I am in London Gatwick waiting for my flight back to Amsterdam. So I decided to log onto the BT OpenZone network. I am on the second level at Pip having coffee. The results were almost the same as KPN’s hotspot in Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, just as pathetic. A true race to the bottom. Web pages load very slowly. I tried uploading a photo to Flickr and it was so sloooowwww. I gave up.

Here’s what you get at Gatwick from the BT network: 1.6 Mbps downstream, 211 Kbps upstream. In my earlier post from Schiphol, I used Speedtest as well and I was getting 1.4 Mbps down, 205 Kbps up.

I decided to test The Cloud’s network in the same airport. I am getting 3 Mbps down and 540 Kbps upstream sitting in the same place!

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