Toycat: Is a geography and google map enthusiast. Also Toycat: Looks at Laos and calls it Vietnam. This is the type of high quality content I am subscribed for since ages here. Banana/10

@Lopal12

Жыл бұрын

1969 = )

@RealNovgorod

Жыл бұрын

Also studied "computer science" yet doesn't know the difference between gigabytes and gigabits (or what's an adblocker).

@PavltheRobot

Жыл бұрын

big oof

@reneyibowei2019

Жыл бұрын

​@@RealNovgorodThat is actually quite hilariously and sadly true with many comp sci degrees. There is no direct real world use.

@ibx2cat

11 ай бұрын

Specifically focussed on networking too lol@@RealNovgorod it's one of those things that's fun to correct people on, but embarrassing when you make the mistake

18 minutes and 4 seconds of my life well spent, I learned there was an island with the cities London, Banana, Paris, and Poland

@GwainSagaFanChannel

Жыл бұрын

Worth it.

@erikstenviken2652

Жыл бұрын

But where, you have forgot that…

@Nooticus

Жыл бұрын

i already know this before watching the video lol

@helloitsme3

Жыл бұрын

So true

@goatmapper

Жыл бұрын

@@erikstenviken2652kiribati

As an Australian I can say starlink is doing wonders

@tezz_27_

Жыл бұрын

I'm an Australian who lives in or around a major city (like most Australians) and I've honestly never seen a Starlink dish.

@siriusa5298

Жыл бұрын

@@tezz_27_ I’m out of town so we where on satellite anyway and was paying 100 a month for 100mb/s internet but only getting 10mb/s now we pay 120 and get 200-300. I’m the only one I know that has starlink it’s definitely a rarity but I also see it as being pointless if u are in town or a city anyway with cabled internet

@megazillasaurus

Жыл бұрын

Australia america uk france japan etc. Are bad countries

In outer Melbourne, Australia, up until around the end of 2021 I still had ADSL and download speeds of 1-2MBPS, upload speeds of around 500-600KBPS. Now that ADSL was switched off, my upload speeds are around 20MBPS and 8-10MBPS upload.

@Ryzi03

Жыл бұрын

I'm 5km from the CBD and get similar speeds. Doesn't help when the NBN connections shit the bed anytime a single drop of rain falls either.

@holygooff

Жыл бұрын

Wow how is that possible?

@thereupon7475

Жыл бұрын

ADSL2+ hasn't been switched off everywhere. Unbelievably, NBN is still not available in many Sydney fringe areas after the botched 'multi-mix' roll-out (despite what the company may claim). Literally still on basically the same service I've had for the past 15 years!

@RaduRadonys

Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile in my country I've had 1Gbps down and 500Mbps up for at least 10 years.....

I'm from Romania, I get about 950 download and 850 upload for about 8 Euros per month. I get more than what I pay for, as it's technically meant to be 940 down and 450 up. The main internet provider is currently updating the infrastructure, and we will get 2.5/5/8 gbps in a year or two (in the main cities). Apparently that will be 10 Euros per month, bargain.

@Darkest_matter

Жыл бұрын

So why do Romanians move to England? Romania seems good on the affordability front.

@serbanbuzduga378

Жыл бұрын

@@Darkest_matter it's harder nowadays to move to England because of Brexit. But with a lower than average salary, life in Romania is not great. You don't have much left at the end of the month.

@jonathanodude6660

Жыл бұрын

@@Darkest_matter how can you say this without having any idea what their salary is? by that logic, Japan is ultra cheap and australia is unliveable.

@User-jr7vf

Жыл бұрын

Wow, that is almost for free! Why do you have such a cheap internet connection? By the way, so sad for the people living in Africa, that internet connection costs several times their average salary, no wonder why many students only get to the web when they are at school, which probably offers free wifi connection.

@serbanbuzduga378

Жыл бұрын

@@User-jr7vf I think it's because internet here came later so they brought optic fiber quickly. Also there was a lack of regulation/care and people used to just get wires all over the place, getting internet from one another etc. Obviously not the case anymore, but that might have been a factor.

