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[hanguker]

I've been seeing some guys claiming 8MB/s on bittorrent. Frankly, I'm not believing it...but who knows. However, I'd like to see what everybody is getting here in the ROK. I'd like to know if my ISP is any good so I can change (or not) before the trial is over. Let's compare using this site:

http://www.numion.com/YourSpeed3/Select.php?Country=&Language=&Top100=0

Select: Measure MaxSpeed, Measure SurfSpeed, and Republic of Korea. (no others for the sake of validity)

Please list your stats. I got (8:45pm Busan) :

Download speed: 4,474 Kb/s (4.47 Mb/s)
Upload speed: 1,587 (1,59 Mb/s)
Surfspeed in ROK: 604
Latency: 613

Cheers.

[eamo]

Download speed: 6,356.32 (794.54) 100%
Upload speed: 1,680.43 (210.05) 93%
Surfspeed inside Republic Of Korea: 3,218.05 (402.25) 83%
Latency: 602 milliseconds
I ran the test about 6 times and got completely different results each time. I don't think these speedtests are very accurate. Anyway, the above results were the fastest.

And I can assure you, my torrent downloading speed peaked at 8mbps one night last week before my HDD gave overload warnings and uTorrent capped the speed at 4.5mbps. I couldn't sleep at night if I thought I had turned into the kind of person who lies about their internet speed to strangers on a message board!!

I was uploading torrents at 5mbps before I went into uTorrent options and capped it at 500kbps. Why would I want to wear out my HDD just to improve my torrent ratios?

[cubanlord]

Download Speed: 4.2Kbs
Upload Speed: 1.5Kbs
Surfspeed outside of Korea: 70kbs
Latency: 651millsec.

[cubanlord]

This test is crap. I just did it again and my surf speed went up to 4,000+

[rocklee]

I've gotten 1MB/s++ download speed before. Latest one was Elephant dreams which I got 1.1MB/s.

[hanguker]

Thanks for taking the time guys

I was just curious about what everybody else is getting on these uhum... "100Mbit" connections. What's up with that? I've never gotten anything anywhere close to 100Mbits/s! Maybe I'm just dumb and don't get it

@eamo...you said 8 mBITS/second (1Mb/s) right?...well that's pretty normal, as I've been getting 4.5-6.5 Mb/s on this and other speed tests. Also, I've downloaded at 2MBYTES/s (16 Mb/s) at times for M$ and Adobe.

64 MBITS/s! (8 MBYTES/sec) just seemed too unreal to me.

Cheers.

[Demophobe]

Download speed: 7,680.49
Upload speed: 770.78
Surfspeed inside Republic Of Korea: 2,303.09
Latency: 670 milliseconds

[eamo]

[hanguker]

I tried downloading Acrobat Pro from the Adobe site (pain in the arse with the signup..but seems the fastest download I can find). I peaked at 4.5 MBYTES/s (thats 36 Mb/s)! Averaged about 4.0 MB/s. I couldn't believe it! At least that is approaching the theoretical limit.

[Thunndarr]

I used this site: http://speed.nia.or.kr/english/

Here are my results:



As you can see, I'm not getting 100 mbits/second, but I guess that's due to the length of the cable they have to run and other factors. In any case, it's fast enough for me. (And before anyone jumps in here, yes I realize that that is the maximum speed possible and that I don't get that on your average torrent.)

Edit: And yes, I tried the link in the OP, it is crap (for Korea anyway.)

[Juregen]

kilobit/sec (kilobyte/sec)
Download speed: 2,533.54 (316.69) 100%
Upload speed: 1,579.51 (197.43) 100%
Surfspeed inside Republic Of Korea: 1,072.23 (134.02) 100%
Latency: 733 milliseconds

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[hanguker]

Thunndarr, I used to go on that site all the time but then started getting a 404 error. Now I can get on it but my IE7 crashes I get some strange error.

[wormholes101]

Those speed tests are sometimes a bit unreliable. Anyway, here is what you get with KT lite.

Green is download and red it upload. I've capped the upload at 40kB/s in this session.



So, you'll be making the quick switch to KT Lite, Hanguker?

[Darkness]

I put myself behind a proxy the minute I came over here.....My speeds will be off.

[SuperHero]

I used the link Thundarr provided and beat his speed.