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[winterfall]

My home internet connection is a little slow, can you guys test your home network and post your speeds?

I can't remember what bandwith package I got, need some averages to compare it to


www.speakeasy.net/speedtest

http://www.internetfrog.com/mypc/speedtest2/

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?flash=1

[brento1138]

Mine is not only slow these days, but I keep getting stupid "error" pages (all in Korean) with advertising all over the place. It happens whenever I want to browse a site (often with google, facebook, etc) saying it cannot find the page and offers stupid banner advertisements to click on. I have no idea what the hell this stupid page is, so I will post an image capture of it when I get back home and it happens again, cuz I am getting sick of seeing it.

Also, Youtube is very very paaaaaaaaainfully SLOW.

I am using internet which is provided by my building. I don't have a modem of my own, so I am guessing it is related to this...

[eamo]

Undersea internet cables from North America were damaged in the Japanese earthquake........so, until the re-routing and repairs are completed, there will be slowness and outages...

Youtube seems to be especially slow. Heavy use, I guess.

[winterfall]

[eamo]

[coralreefer_1]

I am not very computer literate, but i have had the same problem in my building from time to time. After a few calls over the years to the computer guy who services all of the building from my budongsan...he showed me a trick that may help you.

I live in a 3 story apartment building with about 4 rooms on each floor. Down on the first floor there is a metal door that holds the circuit breakers for each room. There is one there (usually the very bottom, that cuts the power to the entrance (there is a short set up steps up from there to the first floor.

Anyway..when my internet gets slow (for whatever reason) if i go there and flip that breaker off for a few seconds then back on..the internet it normal again. Note that this only cuts the power to the entrance hall, the doorway light, public washing machine, etc...not anyone's apartment.

Apparently the router (maybe not the correct term) for the building is down in that area, and cutting the power off and on I guess "resets" it or clears it up or something.

Anyway..just passing that along for whatever it may be worth.

[crossmr]

I find most overseas speedtests to be slow. Even ones that have servers in Korea. I usually get much higher speed results on Korean sites than I do on speedtest's seoul server.

I just wrote a thread on this in the technical section. The site I used before to test in Korea seems to be crashing on 64 bit systems.

However, http://www.benchbee.co.kr/ works fine. It does require sign-up, but it doesn't need a foreign ID number. You can sign-up without it.

Right now, mid-day things are a little slow. My 100 Mb/s connection is only giving me 35Mb/s down 6.8 Mb/s up from benchbee.

21Mb/s down 7.9 Mb/s up from speedtest.net's Seoul server.

after restarting the modem, it improved slightly
benchbee, 37.5 down, 9.47 up
speedtest 41 down, 7.83 up

[daisydew]

my home wifi is slow, especially when using skype. i tested just using 3g on my iphone 4 and my family says that quality is better than the wifi (which is a pain bc i wanna see them on my laptop screen not hold up a stupid phone the whole time i'm talking). it's been this slow for the past 4 weeks (since i got here and before the japan earthquake). could this be an issue with the company or maybe the building i'm in?

[crossmr]