13 May 2013

Speed test on my 4G/LTE mobile Internet connection

Since today I have a Belgacom Mobile (Proximus) data subscription with 4G/LTE enabled.

This is the speed test results made here in Liège with my Samsung Galaxy S4:

Down
(Mbps)
Up
(Mbps)
Ping
(ms)
Server Building
22.42
10.17
32
Diegem
Inside
20.03
14.42
36
Mechelen
Inside
28.07
23.43
36
Mechelen
Outside
35.51
23.21
36
Mechelen
Outside

04 May 2013

Trip to Bad Ems (Germany)

On Sunday 27 May 2012, I visited with my family the town of Bad Ems in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, which is known for the Ems Dispatch (1870) and as a bathing resort on the river Lahn.

The Ems Dispatch (French: Dépêche d'Ems, German: Emser Depesche), sometimes called the Ems Telegram, caused France to declare the Franco-Prussian War in July 1870. The actual dispatch was an internal message from the Prussian King's vacationing site to Bismarck in Berlin, reporting demands made by the French ambassador; it was Bismarck's released statement to the press that became known as Ems Dispatch. The name referred to Bad Ems, a resort spa east of Koblenz on the Lahn river, then situated in Hesse-Nassau, a new possession of Prussia. (c) Wikipedia.

See my Google+ Photo Album for more pictures and descriptions.

This memorial stone indicates the time and place of the meeting between King William I of Prussia and the French ambassador, Count Benedetti.
Statue of Emperor William I of Germany.