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[Von Ludwig]

Yup I have asked about this before and failed to receive a direct reason as to why my internet is so slow, especially from users with the same ISP.

From Speedtest.net
http://www.speedtest.net/result/768373710.png

Now I was told by the technician who installed this that internet will be slow for all sites that are not from Korean domains, is this true?? He said testing it on speedtest.net will not register its 'real speed'...seriously?

So downloading from rapidshare and watching stuff on youtube will always be slow because they are not Korean exclusive. Am I being shafted here?

[denverdeath]

[Von Ludwig]

Over 70 views and only one reply?...wow thanks guys.

Denverdeath, an actual thanks for your reply.
Well I will look into changing from TCN Daegu to KT, is their service available nationwide? Wondering about this as I was told the reason I have to join with TCN is because "I don't have much choice here in Daegu". I'm still thinking that somewhere along the line I am being ripped off.

So again I would like to ask this: What are people paying for their cable and internet packages? and who are you with? Would be really helpful to know..

[Destroyer]

~28,000 for internuts and hd tv. Speed is: 20 down 5 up 150 ping to that chinese server. QOOK.

[crossmr]

Speedtest isn't much good in Korea anymore since they removed their Korean server. I also notice a couple japanese servers are missing too.

The nature of the underseas cables and how you get to them can skew the results a lot.

http://speed.nia.or.kr/

is a Korean site. Run it in IE. you can test your speed there. Couple activex controls needed. Its pretty easy even if you don't know korean.

on the front page you can see average speeds to get an idea of what the various providers are running at.

On SK Broadband I'm getting 66/4.09 as an average with 15 ms ping times

To test:
click the moving circle that looks like a speed gauge:
인터넷 속도
it should have a bunch of stuff pre-selected on the next screen. Your location, provider, type of building you live in, etc
you might have to activate an activex control here
click the black button at the bottom
another activex control
and just watch the test
my second test was much better

85/4.4 16 ms ping

[wormholes101]

[Bloopity Bloop]

I'm very happy with Sk Telecom 100mbit internet. 35k per month and super speeds.

[pkang0202]

1 year contract with KT for their 100mb/s Gwan LAN is 38,000w per month.

Doesn't seem to much more than the other companies.

LG Xspeed does not allow foreigners to sign up. At least, not when I tried to last year. Maybe they changed their policy since then.

No matter what service you get, DO NOT GET THE INTERNET PHONE. They give you some POS wireless router that is horrible for torrents or anything else.

[Von Ludwig]

Thanks for the link crossmr, ok I'm averaging just over 2mbps with the Korean speed test site after numerous attempts, torrents are pretty slow at 500kbs as well. So I will definitely be changing to a different IS/cable provider. Thanks for the suggestions and peace out.

btw destroyer...what the hell is up your avatar dude?

[Bloopity Bloop]

[Destroyer]

Dude,

FROST makes the best avatar pictures. I'ma change it to another pic of him pretty quick here. you'll see. This next one will be even better. edit: screw that. none of the other pics are teh right size.

as far as internets go: I quite xpeed 'cus they were giving me bad ping while gaming. You should look into either QOOK or HELLO D. They've got some really cheap package deals.

[Von Ludwig]

Nice, that one is better... now I feel like burning candles and listening to ihsahn or marduk. done !

Anyone else? Who should I go with?

[toonchoon]

[canada42]

I've got a very similar problem. I just got my internet hooked up last weekend. I'm in Nowon-gu A Korean teacher arranged everything for me as my Korean is still pretty poor and set me up with a cable and cable internet package from C&M, all of it is in my name. I immediately noticed that I was not getting the ridiculous speeds I expected in Korea, instead I was dl'ing torrents at around 300-500kbps and speedtests showed around a 3MB connection. Unfortunately the korean speed test site just crashes my IE repeatedly so I couldn't test on that but all other servers were absurdly slow.

I'm not sure exactly what I'm paying but I believe its probably around 35,000 a month for cable + internet. This seems like a ripoff to me, should I talk to the teacher that helped me set it up and see if anything can be done, or does anybody know of any alternatives in the area? I'm a little annoyed at the moment.

[Adam Carolla]