Are you on a slow connection?

Heisann,

We want to know of slow connections around the world. We can help fix them. We already have compressed Web pages for Opera by 80%. That's pretty good packing. We are ready to travel anywhere to help anyone with slow connections. Let us know of countries, cities, wooden shacks and the like. Post a location here and we might go there.

Tjallabais!

my friends' house, Høvik, Norway

My parents house on the beach in Estonia, Suurupi! I mean, my Mom can walk the dog in between each pageload. She can make Odd&Even vodka-socks!

Come here to Russia, be my guest I'll walk you through one of the most awful connections that human eyes had ever seen

my home in Puerto Ordaz - Venezuela, I have an EVDO connection 56kbps -.-

or less discharge to 5kbps in the day and 60kbps at night

es triste T_T

my university in Puebla, México

The SXSW conference WiFi. Worst. Connection. Ever.

Yep, here at work, Cajicá (Cundinamarca) in Colombia

Is slow and unstable good enough? Here in Italy in http://www.castiglionepescaia.it there are like one or two cellphone towers. During the turistic season, you are already lucky if you can connect (or phone, for the matter) at all. Even with a sim card from the same mobile operator that owns that mere couple of towers.

My High school. Mercantec Viborg in Denmark. We got a 100/100 megabit (or even more) but it is distributed to more than 500 students through slow 56 megabit WIFI. It is common that a single accespoint serves more than 40 students at a time.

Here in Iran, people use almost the slowest internet connection all-over-the-world; with 56kbps modems and a speed range from 0.1kBps to 3kBps (or a little more).

In December 2006 there was an earthquake under water near taiwan, which destroyed a internet-connection. At that time I have been to Indonesia where it caused to stop many internet connections for weeks, even during Christmas time. And especially the internet connections via USA were extremely slow or didn't work at all. At that time Opera Turbo would haven been useful. But still Opera did a gread job, showing websites without graphics at all - my own solution.

The Wi-Fi lan in São João de Meriti, Brazil at Shopping Grande Rio! KKKKK

My dial-up conection: Keko, not only slow, but I get a lot of lost packets, at a point that I lost my conection with opera turbo several times per hour

Where I live. My village in northern Germany has a few people that are said to have 1Mbit, but many have to stick with ISDN or DSL Light (ME!), which means 365kBit. We've tried to get access to real broadband, but i don't see it happening within the next years. If my house was 3km to the east, we'd have 6MBit. But, well, yeah, we don't.

It's horrible. Make it stop.

Great version for the best navigator. Hugs from Brazil.

France, home, Cherbourg.
In center town and 1Mb, paid as 3Mb ...

Originally posted by hreyes:

my university in Puebla, México

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html

Maybe ask the guys who implemented it, they might let you try opera on that connection ;-)

All my country, Venezuela.

Originally posted by odd-even:

Heisann,

We want to know of slow connections around the world. We can help fix them. We already have compressed Web pages for Opera by 80%. That's pretty good packing. We are ready to travel anywhere to help anyone with slow connections. Let us know of countries, cities, wooden shacks and the like. Post a location here and we might go there.

Tjallabais!

Am from Mauritius, am on a 512kbps ADSL modem, and the fastest bandwidth that our ISP can provide us is 1mbps.....

Russia, Mari-El republic, Alekseevskoe village.
on Google Maps
No cable internet. Only GSM (GPRS/EDGE) connection. GSM signal is very low.

To get stable connection there I had to use external antenna for my modem:

GSM Antenna

In Amapa, Brazil there is no fast connection available. The fastest is 56k dial up because the radio, that should be 200k, is slower. The cell connections are slower too. There´s no optic fiber here.

In India, we do have broadband(2Mbps on avg), but again lots of people still use 56kbps modem.

I have a internet connection which is 0 - 3 KB/s at peak busy time. That's why I use Turbo.

I have a 30/20 Mbit connection, try to pack that one, haha!

But seriously, I love Turbo, when I'm on slow connection!

Try Russian GPRS connection - it's sometimes can be so horrible that ICQ can't login for a few minutes.

Yeah, I remember those "happy" times of dial-up in Ukraine

* The message says: "Ukrtelecom is now connected. Speed: 4.8 Kbit/s"

Ukraine. town of Yalta. try modem dial-up to 23-99-93 from analog ATS... it's simply unusable... writing from edge by MTS:)

edit: leppa, от это совпало

You may just look at this map of internet speeds around the world. you can click on continent as well as individual countries to see the available internet speed. Then book your flight to go there!

Originally posted by odd-even:

Heisann,
We want to know of slow connections around the world. We can help fix them. We already have compressed Web pages for Opera by 80%. That's pretty good packing. We are ready to travel anywhere to help anyone with slow connections. Let us know of countries, cities, wooden shacks and the like. Post a location here and we might go there.
Tjallabais!

