From a research station operated by the National Science Foundation called Summit Camp, a spot where the ice sheet is about 2 miles thick, GROVER will crawl at an average speed of 1.2 mph (2 kilometers per hour).

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The average upload speed was 1.4Mbps, up from 0.3Mbps average in May.

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Most notably, it found that drivers in just about every state stay within the speed limit on average, with only Mississippi edging 0.1 miles per hour over the top speed limit of 70 MPH.

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When Verizon launched 4G LTE at CES 2011 the average speed of wireless networks was less than 1 mb a second.

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At the second location, the Rocket achieved an average download speed on the laptop of 6.15 mbps versus 1.58 mbps for Verizon's modem.

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At my first test location, the T-Mobile Rocket drove the ThinkPad to an average download speed of 4.88 megabits per second, versus just 1.36 megabits per second for the Verizon data modem.

WSJ: A review of T-Mobile's HSPA+ system

Hamilton finished the 56-lap race in 1 hour, 35 minutes and 55.269 seconds with an average speed of 119.87 mph.

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