files
taking too long to download is only a tiny fraction of the latency-based
complaints.

This is based on my direct first-hand experience, not on untested
assumptions.


On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com>
wrote:

> Maybe *I'm* behind the times: I just assumed the reason anyone wants
> "faster Internet" is for downloading ISOs-- which obviously makes the issue
> bandwidth, not latency, unless your 'connection' is something like USPS....
> --
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>
> On July 4, 2014 7:41:36 AM EDT, David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> wrote:
>
>> John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> writes:
>>
>>>  Internet "speed" is a conflation of two different things: bandwidth and
>>>  latency. Merely increasing your bandwidth won't do anything to address
>>>  problems with latency. If you combine both of these in your head and call
>>>  it "speed", then you're setting yourself up for expensive disappointment.
>>>
>>
>> I'm specifically looking for speed. Downloads, uploads, videos, etc. We
>> don't do any gaming or anything where latency is a big issue.
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