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On April 29 2012 07:52 Thinasy wrote:Show nested quote +On April 29 2012 07:48 affinity_12 wrote:On April 29 2012 07:46 NeMeSiS3 wrote:
If I recall, my memories really vague, but I thought Sweden just announced in the past year the fastest internet speeds ever recorded, and then one of the SC2 tournaments, dreamhack I believe, had some ridiclous 1 or so gb/s download on site, and asked everyone to come to the event just to download so they could break some record. But that's just one-off events. Maybe Sweden does have 1 gb/s download speed. However it doesn't have the fastest average download speed if you get what I mean. Some parts of sweden do have 1GB connection's available, most of the people I know is using either 100/100Mbit or 100/10 connections. But even if you had 1GB connection, that would lead to a theoretic max speed of 125MB/s download speed.
Yeah I'm pretty sure they're basing this off actual recorded download speeds not service reported download speeds.
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On April 29 2012 07:54 affinity_12 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 29 2012 07:52 Thinasy wrote:On April 29 2012 07:48 affinity_12 wrote:On April 29 2012 07:46 NeMeSiS3 wrote:
If I recall, my memories really vague, but I thought Sweden just announced in the past year the fastest internet speeds ever recorded, and then one of the SC2 tournaments, dreamhack I believe, had some ridiclous 1 or so gb/s download on site, and asked everyone to come to the event just to download so they could break some record. But that's just one-off events. Maybe Sweden does have 1 gb/s download speed. However it doesn't have the fastest average download speed if you get what I mean. Some parts of sweden do have 1GB connection's available, most of the people I know is using either 100/100Mbit or 100/10 connections. But even if you had 1GB connection, that would lead to a theoretic max speed of 125MB/s download speed. Yeah I'm pretty sure they're basing this off actual recorded download speeds not service reported download speeds.
Correct, with my 100/100 I usually get between 10-12MB/s but it totally depends on the tracker location and speed.
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I'm surprised that no one has pointed out that Korea is the only country on that list with a slower speed than last year.
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my uni is 40/40 on average. at home i can get 120/100.
my grandparents recently got internet (they live in taipei). apparently they downloaded the last 40 years worth of asian dramas in two hours or so.
there are still some people with crap internet. like that one 5 minute dl guy when you play LoL.
ahh fakk, wasted my 1K post....
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Seems sweden has been surpassed quite quickly in the last one or two years! I blame the government ^^
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On April 29 2012 07:52 Thinasy wrote:Show nested quote +On April 29 2012 07:48 affinity_12 wrote:On April 29 2012 07:46 NeMeSiS3 wrote:
If I recall, my memories really vague, but I thought Sweden just announced in the past year the fastest internet speeds ever recorded, and then one of the SC2 tournaments, dreamhack I believe, had some ridiclous 1 or so gb/s download on site, and asked everyone to come to the event just to download so they could break some record. But that's just one-off events. Maybe Sweden does have 1 gb/s download speed. However it doesn't have the fastest average download speed if you get what I mean. Some parts of sweden do have 1GB connection's available, most of the people I know is using either 100/100Mbit or 100/10 connections. But even if you had 1GB connection, that would lead to a theoretic max speed of 125MB/s download speed.
proper notation is 1Gb.
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Actually I think Sweden is still in the top 20. Remember the US is number 12 and I think the speeds are quite impressive.
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On April 29 2012 07:29 affinity_12 wrote:+ Show Spoiler +Answer: Korea http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/27/fastest-internet-countries-akamai_n_1051651.htmlAkamai, a company that collects data about Internet use, says it gets over 1 trillion requests per day to its global server network. It has organized this data into its quarterly "State Of The Internet" report, which examines, among other things, the world's fastest and slowest Internet connections by country.
In order to be included in the report, a country must have made more than 25,000 requests from unique IP addresses in the last quarter. Akamai sets this bar in order to avoid making unfair comparisons between countries with large disparities in population or infrastructure.
Overall, global Internet speed is improving, accoring to Akamai. Between the first and second quarters of 2011, average global connection speed increased 21 percent and is now 2.6 Megabits per second. By comparison, Internet speeds in the United States (the world's 12th-ranked country) look fairly speedy at an average of 5.8 Mbps. However, residents in the country with the fastest Internet (see slideshow) enjoy an average connection speed of 13.8 Mbps, more than twice as fast as the U.S.
Over 80 countries on Akamai's list saw speeds increase by 10 percent or more, and one of the fastest countries, a small Eastern European nation (see slideshow), saw a speed increase of 29 percent. The United States even saw an increase of 26 percent, and that number may continue to increase thanks to the FCC's new broadband regulations, which plan to bring faster Internet to underserved regions of the U.S.
According to The MacObserver, in the U.S. broadband is defined as having speeds of at least 3 Mbps for downloading (from the internet to your computer) and 768 Kbps for uploading (from your computer to the internet).
