The cliff personal clouds need to climb

This speed test was done in London, but it’s typical of everywhere:
speedtest in london

It shows a Net biased for downstream, and minimized for upstream.

If we’re going to do any serious personal work in clouds, we need better upstream than this.

I wrote about the problem, and the reason for it, in France, four years ago. Not much has changed.

One would think that Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, all of which offer cloud services for people (check those links), would make a stink about awful upstream speeds. But I haven’t heard a peep. Why not?

 

 



2 responses to “The cliff personal clouds need to climb”

  1. […] Doc Searls mentioned in passing that he uses a new speed test website. I checked it out, and it was very cool… […]

  2. Doc: smal typo in the title. “peronal” vs. personal. I would DM you but you aren’t following back. 🙂 You can delete my comment, no need to post it.

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