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JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

I've been without internet for a couple months and finally should be getting it tomorrow night. My co-teacher said it's KT megapass.

1. Does anyone know how they do the install? My teacher said it's through the phone line, but wasn't dial up. Am I going to need a cable or dsl modem or some cat5 cable to connect, or will they supply that?

2. How is it, speed-wise? I'll be happy with anything at this point, but I'd really like to be able to skype, and game if possible.

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

sojourner1 · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:21 am Post subject:

I have KT megapass and I believe it's fiber optic. It is not DSL through the phone line and is not cable. When they installed it, they ran a new thin black wire from the pole and through my window to a small lightweight modem. It works really well, except sometimes I have to disconnect the either net jack to reconnect to the signal.

There was no installation fee and they brought the modem and wire and installed it.

I am wondering if it is on a contract or if it is month to month. Anyone know?

My school ordered it, but I requested month to month since I would not be using it a full 12 months due getting it 3 months into my contract.

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

Ah, same here. I wonder if I can do that.

So how is it speed wise? Anyone know what they ping to the states?

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

I know bandwidth is more important to most people. But I AM a gamer. Ping times much appreciated. Looks like playing US servers will be limited to RTS or slower, but I was expecting that. Sounds pretty good actually. Should be getting it tonight, so I can check. Yay!

P.S.
I don't think anyone really offers cable at 384K anymore. I think the place in my city back home offers 1, 3, and 5 megabit.

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

Cable. DSL usually has lower throughput, at least in my area.

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

I originally had Magapass, now have NTopia. When I signed up for service, they offered me a discount if I singed into a 12 or 14-month contract. I declined, not knowing where I would be 12 or 24 months down the line.

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

Well they took one look at my telephone jack and said. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow okay?

So this is tomorrow, hopefully they didn't leave their tools at home or whatever the problem was last time.

nobbyken · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Location: Yongin ^^

We went with KT in Suwon. The guy just connected up to internal socket, and said that if had chosen another supplier that they would have had to come through the window.

My brother in law has such a connection, and looks a little messy and he has to tape up the cable-wide gap left in the window.

Beeyee · Joined: 29 May 2007

My Megapass is VDSL - it's lightening fast Cool

cangel · Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Location: Jeonju, S. Korea

I had KT telephone service and months later decided to get Megapass. After one month I called and cancelled Megapass. They routed mine through the telephone and their "highest speed" service was averaging like 1800kbps download. I posted my results from the speed test on the Speed Test thread on this site. It was terribly slow. My free villa internet was much faster. Now I have Hanaro and they have a line from the pole outside to my apartment. My speeds are usually around 8-10x faster.

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

Well I got it, but I had a network card problem so I had to run to the PC방 and get a new driver, and didn't get time to run any of my own tests. My uTorrent test showed 2600 down 300 up to a CA server. Seems slightly more responsive than my school internet actually. I'm satisfied.

Not super impressed by the latency though. Nearly 200 ping to the US. No FPS gaming with english speakers for me. Razz

*edit*
Oh yeah, and they did something with the wall jack and then hooked a DSL modem to it. That was it. Took the guy like 40 minutes though. And he left my door open 5 times Razz

Thunndarr · Joined: 30 Sep 2003

I'm on LG Powercom and have been nothing but impressed with their service. I've had, I think, 2 outages in the past year. One problem fixed itself (problem was on their end and lasted around 2 hours or so,) and the other problem was when somebody in my apartment building disconnected my cable somewhere down in the basement or wherever the line goes into the building.