On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 08:23 +0800, Art Fore wrote:
Hi All
I am in Taiwan, and the internet service really sucks. I can do a speed test from my ISP, hinet.net, and get the 8 Mbps they say they are providing. If I try the DSL speed tests from the servers in San Francisco or Los Angeles, I get, if I am luck, 1 Mbps.
Art, I'm guessing you're used to being in North America or UK/Europe (I'm basing the rest of my post on this assumption), and accessing sites that are mostly hosted in the N.America, the UK or Europe. There is good trans-Atlantic bandwidth, but between the connections between the rest is not so great. You'll probably find that Taiwanese websites (and probably Chinese/Japanese sites too) will be quick. The far east is connected to the west, mostly, by the SAT3 cable, which runs all the way around Africa. From where I'm sitting (South Africa), access to websites hosted in the Far East is nothing spectacular. If you getting 1mbit between east and west, that's very good. Hans