openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
 ·AT&T Southeast
| reply to Oddsk8er
Re: I Just Returned From South Korea
A download of ~16 Mbps and an upload of ~5 Mbps is a far cry from the often heralded 50/50 or 100/100 Mbps service for $29/mth that tends to get plastered all over the front page here at DSLR. You also made the statement that "just about all of them" have this great service, once again showing that even SK has limitations deploying broadband to all consumers.
I'm not disputing that SK has good service, just that the service isn't the Holy Grail that it's often made out to be. |
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Oddsk8er
join:2002-10-26
Urbana, IL
| reply to openbox9
I go there just about every summer to visit my relatives. Just about all of them have the ability to download a couple of megabytes per second. I don't know about the internet access they have at work, but my aunt uploads stuff to me all the time from her clinic at around 500-600 KB/sec. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA | reply to Oddsk8er
Have you lived in SK? Businesses don't have the same or better services than the residences? |
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Oddsk8er
join:2002-10-26
Urbana, IL
| reply to openbox9
If you're an actual resident where you pay bills and get your own DSL line from an actual service provider, you're going to get ridiculous speeds. If the only internet access you were able to get was at random, free public access areas, you're not going to be so lucky. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
·AT&T Southeast
| I was just in South Korea last month for about three weeks. I'm not doubting that there are places where broadband access beats some locations in the U.S., but where I was staying, I was lucky to achieve 1 Mbps of throughput. Granted I'm a limited sampling, but big throughput broadband access didn't appear to be as ubiquitous as the press makes it out to be. |
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