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Sunday, May 21, 2017
Speedtest Ranks The Fastest Fixed Broadband for 2016
Speedtest Ranks The Fastest Fixed Broadband and Mobile Internet Service Providers In The US
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According to a report released by Speedtest on August 3rd, internet speeds for both mobile and fixed broadband users in the United States are increasing. At the end of June, the average download speed for fixed broadband was 54.97 Mbps (Megabits per second), a 42% increase from the same time last year. Average upload speed for fixed broadband was 18.88 Mbps, a year-to-year increase of 51%.
Mobile internet speed also increased but mobile is markedly slower and the percentage increases from last year were smaller. Average mobile download speed was 19.61 Mbps, a 33% increase over last year. Average upload speed was 7.94 Mbps, a 7.4% increase.
Speedtest also ranked internet service providers in terms of their download and upload speeds. However, care must be taken when considering how Speedtest calculated speed. As you would expect, Speedtest reported average speeds across all service providers for the national averages given in the preceding two paragraphs.
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You might also expect that Speedtest would report the average speed for each service provider as well - but that's not what they did. When Speedtest compared service providers they based their measurements on the top 10% of each provider's recorded speeds. In other words, 90% of subscribers should expect speeds that are slower than the speeds reported by Speedtest.
Here's what Speedtest found for fixed broadband service.
Fixed Broadband speeds measured in Mbps | ||
Service provider | Download speed | Upload speed |
XFINITY | 125.53 | 15.26 |
Cox | 117.85 | 22.61 |
Spectrum | 113.77 | 21.19 |
Verizon Fios | 88.4 | 93.64 |
AT&T | 49.78 | 7.49 |
CenturyLink | 39.85 | 12.03 |
Comcast XFINITY had the highest download speed at 125.53 Mbps. Unlike the other service providers, Verizon provides symmetric upload/download links and their Fios upload speed of 93.64 Mbps was more than the upload speeds of the other five companies combined.
Remember that the speeds in the table are the average of the top 10% of speeds recorded for each service provider. The Speedtest market report contains helpful infographics that give average mobile and fixed broadband speeds for individual cities and states.
For mobile, Speedtest only measured speed on devices that are capable of connecting to LTE networks. Here's what they found.
Mobile speeds on LTE-capable devices measured in Mbps | ||
Service Provider | Download speed | Upload speed |
Verizon Wireless | 21.11 | 8.22 |
T-Mobile | 21.02 | 11.59 |
AT&T | 18.91 | 6.77 |
Sprint | 15.04 | 4.7 |
Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile are in a dead heat for fastest download speed at 21.11 Mbps and 21.02 Mbsps respectively. T-Mobile's 11.59 Mbps is more than 40% faster than the other three major service providers which will be of interest to people who are sharing photos on social media from their cell phones.
A slightly different picture emerged when Speedtest looked at download speeds on LTE networks.
LTE download speeds measured in Mbps | |
Service Provider | Download Speed |
T-Mobile | 22.11 |
Verizon Wireless | 21.32 |
AT&T | 20.05 |
Sprint | 15.8 |
Here T-Mobile is the clear winner although Verizon Wireless is not far behind.
You can find out how fast your fixed broadband internet connection is on the Speedtest website.
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Monday, May 15, 2017
Be aware of your children playing this game suicide "the blue whale"
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The game is based in the relationship between the challengers (also called players or participants) and the administrators.[5][6] It involves a series of duties given by the administrators that players must complete, usually one per day, some of which involve self-mutilation.[7][8] Some tasks can be given in advance, while others can be passed on by the administrators on the day, the last task being suicide.[9][10]
The game was created by Philipp Budeikin, a former psychology student who was expelled from his university. Budeikin stated that his purpose was to "clean" the society by pushing to suicide those he deemed as having no value.[11][12][13][14][15] Blue Whale began in 2013 with "F57", one of the names of the so-called "death group" of the VKontakte social network.[16] It is believed that the first case of suicide related to the game occurred in 2015 in Russia.[7][17]
The phenomenon has provided fodder for conspiracy theorists, some of whom claim it is an organized campaign run by Ukrainian nationalists.[18]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Whale_(game)
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