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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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 Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:20 am Post subject: |
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| hanguker wrote: |
Thundarr,
I'm on a fast university connection and I've at times downloaded at 4MB/s from Adobe or MS, but I've never found a site, torrent or anything that has ever let me download at 6MB/s sustained. I don't know anyone that uploads informaton that fast. That's the BIGGEST limit.
What do you connect to to get 6MB/s? The most I've ever got off a mega-seeded torrent was 1.5-2...and I know I'm capable of receiving much faster. |
Blueyoyo.com
It's a pay site, but it is damn fast.
Edit: In case you remain skeptical.
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hanguker
Joined: 16 Mar 2005
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 5:43 am Post subject: |
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I guess I never got that speed, "cause I don' wanna pay da man!" Or should I say "The Master" LOL. I'll wait two hours and get it for free 
Cheers...nice to know it's possible. |
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munji
Joined: 08 Sep 2006
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:11 am Post subject: |
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Generally if I download something from Korea, I get 2MB/s on average. If I download something from the states, maybe I will get 500Kb/s if I am lucky.
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Exactly the speeds I get as well. In Korea, it's fast, fast, fast. When they initially hook you up, they will go to some internet speedometer and they will show you truly drool-worthy speeds.
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the site that they test with NCA (or now NIA): speed.nia.or.kr/speedtest/ (Korean) or speed.nia.or.kr/english/. You would need to use IE (and allow installation of few activex stuff)
On the NIA Korean site, it shows average speeds of most providers for the day.
I tested my speeds with NIA right now, it showed 8x.xMbps (>10MBps) download/upload for my Xpeed (supposedly 100Mbps) link. Actual internet/www speeds that I get are not significantly different than my earlier Hanafos VDSL Lite (~4MBps down/400kBps Up) line.
My take is within Korea the zippy speeds might be the case, but anything which crosses boundaries gets slower speeds because of higher latency. After all the speed you get depends on the server on the other side (and the network points between the two ends).
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munji
Joined: 08 Sep 2006
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:16 am Post subject: |
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| Thunndarr wrote: |
Blueyoyo.com
It's a pay site, but it is damn fast.
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blueyoyo.com is based in Korea, so those speeds would be possible if one gets the 100mbps (~12.5MBps) lines. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| munji wrote: |
| Thunndarr wrote: |
Blueyoyo.com
It's a pay site, but it is damn fast.
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blueyoyo.com is based in Korea, so those speeds would be possible if one gets the 100mbps (~12.5MBps) lines. |
A few things to remember (sorry if they were already posted prior to this post; I don't have the time to check right now):
1. When networked through a local hub which many of you may very well be, you are only as fast as your slowest link
2. The closer you are to the source, the faster your transfer rate will be. i.e. If my game server is here in Korea and two people decide to play on it, one from Korea and one from the States, the one from Korea will be faster because of their proximity to the server.
3. Your transfer speed will vary depending how many users are connected to that specific server; hence why some times during the day are faster than others.
These are just a few of the many factors that are involved in providing fast internet connection. Keep that in mind. I think Thundarr has done an excellent job thus far breaking it down into lamen terms (which benefits a lot of people unfamiliar with this type of information). |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, I hope people aren't thinking that I was claiming to get 100 megabits all the time. Obviously not. However, let me just outline exactly what the benefits I've noticed so far from switching from my cheap as heck 15,000 won 5 megabit service to 100 megabit.
Ok, well, first off, my old internet maxed out at 64K upload/600K download. The download speed was decent enough, for the most part. However, the upload speed really killed my share ratio for torrents, thus, torrents were never really all that fast. They certainly never came close to maxing out my connection.
Now, my upload has a theoretical max of around 8-9 megabytes. Therefore, my share ratio for torrents is a lot better, and download speeds have picked up correspondingly. (Still doesn't come close to maxing out my connection, but certainly much better than before.)
Second, and this is related to upload speed as well. Before, when using bittorrent, my internet browsing speed would come to a screeching halt. Now, I've heard that there is some kind of limitation in Windows about limiting connections per second to slow down the spread of viruses, which may have been the problem. However, I also noticed that my upload bandwidth was maxed out whenever I used torrents, and it seems likely to me that this was the cause of my slow web browsing. Thus far, with the new service, I haven't seen any kind of slowdown when web browsing and using torrents.
Third, I've got the wife's computer networked with mine. Not only was I unable to web-surf (with any reasonable speed) when downloading, the wife couldn't either. The reverse was also true, so that caused some friction whenver one or the other of us was downloading. So far, with the new service, we've tested with both of us downloading torrents, web-surfing, and me using blueyoyo, simultaneously, and have not noticed slow web-browsing. Now, I don't necessarily think you need 100 megabit service to get these results, but I would guess that having a decent upload speed is required. |
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