Show HN: I just hacked together an app to map broadband speeds.

http://speedmap.heroku.com/

by elliottkember • 16 years ago

23 17 16 years ago

speedmap.heroku.com

wdewind3• 16 years ago

it would be helpful if you could make the adding 1 click. i have to leave your site, then come back, then go to back to the other site and copy the next field..etc etc. no one is really going to do that.

you could do a combination of geolocation and screen scraping to do it (or maybe there is a better way, that's just the first thing that came to mind), and it would probably take a bit so you'd have to ask the user to wait or something.

patrickryan• 16 years ago

This is exactly why I left the site. If a site asks me to leave, I will be less likely to return and enter data.

d0m• 16 years ago

There's a map. Without more information, it looks like maps.google.com.

elliottkember5• 16 years ago

Can't you see the little pink icons with speeds on them?

wdewind3• 16 years ago

nope

carbocation• 16 years ago

I do see them using chrome on Win 7.

vgurgov• 16 years ago

why dont you get my location(from IP) and speed automatically and make adding simple one-click process?

rbranson• 16 years ago

This is often very inaccurate.

yurifury• 16 years ago

Can you make add the control to switch to the map view? Looking around sometimes takes too long to load in Satellite mode, which is probably indicative of my broadband speed.

elliottkember5• 16 years ago

Done! Hope that helps.

sumeeta• 16 years ago

I wish it would’ve zoomed in and opened my entry after I submitted. Kinda fun, though.

elliottkember5• 16 years ago

good call - I'll add that :)

lftl• 16 years ago

It would be interesting if you added in a question about price that people paid as well.

While the sample size is small, I'm surprised that the US is largely on par with Europe in terms of speed. I'd expect though that price / speed is much better in Europe.

Show HN: I just hacked together an app to map broadband speeds.

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