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[fladude]

I am working in the US currently. I was assured that the town I would be working in had DSL. Well it does have DSL, but here is the thing, the DSL has a DL of about 28k and an upload of about 12-18k, which for those of you old enough to remember is slower than the old dial up 56k standard. I appreciate that some places are isolated, but this seems absurd.

I had agreed to work in this extremely rural area because I had believed that I would have time to play video games and such in the afternoons. However, that is impossible because the area does not have the kind of internet that lets you play online games (WoW, Modern Warfare etc...).

Are there other places out there that you work in, or used to work in, or have heard about, that don't have real internet ? I'm sure there are more places out there like where I'm at. I just want to find out where they are so I can avoid them.

What about Central America... real high speed or no?
Africa?
South America?
Korea?

Interested minds..... And yeah it does suck not playing video games for a year.

[norwalkesl]

I am in rural China and have PPPoe connection at 1.5mb/s. Fast but not FIOS by any stretch.

You are in rural USA where it is very expensive to wire each house as they are so far apart. Thousands of dollars to wire each of all those rural locations separated by miles of farms or woodlands or mountains. Until the .Gov spends a few billion to wire your county, like in the 1930's for electricity to rural locations, you will have POTS 28.8.

Or you could get DirectPC dish service.

[fladude]

[norwalkesl]

[fladude]

We don't have woods..... or wood to chop, or trees, and its dark all the time, and its freezing. I only like loud instruments, which I don't think my neighbors will appreciate. There are no places to shop except for the one store. We don't have restaurants or coffee shops or places to stop and talk to people.

I also want to add that I had a video game system in 1979....

Prior to 1980 in this area people hunted whales, polar bear and seals. It is illegal for me to kill those animals currently. I could however get a permit to shoot and trap arctic foxes and caribou. Would you suggest that I become a fox hunter?

[Mike_2007]

I've got two net connections here in Bucharest. One is an ADSL line provided by RomTelecom. It's advertised at 4Mbps and it's pretty stable.

I also have a connection to a local neighbourhood server at 100Mbps, although it is frequently down, but does mean you can download P2P very quickly when it's working.

[norwalkesl]

[runthegauntlet]

[fladude]

[ssjup81]

[fladude]

[gaijinalways]

In Japan we're supposed to have high speed Internet connections, but you can't convince me. Nothing as bad as the OP is 'suffering' with, but some things just don't seem to load well. I have optic fiber, and sometimes that seems slower than the ADSL I had before.

[Justin Trullinger]

I could recommend Korea, if internet speed is a concern. When I was there, I had internet at home, at work, in coffee shops and cafeterias...

And ALL of it was so fast that I never actually checked the connection speed. No waiting.

Best,
Jsutin

[jillford64]

Even here in the US my high speed internet (via cable) isn't always "real" if everyone else in the neighborhood is using it too. I don't know what those people do - play video games on the internet, I guess - but certain times of the day (usually shortly after the school bus arrives and after dinner) it slows down. I understand this can be a problem with cable, but doesn't happen with DSL. At any rate, not as bad as fladude has it though.

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