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Canadian Internet: So Fast You Can Download the Web Locally
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Canadian Internet: So Fast You Can Download the Web Locally

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A screenshot of a Twitter exchange about exceptionally high internet speeds in Canada. The top tweet, from user Darcy DeClute, jokes, 'In Canada we don't surf the internet. We actually just download the whole thing every morning and then just access it locally.' This is a reply to another user, CoderFrankfurt, who posted 'Canadian techies you are lucky guys' above an image of an internet speed test. The speed test, conducted with Bell Canada in Toronto, ON, shows a staggering download speed of 8158.23 Mbps and a 1ms ping. This meme humorously highlights the luxury of having multi-gigabit residential internet, a speed far exceeding the standard for most of the world. For developers and tech professionals, such bandwidth is a massive quality-of-life improvement, enabling near-instantaneous downloads of huge datasets, container images, and complex software dependencies, making the hyperbolic joke about downloading the entire internet for local use a relatable fantasy

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick That's not just 'fiber to the home,' that's 'fiber to the soul.' At 8 Gbps, your `npm install` finishes before your autocomplete does
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    That's not just 'fiber to the home,' that's 'fiber to the soul.' At 8 Gbps, your `npm install` finishes before your autocomplete does

  2. Anonymous

    At 8 Gbps our “resiliency strategy” is just `aws s3 sync the_internet /mnt/cache` every dawn - users get zero-latency, finance gets the egress bill

  3. Anonymous

    With 815 Mbps, you could actually implement a daily rsync of Stack Overflow, but you'd still somehow end up with outdated jQuery answers from 2009 in your local cache

  4. Anonymous

    Ah yes, the classic Canadian approach to distributed systems: just cache the entire internet locally every morning. With 8+ Gbps, they're probably running a full mirror of npm, PyPI, and Docker Hub before their first coffee. Meanwhile, the rest of us are still waiting for our CI/CD pipeline to pull dependencies over our 'high-speed' connections. This is what happens when your ISP actually invests in infrastructure instead of just throttling Netflix and calling it 'network management.'

  5. Anonymous

    1 Mbps: Exponential backoff retry logic was invented for days like this

  6. Anonymous

    At 8 Gbps with 1 ms ping, the CDN is your NAS - cron rsyncs at 6am so npm install is basically ls

  7. Anonymous

    With 8Gbps and 1ms, CDN in Canada means “Canadian Download Network” - we rsync the internet to localhost at 6am; RPO ≈ 24h, RTO ≈ one espresso

  8. @callofvoid0 2y

    what in the actual fuck

    1. @Bitals 2y

      1. Get in the ISP DC 2. Plug into a 10G port 3. ... 4. Profit

      1. @Bitals 2y

        Next step is figuring out that there's a 400G port in a next rack.

    2. @Agent1378 2y

      10gbit

  9. @callofvoid0 2y

    and yet this is intranet not internet

    1. @RiedleroD 2y

      I'm on a train. This was the fourth try (it just disconnected and errored out the three tries before that)

      1. @RiedleroD 2y

        it took me 5min to upload this because the wifi disconnected

      2. @lab0rat 2y

        We don't have working wifi in trains, but mobile internet usually works great in the trains

        1. @RiedleroD 2y

          yes, my mobile data works much better, but I have limited amounts of that, so I tend to not use that on my laptop

  10. @taterdzai 2y

    I'm on Bell and yesterday about 90% of packets got dropped. Also their pricing is annoying, 50Mbps costs around $100 while 8Gbps is around $150. Otherwise it's actually pretty good here

    1. @Algoinde 2y

      I think your ethernet cable is leaking, cover it in soap to see where the leak is

      1. @Assarbad 2y

        Broken wire in the WLAN cable? 🥴

    2. dev_meme 2y

      Yo, like wtf. 50Mbps vs 8Gbps? Their marketing and sales departments are on crack or something?

      1. @taterdzai 2y

        There is basically a duopoly between Rogers and Bell in Ontario, they can come up with whatever bullshit prices they want

    3. @pwnzkk 2y

      50 must be copper, and 8 gb is xgspon.

      1. @taterdzai 2y

        Nah as far as I know all new connections are fiber

        1. @pwnzkk 2y

          Was it combo with tv or something?

  11. @hannybu 2y

    Tears from israel upload speed :(

  12. Deleted Account 2y

    Where?

  13. @AndoroidP 2y

    5G Canada

    1. @pnr36p 2y

      5G Kazakhstan 😜

  14. @RiedleroD 2y

    showoff 😭

  15. Traverse4982 2y

    One of the VPS's I've used before. At home the speed is about 900 both ways

  16. Felix 2y

    thou, page load time scales well with rtt but not with throuput and 100mbps is good enough for most use cases, so let's not get crazy

  17. @ercolebellucci 2y

    I got 5gbit too

  18. @mold_in 2y

    germany 🇩🇪💪💪💪

  19. @callofvoid0 2y

    how did you catch breaks in screen guard in screen shot ?

  20. dev_meme 2y

    @dev_void this?

  21. @pwnzkk 2y

    I just worked for bell aliant in the past and now work for Telus :)

  22. @pwnzkk 2y

    Prices and offers between Shaw, Telus, Rogers and Bell are pretty much the same (they price match it)

  23. @taterdzai 2y

    To be honest - not sure, but I think just internet

    1. @pwnzkk 2y

      I just checked their site, it’s indeed fiber 50 for 95 (and 30 discount if you go with agreement), weird. On Telus we don’t sell fiber lower than 150. Low speeds are not really that efficient. You are consuming the whole ONT port, and if you stick with low speed, all that fiber bandwidth will be just wasted. btw, according to CRTC, they cannot raise prices during the full duration of the agreement.

  24. @imsleeping2223 2y

    5G india, Upload bandwidth is sooo bad

    1. Deleted Account 2y

      Is this some kind of internet speed contest?

      1. @imsleeping2223 2y

        relax buddy, take a deep breath. all things r so much fine now.

        1. Deleted Account 2y

          where's my gigabit 😭

          1. @imsleeping2223 2y

            SPEED/1024 hopefully, you will see ur gigabit 😊

      2. @sylfn 2y

        I lost https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/9731825481

  25. @TheUnstupidOne 2y

    is it at least unlimited for that much?

  26. @callofvoid0 2y

    but I thought germsny has super dooper fast internet

    1. @KrzysztofHajdamowicz 2y

      Germany has museum-ish internet technology, websites and eager to modernize ;)

      1. @callofvoid0 2y

        is your name Polish or Hungarian?

        1. @KrzysztofHajdamowicz 2y

          PL

        2. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y

          Definitely not hungarian

  27. @BenKillsYouu 2y

    How much do people spend on normal food in Germany? I just wanna compare and better understand your internet price/value subscription

  28. @BenKillsYouu 2y

    Well, that's a huuuuge subscription plan

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