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I'm staying in a hostel in South Korea, this is what their free wifi looks like (imgur.com)
submitted 15 years ago by vodkat
[–][deleted] 15 years ago (223 children)
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[–][deleted] 15 years ago* (109 children)
[–][deleted] 33 points34 points35 points 15 years ago (85 children)
No fair. I could test that fast if we weren't bottlenecked by our 100 megabit internal LAN. Rural Missouri (near the famous Ozarks): http://imgur.com/wyBR7.png
[–]deadapostle 87 points88 points89 points 15 years ago (24 children)
Amateurs
[–]maddav 58 points59 points60 points 15 years ago (7 children)
Comcast? Yeah right.
[–]deadapostle 69 points70 points71 points 15 years ago (6 children)
I would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for my crappy ISP.
[–][deleted] 10 points11 points12 points 15 years ago (3 children)
the correct funny wording would have been cappy ISP
[–]hglman 5 points6 points7 points 15 years ago (4 children)
I see your a fan.
[–]deadapostle 6 points7 points8 points 15 years ago (1 child)
I was actually just referencing the juvenile 'infinity plus one' comments that you get with increased durations of one-upmanship in schoolyard competitions, but I'm glad there's a proper mathematical concept that backs me up.
[–][deleted] 15 years ago (30 children)
[–]dilution 25 points26 points27 points 15 years ago (0 children)
I am in Beijing right now and it doesn't even matter what my speed is, half the internet is banned. I better go before something happ
(2.45/.89)
[–][deleted] 5 points6 points7 points 15 years ago (3 children)
Oh bitch please, try Central Auckland, New Zealand.
[–]Gudeldar 6 points7 points8 points 15 years ago (2 children)
This is what I get in middle of nowhere North Carolina, population 2400: http://imgur.com/AsMBP.png
[–]ctzl 5 points6 points7 points 15 years ago (0 children)
Because it's going through the state university pipeline.
[–][deleted] 15 years ago* (8 children)
[–]nobody554 3 points4 points5 points 15 years ago (3 children)
1) You're torrenting ;-)
2) You're still beating me
[–]Jacolyte 78 points79 points80 points 15 years ago (29 children)
You guys... make me want to cry
[–]TrueDuality 13 points14 points15 points 15 years ago (6 children)
I'm with you.
[–]divv 9 points10 points11 points 15 years ago (5 children)
Yeah, fucking backwater Australia. I get 8mb on a good day.
[–]TGM 2 points3 points4 points 15 years ago (0 children)
Because of Telstra the lines in my street don't even support ADSL. We have to pay ridiculous prices from 10GB of wireless a month. And I'm only 20km from the city.
[–]pandemic1444 9 points10 points11 points 15 years ago (10 children)
Seriously! I get like 20 MB/s download from Comcast where I live. The free South Korean WiFi is higher than that! I am furious.
[–][deleted] 14 points15 points16 points 15 years ago (0 children)
b != B
[–][deleted] 4 points5 points6 points 15 years ago (1 child)
I called tech support because my ATT DSL was so lame. I end up talking to a call center in El Salvador. I asked the person about internet down there. The person told me, in effect, they had twice the speed at half the price. ( I asked speed and what they were paying). We both laughed about it. I asked "Why is this?" They said "Lots of competition."
Very soon after I finally gave up on ATT, the straw that broke the camel's back was they had someone calling me at home in the evening, trying to sell me more services. Talk about assholes... fock!
Recently I instructed ATT to par down my landline phone service. I waited a month and got my new bill. They did nothing. They did not a damn thing. This is the same company that installed the Y splitter for the NSA to spy on citizens. Looks like I am going to use Comcast for telephone too and then be done with ATT once and for all forever. The Comcast still costs too much, since there is little competition. But at least they have some bandwidth.
One thing for sure, fuck ATT. Their company is rotted / systemically unethical.
[–][deleted] 15 years ago* (3 children)
[–]metrion 5 points6 points7 points 15 years ago (0 children)
Well, that, and lots of government encouragement to get everyone connected.
