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[hanguker]

[Adam Carolla]

[vincentmiser]

[camp0400]

I've also noticed this as well. I'm in Seoul with KT and within the last couple of months streaming video from most Western websites is out of the question. Most torrents I download with peers from the West are incredibly slow as well. My office computer is the same.

I think it must be the actual distance. As I'm waiting for megavideo to load up a seinfeld episode, Naver streams vids flawlessly.

The only site that streams vids from the west well is the Daily Show.

[eamo]

I'm no expert on global internet bandwidth, but......

Some possible causes..........

The Youtube servers are overloaded for long periods.

Some people in your building are downloading heavily....cutting the shared bandwidth.

The vast majority of Koreans only use the Korean internet. They only stream from servers located in Korea and browse the Korean internet.....so not a lot of money need be spent on the networking system linking Korea with the ROTW as Koreans wouldn't notice or complain if it was often slow.

Your ISP has some technical problems.

[camp0400]

yea, i did begin to think it could be others in my building or just korea in general. Another thing I forgot to mention was that the speeds increase exponentially in the late evening hours, like 2 or 3 in the morning. Then I have no troubles at all. This seems to indicate some sort of bottlenecking.

Haven't noticed the torrents yet, but I'll look into it.

[AsiaESLbound]

[Senior]

[AsiaESLbound]

Are you serious Senor? I've seen nothing, but slow speeds at work and in my apartment as well as my local PC bang. I guess Korea is like anywhere else where some cities have high speed and others don't while each geographic location has varying speeds. I'm not in the country, but a city of 150,000 1.5 hour from Seoul so I ought to have high speed. I did notice our large shopping mall said to have been built 2 years ago is still sitting vacant and empty like several newish storefronts so maybe it's the economy is too poor locally to upgrade the infrastructure and this smallish city is simply behind on developing. It's definitely still got a lot of the old gritty 1960's elements to it. Heck, my little road is not even sealed yet I live just 5 minutes walk from the city center which is a big open air smelly fresh seafood market place full of old people.

[Senior]

Are YOU serious. You live out in the boondocks. Your situation isn't representative of most English teachers in Korea. You must know that, so why would you represent it as such? Furthermore, your specific situation doesn't make Korea an inwards looking country.

You must live in about the only poor internet coverage area in the country. I live in a medium sized city. My school internet is currently connected at 100Mbps. Most places have blazing speeds. Only certain areas of the big cities have 100Mb lines in the States. That sort of connection is some kind of urban myth where I am from. My home town is far more developed than the Korean boonies.

[AsiaESLbound]

Flame me, but I must be unlucky with internet as it's much slower than WiFi in an American Starbucks. It's something lacking locally such as not enough servers to facilitate bandwidth. A common problem back home in large apartment buildings. Cheapskate companies. I believe you that most of Korea has high speed as I've heard Korean blazes a cyber trail.

[mmstyle]

AsiaESLBound, I think you must be unlucky. My experience from 2 smallish cities here and Seoul is faaaaaast internet, with a few quirks, compared to home. And I used to work for a cable interent co. My hubby was using youtube at home yesterday and it was painful! Everything else works as usual, though.

[Kryten]

AsiaESLbound, Senior and mmstyle are talking about downloading in general and I agree with them. If you download content say, from a torrent client, I've had great speeds.
I do agree with you also that YouTube has been super-slow as of late. But once I get off YouTube it'd business as usual.

[pkang0202]

I've noticed my Youtube streams are extremely slow during Night-time in the USA. When its daytime in the USA, the youtube streams in Korea usually load pretty fast.

Makes me wonder if Youtube purposely powercycles their servers during non-peak usage hours.

[Underwaterbob]

Youtube works like gangbusters during the day for me, later at night it's terrible, I have to wait three times the duration of a video for it to load.