Rotterdam: Internet Speed

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Hi again folks! Now I will start a new series of posts. As I have moved to Rotterdam recently I think it would be informative to post little things about this town. At least hopefully it would be helpful for those who are planning to go here (I'm looking at you, other F*B U*M students!).

This first post will be covering one of my interest: The internet speed. Rotterdam is a pretty quiet town, so you can expect to spend a lot of your time in your room. Not also that you can expect to have a small amount of job requiring you to work remotely! Almost everything is digitalized here, from ordering food even to shopping for groceries (later, will be delivered to your home). School assignments even are mainly posted and to be worked on the internet. Also, if you are getting homesick, you can use internet to watch your local TV, internet, or video call to your wife or husband. A neat jack of all trades, huh?

In my place, we use KPN as our ISP (Internet Service Provider). KPN is one of the big players in Rotterdam with the others being global names such as Vodafone, T-Mobile, etc. My landlord handles all internet-related stuffs so I can't say much about how the actual speed compared to the advertised speed. As you can see though, the speed is pretty reliable, and the connection is quite stable. I have to reset the modem now and then, but it happens only when I used big bandwidth, such as after using torrent clients. Other than that situation, usually I only have to reset the modem every 6 hours or so.

Some other speed tests:

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And some (maybe) interesting facts about this speed for me I can (I might sound too villagy here. Sorry for that :P. But it is very fascinating for us Indonesians hahaa xD):

- Streaming Youtube always in 1080p and never wait for loading just play :P. I never download Youtube video again since streaming is available anytime hahaa

- Downloading gigs of files seems normal
- Downloading megabytes of files seems so tiny
- Uploading hundreds of megabytes of files seems fun
- Always streaming live football matches in the afternoon
- If connection lagged when doing some video call to mainland: "It must be your connection's fault" :P
- And others xD

And yeah, so that is some interesting thing about Rotterdam folks. Even though the internet is great, the town is not without downside. It is too quiet in my opinion to live though. So everyday you feel like going out the city and look for interesting things, but often unable to since everything is so expensive -_-". So what you can do is just search for some Youtube videos of the things you would like to have an action with and watch them hahaa xD

And that's it for this post folks. Thanks again for reading through the end! Ciao xD