I was recently laughing at Kiribati's wonderful naming customs too, lmao Naming a tropical island town "Banana" is like naming a British town "Crumpet" or something hahaha

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

tbf, that part of the island looks vaguely like a banana

17:46 "I dont believe there are happiness stores" umm did you forget about Best Kebab?

Romanian here. We can pay €8/month for 1000Mbps internet (cable) which comes with wifi about half as good (high 500s) *I should also mention that in our capital, Bucharest, you have plans available for 2500Mbps and 10,000Mbps for which you pay €9/month and €10/month respectively, but it comes with an upfront cost of around €80

@amethystgamer852

Жыл бұрын

I get 900 download/900 upload on speedtest

@sticlavoda5632

Жыл бұрын

@@amethystgamer852 Same

@shreksboyfriend2572

Жыл бұрын

thats very cheap

4:02 "go where you're treated best" is the Nomad Capitalist tag line

I am an Australian living in a fairly wealthy part of Sydney, the fourth most liveable city in the entire world, and I get 13.72 mb/s download and 1.89 mb/s upload.

@ackables

Жыл бұрын

Do you still rent movies on DVD from the store?

@sammymarrco2

Жыл бұрын

mobile or home internet ?

@Proteinman22

Жыл бұрын

is that enough for gaming?

@idek28

Жыл бұрын

@@sammymarrco2home. My mobile is much better at around 30mb/s

@redfuriesanimations

Жыл бұрын

@@Proteinman22as an Aussie, I can tell you that it is just fast enough

Yeah, I can agree on Speedtest. I've started using it again after I (finally) got a 200/20mb connection 4 years ago that worked at a stunning 120/20 in the first months, then dropped to 80/20, then to 50/20 a year ago, and now to

I live in Saint Petersburg, Russia. For 750mbps I pay 600 rubles = $8. The simplest tariff here is from 100 to 300 megabits, depending on the area, for 200 rubles, a little more than two dollars.

@asussome

Жыл бұрын

750mbps for 600 rub? damn. what provder do u use? also, is'nt 200 rub for 100mbits like temporal price only for new users? im using skynet (no joke💀) and i pay 600rub for 100mbits. for context, a cup of decent coffee is ~100rub, loaf of decent bread is 50-100rub, pack of rice is 50-150rub and a bottle of still water is 30 - 80rub. still, internet and cellular is dirt cheap and good in russia compared to the most countries

@User-jr7vf

Жыл бұрын

@@asussome I'm jealous of you guys and want to move to Russia 🤣not to mention the beautiful Russian women you have in there.

Are you trying to tell me that the internet is not a tiny box that Jen broke?

@zloychechen5150

Жыл бұрын

The only thing i know is that the internet doesn't weigh anything.

Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!

From norway here. We passed 82% fiber (93% if you stretch the definition to cable-tv networks) coverage last year for homes. I am very happy about the coverage :) Gigabit is accessible on pretty much all of it if you are willing to pay, although prices vary a lot. For gigabit I've seen anything from $15 to $200. About $40 in my area. Some can get 10Gbits but it is expensive as f.

@jmi5969

10 ай бұрын

Does it make a difference in real life vs., say, 100 or 200 mB/s connection? I pay around 8 dollars for 300 mB/s and feel like the most irresponsible money-burner. My other apartment is connected at 100 MB/s for half the price and it is more than enough for my needs

Download caps in Australia haven’t been a thing for years. That snippet from Wikipedia was about 2008

Him : "You probably have an internet speed faster than 25mb" Me with my 3 mbps download speed in Iran watching this :

Fastest Internet I ever saw during my European travels was in one of the most remote parts of Iceland, in the Westfjords. 3 hours up a dirt road from pavement, it's a small farming/fishing community called Norðurfjörður. I went there to visit the most remote hot pool in Iceland called Krossneslaug - literally at the edge of the world. Internet at my hotels in Reykjavik was not nearly as good. And don't get me started on Switzerland - connection from there to Canada sucked!

@gentuxable

Жыл бұрын

Because it runs through the same cable as all connections to North America! I have 25 GBit/s over a dedicated fiber cable that runs from my router to my provider and from there it depends how well all the other connections are. If they're good, I see up to 20 GBit/s on my router. My PC has "only" 10GBit/s link to the network and my core switch has only two 25 GBit/s ports.

