Now, let’s put these numbers into perspective. According to Ookla’s Net Index, the average speed for a country in Europe is around 12 Mb/second. For the US, it’s around 10. 好,对比一下,欧洲国家的平均网速一般是12 Mb/s,美国是10 Mb/s。
What does that equate to in “real world” numbers? As the thread’s authors posted, here is a screenshot of them downloading the video game Rift: 于是再来看看他们下载游戏时候的网速:
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that’s 32 megabytes per second. To break that down even further, a typical HD rip of a movie, running 4 gigabytes, would be downloaded in full in around 2 minutes. 看到木有,那是每秒32兆啊!那就是说一部4G的电影,两分钟就下载完了!