Online Gaming Study Suggests Internet Sucks Globally

[Brandon237]

Take that Zimbabwe!

OI!
I live just one down and our internet is also shit.

I feel much the same towards this as I did towards the whole "Aussie games are expensive" thing. Here we have lower income and things are shitter for us, so if you are getting 600kb/s, Stop complaining. Thank-you

 

[Kagobin]

I get around 20 megaBYTES DL speed. And 4MB up. Comcast must be pretty good compared to the national average?

Only thing that sucks is that my packet loss is fucking 88%.

 

[teqrevisited]

I was surprised by mentions of virgin media being that bad. I guess it's very much down to regional infrastructure.

I have virgin cable broadband, and unlike just about anyone I know using DSL, I actually get my advertised download speeds. (10 megabits).

So... Interesting to hear you'd have such a bad experience with the same ISP, while every time I talk to anyone locally with a different ISP, they never seem to get what they're told they will, while I do.

so... I get 10 megabits/second... (but that's about 1.2 megabytes per second).

Alright... What is dragging down the average so much? I must be in an unusually good area. XD

Oh the speed was fine. We were on the 20Mbit line, which came out roughly as 2.4Mbytes and it rarely dropped below 1.4, but the packet loss made every single online game unplayable and nobody could understand a word I said on any voice chat program.

 

[Quiotu]

What the hell happened in Eastern Europe to give them such awesome internet speeds??

Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia... all hovering between Japan and South Korea for fastest speeds. Someone explain that to me.

 

[TheDooD]

What the hell happened in Eastern Europe to give them such awesome internet speeds??

Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia... all hovering between Japan and South Korea for fastest speeds. Someone explain that to me.

I'll say Dr Doom is involved if not him then Dracula

 

[Duruznik]

Israel: 340 kps. Well, that explains a lot about my internet... >.<

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

I get around 20 megaBYTES DL speed. And 4MB up. Comcast must be pretty good compared to the national average?

Only thing that sucks is that my packet loss is fucking 88%.

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.

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.

 

[elcher]

What the hell happened in Eastern Europe to give them such awesome internet speeds??

Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia... all hovering between Japan and South Korea for fastest speeds. Someone explain that to me.

No idea bro, i originally stem from Rumania which is a backward-ass shitty country that is poor as all hell.

EVERYONE is CONSTANTLY downloading something or other through an "illegal" national torrent network though - dunno how that works but it does LOL.

 

[Jandau]

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...

 

[FalloutJack]

For me, this is proof that you shouldn't ask people on the internet anything. They always make with the negative waves.

 

[Kagobin]

I get around 20 megaBYTES DL speed. And 4MB up. Comcast must be pretty good compared to the national average?

Only thing that sucks is that my packet loss is fucking 88%.

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.

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.

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.

 

[___________________]

Just paint the Internet red. "Ev'ryone knowz red wunz go fasta!"

 

[Staskala]

What the hell happened in Eastern Europe to give them such awesome internet speeds??

Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia... all hovering between Japan and South Korea for fastest speeds. Someone explain that to 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.
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.

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

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.

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.

 

[Briney-]

I live in an urban centre in Canada, and my max download speed is 260 KBps. I've never seen it go higher than that.

 

[RazielXT]

Well, Slovakia here, I have 11mbps home and its considered low compared to other ISPs, no worries though as I am on college so we have as much speed as it physically goes (100mbps, upgrade to 1gbps in progress)

[http://www.speedtest.net]

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I blame copyright lawyers and overzealous ***** corporations.

 

[Arina Love]

Russia Moscow, yeah i'm not complaining about speeds =)

[http://www.speedtest.net]

 

[WarKirby]

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.