Telepocalypse by Martin Geddes: Faster than a speeding snail

September 13, 2006

Faster than a speeding snail

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-09-12 22:53:44 EST:
Your download speed : 38 kbps or 4.7 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 42 kbps or 5.3 KB/sec.

Should I ask for my money back? Boston Park Plaza Hotel: nice price, lousy connectivity.

Isn’t it about time that when we buy Internet access, we get some kind of service guarantee?

Posted by Martin Geddes at 04:00 AM

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Well, at least you get to upload more than you download...

Posted by: at September 13, 2006 06:43 AM

I stayed at the congress plaza hotel in Chicago for Globalcomm and the connectivity was so bad (40% packet loss) that I couldn't even get into the corporate VPN to download my email.

Pretty rediculous...I would think they would fix it after receiving enough complaints.

A full post of my frustrations that week is posted in this blog entry http://blogs.globalcrossing.com/wifi-sucks.

Posted by: at September 13, 2006 09:37 PM

The WLAN at VON was even worse.

10 % packet loss to the default gateway and round trip times up to 2000 msec. VoIP really sucks over such a connection.

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