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  • #52
    O'Coonassa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭O'Coonassa


    IrishTonyO wrote: »
    You might be surprised to hear that Ireland rank 6th in the world for average internet access speed. It was in the news the other day as well, an inprovement of 73% in the past year

    http://hitechpedia.com/lots-of-countries-are-getting-fast-internet/


    I'd be more than surprised I'd eat my hat. The methodology employed by Akamai involves the measurement of traffic on their own global server network and the results are therefore skewed by their own high end corporate customers.

    Moreover when considering the economic hubs of a nation, ie: its cities, the fastest in Europe are already over the 10Mbps threshold. Places like Limerick, Dublin, Galway, Cork and Waterford lag far behind.

    According to Ookla Net Metrics, whose methodology is more balanced between corporate and SOHO users, Ireland ranks at 48th in the world for downstream transfer and 53rd for upstream. This is far behind the 6th place position that you have been led to believe in and well behind most of our European competitors. Indeed according to Ookla the average downstream rate for the whole of Europe is nearly 3Mbps faster than the average for Ireland.

    As a nation our broadband provision is lagging behind and I know for a fact that this and the substandard service offerings are detrimental to our economic well being. As Eamon Wallace has pointed out in the article that weisses has linked to “Ireland cannot be accused of policy failure because we simply do not have a policy. It would be fairer to say we have a policy vacuum." Something needs to be done to rectify the situation, our best hope for the future lies with a technology based economy but who in their right minds will set up shop here when we lack the infrastructure they require?


  • #53
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    O'Coonassa wrote: »
    I'd be more than surprised I'd eat my hat. The methodology employed by Akamai involves the measurement of traffic on their own global server network and the results are therefore skewed by their own high end corporate customers.

    The original statement and all supporting links are here

    http://irelandoffline.org/2010/01/ireland-has-the-highest-percentage-of-slow-internet-connections-in-europe/

    Why was the average so high when the total number of EXCLUSIVE IPs connecting at 5mbits and above was the fourth lowest in Europe.

    That is because UPC and the Mobile operators and Imagine get their network caches to connect at high speed to Akamai over in the INEX.

    In other words the connection does not come from the end user but from a transparent proxy in the end users network core.

    The more interesting figure is that the uncached and unproxied 5mbit connections, those originating on Digiweb or Eircom or Bt for example and not UPC/Mobile Networks are the 4th lowest in Europe and under half the EU average.

    The most interesting figure is that Ireland has twice the EU average of completely sh1te connections and the highest % of such in Europe.


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