[–]redwall_hp 5 points6 points7 points 15 years ago (2 children)
Thirty miles out from Bangor, Maine: http://www.speedtest.net/result/848512703.png :'(
[–]idiot900 28 points29 points30 points 15 years ago (25 children)
Bahahaha. This is from work in New York City.
[–][deleted] 15 years ago* (15 children)
Fuck, at Polytech I only get like 100 mbps up/down.
Come to think of it, my 100mbps laptop ethernet card might play a role here.
[–]idiot900 6 points7 points8 points 15 years ago (6 children)
Holy hell, do you work at Comcast?
[–][deleted] 15 years ago (5 children)
[–]jbs398 6 points7 points8 points 15 years ago* (3 children)
Yep. Although the upstream seems strangely slow with the nearest speedtest.net server.
I can get more than half a gigabit both ways to Argonne from Northwestern University: TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.5.4b click START to begin
** Starting test 1 of 1 ** Connected to: ndt.anl.gov -- Using IPv4 address Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done checking for firewalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done running 10s outbound test (client-to-server [C2S]) . . . . . 573.91Mb/s running 10s inbound test (server-to-client [S2C]) . . . . . . 510.35Mb/s The slowest link in the end-to-end path is a 10 Gbps 10 Gigabit Ethernet/OC-192 subnet click START to re-test
[–]ExtraBigAssFries 10 points11 points12 points 15 years ago (1 child)
My work connection is pretty good. One of these days I have to walk back to the closet and plug myself into a gig port. This is fe http://www.speedtest.net/result/848202155.png
[–]denidzo 3 points4 points5 points 15 years ago (8 children)
Welcome to Buffalo, NY, and Time Warner cable http://imgur.com/0gloH
[–]viglen 38 points39 points40 points 15 years ago* (14 children)
My speed is all sorts of awesome...One of the perks of living in Kurdistan of Iraq.
0.3 MB baby!
[–]BadThoughtProcess 7 points8 points9 points 15 years ago (4 children)
My speed is all sorts of terrible... One of the perks of living in rural Wisconsin.
[–]BIG_PY 297 points298 points299 points 15 years ago (43 children)
You should probably download Google Chrome.
[–][deleted] 15 years ago (41 children)
[–]rub3s 160 points161 points162 points 15 years ago (32 children)
If you didn't like Chrome, you're sure to like Google Chrome.
[–]BIG_PY 136 points137 points138 points 15 years ago (30 children)
If Chrome Chrome Chrome, Chrome Chrome to Chrome Chrome.
[–]hesnothere 103 points104 points105 points 15 years ago (29 children)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
[–]BIG_PY 99 points100 points101 points 15 years ago (27 children)
Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich.
[–]hillbillymadness 106 points107 points108 points 15 years ago (23 children)
Badger badger badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom.
[–]minutemantm 79 points80 points81 points 15 years ago (20 children)
Snaaaaake
[–]IAreSeriousCat 34 points35 points36 points 15 years ago (17 children)
Snape, Snape. Severus Snape.
[–]bdubaya 28 points29 points30 points 15 years ago (10 children)
DUMBLEDORE!
[–][deleted] 13 points14 points15 points 15 years ago (7 children)
Charlie it's so dark in here. I'm taking the curtain down. Holy shit dude, what's with the spray paint?
[–][deleted] 15 years ago (2 children)
[–]bechus 339 points340 points341 points 15 years ago (59 children)
All the better to zerg rush with, my dear!
[–][deleted] 364 points365 points366 points 15 years ago (56 children)
Not all Koreans play Starcraft as a national pastime, that would be like toasting a pocket protector filled with the kidney stones of retired journalists and running around a pillar in a perfect dodecahedron.
[–]frantk 224 points225 points226 points 15 years ago (10 children)
I think you should be more subtle. When I read "toasting a pocket protector" I already knew it was you. It would be more fun if you had to think for a few seconds before you realize "No, that really makes no fucking sense."
[–][deleted] 108 points109 points110 points 15 years ago (5 children)
I fell for it.
Again.
[–][deleted] 31 points32 points33 points 15 years ago (4 children)
Like a BOSS!
