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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 8:50 pm Post subject: Korean Internet to be 200 times faster than U.S. average |
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By the end of 2012, he adds, South Korea intends to connect every home in the country to the Internet at one gigabit per second. �That would be a tenfold increase from the already blazing national standard, and more than 200 times as fast as the average household setup in the United States,� The Times reported last February.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/04/opinion/friedman-so-much-fun-so-irrelevant.html?src=me&ref=general |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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More like Intranet.
The speed is only fast when connecting to Korean servers, networks, etc...
We all know how slow youtube or other foreign sites can be.
For the average Korean who doesn't use foreign sites, its good. For others, its frustrating. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
More like Intranet.
The speed is only fast when connecting to Korean servers, networks, etc...
We all know how slow youtube or other foreign sites can be.
For the average Korean who doesn't use foreign sites, its good. For others, its frustrating. |
This.
It seems like most Koreans are happy if Naver opens quickly and the Starcraft server has a good ping.
Although I'll still be more than happy to have a 1GB connection!! |
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Savant
Joined: 25 May 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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Good news for downloaders.
Yet, will still be sucky for using websites that are solely reliant on Active X, other redundant security measures, and pop-up flash crap. [I'm looking at you Korean Banks]. |
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goreality
Joined: 09 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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| With all this speed maybe people companies and government will update from IE6 to something newer. |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:19 am Post subject: |
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All that speed and most Korean sites still take way too long to load because of all the bells and whistles they've implemented.
Still, torrenting will be even faster.  |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:33 am Post subject: |
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| goreality wrote: |
| With all this speed maybe people companies and government will update from IE6 to something newer. |
This will never happen. |
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freddy teacher
Joined: 01 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:23 am Post subject: |
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ive hit speeds excess of 8MB/S with my private torrent tracker in korea.
same site, ive maxed out at 1.5mb/s in Canada...and i pay roughly 3 times more in canada for worse service....
yes. everyone knows korean internet is good. |
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jonpurdy
Joined: 08 Jan 2009
Location: Ulsan
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:29 am Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
More like Intranet.
The speed is only fast when connecting to Korean servers, networks, etc...
We all know how slow youtube or other foreign sites can be.
For the average Korean who doesn't use foreign sites, its good. For others, its frustrating. |
Exactly. Korea needs to improve it's backbone links to places outside of Korea. Even though I'm only on a 12 megabit connection here in Toronto YouTube and other foreign sites seem ridiculously fast compared to when I was in Korea on my 100 megabit connection.
The only thing I was able to max my connection on was torrents. |
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alongway
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| jonpurdy wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
More like Intranet.
The speed is only fast when connecting to Korean servers, networks, etc...
We all know how slow youtube or other foreign sites can be.
For the average Korean who doesn't use foreign sites, its good. For others, its frustrating. |
Exactly. Korea needs to improve it's backbone links to places outside of Korea. Even though I'm only on a 12 megabit connection here in Toronto YouTube and other foreign sites seem ridiculously fast compared to when I was in Korea on my 100 megabit connection.
The only thing I was able to max my connection on was torrents. |
Korea can't really do anything about it. They share common international underwater cables.
In order to improve anything they'd have to spend the cash to run their own cable from Korea to the US. Last year that connection was heavily damaged in the Tsunami/earthquake.
Things could be improved by Youtube actually providing in country mirrors of things as they do in a lot of countries. The problem is they don't have Korean youtube servers in Korea. |
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r122925
Joined: 02 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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Exactly. Korea needs to improve it's backbone links to places outside of Korea. |
Do they really need to though? I've never heard a Korean complain about this. It seems most Koreans use Korean sites most of the time. If 99% of your customers are happy I fail to see the need to improve.
It would certainly be nice to see better international connections, but I'm not holding my breath. |
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alwaysgood
Joined: 15 Aug 2011
Location: Changwon
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| 1GB per second... you theoretically could download 75 movies per minute. 3.6TB per hour. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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| alwaysgood wrote: |
| 1GB per second... you theoretically could download 75 movies per minute. 3.6TB per hour. |
The gigabit internet is pointless because them the limiting factor will be your computer's Hard drive not writing the data fast enough. SSD's are great, but they are too expensive right now.
I think a good product would be a PCI-Express gigabit Ethernet card with built in 16GB of RAM. Have it "Cache" the data until the HD can catch up to write it.
Sure you got SSD's, but I don't think an SSD is up to the snuff of constantly writing/reading data that downloading requires. Your drive wouldn't last very long. |
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KNet229
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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youtube is still pretty slow to load, despite the "blazing" speed that we supposedly have now. i'll welcome any improvement though!  |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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| And there are those in this discussion forum that don't like living in South Korea? |
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