Liechtenstein has the best internet boyzzz 🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮

@A-10-Thunderbolt-Il

Жыл бұрын

Didn't you get invaded by a peaceful country on accident?

@jasonfischer8946

Жыл бұрын

​@A10enjoyer No, they got invaded BY accident.

@FireTurkey

Жыл бұрын

​​@jasonfischer8946I I've never met someone who's against the use of "on accident" ... It's always important to remember that English in different places has different standards of grammar. "On accident" is very prevalent among American English speakers, and it only gets more common the younger the speaker is.

@jasonfischer8946

Жыл бұрын

@@FireTurkey Well, now you have. "On accident" doesn't make sense. "On purpose" means that the purpose has been met, sort of like "on target". You have done what you intend to do. "On accident" is a contradiction. If it was something that you aimed to do, then it wasn't an accident. It's by means of a previously unspecified accident. Anything other that the purpose is, by definition, an accident. I get that people want to streamline two opposite ideas and that's why it's used, but the words used don't make sense.

@FireTurkey

Жыл бұрын

@jasonfischer8946 I really don't think it's you're Intention at all, but that is linguistical discrimination. There's no right or wrong way to speak or write. The person who you "corrected" was correct based on their dialect.

I’m in Australia and have uncapped internet, as do most people. Most of us _did_ have caps, like a decade ago.

@zloychechen5150

Жыл бұрын

Nah, mate, you all have caps like that brian johnson bloke from accadacca.

@Toothily

Жыл бұрын

@@zloychechen5150 when it comes to caps I actually prefer the psychedelic type lol

The incentive to speedtest for extremes reminds me of how Steam has an "OS Marketshare" as part of their Steam Hardware Survey, but Linux users care inherently more about privacy than Windows users so most would never accept giving Steam a full list of installed drivers and software like the survey collects. I don't know of a better term but I call it statistical sepsis.

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

And it's a gaming service, so people who don't game on a machine, or only play standalone games, won't show up at all. And those would be higher on Linux than on Windows.

@Darkest_matter

Жыл бұрын

​@@HappyBeezerStudiosor those people who only use steam to buy their games and don't have friends on steam or really interact with it

@Volodimar

Жыл бұрын

Statistical bias

I'm in a lightly populated area in the Western US and just got 2.11 download and 1.51 upload, but I think this is the low end of what I get. I have to occasionally watch KZread videos on like 480p when it gets bad.

@niamhturner1451

Жыл бұрын

that was me in scotland's biggest city until 2018 when i got a 40 mbit plan (that was also reliably 40mbit rather than if i had fiber which would give me gigabit when doing speedtests, just not when using it) honestly i was estatic when i found out i was moving to a non fiber area again so i could just get my normal stable 20mbit adsl back

@Mr_Careo

Жыл бұрын

Me too

Russia, 100mbps, 4,5 usd/month. More than enough for my purposes, which is mostly youtube. When i first got internet in 2004, it was data-capped, and cost something like 20 usd per 600 megabites of traffic. That was a struggle.

@user-bi4eo3ys1f

Жыл бұрын

In 2004 I used dial-up, and my modem often could not establish connection at any speed even 7200b/s or less.

@User-jr7vf

Жыл бұрын

So apparently the US Dollar is weak compared with Russian currency? Why is it that such a fast connection costs only 5 USD/month? Here in Brazil you would pay like 50 USD for the same speed.

5:10 "every single thing you see in this video is just 1s and 0s, everyone knows that bit" 😆😆😆 Amazing unintentional joke.

7:39 thanks toycat, I never would have figured that out

You’d think that the Netherlands was top tier too. There are multiple trans Atlantic cables coming in from the US. We have the technology. ISPs don’t see a market for extreem high speed internet contract for consumers. Optiver is a company headquartered in Amsterdam. They mainly profit from ‘high frequency trading’. They probably have a faster internet connection to the New York Stock Exchange than any cable could provide. It’s likely they use microwaves to send data across the Atlantic.

I live in The Netherlands and here it really depends where you live. in the country side, some places only get 5 or 10mbps speeds (surprising given our location in the world), but in the cities it's much better. I personally have 1000/1000 down/upload , but internet is expensive at around 50 euro per month (60$ US)

@Jillaroo79

Жыл бұрын

That's pretty expensive, I have 750 down 350 up per Speedtest in Hungary and pay 11 Euros a month.