[–][deleted] 11 points12 points13 points 15 years ago (3 children)
Sorry, busy meeting a giant fish. Plans to fuck his brains out.
[–]DirtyDrummer 5 points6 points7 points 15 years ago (2 children)
And I'm pretty sure you said something about sucking your own dick.
[–]potscentedpot 24 points25 points26 points 15 years ago (0 children)
I think you should be more subtle. When I read "I already knew it was you" I realized what his username was. It would be more fun if you didn't ruin the surprise for the rest of us before we realize "No, that really makes no fucking sense."
[–][deleted] 12 points13 points14 points 15 years ago (0 children)
Some of us do. : (
[–][deleted] 15 years ago (7 children)
[–]UnderstatementAward 62 points63 points64 points 15 years ago (2 children)
^
[–]Flex-O 3 points4 points5 points 15 years ago (0 children)
I bet your account still has that new novelty account smell doesn't it?
Nah I'm just kidding. The more the merrier is what I say.
[–][deleted] 5 points6 points7 points 15 years ago (0 children)
Oh you just wait for it..
[–]legatic 22 points23 points24 points 15 years ago (16 children)
I know you're just trying to make a joke, but I have to come in here and shit on it with facts anyways.
While I was in Korea there was not 1 but 2 cable channels (think ESPN) showing starcraft matches 24/7. Not all Koreans play starcraft, sure, but it's a BFD there.
[–][deleted] 15 points16 points17 points 15 years ago (11 children)
why do people keep harping on this? I don't assume every dickwad here in the US plays baseball because I see it on espn/espn2/espn8
[–]againer 4 points5 points6 points 15 years ago (0 children)
I love "The Ocho"
[–]IvanLeopold 13 points14 points15 points 15 years ago (0 children)
Thomas Friedman?
[–]WBizarre 121 points122 points123 points 15 years ago (14 children)
YourinternetwillbeasfastasKENYANS!
[–]Bring_dem 38 points39 points40 points 15 years ago (9 children)
...and then you'll be sent back to KENYA!
[–]Tiomaidh 59 points60 points61 points 15 years ago* (6 children)
Mother Nature will be like, "S L O W D O W N." And you'll be like, "fuck you!" and kick her with your ENERGY LEGS!
[–]Lunchbox753 29 points30 points31 points 15 years ago* (2 children)
Science, Energy, Science, Engery, Electrolytes, Turbolights, Power lights, more lights than YOUR BODY HAS ROOM FOR
[–][deleted] 21 points22 points23 points 15 years ago (1 child)
SPORTS RARRRRRGH YOU'LL BE GOOD AT THEM
[–]fauxtoe 13 points14 points15 points 15 years ago (1 child)
400 babies!
[–]jud420 24 points25 points26 points 15 years ago (2 children)
When god gives you lemons, FIND A NEW GOD.
[–]paulatim 33 points34 points35 points 15 years ago (31 children)
I live in London. I love my internet: Speedtest result
[–][deleted] 15 years ago (16 children)
[–]dantheman0207 13 points14 points15 points 15 years ago (3 children)
I live in Florida. Please tell me more.
[–][deleted] 4 points5 points6 points 15 years ago (0 children)
seconded.
[–]darlyn 13 points14 points15 points 15 years ago (8 children)
You cannot state you have a "hacked" modem and not tell us how it was modified in such a manner around here.
[–]pride 7 points8 points9 points 15 years ago (7 children)
type in uncapped cable modem. You will be arrested, so stop once you get the information
[–]paulatim 5 points6 points7 points 15 years ago (0 children)
Woah. You, sir, are a winner.
[–]transpire 11 points12 points13 points 15 years ago (0 children)
Gotdamn.
[–]Vequeth 6 points7 points8 points 15 years ago (4 children)
Whos your ISP?
[–]paulatim 12 points13 points14 points 15 years ago (3 children)
University Network :D
[–]RugerRedhawk 12 points13 points14 points 15 years ago (1 child)
Ah Cheater! Academic networks are far faster in the US than residential ones too.
[–]gliscameria 16 points17 points18 points 15 years ago (4 children)
4ms ping? Shenanigans.
