Online Gaming Study Suggests Internet Sucks Globally
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I wasn't aware that Comcast was offering a 160/32 package these days (or anyone else was for any reasonable price; I could up my FIOS to 150/35, but it'd be $200/month, which is just silly). Have fun hitting your 250GB monthly cap in under four hours. Or trying to actually do anything at all with packet loss like that, for that matter.Kagobin said:
I get a quite fast connection for a very reasonable price with no cap, but not surprisingly I'm in one of the "green states" on that clusterfuck of a map on that clusterfuck of an infographic. I'm not really sure numbers from Pando are really all that useful anyway. Last time I checked their client is a super-ghetto P2P service that gets filtered by many ISPs, so I kind of doubt their info is terribly reliable. Go find some charts from someone like Akamai, and then we'll talk.
No idea bro, i originally stem from Rumania which is a backward-ass shitty country that is poor as all hell.Quiotu said:
EVERYONE is CONSTANTLY downloading something or other through an "illegal" national torrent network though - dunno how that works but it does LOL.
Meh. I'm in Croatia (Europe) and I'm running the slowest broadband available here (500KBps). I rarely use it fully since if I go above 250 on a download, the rest of my internet access slows down to a crawl. So yeah, it takes a while to download a full game. Sometimes a few days (I don't like leaving my PC on while I sleep). At least it's flatrate...
For me, this is proof that you shouldn't ask people on the internet anything. They always make with the negative waves.
Nalgas D. Lemur said:
I didnt use any measurement provided in the article.
And I don't have a cap, either. I have never hit one, in my many weeks of downloading 10GB+ files, or streaming video, or playing games.
Also, according to Pingtest.net, I have an 88 percent packet loss. I pinged my router from my PC, and it came up 0. I got my ISP to ping my modem, also 0. I think Pingtest just hates me.
Former Eastern Block countries have better infrastructure in general, because almost everything was build from scratch or completely modernized in the past 2 decades. On the other hand, rural areas in America and Western Europe have pretty old technology.Quiotu said:
On a site note: Most Chinese who come from the major cities to the US and especially Europe are quite surprised that the oh-so-glorious West actually looks like shit (to them), because everything is new and shiny over there.
Those are megabits, not megabytes. Lowercase b, not capital. And if you have Comcast, you have a cap. It's not a hard cap, and they don't really go out of their way to inform you of it, or really to enforce it. You can go over it by a pretty decent amount just fine, but if you go high enough consistently enough, especially if you're in the top however many percent of their users, they will get kind of cranky and tell you to quit it and eventually throttle you if you don't. I don't think they actually cut people off anymore, though.Kagobin said:I didnt use any measurement provided in the article.
[http://www.speedtest.net]
And I don't have a cap, either. I have never hit one, in my many weeks of downloading 10GB+ files, or streaming video, or playing games.
Also, according to Pingtest.net, I have an 88 percent packet loss. I pinged my router from my PC, and it came up 0. I got my ISP to ping my modem, also 0. I think Pingtest just hates me.
uk here. my isp is talktalk. vI have a "4 meg connection" which translates to a download speed of 350-450 kilobytes per second. below the global average it seems, but for the most part its fast enough for anything i ever do
something to remember though is that it's all regional. my speed isn't slow because of a bad isp. its slow because that's all the local infrastructure supports. everyone in the nearby community gets the same speed. A lot of isps here advertise "up to 20 meg" connections, which would just be a little under the speed that south korea gets. but only if your local infrastructure can support it. the uk is widely varied.. i'm sure london gets that speed.
something to remember though is that it's all regional. my speed isn't slow because of a bad isp. its slow because that's all the local infrastructure supports. everyone in the nearby community gets the same speed. A lot of isps here advertise "up to 20 meg" connections, which would just be a little under the speed that south korea gets. but only if your local infrastructure can support it. the uk is widely varied.. i'm sure london gets that speed.
My country - New Zealand - is getting fiber-optic cables laid sometime next year. It should unfuck our status on the global scene.
The rest of the world (read: not South Korea, Japan etc) really needs to catch up with available technology, though. The Internet is the most important information retrieval and communication tool in the world... but upgrading connection speeds requires upgrading entire infrastructures, which is a hugely time-consuming and costly process.
The rest of the world (read: not South Korea, Japan etc) really needs to catch up with available technology, though. The Internet is the most important information retrieval and communication tool in the world... but upgrading connection speeds requires upgrading entire infrastructures, which is a hugely time-consuming and costly process.
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