Lmao I love the random shade and then ad hoc 180 degree turn to plug Winnepeg

I love your channel ❤️

I live in village in eastern poland and i got optic fiber with 1gb/s speed activated, friends from big cities in US or UK got slower internet than me 🤣🤣

In Thailand, even the cheap one from government enterprise is 500/300 mbps. It's so much more from other non-government company that they don't want to expand their fibre optic cable to my village but pass by the front alley.😅

Toycat has just summoned the entire population of Winnipeg, Manitoba

I’m not sure where the info about download caps came from, but in Australia my home internet is unlimited. It’s also currently at 10MB down, so it’s not really a win

In Australia I get unlimited internet at a true 280mbps speed.... 2008 DATA!*** Australia is one of four countries of the 13 with caps where 100% of plan options had download caps, and it ranked fourth in average download limit size (27 GB).

@RminusOR

Жыл бұрын

Also you pay $150 for it

@adcoupe9860

Жыл бұрын

@@RminusOR nope.... $79. TPG offered it to me as a trial and I kept it.

@User-jr7vf

Жыл бұрын

I live in a village in Brazil countryside, and I pay 50 USD for 20 Mbps speed, unlimited data. Until december last year I would get 100 Mbps speed having same internet plan, but the provider has since fixed it.

I paid for gigabit download with a max upload of 40mb/s. After a hurricane passed through, my download stayed really fast, but my upload was hard stuck at 2.

If you go to Winnipeg, make sure it's when you get to see their hockey team lose to the Vegas Golden Knights.

Virgin Media installed fibre lines to every house in my town a few years ago, currently max you can get is about 1200Mbps. I know my younger self would be so jealous of how fast I could torrent now.

1:00 One funny thing with how the data are grouped for countries is French Guyana being the bright green colour it is :D

yoooo please do irl live streams in cities bro

I've had to dispatch ships to fix those cables, they definitely break sometimes.

I can confirm that Winnipeg does indeed exist and they have internet

@sparrowtail2436

Жыл бұрын

Me too!

Toycat: I'm sure you watching this video have a greater than 25 megabit connection, right? Me with my 10mbit connection: 😢

New Zealand recently got a massive upgrade to our fibre network, lowest fibre speeds are 300/100 and fastest is 8000/4000.

Broadband costs in the video is from 2017......the cheapest broadband plans(~30mbps, 3.3TB cap) in India now starts at around 5 dollars.

I'd love a live stream walking around London!

@rogink

Жыл бұрын

He did that a while back - during lockdown.

@windyturtle737

Жыл бұрын

@@rogink right at the end of the video, he proposed the idea of doing it again. wish I saw that one!

0:00 I can still only hear "Soycat" when he says this intro... Cannot force my mind to hear "Toycat". Is he doing this on purpose? It must be.

Far north of Norway in a town of less than 20K people, paying 350 NOK for fibre at 320mbps up and 320mbps down (according to speedtest)

I'm in France, and I'm getting speeds around 8G/700M, which is quite nice, I had to use a fiber between my PC and my router though. Price is 39.99 euros/month for a year, then it will go up to 49.99, it includes phone calls, TV, a standard Netflix plan and Amazon Prime. Router is powerful enough to be used as a NAS, and can host VMs

Watching it eatning tenya tendon in the best chain restaurant near akihabara. Best channel to watch while eating to waste time 💀

400 megabits per second download, and 400 megabits per second upload.

At 10:51 you say that 100% of plan options have download caps. I'm an Australian and this is wrong there have been home internet plans without download limits for at least 10-15 years and even mobile plans with unlimited downloads for the past couple of years

I have no clue where they got the data for Bulgaria lmao, my family lives in the capital and it's still dogwater when I visit. Live in one of the Top 30 biggest UK cities and get 40 Mbps download :(

15:25 bro's internet speed is 10x faster in upload and download speeds than my internet

My download speed is leagues below your download speed, and it even is a bit less than your upload. Rip me

The USA used to have terrible download speeds. But the wide availability of DOCSIS 3.1 cable modem service, a lot more fiber optic service, and now 3GPP NR 5G cellullar service has transformed the country into having some of the fastest Internet in the world, especially in urban areas.