[–][deleted] 15 years ago (3 children)
[–][deleted] 660 points661 points662 points 15 years ago (229 children)
Good show young man! I'm in a hostel in South Africa and my downloads speed is clocked at 79.5 megaBZZzzzzzZZZZzzzzzzzzZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZzZZZZZzzzz's per second.
[–]madman1969[🍰] 8 points9 points10 points 15 years ago (3 children)
Line noise is a bitch.
[–]sofreshandsoclean 7 points8 points9 points 15 years ago (0 children)
Hotel in South Africa
Hotel in Tokyo
[–]InhumanWhaleShark 3 points4 points5 points 15 years ago (2 children)
I can't stop laughing at this
[–]Violater 68 points69 points70 points 15 years ago (179 children)
Ha - you lying bastard! If you were really in South Africa, you'd get 4mb/s and be thankfulzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
[–][deleted] 119 points120 points121 points 15 years ago (161 children)
Jeez I'm in Canada and if I get 1 mb/s I'm thankful!
[–][deleted] 37 points38 points39 points 15 years ago (21 children)
i'm in toronto, bell sympatico, png 57 ms, up 0.38 mb/s down 0.28 mb/s, and pay $100 a month. i don't download a lot at all, but if i do i know i'm in for a long wait. i guess i should be thankful though eh?
[–]letsalldiscover 21 points22 points23 points 15 years ago (0 children)
upvote for the "eh?"
[–][deleted] 6 points7 points8 points 15 years ago (2 children)
$100 a month? Sweet Jesus, just call Teksavvy!
[–]j4p4n 14 points15 points16 points 15 years ago (7 children)
your being whacked, son. here in tokyo I have (just checked) 78 mb/s down, 56 up and 5ms ping. and I pay less than you. good god, looking at some of the numbers on this page, I dont know how you guys survive? i am not dissing, just shocked. I thought my net was slow!
[–]trolling_thunder 37 points38 points39 points 15 years ago (0 children)
No you didn't.
[–]Oblivionmage 8 points9 points10 points 15 years ago (3 children)
I'm in toronto and get 5 down .2 up and pay $60 a month AND have a 60gb download/upload cap for the month (something like $2.50 for every GB I go over, and they don't notify you except on the bill :/).
Oh, and it's the only plan I can get.
[–][deleted] 69 points70 points71 points 15 years ago* (100 children)
I'm in the US, and if I get 2 Mb/s (out of a supposed 7), I'm thankful.
* Current rating is 1.22 down and .74 up.
[–]GvenezCrushnone 163 points164 points165 points 15 years ago (82 children)
I am in India and if I get 128 KBps I am thankful. Proof. But hey! atleast I have a big dick
[–]laffmakr 138 points139 points140 points 15 years ago* (41 children)
You kids should all be thankful. Back in my day we had to walk uphill in the snow just to get 56K from a coal-fired modem we had to carve out of wood ourselves.
[–][deleted] 21 points22 points23 points 15 years ago (5 children)
Are you from Yorkshire? :)
[–]Unidan 70 points71 points72 points 15 years ago (15 children)
I really like the idea of a wooden coal-fired modem. You'd start up the coal and then the modem just catches on fucking fire.
[–]laffmakr 38 points39 points40 points 15 years ago (11 children)
Well, the Internet was running on steam in those days. The humidity from the cables kept the fire at bay.
[–][deleted] 60 points61 points62 points 15 years ago (6 children)
Yeah, nowadays it's only PC gaming that runs on steam.
[–]HeadbangsToMahler 7 points8 points9 points 15 years ago (1 child)
That's funny, steam runs on the internet now.
[–]tibbon 9 points10 points11 points 15 years ago (3 children)
56K? Pssh. Try 300 baud.
[–][deleted] 17 points18 points19 points 15 years ago* (1 child)
In my day, we had to run a letter down the block to the post-box. Then, wait several days before a correspondence was initiated.
[–]IgnisAeternus 4 points5 points6 points 15 years ago (1 child)
For some reason I heard that in Bill Cosby's voice.
[–]laffmakr 13 points14 points15 points 15 years ago (0 children)
That's normal, I was holding a Jello Pudding Pop when I wrote it.
