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No. Unless you are willing to eat unidentified food. Like Multifish, Sink Soup, Long Pig, Once Eaten Rice, etc.

I think I might be willing to do that for 1Gps internet!

Do you even have any freaking idea how internet connection for residential customers works for everywhere? It's always shared, nomatter it's the UK 512Kbps broadband, in US 3Mbps broadband or the newer 10Mbps broadband, the 1Gbps broadband in Japan and Korea (they had that for quite some time), or even dialup, it's all shared, the dedicated 1Gbps speed only applies to your connection to the facility of your ISP in your region (in Hong Kong's case, your building or your area's routers), beyond that, let say I have 10 1Gbps customers (20 Mbps oversea bandwidth each) and I have total of 100Mbps of subscribed overseas transit to, for example ATDN, 100Mbps is all these 10 customers get at maximum assuming they all use up all their possible bandwidth (that is less than 20Mbps to the actual internet exchange).

Even dedicated leased line is shared for that matter, I never seen any business leased line provider can provide a guaranteed 1Gbps connection to any internet exchange in the world, that would be basically impossible to do unless they order you your own bandwidth at all the internet exchanges and that would cost hundred thousands of dollars.

And by the way, if your 6Mb "dedicated line" only gives you 1200Kbps, that's only 1.2Mbps, I wouldn't call that dedicated.

Also, 145Kbps is 18KBps, I never seen anyone using HKBN's service get that kind of speed from any major sites on the internet, maybe HKBN hates you that's why they capped your speed.

How can someone who can't even destinguish between B (byte) and b (bit) judge a provider's service? You gave me quite a laugh there my friend.



Just for other's information, HKBN has a guaranteed connection program, if you are using one of their fiber internet services and think you cannot get 80% of the advertised speed from the local exchange (Hong Kong Internet Exchange), you can call them and have a technician to do a test on your connection, and if you really do get less than 80% of the advertised speed, you get 2 day's worth of service refund for each day this problem exists, now that's quality I can trust.

im saying they say u get 10mbps but they share ur line with everyone else so the max u get is 1.5 only

Last edited by 1798 on 27 Apr 2005 - 16:09

You'd better use Mb and Gb... otherwise people may misunderstand that you are talking about megabytes and gigabytes respectively

those figures certainly back up my experiences of using the internet in china. International sites were exceptionally slow, with many firewalled ports* (irc on all standard ports was blocked for example), but sites internal to china ran very quick. Whatever the speed cap, you have to wonder about what you're paying for if there is a very serious bandwidth cap to the rest of the world from the isp's hq.

* from both my hotel and an internet cafe.

They use fiber optic in their underground lines, but they're can't use them in buildings as fiber optic cannot be bent much thus hard to wire, and to answer the question, yes, they're installing a switch every 100 feet in buildings, thus about 5 stories in a building they install a switch, that contributed quite alot to the high cost of the network but sure it will pay off over time.

week=month ofcourse

Where would this be? If you are talking about BBB then it is capped to 300gb per month... And if it is lund or something local then that is 1gbit shared. And bredband2 hasnt started their 1gbit service yet....

Better late than never, right?