New Jersey is jersey’s crooked brother who lives in a funny farm.

I am in Darabani, Romania rn close to the border with Ukraine and Moldova and it is very rural but i still get 500 MB download and upload speeds

No no, don't rescind your initial reaction to Winnipeg! We don't call it Winterpeg for nothing! lol

Australian here. 100mb/60mb but recently can get up to 500mb/s. That’s the standard in most new homes in WA plus we can certainly get unlimited data, that wiki page is outdated!

@samsam21amb

Жыл бұрын

Ummm… no, in South Brisbane, up until recently $90 got you 30mb/s download and 1mb/s upload, but finally Telstra Velocity is being sold off, and upgraded, to better speeds.

@AndyChatsFPL

Жыл бұрын

@@samsam21amb Did you read the part where I said “WA”?

@RaduRadonys

Жыл бұрын

@@AndyChatsFPL WA is not Australia. So you cannot say the page is outdated just because things got better in WA since in other regions they did not.

I had 1 time in my life got 80gbs download, yes giga for a day. It's feel so good to download anything in second even a full movie

15:26 What internet do you get, internet?

I'm from a small town in São Paulo state, Brazil, and I pay 100 Reais (around 20 Euros) a month for 500 Mbps of internet speed both ways, it's not as cheap as in big cities, but since it's a very small town, I find it very cheap.

@User-jr7vf

Жыл бұрын

No interior de Minas, 100 reais por 20 Mbps de velocidade, sem limite de uso.

this is true in the netherlands they always wanted to join my party because it kinda never lagged lol

In Santiago, the capital of Chile. We have 10,000Mbps internet speed available for only 76USD a month. Looking at the map 7:05 i can see theres a bunch of cables connecting us very close to the capital, maybe thats why is so fast and cheap here

I live in south Florida and I get 200 down and 15 up which is good enough for my purposes. Although I do really wish I had more than 1 choice of ISP because the 1 I have just randomly shuts down occasionally for seemingly no reason.

Australia here we don't have a download limit anymore thqt is very old. My home speed is about 800 to 900 max 1000 down and 50 up. I turned off my wifi and my mobile network speed was 50 down and 10 up but i don't have the best signal here like 2 bars .

N.Korea(best Korea) is so fast that it's not even on the map. Bless God Emperor Kim.

@spencer4679

Жыл бұрын

they had to come up with a new color because best korea is a rank of its own

This is really curious because I don't know anyone with less than 100 mpbs here in Brazil but then again I live in a capital. I imagine someone living next to the river in the middle of the Amazon probably has a different experience. Still crazy that it drives down the average so much though.

I pay 21€ (approximately 3 kebabs when adjusted for PPP) for 1G down, 500M up fiber in Prague, Czechia. Old housing in the city centre is like 50/50 on having horrible (max 300down) internet though. Worst part about moving is checking whether the 100 different ISPs we have can get fiber into that specific building, because all the publicly available info is ~2 years old.

@Sagarock

Жыл бұрын

Bruh 1gb download for €21 wtf

@agme8045

Жыл бұрын

That’s incredibly cheap.

@RaduRadonys

Жыл бұрын

​@@agme8045 What about 1GB for $6?

@RaduRadonys

Жыл бұрын

@@Sagarock Yeah I know, like wtf that's so expensive, I pay $6 for 1gb.....

@border4851

Жыл бұрын

@@RaduRadonys, we in Russia pay only 8$ for an unlimited internet.

Using the SpeedTest i have about 750mb/s DL and 45mb/s UP, I’m from Rio de Janeiro, and I live in the suburb.

The speedtest says my connection is 70mb/s download and 10mb/s download, but the fastest download speed I ever get is around 10mb/s and the fastest upload speed is like 1mb/s... I can't watch KZread videos at 60fps 720p or 1080p even at lower fps, they'll freeze and automatically switch to 480p. Honestly better than insanely fast speeds imho since my laptop starts to get insanely hot if downloads get faster than 5mb/s, but still, not sure if that site is entirely reliable.

Were you looking up Slovenia because of our national holiday?