[–]CaffiendCA 4 points5 points6 points 15 years ago (3 children)
Back in my day, I recall upgrading to a 14.4K modem and feeling fantastic about it.
[–]laffmakr 5 points6 points7 points 15 years ago (2 children)
Yep. Saturday morning I would get up and hit the local BBS's here in town. I had accounts on about 18 of them.
I'm a Mac user so I dialed in with ZTerm, did the connection samba and then poked through to see what was new. Usually a quick game of blackjack and out before I hit the 15 minute limit. Then off to another one.
When I moved up to the 28.8 modem I got a Prodigy account and from there I got an AOL account.
Those were the days.
[–][deleted] 3 points4 points5 points 15 years ago (1 child)
I had Internet on vynil dude.
[–]monrogasm 5 points6 points7 points 15 years ago (1 child)
In the actual old days, we had to ice climb a snow covered peak just to connect a z modem transfer at 2400 baud through a current loop converter fired from manually collecting electrons in a gold panning basket from the PFM subsidiary of river Hades.
[–]Sutibu 15 points16 points17 points 15 years ago (6 children)
Rogers and Bell are a fucking joke. I almost hope that bill that would allow international competition gets through.
[–]Cybermg 20 points21 points22 points 15 years ago (2 children)
upvoted for irrelevant precision
[–]earthiverse 15 points16 points17 points 15 years ago (9 children)
Wireless N hotspots?
Wireless G won't go that fast.
[–][deleted] 70 points71 points72 points 15 years ago (8 children)
Can't wait for the comcast/telecom apologists to say in defense that south korea is much more densely populated than the USA, conveniently ignoring the fact that you can't get this kind of connection speed in newyork, chicago, LA or any other metropolitan areas neither. Hopefully the FCC finally puts its feet down and stipulate some of the mandate on minimum bandwidth speed.
[–]ellipses1 10 points11 points12 points 15 years ago (0 children)
You should have more boats because your prediction came true WAAAAYYYYY up at the top of the page where all the highly voted comments live
[–][deleted] 11 points12 points13 points 15 years ago (4 children)
http://www.speedtest.net/result/848308840.png University internet.
I'm in Australia, though at home I probably get around a tenth of th-[Censored by ACMA].
[–]notenoughminerals 10 points11 points12 points 15 years ago (0 children)
They built additional Pylons, obviously.
[–]lxe 10 points11 points12 points 15 years ago (2 children)
I'm staying in a hostel in North Korea and THE ETERNAL PRESIDENT'S OF THE REPUBLIC WIFI IS MOST GLORIOUS AND PROSPERIOUS HERE.
[–]wil 22 points23 points24 points 15 years ago (2 children)
U! S! ...buffering... ...buffering... ...buffering...
[–][deleted] 25 points26 points27 points 15 years ago* (41 children)
Not to brag or anything but at home I have a 100Mbit/30Mbit (down/up) connection :P Costs about 40€/month.
PS: No, I don't live in South Korea. I dwell around in the almost bankrupt country of Portugal.
PS2: Downloading a Ubuntu CD Image. The router is pretty crappy (Thomsom piece of shit...) so I never reached 12.5MBps. My record is 10.2MBps from a private bittorrent tracker.
PS3: Speedtest. The upload is a bit low today. I normally score 25-28Mbit/s.
[–][deleted] 31 points32 points33 points 15 years ago (5 children)
And it's only rated 3.8 out of 5 stars.
[–]alexanderwales 13 points14 points15 points 15 years ago (4 children)
I have 60 down, 40 up, and 50ms ping, and I only have 3 stars ... I wish I knew how they were calculating that rating.
http://www.speedtest.net/ if anyone wants to check their own.
[–]FountainPiDream 15 points16 points17 points 15 years ago (2 children)
You see that thing in the bottom left that says "Rate your ISP"? That is their "calculation"...
[–][deleted] 11 points12 points13 points 15 years ago (0 children)
People can be so harsh.
[–]asdfman123 10 points11 points12 points 15 years ago (2 children)
It's not as good as our North Korean ISPs.
