Korean Job Discussion Forums

[tfunk]

I was in Korea over a year ago and the speed of YouTube was slow. Is this still the case?

[Swampfox10mm]

Worse.

Especially if you have SK internet.

They are obviously throttling connections here. When I run my VPN service, it seems to speed up on Youtube. Sometimes a great deal faster.

[eamo]

It seems to go dead slow for 3-4 days then speed up for a few days again.

[tfunk]

Thanks for the responses.

Are there any Korean hosted video sites it's possible to join and upload to, from abroad? How is blip.tv?

[Chet Wautlands]

Youtube has improved considerably in the past year, IMHO. It's still not perfect, but I remember having to constantly pre-load my videos and these days it's usually not an issue.

I talked with a guy who works for Youtube Korea (they are based out of Japan I believe) and he said one of the main things they were working on was improving speeds.

[Captain Corea]

Did he say why the speeds were so bad?

[Chet Wautlands]

I didn't ask... I wanted to, but having just met him... anyway, I wish I had asked.

[waynehead]

I've noticed an improvement in the last year as well. It's still not perfect, but it used to be practically unusable for me whereas now I just occasionally have videos loading slowly. I have KT, btw, the 100MB/s service.

[Underwaterbob]

Ditto on improvement in the last year. It's almost as good as when I first came here and they weren't throttling it yet...

[ssulja]

I'm on KT as well, I believe the 100 mb/s one too and Youtube actually loads so slowly for me that I want to preload, but it gets to a certain point, and it'll just stop

then it'll preload more after I watch like 10% into it, and then preloads again after I watch 10 more %.

It's literally the most painful thing ever

[spanky1off]

basically a fish chewed through the telephone wire connecting asia to usa

[alongway]

I've found it to be reasonably fast the last month or so. A couple months ago it was dead.
Though facebook has taken a big hit the last week or so.