Just to make things worse for us Lebanese who want to get our average speeds up from the ridiculous 256Kbps at which they are today, Google’s internet speed has been revealed.
To put things into perspective, these are 1000 times faster than the 512Kbps speed some of us in Lebanon brag about. And another thing hampering our Lebanese internet connection is an unbelievably slow ping time (depending on ISP, the fastest you can get is 100 ms). With Google, it’s 3 ms.
And since Lebanon is not the benchmark when it comes to internet speeds, the average internet speed in Europe is around 12 Mb/s and that in the US is around 10 Mb/s.
Finally, just to show you how strong a connection this is, look at a download of a 8GB game:
And I was happy about the 1 hour it takes for my 350MB episodes to finish. Let the mourning over our pathetic situation start.
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Just search for any image on Google and you’ll get this message:
“You are seeing the basic version because we think your Internet connection is slow – Switch to standard version”
Worst part is that when I switched to the “standard version” I couldn’t even see the images.
Akh…
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Haha true. It’s truly a depressing situation we’re in.
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