Internet in Korea: 100 Mbit standard
The majority of South Koreans rate their broadband services as ‘ordinary’ despite having the world’s fastest internet connections, according to a recent survey. Korean broadband providers typically offer speeds of 100Mbps. However, the government-sponsored Korean Communications Commission (KCC) found that no service provider consistently provides this level of service. The fastest ‘100Mbps’ service was delivered by LG Powercomm with an average speed of 91Mbps, the KCC found. The average speed of all 100Mbps service providers is just 46Mbps, but this compares to typical average broadband speeds of well below 10Mbps in most other countries.
Seven service providers offer high-speed broadband services in Korea to more than 15 million subscribers. Korea Telecom controls 44.2 per cent of the market, followed by Hanarotelecom with 24 per cent and LG Powercomm with 12.2 per cent. “By giving quality information to internet users, we expect customers to have more information when they choose products,” said KCC representative Lee Eun-hee, according to the Joongang Daily. “This encourages service providers to compete against one another to improve the overall quality of such products.” Kim Young-wan of Korea Telecom added: “The rate at which high-speed internet customers are increasing has slowed down a lot. “That is why internet service providers are looking for new revenue sources such as internet telephony and IPTV services.”
Source: Vnunet
Comments(149)
USA. Knock, knock. Anyone home?
I Love Korea.. Damn!
Not fair.
In Europe, we have 70 mbit, but only in France and Slovakia… We can download 1 DVD (4,5GB) for few minutes… cost: 40 USD/month without limit for download or upload.
no offence but south koreans are like robots.
the teens there spending their entire day on the computer.
Korea what are you complaining about?? Australia is still stuck in the dark ages..faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar behind Europe and America, the fastest we have is ADSL+2 which is 8mbit. Its an embarrassment.
Having that sorta speed would just be useless, 26k modem FTW!
@ Dosh
Australia has ADSL2+ with speeds of up to 24MB
ADSL1 has speeds of up to 8MB.
In India also fastest 8mbps. I thought Australia has the fastest BroadBand connection which country has the fastest BB conn.
Surprising that South Korea has the fastest average internet.However,100Mbit speeds are going to become much more common in the US. Comcast, a major ISP in the US, is going to start offering 100-155Mbit connections to residential customers at the end of this year in most major cities and it will be more widespread by next year.It will be around $99 for the 100mbit connection (which is really cheap considering I pay over $300 a month for mine
) Hang on, those in the US, it won’t be too much longer before you can get some decent speeds.
here in Australia or Western Australia
we dont even have any unlimited broadband packages!!
how fu(ked is that.
greece : 24 mbit with costs 39.90 eyro ( including free phone calls unlimited + internet unlimited up and download + 1 hour free mobile phones )
I’m in Australia, and our internet sux compared to just about everywhere else. and we pay way too much for it. $50 just you next to nothing, unless you like e-mail! Where is our unlimited internet? It’s like the rest of the world in on ADSL2+ and where still stuck on Dial-up!
@ Perth Mikljon
Yeah Australia sucks major download wise. TPG is coming out with a 500GB quota, ADSL2+ plan for $79 a month though.
Where I am in America i can get 6mb dsl, that’s about it. I really shouldn’t complain though because America is freaking huge compared to some of these countries. It would literally take millions upon millions of pounds and miles of fiber optic lines to reach most towns, let alone to houses from there.
You’d pretty much have to dedicate hundreds of factories into making fiber optic lines non-stop and install for 10 years straight.
also in aussie largest isp provider charges you for uploading as well as downloading,found out the hard way,they don’t tell you that when you sign up for 2 years contract !!!!!!!!
Don’t worry Aussi’s. NZ’s broadband is even worse….
i live in sweden and have 100 mbit optic-fiber för 31 euro a month, beat that you kapitalists
lol you are all noobs.
Koreans need faster internet so they can play starcraft. The rest of the world needs starcraft to force internet companies to make faster connections.
http://www.gomtv.net
God damnit… in Israel we have 10-15mbits the fastest
and most of the time we dont get even half of that…
@ 19 “thegrinch”: i lol’d
and I was thinking that NZ is a perfect country
APPARENTLY S.KOREA IS!
@14
How much euro is in 79 AUD?
i pay 100us$ for a 1.5mb and cable in central america so basically most of u guy’s are in heaven
@20 But at least there’s no limits on the bandwidth. Thanks god for that.
