I recently spent a few weeks in North America attending conferences and technology workshops.
Throughout this time I recorded, periodically, the performance I was receiving on various free or venue-provided WiFi networks.
These measurements were made by monitoring a sustained FTP download from a server located in a Texas Data Centre, 150Mbps in size, and excluding any pauses due to drop outs (which were reasonably frequent). I have excluded latency from these figures as it varied quite dramatically, possibly due to transient periodical usage on WiFi networks by ‘normal’ users.
| City/Location |
Provider |
Speed |
| LAX |
T-Mobile |
4.1 |
| Delta LAX-JFK |
Delta Airlines |
1.1 |
| Manhattan, NY |
Unknown |
4.2 |
| Acela Train – NY-DC |
T-Mobile |
2.3 |
| Whitehouse District, DC |
Verizon |
5.1 |
| Toronto Downtown |
Rogers Wireless |
7.6 |
| Microsoft MSFT Wifi |
Microsoft |
8.1 |
| Delta YYZ-MSP-SFO |
Delta Airlines |
1.4 |
| Fishermans Wharf, SF |
Verizon |
3.7 |
| Palo Alto, CA |
T-Mobile |
1.5 |
| Delta SFO-LAX |
Delta Airlines |
1.1 |
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