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Over the past 10 years, Canadians ran 1.7M+ tests with CIRA’s Internet Performance Test (IPT)—helping track broadband speeds and close the #digitaldivide.

Now, we’ve launched a modernized IPT with a cleaner interface and new features like satellite maps, time filters and automated testing—empowering even deeper #broadband insights. And this is just the beginning.

Explore what’s new in the first post of our five-part series: cira.ca/en/resources/news/net-

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@sundogplanets Yes, and that's a reason why #Megaconstellations like it (and others as well as predecessors like #ICO) are garbage.

  • Compare that to say #Iridium which launched with 77 satellites and those lasted 25 years, way longer than scheduled, and got recently replaced with a new generation instead...

Not to mention #Starlink is a #SpectrumPollutant and can only serve as means to #sabotage #Fiber deployment #ROI espechally in rural areas, thus increasing #DigitalDivide further!

Great post on the bandwidth, hardware and energy needed for modern web apps:

"Rot Economy" and Software Bloat is Increasing the Digital Divide

"However, there are a lot of hidden costs to this seemingly free online document editor now. This site had to load ~25 MB of data over a network connection consisting of ~250 requests in which my browser is now consuming ~2 GB RAM in order for me to type black text characters onto a white screen."

#DigitalDivide #Computing

blainsmith.com/articles/rot-ec

blainsmith.com"Rot Economy" and Software Bloat is Increasing the Digital Divide - Blain Smith