Thaspider@24
at least you got unlimited supply of mind expansion herbware, so don’t complain!
damn they think its ordinary. they would die living in Australia.
@9 San07
fastest is 8 Mbps..?
no ISP is providing that speed for Home use..
for Home use max they provide is 2 Mbps.. thats also with some 1 or 2GB limit per month and cost of extra MB is also very high
What does speed matter when ISPs in the US are looking into charging their customers traffic per byte. People, especially those who do not use much bandwidth, should all terminate their contract with those money grubbing, thieving ISPs.
@10 Um…. no your wrong. The fastest they WILL be offering is 50mbit which will be DOCSIS3 which is currently being deployed (available in only 2 cities right now and they said a few more by the end of the year). The only other ISP offering that kinda speed is verizon FIOS, they have a 50mbit package for I think around $130.
Its taken me about a week to download 8gb
Stupid Australia lol
Why do so many people lie about about their download speeds? Such a load of lies posted on here lol. Sweden 100Mb? France 40Mb? Yeah right. Heres a graph showing the true average speeds in Europe and elsewhere (Europe averages just 4.4mb, so if there were speeds like those quoted the average would be much higher). http://www.speedtest.net/global.php
i used to pay 70for 6mb dsl
@14 mrGRINCH: That’s still an internal trial thing. Who knows what kind of plan TPG will actually put out.
@23 d3: 79AUD is around 47 Euros.
For 50AUD we get ADSL2+ with 24Mbit speed and 20GB download for an average plan here in Australia… 20GB! A single decent game downloaded and half the limit’s gone. *sigh*
You guys can’t compare to Malaysian Internet. The fastest here is 1Mbps…..it’s not even5 folks……and worst of all we get 75% of the speed if we are lucky.
i paye 50 AU dollars a month for 21 Gig/month gets even worse when my max download speed is 53kbps on torrents/http
and lol i can’t even satisfy my private tracker because uploading counts towards those 21 gigs…
y is Australia so cheap….
Denmark aint that bad.
I have a 20/2mbit connection for around 60 USD/Month, unlimited download and upload though.
Makes me so jealous!! Anyhow am studying in Malaysia n the fastest they offer is 4Mbit for 270RM which is about 80$…unlimited though!
@ Torrentless…..the fastest is actually 4Mbit n I do get the full bandwidth when downloading from rapidshare n private torrent sites.
Australia = hell, get lost aussie
@ 32
There are regions in all of those countries which simply do not have broadband available. Hence the slow avg. speed in those regions. Not to mention there are areas which offer faster services and others which simply don’t have the infrastructure. Regardless of whether you feel they are lying or not some people in certain areas can in fact get those speeds.
The fastest I can get (and trust me, I’m lucky to get anything at all being out in the sticks in the west of ireland) is 1.5mb for euros 42 ($65) a month. Just downloading 4.37gb ISO which will take 23 hrs! At least it’s unlimited
lol I live in Australia too and its outrageous. I’m paying $80 a month for a 512kbs unlimited connection. Sadly this is the best I can get, I refuse to go on a “capped” or “per MB” plan.
And I thought I was doing good with my 15mbit fios connection.
HAHA you guys DON’T know SH!T … SOUTH AFRICA IS THE F4CKing worst EVER!
Our Max is 4mb/s but the average is 384kbs on ADSL.
Thats not the problem though… we have unbelievably bad caps! on average you will pay for 15GB per month on a 384kb line, $125.00. extra 1 GB is $10…
This excludes line rental, (another $25 per month for a 384k one). Installation fees $50 once off. Modem
$80.
They also shape the traffic here, (limit your international and local.)
I think ISP’s in the USA are copying our model for strangling the public.
This is on a freaking 384k line!… it only gets worse when you ‘upgrade’…
oh and our per capita earnings are $470 per month.
ALAS, we have a monopoly known as TELKOM affectionately refered to as TELSCUM…they are part AMERICAN OWNED! go figure…
—>SO SOUTH AFRICA FOR THE WIN!!—>when it comes to the internet, WE suck!
Damn us UK ppl are being traffic managed during 8am-12am now which sucks alot, can only download 6GB now in a day, so my 20Mb £38.99 cable is useless.
I’m moving to Sweden where its fast, and cheap
Ha, 1mbit for 30 USD here in Thailand, and the service sucks. Ask myself how come the koreans have such a fast connection, i mean they also in south east asia, must be the dam corruption here.
