Does Speed matter?

Absolutely, speed matters. Google have whole hydro electric dams dedicated to speedy delivery of search results. Browser developers burn out trying to load info faster than ever, and users spend a lot of money per month subscribing to ISP plans.

As a guy, a webmaster and a former educator and businessman, the speed of internet access is a major deal. The easier you can get online and the faster you can search for and find what you need, the more functional you are. And on a national scale, a speedy internet network, makes for a speedy and efficient work force with access to untold amounts of useful information to make you smarter and more productive and more alive.

Read more about this at Speed Matters, a very cool almost whistle blower type site, revealing just how backward the greatest technological nation on earth really is. Sorry, America, but it is true!

I am on a Verizon USB "high speed" modem right now, and that drives me potty. It is so bloody slow, and demoralising at times. A real disincentive to do stuff - and to think it is much faster than dial-up.

How fast are the visitors to this blog?

In Google Analytics you can see a breakdown of your visitors' profile, including their internet connection speeds. How fast are visitors searching, surfing, connecting to your site and heading out? It looks like the majority are still on doddery dial-up networks, but there is everything in between too, right up to insane mainframe connectivity.

OC3 - the fastest ever visit to this site

According to this definition OC3 is the fiber optic backbone of the internet. So an OC3 hit is like a visit from God! In my case however, they stayed 0.00.00 seconds, so I wasn't exactly blessed by their presence.

Optical carrier levels (OCx) start at OC1 and are planned to go up to OC48 2.4GHz per second. Visitors will be leaving before they even arrive.

Let's hear it for T1

T1 was the first digital service of use to man and beast, and like all good things, it is still in use today.

The T-carrier system, introduced by the Bell System in the U.S. in the 1960s, was the first successful system that supported digitized voice transmission. The original transmission rate (1.544 Mbps) in the T-1 line is in common use today in Internet service provider (Internet service provider) connections to the Internet.

Yet again, I guess I was pinged or they felt some bad vibe and left before they arrived, because the visitors clocked up zero seconds.

Cable connection

Now we are talking.

Coaxial cable was invented in 1929 and first used commercially in 1941. AT&T established its first cross-continental coaxial transmission system in 1940.

Three cheers for DSL

Here is the perfect balance between speed and discerning readership. Fast connection, and the patience to read a couple of articles per visit. These visitors, I like! And this is another succinct explanation of what is going on with this type of internet connection.

ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) is the form of DSL that will become most familiar to home and small business users. ADSL is called "asymmetric" because most of its two-way or duplex bandwidth is devoted to the downstream direction, sending data to the user. Only a small portion of bandwidth is available for upstream or user-interaction messages.

POTS would drive me potty

DSL leads us on nicely to dial up or Plain Old telephone system. The biggest percentage of visitors to this site come proabbly via dial-up. They spend hours on the site, because they have no choice, with it loading at 2 words per minute. They come back for more, too. Thank you, I salute you.

What speed are you searching the internet at? Let me know.

btw Here is a full set of possible data rates available in the world today.

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