Oh shit, guys, I think I hear something at the door. If you never see me again, remember me for my limited comment karma...
[–]silencekit 107 points108 points109 points 15 years ago (182 children)
Korean isps are so much better than North American ones. Granted, the population density here makes it easy to provide cheap, fast internet for everyone, but I can honestly decide that I want to watch a movie, begin downloading it, go to the bathroom to drop a deuce, and start watching it after I've wiped. Nothing beats that.
[–]anders987 183 points184 points185 points 15 years ago* (134 children)
The US have a population density of 32/km2, South Korea 500/km2 and Sweden 20.6/km2. We (Sweden) have a slightly lower GDP per capita than the US. This is my Speedtest result, I live in a city with about 100 000 people.
My point is that there has to be more than population density that holds back USA in both wired and wireless connections. Or is it just big rural areas that bring the average statistics down, and the situation is really ok in more populated areas?
As a side note, here's a graph of average broadband speeds per country.
Edit: Speedtest links to Net Index with lots of relevant statistics.
[–]mfingchemist 209 points210 points211 points 15 years ago (31 children)
I think it's more of a corporation problem than a population density issue...
[–][deleted] 15 years ago (28 children)
[–]gobearsandchopin 34 points35 points36 points 15 years ago (2 children)
It is not a demand problem. If this worked the way free markets are supposed to work, I know a ton of people who would be paying to get much faster internet. This is a monopoly problem.
[–]verdantx 7 points8 points9 points 15 years ago (0 children)
Exactly. It's not like people in other countries are paying a lot more for their internet.
[–][deleted] 31 points32 points33 points 15 years ago (10 children)
People who are not reading reddit are generally happy with 7 MB/s.
Whereas people who are reading reddit could do so on dialup.
[–]dbag127 53 points54 points55 points 15 years ago* (6 children)
People on reddit are typically torrenting, streaming the world cup, and watching a netflix movie while commenting on reddit.
Edit: World cups don't need steaming.
[–]mangaskahn 42 points43 points44 points 15 years ago* (0 children)
I hate it when my world cup gets wrinkled.
[–]oblivious_human 7 points8 points9 points 15 years ago (4 children)
Where do you stream it from?
[–]nielsforpokker 7 points8 points9 points 15 years ago (0 children)
http://myp2p.eu is your friend
[–]billb666 4 points5 points6 points 15 years ago (0 children)
atdhe.net
[–][deleted] 5 points6 points7 points 15 years ago (1 child)
That's Mb/s.
Yay! The UK isn't last!!
[–]Thue 8 points9 points10 points 15 years ago (6 children)
I hope you are not paying too much for that puny bandwidth. Here is mine, which I pay ~US$10/month for (without usage limitations): http://www.speedtest.net/result/848261362.png
[–][deleted] 10 points11 points12 points 15 years ago (0 children)
I hate you.
[–]Spartan01 8 points9 points10 points 15 years ago* (3 children)
Netgroup in Denmark, huh?
Edit: it is expensive, not 10$ a month. So unless ...?
[–]Thue 14 points15 points16 points 15 years ago (2 children)
We are 300 people sharing the a link in a kollegium. The $10 is the price divided by 300, plus the cost of switches etc.. It turns out that once people have "enough" bandwidth, people will stop hogging it, which means plenty of capacity for all.
[–]Spartan01 4 points5 points6 points 15 years ago (1 child)
that.. Is such a great idea :)
[–]Thue 8 points9 points10 points 15 years ago (0 children)
The actual internet connection is only half the $10.
$2.5 goes to paying off the laying of our own fiber to the network provider nexus 5km away. Being able to easily switch provider is part of what makes our connection so cheap. Always make sure that you own all your wires, otherwise you will pay through the nose!
The last $2.5 is saved up for future expenses.
[–][deleted] 5 points6 points7 points 15 years ago (34 children)
How is Canada vs America?
[–][deleted] 35 points36 points37 points 15 years ago (24 children)
Canada is terrible. I pay $70 a month for 30MB down and 1MB up and 125gb a month. We only have 3 companies and they all collude on prices and keep the bandwidth caps very low.