I’m Korean. KOREA TELECOM of NTOPIA service to use.
92-up / down Measure 85 makes sense. The country still has about 50 mega.
A month is 28.85 (USD) to pay the fees.
16Mb with Comcast Blast in Washington state.
Oh yeah, and 2Mb upload.
I applaud South Korea for having the best internet service in the world. Now all they need to do is get rid of their annoying neighbour to the North and they’ll be set!
“In Europe, we have 70 mbit, but only in France and Slovakia…”
Not really, Sweden, Denmark and Norway has 100 mbit and even faster than that, for very cheap prices as well.
In Saudi the standard is 1Mbps which costs 50USD/Month. If I want to upgrade to 20Mbps I would lose half of my salary paying to the service provider
Sheet, I remember in Australia with my 512k download from Westnet, for 70 dollars a month! Christ, would meet the limit of 25 GB download after a couple of weeks:), then be capped at 56k!:)))
Now I’m workig in Galati Romania and have a 10Mb (really at most I have had around 7Mb max) though it’s not capped(is in theory per day depending on use but never experienced it) and costs 35 dollars AU(equivalent) with cable tv bundled. Never thought that a ‘poor’ Eastern European country would have it so good! My home country Poland by comparison is far slower and more expensive.
What is the irony here? We have the most expensive cell phone service in the world versus those “less-developed” countries in Asia. Then we have to deal with Comcast and Time Warner while the S. Koreans are enjoying true high-speed internet. Meanwhile, we comfort ourselves as the Most Powerful Nation in the world. When I told my friends in Asia how I can now call them for 3 cents a minute, they laugh. They have that rate for years and is going down even more.
I live in Egypt, and we offer ADSL2+
I have a 1024/256 kbps connection, and I pay ~$40/month for it.
We offer that 24 Mbps for ~$365/month, and a quota of 150GB.
finland: 100mbit about 60 euros…
Poor Koreans..
Uruguay (south america)..768kbps/128kbps for U$S 50
WOW >:(
lucky bastards
here in ireland we have 2mb for €45
lucky bastards
wow and they still dont have the freedom to look at anything they want….
i think they even banned google because it might show the people of china that the rest of the world actually dont get treated like dogs.
100MB and nothing to do with it.
WTF?!
I’m in Korea, using KT, and my internet is nowhere NEAR that fast!
@ EC
dont fool yourself… just saying ‘we are the most powerful country in the world’ doesent make it happen you know…. the rest of the world just smirk and pat u lot on the head…
we are on the subject of China here BTW…(theres your irony powerful america)
an ISP in the city of Lund, Sweden, offers 1 gbit(1000 mbit) to it’s costumers. And I who thought my 100mbit connection was fast!!!
here’s a link to the ISP:
http://labs2.com/brikks/customers/gigabit-in-lund
Well, no one mention canada yet.
So here goes. Rogers big monopoly, besides Bell (ADSL2, sucks).
Rogers the best is $99 per month, with 95gb cap, with each gb after that costing you $1.25 (but currently over charges are cap at $25 max., but could change at any time by Rogers).
And the speed is listed at 18mbps by cable, but most of the time you get around 13 to 15mbps, and all torrents are traffic-shaped so that d/l speeds are slow, and u/l counts towards your monthly cap.
Rogers also has in fine-print on the contract a 300gb hard-cap if reached in multi-month sessions, your service may be suspended or put under notice, but so far nothing done on this, but they recently hired a third-party company to track usage, and ever time you pass another 100gb mark, each time you browse a website you get a buried top-up notice ad with the website you are trying to visit pushed down in your window, with a message from Rogers and you must click the “link” that you receive this notice of over-usage if you don’t wish to have this annoying ad each time you browse a webpage.
Oh’well that’s mine soap-box ISP comments regarding Canada.
reaper – Uh, there’s a Google Korea. Definitely not banned! And never heard of anything being blocked on the internet here!
@garypoa
Damn I’ve been living in Korea for 4 years now. Rogers prices are insane ! I don’t know what I’m going to do when I go home to Canada!