Interestingly, downloading is usually faster than uploading. According to Huffington Post blogger David Weinberger, of Harvard's Berkman Center For Internet & Society, that's how the cable and telephone companies wanted it. Writes Weinberger, "Their business models assumed the value of the Net came from the content they deliver to us. The business models got written into a physical infrastructure that favors downloads over uploads."
Take a look at the world's top 9 countries with the fastest Internet (below), then check out the fastest U.S. states according to Akamai's recent report. So basically people in the US can still get speeds up the the average speed in Korea. I'm assuming Koreans can get speeds much higher than 13.8 Mbps since that's the average speed. It's amazing how fast technology has progressed since the late 2000's. My Korean friends keep telling me that it doesn't even take a minute to download movies. I find that hard to believe. Also does anyone know why SC2 isn't popular in Korea? Also what's your opinion of the difference between Internet speeds of the country you currently reside in and other countries you have visited?
That's much better! 
As far as I can tell, one of the best predictors of which countries have good internet speeds and which don't, is whether the country forces ISPs to do line-sharing. Laying down all the required cables to provide internet access to sprawling cities is an immensely expensive venture; in Economics, that's called a high barrier cost to entry, and tends to hurt competition which in turn hurts the level of service that consumers can get. In the UK for instance, after British Telecom was forced to sell access to its wired infrastructure to competitors, the huge problem that is laying down all the cables needed to get to customers vanished; dozens of operators sprang up to compete with each other, resulting in cheaper prices and better speeds for the consumer.
If only one to three companies have the stranglehold on the market, then they'll behave like a monopoly as much as they can get away with- which helps to explain why internet access across the US in general is pretty shoddy for such a rich country.
In Chile, line-sharing is sadly not a reality. How good of a connection you can get here kind of depends on how old or new your neighborhood is, kind of like with subways; the richer parts of the city which were developed first and got internet access first, tend to have really old internet infrastructure and thus shoddy internet, whereas the new development areas (at least in the capital, Santiago) tend to have the best connectivity. Still nowhere near as good as South Korea's though :p
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On April 29 2012 07:45 affinity_12 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 29 2012 07:42 nOminal wrote:On April 29 2012 07:32 Malgrif wrote:On April 29 2012 07:31 Zato-1 wrote:
You should put more work into the opening post of a thread. As it is, this thread will probably get closed. you really shouldn't user mod, mods really hate that here I have to agree with Zato. OP opens post about internet speeds and posts a link about it, then mentions Korean friends downloading movies in less than a minute while just abruptly talking about how SC2 isn't popular there. It really makes no sense. What's the point of this thread? Just to post that Korea has the fastest internet speeds? It's been that way for a while now for reasons previously stated by Leeoku. To go further in-depth, Korea is a relatively small country which means it's much easier to roll out infrastructure required for high speeds. The US on the other hand is about 98x times bigger so it's much more difficult to supply everyone with high speed internet. Not necessarily. High speed Internet has very little to do with land size or population. It's all about technology.
Land size has a factor to it. It costs a ton of money to run / bury cable across a large country vs a small one.
Population is also a factor too. It is not profitable (short term) to run high speed infrastructure to ultra rural regions, so regulations and mandates and subsidies are often required to make companies do it.
The fastest possible internet I can get home is 20 mbit DSL. This wasn't even an option till 2011. Prior to that was 1.5 mbit dsl, and that wasn't even an option till 2008. I live in the Rocky Mountain west, so yes, being in rural areas suck for internet.
School however, is nice. My dorm is capped at 10/10 mbit (~1 megabyte/sec up and down), and the normal university network lets me get speeds as high as 10+ megabytes / sec down, higher in the summer.
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Commercial internet services don't give a great speed to cost ratio here.
State owned ones like at some university campuses have mostly excellent speed and are free to use. But of course, they have little to no user service, impose transfer quotas on users and block certain sites.
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On April 29 2012 08:01 Fyodor wrote:Show nested quote +On April 29 2012 07:52 Thinasy wrote:On April 29 2012 07:48 affinity_12 wrote:On April 29 2012 07:46 NeMeSiS3 wrote:
If I recall, my memories really vague, but I thought Sweden just announced in the past year the fastest internet speeds ever recorded, and then one of the SC2 tournaments, dreamhack I believe, had some ridiclous 1 or so gb/s download on site, and asked everyone to come to the event just to download so they could break some record. But that's just one-off events. Maybe Sweden does have 1 gb/s download speed. However it doesn't have the fastest average download speed if you get what I mean. Some parts of sweden do have 1GB connection's available, most of the people I know is using either 100/100Mbit or 100/10 connections. But even if you had 1GB connection, that would lead to a theoretic max speed of 125MB/s download speed. proper notation is 1Gb.
Huh?
