Reason #618 to work at Yahoo: fast network connections.

Just for kicks, I decided to use the BroadBandReports.com speed test to check the speed of the Internet connection as seen by my notebook.

Roughly 80Mb/sec. Not bad. Not bad at all...

Posted by jzawodn at August 31, 2005 05:54 PM

Reader Comments
# Phil Keogh said:

Impressive-now if only more servers had that kind of upload bandwidth you'd be set...

By the way, that screenshot should be the model for Firefox stability-over 20 tabs and still going strong.

on August 31, 2005 06:23 PM
# Mike said:

> my notebook [...] 80Mb/sec

No WIFI? Or do you use WIFI Speed Spray?
http://j-walk.com/other/wifispray/

(I can't believe this is #1 for "wifi speeds" @ Google - how useless.)

on August 31, 2005 06:30 PM
# antrix said:

So how do Yahoo engineers get an idea of how real users (on kbps speeds) feel about Yahoo websites? ;-)

on August 31, 2005 07:10 PM
# Mike said:

> So how do Yahoo engineers get an idea of how real users (on kbps speeds) feel about Yahoo websites?

Dedicate most of that bandwidth to downloading pr0n ;P

on August 31, 2005 07:35 PM
# Manish Jethani said:

>that screenshot should be the model for Firefox stability-over 20 tabs and still going strong.

You'll know when it crashes... the amount of unfinished work you've lost. :)

on August 31, 2005 11:44 PM
# Mike said:

Not with session saver:
http://www.pikey.me.uk/mozilla/#ss

Has saved me from a many Firefox/OS/power/etc. crash.

I often have multiple windows open, with many tabs.

on September 1, 2005 12:12 AM
# Dan said:

Umm, isn't that kiloBITS? So you're really getting roughly 10 MB/sec. Not that that sucks or anything...

on September 1, 2005 05:16 AM
# Justin said:

Yes, thats awesome. I love downloading things on my colo boxes.. 100mbps is awesome.

on September 1, 2005 08:29 AM
# rr said:

What, you don't have gig-e? The pipes're a whole lot fatter than that ...

on September 1, 2005 09:10 AM
# Jeremy Zawodny said:

Sad but true. My notebook has gig-e but I appear to be plugged into a 100Mbit switch. :-(

on September 1, 2005 09:38 AM
# rr said:

Just teasing. Don't think there are actually any (or many) gig ports outside production.

on September 1, 2005 03:06 PM
# Jeremy Zawodny said:

Damn! You had my hopes up... :-)

on September 1, 2005 03:10 PM
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