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wizardnz
Joined: 19 Dec 2009
Location: Gasan-dong, Geumcheon-gu, Seoul
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 Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 11:39 pm Post subject: Whats the best company for internet in Korea (Seoul) |
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What company would you recommend for internet?
What speeds can I expect?
And at what price?
Can I avoid a lengthy contract?
Thanking you in advance. |
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broken76
Joined: 27 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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Most of the companies are similar in speed and price. It depends on what you can get in the building that you'll be living in. Try to avoid cable if possible as it can get pretty bogged down.
Services range from about 10,000 won and up. A high speed VDSL line is great if your building can support it and shouldn't cost too much (around 30,000 won or less). A long term contract isn't necessary but it'll cost more on a monthly basis.
Overall internet is extremely fast here but when accessing sites from abroad things can take a bit of time as distance and routing tends to slow things down. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 12:49 am Post subject: Re: Whats the best company for internet in Korea (Seoul) |
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| wizardnz wrote: |
What company would you recommend for internet?
What speeds can I expect?
And at what price?
Can I avoid a lengthy contract?
Thanking you in advance. |
LOL...
No contract options are available. You get a small discount if you sign up for 1 year (about 3k won per month discount).
Speeds on cable are slow (512KB/s) compared to the other options. They are fine for surfing but suck for downloads and torrent seeding.
100Mb/s is common for the various flavors of DLS (adsl, vdsl, etc) (for about 25-30k won per month) and FTTH (gigabit fiber) is available for not a lot more.
The speeds are usually blistering compared to almost anything for home use in the west.
I had KT for more than 5 years and was very happy with the pricing and service. There are others depending on your neighborhood and who has the building you will be living in wired. |
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toonchoon
Joined: 06 Feb 2009
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 12:09 am Post subject: |
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i see that SK Broadband has an English website that explains the costs. LG and KT do not have something similar, in English.
Anybody know if they have English reps at LG Powercom or KT? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 6:20 am Post subject: |
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| toonchoon wrote: |
i see that SK Broadband has an English website that explains the costs. LG and KT do not have something similar, in English.
Anybody know if they have English reps at LG Powercom or KT? |
KT does.... just dial "100" (cell or landline) during daytime business hours and listen for English on the menu. |
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Englishee
Joined: 21 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 7:00 am Post subject: |
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I signed up for a year with KT. Im paying about 30,000/month and I have reached speeds of up to 11MB/s on torrents.
im not even sure my hard drive caches that fast |
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toonchoon
Joined: 06 Feb 2009
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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thanks for the number ttompatz!
a Korean friend of mine just signed up for 3 years with SK for 100MBit/100Mbit for about W30,000 per month. He called 3 different "resellers" I believe, and one of them offered him W220,000 cash if he signed up for 3 years through them. Free install, free modem, plus W220,000 was already wired to his bank account.
Anybody get deals like this? This is first I've heard of such deals, and wonder if the companies themselves have deals / discounts like this. |
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spanky1off
Joined: 21 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| yeh the wife sorted out our SK one and was offered all sorts of 'prizes' she got a electronic dicktionary worth 200k to her worth zip to me...that does sound like a great deal tho, maybe its something to do with new customers..id have gone for cash anyday and blown it all on beers plus obviously 1 bottle of wine for the wife...what a nice guy |
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