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Wtf last time I saw one of these rankings which was less than a year ago, sweden had three times higher average dl speed than the US. SK always in the lead though.
On April 29 2012 08:15 Thinasy wrote:Show nested quote +On April 29 2012 08:01 Fyodor wrote:On April 29 2012 07:52 Thinasy wrote:On April 29 2012 07:48 affinity_12 wrote:On April 29 2012 07:46 NeMeSiS3 wrote:
If I recall, my memories really vague, but I thought Sweden just announced in the past year the fastest internet speeds ever recorded, and then one of the SC2 tournaments, dreamhack I believe, had some ridiclous 1 or so gb/s download on site, and asked everyone to come to the event just to download so they could break some record. But that's just one-off events. Maybe Sweden does have 1 gb/s download speed. However it doesn't have the fastest average download speed if you get what I mean. Some parts of sweden do have 1GB connection's available, most of the people I know is using either 100/100Mbit or 100/10 connections. But even if you had 1GB connection, that would lead to a theoretic max speed of 125MB/s download speed. proper notation is 1Gb. Huh?
GB = gigabyte and you're probably referring to gigabit which is abbreviated Gb
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"My Korean friends keep telling me that it doesn't even take a minute to download movies. I find that hard to believe."
How is that hard to believe? I live in NL and often get over 10mbps download speed, so that's a little over a minute for a 700mb rip.
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On April 29 2012 08:27 speknek wrote:
"My Korean friends keep telling me that it doesn't even take a minute to download movies. I find that hard to believe."
How is that hard to believe? I live in NL and often get over 10mbps download speed, so that's a little over a minute for a 700mb rip.
Depends. You can have a 700mb VCD-sized rip @ 480p or less resolution with mild quality, or 2-10+gb files for 720-1080 rips.
So yeah, "movies" needs to be defined.
Anime is usually on the lol high end of the spectrum due to the niche market and quality obsession. I have a 1:45 movie clocking in at 13.3gb. Another movie of 2 hour length at 17.8gb
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On April 29 2012 08:20 hifriend wrote:Wtf last time I saw one of these rankings which was less than a year ago, sweden had three times higher average dl speed than the US. SK always in the lead though. Show nested quote +On April 29 2012 08:15 Thinasy wrote:On April 29 2012 08:01 Fyodor wrote:On April 29 2012 07:52 Thinasy wrote:On April 29 2012 07:48 affinity_12 wrote:On April 29 2012 07:46 NeMeSiS3 wrote:
If I recall, my memories really vague, but I thought Sweden just announced in the past year the fastest internet speeds ever recorded, and then one of the SC2 tournaments, dreamhack I believe, had some ridiclous 1 or so gb/s download on site, and asked everyone to come to the event just to download so they could break some record. But that's just one-off events. Maybe Sweden does have 1 gb/s download speed. However it doesn't have the fastest average download speed if you get what I mean. Some parts of sweden do have 1GB connection's available, most of the people I know is using either 100/100Mbit or 100/10 connections. But even if you had 1GB connection, that would lead to a theoretic max speed of 125MB/s download speed. proper notation is 1Gb. Huh? GB = gigabyte and you're probably referring to gigabit which is abbreviated Gb
Oh yeah, I just didnt realize the difference between the capital B
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Is anyone really surprised at Korea having the fastest internet? I thought this was pretty common knowledge on TL.
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On April 29 2012 08:30 Mysticesper wrote:Show nested quote +On April 29 2012 08:27 speknek wrote:
"My Korean friends keep telling me that it doesn't even take a minute to download movies. I find that hard to believe."
How is that hard to believe? I live in NL and often get over 10mbps download speed, so that's a little over a minute for a 700mb rip. Depends. You can have a 700mb VCD-sized rip @ 480p or less resolution with mild quality, or 2-10+gb files for 720-1080 rips. So yeah, "movies" needs to be defined. Anime is usually on the lol high end of the spectrum due to the niche market and quality obsession. I have a 1:45 movie clocking in at 13.3gb. Another movie of 2 hour length at 17.8gb
Well yeah, obviously the size of the file matters lol. I just assumed the most standard dvd rips (axxo/fxg/etc releases), which are always ~700mb.
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On April 29 2012 07:30 Tippecanoe wrote:
Because BW is still top dog and a lot of the newer kids are getting into league of legends more than they are getting into sc2.
+ MMOs. I think Aion has been the top place in PC bang statistics for a long time. plus the billion free2play MMOs.
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On April 29 2012 07:38 NeMeSiS3 wrote:
Are we sure this list is accurate... Sweden doesn't even appear on the list, I think something's fishy here when Sweden is behind Hong Kong..
Well Romania is nr 8, and it takes me about 10 minutes to DL a file similar to an average movie, and i share the net with three others so, idk, i think it s accurate
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Puts my 0.5 Mbps download speed into perspective.
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