I get screwed.. all my neighbors get gigabit speeds but we can only get 50mbs

My god I love going through the comments where people are discussing their high internet speeds, or complaining about their 'low' internet speeds of like 90mbps download.... then there's us Aussies scraping up with a lucky 10mbps download

Toycat really decided to post this while I’m traveling to India and have horrific internet speed 😭

"geography channel" *points to laos and calls it vietnam* yeah that tracks lol

The federal government in Canada has a goal of providing 25gbs download speeds for rural Canada. Rural internet is quite dismal in rural areas. Mobile network access and speeds are also poor. Rural areas are where food, fibre, lumber and minerals come from. But internet and mobile infrastructures are very poor and of old architecture. For example, we have to be content with 3G connections. Whereas cities assume 4G and expect 5G

It really shows infrastructure. The place with big areas of low population are slow, because bringing fast network there will never get back the cost to build it. Would also be interesting to put a graph of speed against a graph of cost. Just because a place can have fast internet doesn't mean the population can afford it.

I tend to use Ookla a lot but probably more for testing 5g in different areas. I do also for home wifi as it can be very up and down considering I’m on the top floor of the house with an Ethernet switch from a cable up the house which has to give speeds to a bt disc to give the room WiFi, ps5, Xbox, tv and my pc so if several of those are requiring data it can freak out and everything gets max 20mbps when we get should 60-70. We live off a main road in a culdesac so no gigabit internet like virgin has come down here.

"Never judge a person by it's cover" as they say

Australia has Unlimited internet plans

@redfuriesanimations

Жыл бұрын

Still not anything stunning in terms of speed tho

South Island New Zealand : download speed 47 MBPS ;upload speed 131MBPS; Ping 15 ms.

I'm in South Africa, 200 down with 100 up. I could get double that but it costs a fair bit more.

Well, I know one thing, it's not Australia that's for sure!.😂

nice video

I live in Virginia NW of Washington, DC. My phone registers 133mb/s up and 155mb/s down, and my MacBook shows 124.8mb/s up and 144.07mb/s down. Weird that phone is faster, but here we are. Both are on my home internet.

"If you're just going to dick around on Google Maps all day..." touche 🤣

i get an internet speed of 427.87mbps download and 7t.26mbps upload in a town of 40,000 in the south east of england

10:10. Actually, its population is a little bit larger than the town I grew up in.

The thing with Latvian internet is that it's fast only in the capital or on the main street of every city otherwise it's either dsl or 4g

Uruguay being special again

I'm in Sydney and I have unlimited 1Gbps down (avg. 900) and 50Mbps up (avg. 40). I'm pretty sure that's the fastest residental internet you can get here. 5G has faster upload speeds but they're not everywhere and they're more expensive.

@JayJayGamerOfficial

Жыл бұрын

And yet most of us can't get above 10mbps download and 2mbps upload. It's really appalling considering we invented internet

@RaduRadonys

Жыл бұрын

@@JayJayGamerOfficial How come Australia has invented Internet?

In Australia nobody I know has caps and most people in Sydney have at least 50mbps

Just a correction jersey is not part of the UK! Its a crown dependency though, but not in the UK.

@ibx2cat

Жыл бұрын

It's a part of the UK in the international "what country is it in" sense, just not a part of the UK in the internal sense

toycat is the only person that can go from talking about internet speed to kebabs

spent 5 seconds wasting my time hitting the like button just to spite toycat

I'm in a rural community in Michigan (U.S.A.), and I get 145 Mbps down and 11 Mbps up.

My condo has amazing internet. The building has a 10gbps business fiber connection with just one hop to one of the largest internet exchange points in the world. I get ping times 3ms or less and jitter less than 1ms. I was on my building's internet committee and pushed very hard for a proper fiber connection. Other providers were wanting to just do radio antennas at the top of the building to provide service. It's also extremely reliable with just one outage for an hour or two when some idiot cut the fiber in the alley behind the building. Otherwise zero downtime over almost five years. People really need to push their landlords or building management for proper, reliable, and fast internet connections.

@User-jr7vf

Жыл бұрын

USA?

@oicfas4523

Жыл бұрын

@@User-jr7vf Yes, in Chicago.

Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young Otto Witt from the film Zulu?

i get 250 mbs of download and 100 mbs upload here in southern brazil