If you live in a big apartment (80% of the pop) you can enjoy the super speeds they have, but if you live in a house or small 6 story apartment you only get about 50d/70up (dont know why I can upload so fast)
I heard by 09 there will be gb/s damnnn!
and they are right about starcraft! There are PC cafe’s on every single block
poland.. 5mbit/1mbit(package with tv and tel.) about 60$
If you are only of the lucky fews in Slovenia with fiber optic cables already set the rates are excellent:
http://www.t-2.net/?AUID=4DE65011E194120110C6
For example 50Mbit/50Mbit is just 50€, while say 10/10 is 14€.
Of course 1Gbit/1Gbit is being offered too, but for 1000€:)
No limitations of course.
I am in the US and I have a 3Mb/768Kb connection so don’t fell bad. I will probably be getting Verizon FiOS which is can go up to 15Mb/5Mb .
300KBPS Connection for 29$ and only get 30KBPS that also keeps on fluctuating download speed and for downloading 700MB file it takes around about 6hrs and dont ask me about the upload speed it will be dream for me to download from private trackers
from australia too, got 24mbps but lucky if i get 1/5 of that.
for a developed country and small pop. we have crap internet.
@32:
Are you jealous or something? Have you even bothered to check swedens speeds? http://www.speedtest.net/global.php?continent=3&country=6
If you take a quick look there you can clearly see that most of the speeds are ABOVE 100 mbit (the fastest 31087 kb/s)
Here, in Australia, I have an 8MB connection with a 60GB monthly limit. It is the BEST service available in my area, and I live in a major city. As for the price, it would be cheaper to fund a heroin addiction! I kid you not.
i cant believe people are getting defensive about their countries internet speeds… good god. It really doesnt reflect on the country one way or the next… just enjoy what you have… it wont be this way forever.
in NZ dialup plans include Styrofoam cups tied together with string.. upgrade to broadband you get cup tin cans..
There are trials for 1000/1000 connections in my city now.
Would be nice to upgrade from the 100/100. The rest of the world needs to work harder on increasing bandwith throughout and just build a good fiber backbone through all their major cities. 
Wait… Small, hyper-densely populated countries are easy to wire for high speed internet?
No way! Someone stop the presses!
In other news, a new study has shown that no one with any sense gives a flying rat poop.
doesnt matter, they have no good content. they got shiatty ping to europe and even worse to the usa. id rather have 20 mbits in europe than a million in korea.
Just wanted to add some more information about my previous post, here in Sweden you can get 100 mbit for about €26.
We stille have 128kb in Algeria country
i think will most people Burn DVD Directly from Internet without downloading
here on brazil the prices r:
~28 USD/~18 EUR/~30 AUD/~15 GBP for a 200Kbps/200Kbps (D/U) without quota
~62 USD/~40 EUR/~65 AUD/~32 GBP for a 2Mbps/300Kbps (D/U) with a 20GB quota.
~74 USD/~48 EUR/~78 AUD/~38 GBP for a 4Mbps/600Kbps (D/U) with a 40GB quota.
~135 USD/~88 EUR/~143 AUD/~69 GBP for a 8Mbps/600Kbps (D/U) with a 60GB quota.
If you over your quota, they cut down your dl\ul speed to 200Kbps till the last day on the month.
and there is traffic shaping too.
http://gizmodo.com/393133/fcc-planning-new-spectrum-auction-with-free-broadband-for-all
i am not sure if i got the right article but theres spectrum available out there that would be 100 times faster then the one available and would be free Google is fighting to get it however the .gov is totally against it cause of them lobbyists
suck ass
Stop complaining, i pay almost 50$ a month and get a crappy 4mbit connection with 100GB cap (normal speeds are 3.5m)
u have it good there be happy for a sec
100/100 mbit/s here, sweden, for free ^^ but then again, i work for the ISP
I allso have and adsl line to play around with, ~19/6 mbit/s allso free, yay.
Just to let everyone know, 100Mbit will never actually reach 100Mbit spead due to practical limitations. An ideal 100Mmbit network should stop at 91Mbit/s or approximately 10.5MB/s . Due to overhead such as the TCP/IP protocol, etc. So really the survey is fundamentally flawed, because 100Mbit will only ever be that fast in theory.
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well india really sucks for broadband. here we are offered speeds of 2Mbps with monthly downloads capped at 1.5Gb for Rs600 ie $15pm.
