Online Gaming Study Suggests Internet Sucks Globally

[Snow Fire]

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.

Divide those numbers by 8 to convert them into megabytes, times by 1024 to convert into kilobytes. I use Comcast as well, and they have a 250 GB monthly bandwidth cap from my experience with them.

I enjoy a 2.5+ megabyte/s down, .5+ megabyte/s up connection, so I beat the average South Korean by a healthy margin, this pleases me.

 

[Blazing Steel]

6680kb download, 878kb upload and 5ms ping. So just above the UK average. Yay, I think?

 

[Jodah]

Wow, I hate you all even more than before . I'm lucky to pull 3mbps during times when few others are using it. Primetime? 0.50mbps if I'm really lucky.

 

[theultimateend]

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.

I work at a F2P game company, something Pando showed us recently is that Romania has baller internet.

People download our entire games in minutes.

The rest of the world sends in DQA's complaining about how slow the downloads are .

I'm taking this with a grain of salt because it was done by Pando and I've had bad experiences with them trying to download games that use their system.

See! This is an example of someone who doesn't live in Romania.

 

[James Crook]

Hahaha, France's best ISP, Free Telecom, gets me 1.5MB/s!

 

[CrystalShadow]

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.

Ah. That's a different problem. Don't have that one either, but I guess the line quality where you lived must've been pretty bad then.

 

[Tharwen]

In my opinion, a connection is good if it can download a 1080p youtube video faster than it plays. My home connection is not good...

Also, I think every article and post pertaining to internet speeds should come with an explanation of the difference between bits and bytes. Either that, or ISPs should be legally required to use bytes like every other technology company in the world.

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]

...

I just stared at that impossibly high number for several seconds before violently gesticulating in rage and envy.

I hate you.

 

[angry_flashlight]

Hey, maybe our Canadian ISP's will finally do the right thing and upgrade so we can compete with ROMANIA (I guess it makes sense with the new infrastructure, but I still can't get over it).

 

[Bobzer77]

Grade D?

Same as my maths results...

 

[Metal Brother]

Having used the internet in both Bulgaria and Romania, I am forced to question how they reached these numbers. No one (that I knew) in either country had a connection that even began to approach my Fios account in the States.

 

[Havok2099]

:| I live in Canada and have slower internet than people in Bolivia, god damn it satelite internet.

 

[GeorgW]

Weird to see Romania, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Latvia over my dear Sweden. We're pretty damn big on internet here, and we have the highest wireless internet speeds in the world. Still,I don't have that great internet, let's see here...

That's wireless, and it's low for Sweden.

Oh, and I doubt that this study is that scientific or widely researched.

 

[Shamanic Rhythm]

Take that Blizzard, Ubisoft, and anyone else who tries to tell you that everyone has access to fast, reliable net so it's no big deal to implement an always-online policy.

 

[Jimi Bove]

AT&T sucks; what else is new. 'Twas never a good idea to let one capitalist corporation rule most of the world's internet.

In other news, WHY THE FUCK AM I ABOVE AMERICA'S AVERAGE WHEN I'M LIVING DEEP IN A FOREST PAYING $120/MONTH FOR 5 MEGABITS? I'VE BEEN LED TO BELIEVE THAT CITY DWELLERS ALL GET 22+ MEGABITS FOR 20-ISH BUCKS A MONTH. SHAME ON YOU, AMERICA.

 

[RQshadowe]

I live in Oxford, and ave an 8MB connection that downloads torrents at 6MB withotu breaking a swear.

 

[Sgt_Jakeman214]

I live in Coffs Harbour, Australia, a major regional city of around 120,000 people. I have no access to cable or DSL broadband, only dial-up. Consequently, I am running an Optus USB Aircard, works kinda like a mobile phone (cell phone for you Americans). gets me ok speeds, I suppose. Somedays, I even get up to 2Mb/s dl speed. My ping is unsalvagable though. That's where it stays.

In my opinion, a connection is good if it can download a 1080p youtube video faster than it plays. My home connection is not good...

Also, I think every article and post pertaining to internet speeds should come with an explanation of the difference between bits and bytes. Either that, or ISPs should be legally required to use bytes like every other technology company in the world.

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]

...

I just stared at that impossibly high number for several seconds before violently gesticulating in rage and envy.

I hate you.

I hate you as well. THERE IS NO MIDDLE FINGER BIG ENOUGH! Lucky bastard.

 

[XT inc]

Our main problem ( in canada at least ) seems to be size and greedy ass cable companies owning major portions of the infrastructure.

Rogers and Bell have caps on their useage and it still costs 40-50 bucks a month plus overages, because cmon 60 gbs what is that a weeks worth of netflix? half of a steam summer sale?

They could get off their ass and beef up the internet access like crazy, but let's be honest canadians have 2 hurdles as compared to south korea or japan.

1, canada is 9,984,670 km2 south korea is 100,210 km2 you could fit their whole nation into ours 99.6 times and japan at 377,944 km2 fits 26.4 times. Needless to say that is a whole lot more work than either of those had to do let alone manage.

2. I need a joke to tell the shareholders "Hey guys we are dipping into profits in order to increase speeds and help canadians get ahead by building massive improvements to be on top" response " hahahaha, iz good because, seriously they can use phone line modems and still pay us 60 a month"

 

[Sgt_Jakeman214]

Our main problem ( in canada at least ) seems to be size and greedy ass cable companies owning major portions of the infrastructure.

Rogers and Bell have caps on their useage and it still costs 40-50 bucks a month plus overages, because cmon 60 gbs what is that a weeks worth of netflix? half of a steam summer sale?

They could get off their ass and beef up the internet access like crazy, but let's be honest canadians have 2 hurdles as compared to south korea or japan.

1, canada is 9,984,670 km2 south korea is 100,210 km2 you could fit their whole nation into ours 99.6 times and japan at 377,944 km2 fits 26.4 times. Needless to say that is a whole lot more work than either of those had to do let alone manage.

2. I need a joke to tell the shareholders "Hey guys we are dipping into profits in order to increase speeds and help canadians get ahead by building massive improvements to be on top" response " hahahaha, iz good because, seriously they can use phone line modems and still pay us 60 a month"

You sir, just made my day. This is the thinking of every Australian ISP as well.

You are not alone my Canadian Brother! As members of the Commonwealth, we must stand together to fight against the oppression of the ISP's! TO ARMS! TO ARMS!

 

[Rhys Wilson]

... and this is why I keep telling my dad to upgrade the internet speed in this house... because when downloading, the speed averages out to 160Mb/s on average, with fluctuations ranging from 30Mb/s to 215Mb/s... usually lower rather than higher though...


*Addendum*

yeah... just found out my tech lingo was a bit skewed... apparently a lowercase b represents bits... not bytes... who boy...

 

[Michael826]

So, I live in Australia. Yeah.

[http://www.speedtest.net]