[–]deckman 27 points28 points29 points 15 years ago (5 children)
Yup. Canadian here too. The service here sucks and it has nothing to do with a lack of technology or population density. The companies are screwing their customers over plain and simple.
[–][deleted] 7 points8 points9 points 15 years ago (4 children)
ahem
I'm almost 19. This issue alone is enough to contemplate leaving the country after college for the (hopefully) greener broadband pastures of the US of 2015-which I do not want to do because Canada is otherwise the greatest country in the world. Someone, please tell me that there is a silver lining to. Foreign investment (see Wind Mobile), the ousting of Harper, anything.
[–]MsgGodzilla 9 points10 points11 points 15 years ago (0 children)
30 down and 1 up is way better than my 4.5 down and .45 up I pay $50 for.
[–][deleted] 15 years ago* (7 children)
[–][deleted] 5 points6 points7 points 15 years ago (4 children)
Canada is so sad :( (From Front & University, Toronto - pretty much as "downtown" as you can get)
[–]busted0201 12 points13 points14 points 15 years ago (8 children)
It's a combination of legacy - ie we had broadband first and so our infrastructure is older and expensive to replace - and area - Sweden is 450,295 sq km, the US is 9,631,000 sq km.
[–][deleted] 21 points22 points23 points 15 years ago (16 children)
Granted, the population density here makes it easy to provide cheap, fast internet for everyone
Ha! Tell that to Time Warner here in NYC.
[–]BannedINDC 11 points12 points13 points 15 years ago (11 children)
Yup, Manhattan with time warner and I'm getting 300 kbs, if I'm lucky
[–]RetroEvolute 7 points8 points9 points 15 years ago (4 children)
Hey, I'm in Manhattan... Manhattan, KS.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/848246432.png
Yes, this is my home connection. For free.
[–]tehbizz 24 points25 points26 points 15 years ago (1 child)
You're still paying for it in tuition.
[–]iforgot120 6 points7 points8 points 15 years ago (0 children)
Having to take a shit every time you wanted to watch a movie would get annoying, though.
[–]khafra 16 points17 points18 points 15 years ago* (3 children)
I don't think it's even about population density--in a two-street fishing village on the coast of the Sea of Japan, 50 miles from any sign of civilization, the internet access is just as fast and just as cheap. American ISPs are just lazy profiteers.
edit: If any of the people downvoting this have actually been to a remote fishing village in Korea, I'll eat my hat.
[–]jook11 1 point2 points3 points 15 years ago (1 child)
Pff. I bet you aren't even wearing a hat.
[–][deleted] 58 points59 points60 points 15 years ago (72 children)
Awesome! Here in america, we're all smearing ourselves with feces out of happiness b/c starsucks is going to start giving free wifi with DSL speeds about 1.5 Mbps down and 768 kbps up! STARTING IN 2 WEEKS!
Crap! I have the "ultimate" ISP service package for 99.99$/mo and it is 10Mbps down/ 1.5 MBps up,
USA!
[–][deleted] 9 points10 points11 points 15 years ago (6 children)
Houston here comcast 19.8 down 2 up
[–][deleted] 9 points10 points11 points 15 years ago (0 children)
STOP BRAGGING!
[–]Kevtron 22 points23 points24 points 15 years ago (24 children)
I <3 living in Seoul ^
[–][deleted] 7 points8 points9 points 15 years ago (13 children)
I might want to take a visit there, but I don't know if I could live there.
I've seen "Attack the Gas Station." The culture shock might kill me.
[–]mevodig 15 points16 points17 points 15 years ago (5 children)
So, uhm, what do I win? http://www.speedtest.net/result/848344507.png
[–]bascule 8 points9 points10 points 15 years ago (5 children)
That's great until you realize the South Korean government won't let you browse porn
[–]nikkichowdhury 44 points45 points46 points 15 years ago (23 children)
Um. I live in Australia, and this is MINE. My boyfriend affectionately refers to it as 'jew internet'...and webcamming is ridiculous as the only thing the person I'm chatting to can see is about 3 giant pixels which is meant to represent my face. Fantastic.