No unlimited plan exists anywhere india at 2Mbps for home users. Only unlimited plan is 256Kbps for $20
damn…koreans
Guys its all marketing really…
100 mbps is never really means you can dl something from anywhere on net @100, its the speed of the local loop (which means the cable from your pc router/modem to telecom co or isp’s equipment in the same city)
Speed of the net depends on the speed of backbone, international gateways and so on… and (surprise!), its very slow, in kbps sometimes.
Most of isp’s are switching to MPLS, which means 100 mbps ethernet for everyone, so the whole city turns into a LAN, but when most of the net is outside your country, it will make no difference in speeds…
Poland ( polish telecom TPSA )
1024kbps/256kbps 20EUR/month
2048kbps/256kbps 45EUR/…
6144kbps/512kbps 54EUR/…
I’m off to Korea …. See ya
well i am in a bcak water country called ireland and i have a savage 12mb connection and 120gig cap for 45 euro a month pretty god dam gud if u ask me
Serbia have very bad conection ADSL in Telecome people have ADSL 256Kbit/64Kbit, ADSL 512Kbit/64Kbit ,ADSL 1024Kbit/128Kbit and ADSL 1536Kbit/192Kbit,Wireless in Madnet is 200/200 kbps (250 kbps of 00:00 to 08:00), 400/400 kbps (600 kbps of 00:00 to 08:00), 800/800 kbps (1500 kbps of 00:00 to 08:00)other provider is also slow.Price for that connection is too high
im paying 120 bucks a month for 2mb in peru beat that!
[Quote]I’m off to Korea …. See ya[/Quote]
I´m happy with paella,fabada asturiana, pollo al horno casero and some of the best wine. No need to rush…keep in mind, your dl the most s..t for free!
So don´t cry, everything u dll is pirated!
well im in the uk, and get a real world speed of about 2.5 – mbps as im about 4.5km from our telephone exchange. those closer to the exchange might get 6 or 7, as for fiber well no chance for most of the uk and no company is willing to expend resources digging the place up to plant it here, theyre all waiting for wireless to fill the gap for relatively zero expenditure. i am hopeful this technology when it arrives will finally kill the bt monopoly (if your line goes down here and youre with a non bt isp youll know the joy of getting it fixed). How long its going to take i dont know. too long probably and i wouldnt be sure about its reliability in the sticks. i did hear about a company using sewers and tunnels to lay fiber at a vastly reduced rate compared to digging but still expensive compared to prospective wireless no doubt. im surprised the connections listed in the comments above arent all as good as i thought they would be. still better than my crud one though
blunden I agree with the idea for a good fiber backbone in major cities. But I wonder if you can carry a fiberwire signal through a router and have the line that comes to the house just be ethernet. Wouldn’t that help even if a little?
you guys think that your own country is the worse?
Take a look in Taiwan.I use the 12MB adsl
pay about 40USD month
the real downloading speed is about 1000K
the upload is only 100K or less
and the important is….they will block p2p’s speed.
the details are in these two links
http://www.cht.com.tw/CHTFinalE/Web/Personal.php?CatID=898
and
http://www.cht.com.tw/CHTFinalE/Web/Personal.php?CatID=898
I live in Hungary in a smaller town and the best I can get is 8Mbps/1Mbps cable for $64, now I have 4Mbps/256kbps ADSL for about $50.
Although in bigger cities 20/20 cable is available for $30.
jus tested my connection on speedtest…im in uk…..55mb/s.
im happy
i am on fiber optic tho
All the talk about this messed up economy and industries like this are just waiting to take off in a major way.
i am on fiber optics tho……and byu the way the top d/l speed in korea from speedtest is around 9mb/s…sum way off the claimed 100mb me finks
All I can say is “lucky bastards” I had heard of 100mbps being the national standard for free in Japan before so this doesn’t suprise me, but man it shows how far behind UK and mostly other Countries are for connectivity.
@98: I pay £350 (700 bucks) per month for 1mbit, we live so far out in the country, it’s our only option, sad, very sad. My heaven is Fibre everywhere!!
Well..here in the good ole USA (highest tech country – supposedly – Greed capitol of the WORLD ) we are lucky to get 12 MBps..count yourself lucky with 70 lol
Portugal is 24 mbits with a monthly tax of 24.90 euros.
No download limits.
Some operators can go up to 35 euros also depends on the contention tax.
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by speedtest in portugal 7096 kbs on a 12 mbit line
Speedtest is a false question, generally who has problems is who uses the service.
There is a well known article on this forum (study) that shows that europe is more advanced then USA in what concerns to broadband.
