Internet speeds and confirmation time?

[300]

Is there any relationship between global Internet speeds and transaction confirmation time?

For example, if a whole host of third-world countries relying on dial-up infrastructure suddenly decided to jump on the Bitcoin bandwagon, would the confirmation time slow down to a crawl since it would take more time for a transaction to be broadcast over the network?

And if Internet speeds become faster in the future due to emerging technologies like VDSL, then will the transaction confirmation time speed up?

[pungopete468]

nope. The transaction sizes are very small. Even dial up would be lightning fast for the transaction sizes.

[greenlion]

Confirmation and network propagation are completely different things.

The rate at which transactions are confirmed is a function of total network hashrate versus current difficulty, which is retargeted to try to achieve a 10 min/block average.

Network propagation of a given transaction is a function of the number and connectivity of nodes.

[Pente]

I have no trouble sending bitcoins using 3G in Kenya

[Light]

Because tx sizes are rather small you'd simply need to broadcast that transaction and even with crappy internet I doubt it would take very long to send < 1kB no matter where you are. Once broadcast provided your tx has enough priority it should be included in the next block - to put it simply internet speed has no bearing on confirmation times.

[BitCoinDream]

I have no trouble sending bitcoins using 3G in Kenya

Nice to see there are people from Kenya. I really liked Maurice Odumbe. Sorry for being off topic

[mintodev]

I have no trouble sending bitcoins using 3G in Kenya

Nice to see there are people from Kenya. I really liked Maurice Odumbe. Sorry for being off topic

There are people from worldwide, why especially kenya?