Now when visiting Korea, you can enjoy downloading a full-feature 120 minutes length movie in around 12 seconds, as long as you are visiting after 2012, Far East Gizmos reports.Of course, the 1gbps speeds are only available via a wired connection, but wireless connections will be able to get up to 10mbps. The aim of the improvement of the broadband infrastructure is to give users access to streaming, seamless access to high-quality IPTV services. The Korean government is investing W34 trillion into the proposed upgrade, or around $720,526,406 USD.
The super-speed broadband will be available in most, if not all, large cities but Koreans in rural towns can still get speeds of up to 50mbps to 100mbps, allowing them to still enjoy streaming media without any issues.
This improvement may lead to other countries catching on, and bulking up internet speeds also.
"$720,526,406 USD"
"but Koreans in rural towns can still get speeds of up to 50mbps to 100mbps:
ISP cap the speed @ 15GB
then you get your super awesome 1mbps! after the cap
ISP cap the speed @ 15GB
then you get your super awesome 1mbps! after the cap
The Far East doesn't get any of those restrictions. We could learn a thing or two from them.
ISP cap the speed @ 15GB
then you get your super awesome 1mbps! after the cap
The Far East doesn't get any of those restrictions. We could learn a thing or two from them.
How to pay your telco staff low wages? Easy to do business without the nonsense of unions.
EDIT: I realize there's a typo there. Fix it soon
Plus we are using a poweredge server for our router (3.4ghz zeon processor with 2 gigs ram) and still cant get our full upload through it. So I would think that for home users it would be very hard to find a decent priced router that can allow 1 gig speeds through it.
As much as I'd like the US to do something like this, the honest answer is it wouldn't be financially feasible, it's just too many cities in our country and who would decide who's city is more important than the other in terms of getting the upgrades. Like it or not, something like this has to be done in conjuction with private companies.
Amazing how these countries can get these types of speeds, while countries like Canada, where our top speed is 10mbps.
that's why it seems speedy to us, actually it's not when international traffic is concerned, their intl. backbone links are quite weak actually
The fact that a sizeable portion of people don't even have access to phone lines doesn't get my hopes up.
If you did see speeds anywhere near that in future, they'd probably be limited to Jakarta only and Surabaya to a lesser extent. My beloved Yogyakarta will have to deal with 1mbps ADSL for a while yet :p
Instead of going backyard like other countries like mine they are going forward ... congrats to them!
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