Korean Job Discussion Forums

[pcs0325]

So where are people getting the crazy Korean internet speeds from?

I had a Korean friend sign me up for LG's XSpeed, which I've been using for many months now. It doesn't seem that much faster than broadband internet back in the States. Granted, that may be because most of the sites I visit are not in Korea. Nonetheless, I rarely get good ratings on Speed Test and I've seen some pretty high ratings from Dave's posters. In fact, when I measured my speed tonight, I got just under 4MB/s down. Oddly enough, LG's own utility consistently rates my bandwidth at about 100 MB/s down and up.

Is there something faster I should be using?

[hanguker]

Be careful that you're not confusing:

bits (b)
bytes (B) + 8 times as large.

1 KB = 8 Kb

Your connection is 100Mb, so 12.5 MB.

You can't expect to get 12.5MB as others are sharing your connection. 4MB/s is not bad. You'll probably see it peak higher than that at certain times.

I usually get 3-6 MB/s on private torrents...I've never seen higher than 7 and I call shenanigans on people claiming sustained speeds higher than that.

Please anyone correct me if I messed up with my logic.

[orosee]

I found it to be easiest to measure the average speed by using a download manager to download a number of large files at the same time, basically max out the connections, and measure the time it takes to finish.

For example, downloading (ahem) a movie from Rapidshare which can be 8 parts of 200 MB each (or 100 MB), that's already 1.6 GB. Maybe make it a total of 3 or 6 GB.

My connection (GS Internet 100 Mbps, comes with cable tv that I never watch) normally gets me 25 to 30 GB in 2 hours (I am into 720p and 1080p movies) so that's around 250 MB a minute or about 4 MB/s. I have a little utility that displays the transfer speeds in/out and the values during such downloads are from 1.5 to 6.0 MB/s. I think I could get faster but the connections frequently "chokes", that's possibly a Windows problem.

All in all not bad considering that I get 40-50% of the capacity of the line.

[Otherside]

try www.speedtest.net

When you do the test click on the "Tokyo" pyramid, it's not the "recommended" yellow pyramid, but rather the one right next to it.
I just did a test now (while I was posting) and it shows my speed to be 61megabit/sec. The best speed I've gotten is 91megabit/sec.

[I_Am_The_Kiwi]

i find that downloading large files throuhg a download manager, like Free Download Manager, and get as many simulatnious connections going at once, also download something big like a service pack from MS.
Their servers can give you good speed.

Speedtest always gives me shit results, and actual speeds are usually higher.

torrents wont give u an accurate measure cos it relies on other users.

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/software/svpk/2008/04/windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu_c81472f7eeea2eca421e116cd4c03e2300ebfde4.exe


ill usually max at at around 5MB/s+ on this download.......cos im not on the best plan.

[hanguker]

That's awesome!

I peaked at 9850KB/s on that download! Great test.

Free download manager FTW!!!

[rocklee]

[Bigfeet]

[skconqueror]

[hanguker]

I'm sure lots of people get sustained rates of 9-10 MB/s. Guaranteed they're the same guys who *claim* to have supermodel girlfriends and make 150K Won/h on privates.

[Otherside]

[orosee]

[I_Am_The_Kiwi]

[I_Am_The_Kiwi]

So what private trackers are you guys using to get these 9-10MB speeds everyone talks about????

not after invites, just wanna know the sites.

im only subscribed to demonoid but dont get speeds like that at all usually.