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Visualize African Connectivity watch!

youtube.com — This "Internet Weather"-like map shows the network performance measured from Trieste Italy to African Universities, from April 2007 to March 2008. Darker red dots indicate higher speeds such as enabled by ADSL or better. Clearer, lighter red dots indicate lower speeds, in some cases as poor as 56kbps modems.

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  • floort, on 05/12/2008, -0/+4Surprizing little around Nigeria. How are they pulling off their scams?
  • daniking, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1I can not imagine how frustrating that would be. I get angry when my wireless is down for 30 seconds.

    Here is a video that overlays the same connectivity video with satellite day-cycles over a one month period: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uZr3JWYdy8

    It is interesting to see the correlation between the main population centers and their connectivity.
  • Zippo, on 05/12/2008, -0/+3Africa has poor Internet connectivity? Shock and surprise.
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