We pay for:
50 US Dollars for 8mb down/up
We get:
4.5mb down and 2.5mb up
No cap but the next fastest service cost 120, then two more grades that are 300 and 600 a month. I know the 300 is a T1 not sure about the 600. There was an excellent service locally for 150 a month you got a T1 and all setup for free. They didn’t last long since the internet as we know it was still relatively new in some areas.
i pay £20 ($40) for 20mb here in south london, and can download a 4.7gb movie from newsgroups in minutes
lol im getting 150kbs for $30USD a month in the US!
Is this a joke? Korea has 100Mbit and USA has G.W Bush. Who is the winner? Obviously USA…duh!!!
Poland – 6mbit – 120$. Monthly income 500$. That is cheap !!! LOL
Well since no1 mentioned romania yet, I’m in a small city over here so we dont even have the big ISPs here, but still get a 4mbit/2mbit fiber optic connection for 5 Euros, aaaand the cool thing is that on the metropolitan network we get 50mbit, that means since this ISP is all over the country we can dl from private romanian torrent sites with 50mbit, no limits whatsoever and free phone service, im usually gettin the newest releases in like 10 mins or so from a private torrent site for only 5 Euros
So i think we’re pretty OK. Oh and btw this is the CHEAPEST package…
here in kenya a 320/64kb/s for US$ 234. Guys stop complaining. and btw, whats rapidhare?
@30 h1pp0
You are completely wrong. Read here http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5idDmnZGVpRqw3K5C-dcd3QfREuyAD9144SEO1 Comcast WILL be offering 100Mbit+ speeds to 20% of its customers by the end of 2008. It is the beauty of the Docsis 3.0 connection. Read up on it or watch the news before you correct someone.
100mbit is pretty nice if the price is right but I got friends in sweeden (im from denmark) that got 1gbit connections… I thought scandinavia and specially Sweeden had the best internet in the world… Anyway the sure thing is that americans aint even in the big boy league
after playing many complaining yanks ova xbox live i can safely say the average speed 4 them is very very very poor,so poor their voice chat cums out like its in slow motion, like h..e..l..l…o…s..t..o..p..k..i..l..i..n..g…m..e..i..c..a..n..t..w..in……lol
I’m in London in the UK and I have 100/100, full duplex and unmetered. I usually download at 11.2 Mbps.
Cost = £99.00 / $200 per month.
100Mbit would be good to do some HD High Def fullscreen or even SD webcam sessions with a hottie
US 25$/month for 1mbit connection here in the Philippines. Popular universities luckily have 100mbits, though.
Well, speedtest.net don’t seem to be accurate by any means. Just tested (their nearest test server being in the same city!) and results were nowhere near where they actually are! No wonder their comparison results are bad, too…
laughing at all these good for nothing nations of nerds proudly stating how fast their internet is. Haha, how about being proud of actually inventing something that benefits billions, curing disease, research for new medicines and technologies that change the way we live. Contributing, volunteering to help others, and so on. I guess I’m the nerd for trying to talk sense to you computer geeks that boast over their countries’ internet speeds on a website. Shame on me for that.
i have no comment to your replies do to fack that my provider cut my dlaod rate from 256k to 144k do to afck that i !downlaod to much! damn why i got flatrate if i can`t dload all the time. 100mb is higher than sata sata so it`s stupid to have broadband dload higher then speed that pc actually write to hdd ?????
In Romania I pay alomost 9$(unlimited phone calls and internet)
We have 30Mbps in our country and 3Mbps in whole universe. Cheaper than this couldn’t exist
129@Steven
LoL! WUT?
Don’t you know that the internet is made for pron, and the only reason to get a faster internet line is to fap faster?
http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/
Just take this 75 year old Swedish lady, she has a 40GBit (yes, 40 GIGAbit. that’s 40.000 Megabit) broadband connection. with it she can fap, err.. whatever.. to 1500 simultaneously streaming HD video channels. Or download a full DVD in just two seconds. Now that invites to some serious fapping!!
@129 Wow !! I had booked a ticket to S.Korea but will cancel and go to Sweden instead. Hope Ms. Sigbritt adopts me.
