谷歌員工網上曬網速 羨煞旁人

For those of us who live in parts of the world where high speed Internet is still a luxury, there’s a massive amount of jealousy that happens when we see huge numbers. In a thread over on Reddit where members of Google’s Chrome team are answering questions, we’ve just gotten a peek at Google’s Internet connection: 我們中的大部分人還掙扎在蝸牛一般的網速溫飽線上，所以對高速上網什麼的很是眼紅啊！近日Google的三位員工在Reddit網站上回答問題時，顯擺了一回google公司的網速，如下圖：

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，對比一下，歐洲國家的平均網速一般是12 Mb/s，美國是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: 於是再來看看他們下載遊戲時候的網速：

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！那就是說一部4G的電影，兩分鐘就下載完了！