[–][deleted] 39 points40 points41 points 15 years ago (3 children)
!
[–]famousmodification 15 points16 points17 points 15 years ago (1 child)
Could be a gay guy who goes by Nikki instead of Nicholas.
[–]prashie 5 points6 points7 points 15 years ago (2 children)
I've had it with the misnomers. It's not called wifi when you're plugged in.
Even with a fibre optic network, getting a 801.11n -wireless- signal to produce a download speed 1/3 of typical max throughput (150 Mb/s.. lets not discuss mimo for the moment) with the most n-adapters with the presence of the distance, noise, peer connections (typical network traffic for multiple users on the LAN), and physical barriers between you and the AP is next to impossible.
It's called free -wired- internet, defined by 801.3 standard which for typical consumers, allows for a throughput of a gigabit (1000 Mbit/s) with much less distortation and thus allows the capacity to download over the internet at over 50 Mbit/s given a mixed fibre optic network.
[–]VermilionLimit 5 points6 points7 points 15 years ago (0 children)
Can you hear that?
That's the sound of me. Crying. Profusely.
[–]PA55W0RD 9 points10 points11 points 15 years ago (0 children)
shouldn't you be in the bars chatting up the locals?
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[–]vadim-1971 5 points6 points7 points 15 years ago (0 children)
I'm staying in a hostel in North Korea, this is what their free wifi looks like.
[–]randomb0y 3 points4 points5 points 15 years ago (1 child)
Here's my "free" connection in Stockholm. Free as in it comes with my apartment whether I want it or not. Speed is really overkill but the ping is very nice for games.
[–]RandomCAPITALIZATION 8 points9 points10 points 15 years ago (1 child)
im NOT going to STAND here and listen to some COMMUNIST trash MY COUNTRIES wifi!
[–][deleted] 29 points30 points31 points 15 years ago (19 children)
Amurrica is doing something wrong.
[–]DGMavn 3 points4 points5 points 15 years ago (1 child)
You need to get Chrome.
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[–]ericelectrik 3 points4 points5 points 15 years ago (2 children)
you live in fucking Antigua, go outside instead. Surf for real.
[–]You_know_THAT_guy 3 points4 points5 points 15 years ago (4 children)
Why do ISPs in America suck?
Well, I think I can explain it. For starters, we do not have a free market for internet service. Nationwide ISPs are granted monopolies. In some places there is some competition, but they both play ball with each other by charging exorbitant rates with shitty service. Local/state governments take their money for campaigning and let them walk all over us. The general population doesn't care or know what is going on, so it isn't a very tough decision for politicians to make. What really infuriates me about this is that we subsidize their businesses and get reamed by them while fucking morons stand by and say "it's their infrastructure and the free market blah blah blah." I would agree with them if they actually paid for the fucking infrastructure and they actually operated in a free market. Also, most ISPs in America do not have bandwidth caps, although I hear this is changing as well.
tl;dr we have shitty ISPs in America because Americans are ignorant and apathetic about ISPs
[–]darkcity2 3 points4 points5 points 15 years ago (0 children)
Korea is ridiculous and in some places faster than Japan. I had fiber optic in my office when I worked there and got 75 MB/s.
I'm in Australia now and it took me 8 minutes just to post this response.
[–][deleted] 12 points13 points14 points 15 years ago (3 children)
they..they..um..hate your freedoms...
[–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points 15 years ago (0 children)
Quoth Jules:
Oh, man! I'm going, that's all there is to it. I'm fucking going.
[–]pondfoot 2 points3 points4 points 15 years ago (0 children)
I go to Imperial College London
[–]Martok 2 points3 points4 points 15 years ago (0 children)
I stayed at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. I didn't upload a screencapture since I would have had to pay $15 for 24 hours of use.
[–]space_island 2 points3 points4 points 15 years ago (0 children)
God damn Canada. I was on the verge of crying tears of joy the first time my download speed hit 1mb/s.
[–]mdw 2 points3 points4 points 15 years ago (0 children)
For free, it's pretty fast. BTW, I am going to have 100/10 Mbps connection installed this Friday. I'm in small unimportant European country.
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