Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Mobile broadband vs. fiber optic connection

The past month has been very busy for me! I've got a new job as Web Designer situated in the capital city and thus I've also moved to greater Helsinki region. This is the reason for such a quiet season on my blog, sorry about that!

There's still much stuff for me to sort out around here, but finally today I got my new internet connection working. For a short period I trialed a mobile broadband, "mokkula" as we call it here. For basic web surfing it was ok, but the speeds were varying a lot and the capability to sustain multiple connections failed to impress, even despite the 4G DC (?) signal was strong all the time. I need a solid connection for average web/download use that works even if I'm playing online on Xbox.

That is why I decided to return the mokkula and found out that there is an optical fiber connection available in my apartment building. They said it's the top-notch technology, especially designed for data transfers and fast speeds. This is also the impression I had of fiber optics and a quick Speedtest.net testing gave very, very consistent speeds. Almost all tests capped steady at 10.8 Mb/s for download and 2.0 Mb/s for upload. The ping number was constantly below 10ms, which is really impressive compared to the 60-80ms I got with the mokkula!

Speedtest.net results for my new broadband (Sonera's fiber optic) internet connection.

So this was my first post from my new home =) I've got some other new gadgets I haven't tried yet - hopefully I'll manage to test and write about them soon!

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