In Brazil, all connections are slow

university of Lagos Nigeria.You can observe in full details how a 124kb file downloads.Come to our rescue

We have fast connections here in Pakistan. and they are not heavy on pocket.

Sometimes turbo would slow down the connection.

My campus WiFi is the slowest thing in the world.

UAM Azcapotzalco, Mexico City
http://www.azc.uam.mx/

Hi!
The slowest connection i evеr use іs my homе dіаlup іn L'vіv Ukrаіnе: іt cаn gіve mе 3,5 kbs аt іt bеst.
Іsp іs zadarma.com

Malaysia, Streamyx is one of the slowest connection.
Find out more from twitter search. key in #streamyxsucks
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23streamyxsucks

Here in Philippines! Through globe telecom/innove wimax. I am subscribed in 1mbps plan but I'm not getting the right service! It's really slooww!

Indonesia, Through Telkomsel Flash, advertised as 3G but max @ 64 kbps its really sad. I wish opera would open turbo server here

Who can belive ist, Canada, Nova Scotia Richmond County has Modem connection with somtimes 28Kbit/sec . If your'e the lucky one you get EDGE over GSM Network.

I work at a bank in Amstelveen, the Netherlands. We are allowed to bring in our own equipment but not connect it to the business network. There is no WIFI, so I use a 3G (HSPDA/UMTS) dongle with KPN telecom.

I have to say that in beta testing Opera 10b3 on Linux Fedora 11, the turbo mode does *not* work with this setup. When I turn it on, the pages just hang and won't come up again 'til I turn it off and refresh.

Otherwise, the new browser is looking fantastic and fast on AJAX'y sites like Facebook and GMail. Keep it comin'

Slow enough?

Well I have no reason to complain on my Internet connection, as I have came the long way from the dialup 56,6(?) kbps, and gradually upgrading my broadband 128/32 to 256/64 to 512/128 to 1024/256 kbps now ;-), ADSL. So not so bad at all.
I do have an option to get a crappy connection. I have been using the Turbo feature from Opera 10 Beta on my mobile internet service, after connecting my Nokia 61i to the laptop. I live in a sort of a remote location, with barely working EGDE protocol, and AFAIR I was able to get something like 100 kbps max download. I will be able to get worse result in some even more remote location, woods preferably with a weak GPRS, and I believe there is no slower option if we are speaking about modern technology.


But I think I do know the slowest working sort of modem based connection. Kudos for this gentleman:
Circa 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A Modem
http://phreakmonkey.com/index.php/archives/130

Damn impressive.
EDIT: If someone would have missed it, more photos of this speed devil:
http://phreakmonkey.com/index.php/archives/134

In place where I live we had pretty bad situation with internet aviability. It was about 5 years ago. Only internet connection in my village was internet connection for our school. About 1 MB/s for all 5 or 6 school computers. Our computer class (or whatever it's called) was located outside the school so it was also a small internet cafe for our village. 5 people could go there at 19:00 (7 p.m.), pay Ls 0,20 (0,28 euros) and browse slow internet for 1 HOUR. We all used it at the same time. OK, it still doesn't seem that slow eh? It WAS, because many other people knew authentification data for access point and they used this connection in their homes at the same time. So it was even slower than it should be.
When we had the project week in our school (at 2004), some kids (including me) were allowed to spend all the time we "needed" (a few hours for sure) at that class. For 4 days. At that time it seemed great.
But I see that in many places, still there are more horrible situation with internet connection aviability, than we had 5 years ago.

any PC with Windows Vista & IE ....

In Brazil, all connections are slow [2]

The very slowest connection I am on regularly is using GSM when there is no 3G coverage, on a train, moving between the different network cells quickly. How slow can it go? Talk about five-digit latencies and transmission rates that measure in bytes per second...

And this is not in the middle of nowhere, but in the middle of the Rhein-Main metropolitan area...

I live in Magadan(Russia) We have 45 kb/s via aDSL

Figures from Montevideo, Uruguay:
Download: 0.89
Upload: 0.08
Ping: 337ms

I may throw in my alp shack in Carinthia/Austria. first you have to find a spot where the cell (for opera mini) or laptop with hsdpa-modem even get a connection (like: balcony first floor, five minutes up the next hill, ...) which already lead to some ... strange constructions in the past (standing on the balcony with an eee-pc in the one hand, typing with the other, hsdpa-modem hanging from a nail in the shack's wall above the head). the speeds you get then are typically at 56k-modem-rates and below (pages that load at home in seconds need some 2-3 minutes at least).