4 ms·
In HK, I pay around $22/m (USD) for 100mbps. I can download from steam or apple at 5-6+ MB/s. I can download torrents at 10MB/sec. However, when I download over
by latch 15y ago
In HK, I pay around $22/m (USD) for 100mbps. I can download from steam or apple at 5-6+ MB/s. I can download torrents at 10MB/sec. However, when I download overseas (which is most of the time), I might get 200KB/sec (unless it's from a serious player in CA).
The point? The high speed you hear about in Asia is a half truth. When you consider that some of the Internet doesn't exist here (Netflix, ...), high latency (for gaming) and geo-locked content (Kindle, ...), it's even less than a half truth.
Anyways, where NA has poor last-mile infrastructure, Asia has poor intercontinental infrastructure. It's currently a scarce resource, thus prices are high.
- davidu 15y agoAsia has the intercontinental infrastructure, but the costs to connect are too high. SingTel, etc. all run monopolies that keep foreign networks out. Peering is a joke.
- shinratdr 15y agoHave you tried something that doesn't have the overhead of torrents and can make many concurrent connections like a local HK usenet server?
- latch 15y agoI've gone up to 10MB/sec...which is close enough to the theoretical limit of 100Mb/sec. Locally the product works as advertised. But only locally.
- shinratdr 15y ago> But only locally. Fair enough. I use Usenet almost exclusively at this point so I would love that. It's true though, I had this illusion of people with that kind of connection being able to connect to anyone on a quality server instantly.