I’m In Aus and I pay $140/Month for 120GB
(60gb peak, 60gb Off Peak) – ADSL 8 Meg Line
I used to live in the UK and was paying 24 GBP/Month for ADSL 2 24 Meg Line (only got ~10 Meg due to distance from exchange)
3rd world countries ftw! The max here is like 4mbit and is like $120-140 a month… ggthxbai
In Moldova, Starnet offers the best speed, so it’s about 10 mbps for 60 GB of traffic for 19 euro, or if you want unlimited it will be 8 mbps for 26 euro.
wow….
in malaysia da fastest is…
4mb!!!!!
and dat jus launched…
and crappy sevice…
crappy
crappy
crappy….!
*sigh*
i got 0.5mbs 100% free
here in switzerland we can get 20mbit at maximum (non business customer) for 67$. i can have 4mbit down /500kbit up at maximum (57$). i guess that’s ok for a small village with like 400 inhabitants.
of course the quality is good: 100% speed 24h per day, no down/up limit (500gb/month are no problem at least).
@127:
“100mb is higher than sata sata so it`s stupid to have broadband dload higher then speed that pc actually write to hdd ?????”
mbit/s vs. mbyte/s
here in austria there is only telekom austria and upc. both offer 16mbit adsl2+ which covers 1% of all connections? if you check the forums nearly no one is getting the full 16mbit. 10-12 and thats the high end. i have a 6mbit/768 flat @35 euro. no caps and no shaping, i couldn’t complain.
Koreans might now stop eating dogs and stop living like inbred slit eyed cavemen.
Omg im happy with my 10mbit connection. I can’t handle too much speed it takes the fun out of downloading
Let me be a little bit clear. I pay 30 euro a month in the Netherlands for a stable 20mbit connection and for my telephone too! I can even call for free to non-mobile numbers!
stigo: I live in Europe and have a 100/100 mbit for 60 US a month
Macedonia: we only get 5Mbps (100 GB) for 20 EUR per month, and that’s the best package you can get.
64-WTF?!
I’m in Korea, using KT, and my internet is nowhere NEAR that fast!
dont use KT man, i’ve hanaro telecom and its sweet, i just need time for so many movies and stuff that i download ^^
heheh
so fast and soooo cheap(29,000Won or 26 US$) and unlimited download
hell i love korea…and thats only the net wait until i talk about the girls
heheheh
,O/
I’m S.Korean. I went to UK to get a master degree 2002.
Most of the time people think loneliness would be the worst part in studying abroad.
nah~~…
to me…as a S.Korean boy, f**king slow internet speed was the hardest part of my life there.
I’m Australian here in regional Northern NSW. and I have ADSL+2 8000 and have a liberty plan “25gig capped” with telstra and am paying $99au/month for 8mb the fastest i can get out here. was on the 60gig plan for $149 until they brough out liberty in my area.
Australia is starting to catch up but will always be a while behind the rest of the world. a lot of people in other countries still dont even know where australia is.
But if you walked down the street in a city here in Australia and asked someone where France is for example, they wouldn’t be able to tell you.
Telstra needs to be shut down for a price war to actually happen here in australia. In my area you can only get adsl+2 through telstra as telstra wont rent the lines to smaller companies to keep control of the pricing.
U guys dont know what speed is..
http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/
40 Gbit wohoo!!
Wow you mean to tell me there still are no flat rate packages in the U.S.A-I pay 39 euro for telephone flat+internet flat+cell flat.and now its gone down to 29 euros.the states need to step up the the customer service
Read and weep, or laugh. I lived in Bangladesh for 4 years and signed up for “broadband”. My speeds averaged 39 kbps. Yes, you read that right, that’s a “k” after the number. How did poor Bangladesh achieve such stupendous speeds? Give credit to good governance, corruption-free, transparent govt-biz dealings and a real appreciation and understanding of the necessity for workable Internet access. I am kidding, of course, folks!
It was rumored that a former communications cabinet minister put his nephew in charge of this “new thing” called the Internet. Apparently, he said “I don’t know what this new Internet is, but there’s gotta be money in it.”
You want to change the world and scare governments, benign or cancerous? Give everybody a fast Internet connection and no censorship.
I live in Thailand and pay 500 baht – $15 – for 1 mbs. It’s about as slow as a 56k modem. Korea is a hard place to live but I am totally envious of their internet – my friend says he pays about $12 for 100mbs. In Thailand a premium package for a residential user may only be 4mbs and they will pay alot for it. But these numbers are only related to connecting to servers located in Thailand. International servers are a different story!