Working from home can be a challenge in itself: no office chair, no
canteen, no colleagues to chat with over coffee. But with the
coronavirus here to stay for the foreseeable future, millions of people
around the world have gotten used to sitting at the kitchen table just
like Merguet to work on spreadsheets or take conference calls. But
without a fast and reliable connection, slow downloads, choppy audio or
video calls that keep freezing up can make life difficult for
telecommuters.
Merguet isn't the only one who has had to wind
down data-intensive tasks. Even in well-off countries like Germany,
internet problems are common. DW used open-source data from M-Lab
to compare the speed of internet connections around the globe. M-Lab
collects data from many millions of speed tests that users perform every
month.
For the complete report go to:
Berlin, Lagos, Budapest: How fast is your internet? | World| Breaking news and perspectives from around the globe | DW | 09.10.2020
