Online Gaming Study Suggests Internet Sucks Globally

[nebtheslayer95]

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.

ya mine is capped at 250GB per month. i went over 5 months straight and they sent a letter saying if i did it a sixth month I would lose internet for at least a year. honestly though hitting 250 is pretty rare for 95% of internet users.

OT: so what youre telling me is i should learn korean and go live with my cousin there? ok sounds good to me.

and for the recrod mine is:

 

[notimeforlulz]

Dear Romania (2202KBps), From Australia (300KBps),

How the... What the... But you're country is .... NOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[JediMB]

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.

Yeah, it's curious, since 100 Mbps connections seem to be so popular amongst gamers here in Sweden.

Hell, I could get a 1000 Mbps connection if I'd like, but I don't have the computer equipment to handle that.

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[BanicRhys]

Bloody hell, I'd hate to live in the ocean.

Why wasn't I born a South Korean?

 

[leevio]

totally no surprise Korea is top of the world in speed...
though I do feel happy living in the Netherlands seems we got some reasonable connection.

 

[leevio]

I am currently at my work place, but that Upload speed.

 

[Omey]

I'm from India we have the cheapest internet in the world(both in price and performance)

My history of internet plans(INR conv to US dollars acc to current rates)

9$ pm for 32 kBps -5 gb data cap beyond which speed is hallved

6$ pm for 128kBps - 1 GB data ,no extra data

3$ pm for 256 KBps - 200 MB data free, chargeable beyond

Currently :

2$ pm for 2 GB data ,cellphone modem,20 KBps MAx(mostly 10-15 KBps)

So its true that you get what you pay for.

But these speeds are enough for me to surf.I watch all ZP and the jimquisition with some waiting
.an surf all webites .

no complaints!

 

[Strazdas]

well yeah. internet in US and UK is WAY OUTDATED. countries that got internet later are much better off. for example i have 205 mbps locally and 60 mbps worldwide, that means up to 7,5MB/s donwlodad speed worldwide. not that i ever used it since my router limits it at 56, but its way mroe than enough. but really, spam your ISPs for the change, when i hear stories of people with slow itnernet i want to pull my hair out, how can somone give such service and consider it good?

 

[Nukem]

100/10 Meg, the problem for me is not the DL speed is the server i DL from that are the choak. Take steam for example it avgs 2-4Mb/s thats fucking horrible.

From Sweden