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bassist33
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Location: Mok-dong, Seoul
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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
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I recently got a speed of 4.7MB per second downloading a torrent file. Couldn't believe it!  |
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stealth_fighter
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:38 am Post subject: |
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| "SK has fastest internet in the world" => Very true |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:47 am Post subject: |
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And their websites host some of the largest number of viruses.
Korea has fast connections to their credit, but they are lagging behind in other areas. Almost all countries are moving towards Linux and Firefox. Internet Exploder and Windows are the way of the past, and much vulnerable to viruses. |
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warren pease
Joined: 12 May 2008
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:58 am Post subject: |
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| tiger fancini wrote: |
| I recently got a speed of 4.7MB per second downloading a torrent file. Couldn't believe it! |
OMG! I hit 1.7 the other day and almost pooped myself. |
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IlIlNine
Joined: 15 Jun 2005
Location: Gunpo, Gyonggi, SoKo
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:09 am Post subject: |
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
And their websites host some of the largest number of viruses.
Korea has fast connections to their credit, but they are lagging behind in other areas. Almost all countries are moving towards Linux and Firefox. Internet Exploder and Windows are the way of the past, and much vulnerable to viruses. |
I guess you're a fairly opinionated chap then! |
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Gnawbert
Joined: 23 Oct 2007
Location: The Internet
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:21 am Post subject: |
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
And their websites host some of the largest number of viruses.
Korea has fast connections to their credit, but they are lagging behind in other areas. Almost all countries are moving towards Linux and Firefox. Internet Exploder and Windows are the way of the past, and much vulnerable to viruses. |
Very true. I love the speed out here, it's amazing, and I can't believe how cheap it is for what you get. Truly a digital nation...
...however the web design in the country reminds me of when people used to think AOL *was* the internet. Websites are poorly coded and made optimized for an outdated version of IE using Active-X and a good number of my Korean friends computers have so many viruses and unwanted add ons they run like a good old 486.
I'd love to see the countries internet design catch up to the 21st century, where it's internet speed and usage already is. |
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ppcg4
Joined: 16 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:58 am Post subject: |
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| I'd love to know which ISP is the fastest here. I am capped at precisely 10 megabits (1.25MB) down and .7 megabits (.1MB) up. |
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Konglishman
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
Location: Nanjing
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:10 am Post subject: |
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
And their websites host some of the largest number of viruses.
Korea has fast connections to their credit, but they are lagging behind in other areas. Almost all countries are moving towards Linux and Firefox. Internet Exploder and Windows are the way of the past, and much vulnerable to viruses. |
So, there is software that can make the internet explode.  |
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furtakk
Joined: 02 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:52 am Post subject: |
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| I'd love to know which ISP is the fastest here. I am capped at precisely 10 megabits (1.25MB) down and .7 megabits (.1MB) up. |
Word. I was also excited about this prior to coming, but I'm stuck at a measely 10mbits too. Granted I pay about 1/4 of what I did for my 10mbit connection back at home, but it is still a downer. |
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Socks
Joined: 15 May 2008
Location: somewhere in here...
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:53 am Post subject: |
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Fastest internet in the world and its kind of useless to a majority of Koreans now...
because their internet infrastructure (that was installed in the early 1990's) is run completely on ACTIVE X...
hence most Koreans are doomed to use Windows XP forever - if they want to play their computer games and use their "Korean programs"...
and soon Microsoft will stop giving updates for XP - because XP is past-history - so their computers will suffer badly from virus-attacks...
most of their programs and games do not work on Windows vista or Windows 7...
simply because their SUPER fast internet was built entirely on Active X.
Its gonna cost them a fortune to upgrade their internet system to keep up with the rest of the world who are using Vista and Windows 7 |
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JungMin
Joined: 18 May 2005
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| Ya, it's nice for sure. Hit my max this afternoon, 9.4MB/s downloading XTools off the Apple Developers website. |
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gakduki
Joined: 16 Jul 2009
Location: Passed out on line 2 going in circles
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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| The size of this country has a lot to do with it too. Certainly the mountain folk of West Virginia and the moose shooting, helicopter flying people of Alaska need 25 mb/s internet connections. I do hail the internet here, but whats the point of ultra high speed if downloading movies and pornography are illeagal? In major cities across the world are speeds are adequate for the law abiding citizen. |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| tiger fancini wrote: |
| I recently got a speed of 4.7MB per second downloading a torrent file. Couldn't believe it! |
I hit 11.3MB the other day. I was almost disappointed when the file finished downloading |
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DCJames
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
And their websites host some of the largest number of viruses.
Korea has fast connections to their credit, but they are lagging behind in other areas. Almost all countries are moving towards Linux and Firefox. Internet Exploder and Windows are the way of the past, and much vulnerable to viruses. |
Instead of working in kiddy hogwons and complaining about Korea every other sentence, why aren't you designing websites for Koreans?
You're brilliant! |
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