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ohfamous
Joined: 10 Jul 2004
Location: Off the beaten path
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 Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 2:32 am Post subject: Internet service and promotions? Hanaro, Thrunet, etc. |
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I've got KT ADSL Lite right now and it's overpriced at 40,000 won per month for just the broadband connection. I've seen posts about Hanaro and Thrunet being a lot cheaper and better and also come with promotional gifts and extras.
How do you get these deals? I went to my local Hanaro and they said the no-frills ADSL package would be 38,000. I'm in Seoul, if locality matters at all. Please post what kind of deals you all got and how much your service costs!
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 2:51 am Post subject: |
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Hanaro offered my g/f first month internet for free and a gift up to the value of 70,000. We took a splendid little rice cooker.
38,000 per month. Including a land line. They even supplied the phone.
That was last September.
As with all companies, promotions come and go. It really takes a Korean or a foreigner who speaks Korean very well to wade through the options. |
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The Chewbacca Defense
Joined: 29 May 2004
Location: The ROK and a hard place
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 3:05 am Post subject: ... |
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| I have megapass, VDSL which I pay about 35,000 a month. It's brilliant and I have never had and issues with them. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 3:44 am Post subject: |
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Last weekend we switched to Hanaro and got a blender. My just told me that the give & deal depends on which branch you deal with. So everyone can get soemthing different depending on where they live.
FYI, my bittorrent download speeds are 5x faster over thrunet. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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I joined KT and got fast, reliable service without any gimmicky, 5 dollar gifts.
Different IPs can filter certain ports or throttle certain ports that are commonly used for P2P stuff. Perhaps Hanaro are doing this. A good idea is to change these ports anyways...just so as not to worry. |
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the saint
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Location: not there yet...
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| Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 2:46 am Post subject: |
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| SuperHero wrote: |
Last weekend we switched to Hanaro and got a blender. My just told me that the give & deal depends on which branch you deal with. So everyone can get soemthing different depending on where they live.
FYI, my bittorrent download speeds are 5x faster over thrunet. |
how fast is this then? I'm intrigued...
I get 260kbps regularly with bitorrent on Thrunet. If you are getting 1.25mbps I'll be impressed... |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| the saint wrote: |
how fast is this then? I'm intrigued...
I get 260kbps regularly with bitorrent on Thrunet. If you are getting 1.25mbps I'll be impressed... |
On thrunet I averaged around 40.
with hanrao I'm averaging around 250-300 |
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Goodgoings
Joined: 27 Mar 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Demophobe wrote: |
I joined KT and got fast, reliable service without any gimmicky, 5 dollar gifts.
Different IPs can filter certain ports or throttle certain ports that are commonly used for P2P stuff. Perhaps Hanaro are doing this. A good idea is to change these ports anyways...just so as not to worry. |
Demophobe, how would you go about changes these ports? As I posted before it seems as though Hanaro placed an UL limit speed on my cable line. I feel the need for speed! |
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T-dot
Joined: 16 May 2004
Location: bundang
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| ABN, I pay 13,000 won/month. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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| T-dot wrote: |
| ABN, I pay 13,000 won/month. |
Yeah. I got hooked up with ABN in Bundang 2 years ago. Decent internet (it dropped out a few times but only for a few hours). For 13,000 a month you can't ask for more. I think it included cable TV too. Right? |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't know about gifts and things, but I've always gotten great customer support from the people at KT. I've had trouble twice in the past year or so, and both times a repair guy was there within two hours of me calling them. |
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Cymro
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:18 am Post subject: |
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| I don't know about gifts and things, but I've always gotten great customer support from the people at KT. I've had trouble twice in the past year or so, and both times a repair guy was there within two hours of me calling them. |
What kind of trouble? Did the repair guy do any good?
I'm having real troubles with them lately for the third or fourth time and intend calling Hanaro in the morning. |
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