I was just curious about how much of a different experience Aion players in K get compared to us and stumbled across this as I was looking around. Keep in mind these are average download speeds: 1 South Korea 31.95 Mb/s 2 Latvia 23.52 Mb/s 3 Aland Islands 22.58 Mb/s 4 Netherlands 22.29 Mb/s 5 Lithuania 21.49 Mb/s 6 Republic of Moldova 20.99 Mb/s 7 Romania 20.28 Mb/s 8 Sweden 18.21 Mb/s 9 Japan 17.81 Mb/s 10 Bulgaria 16.38 Mb/s 11 Andorra 15.10 Mb/s 12 Switzerland 14.86 Mb/s 13 Germany 14.51 Mb/s 14 Portugal 14.43 Mb/s 15 Denmark 13.60 Mb/s 16 Iceland 13.20 Mb/s 17 Belgium 12.41 Mb/s 18 France 11.79 Mb/s 19 Austria 11.75 Mb/s 20 Hungary 11.62 Mb/s 21 Finland 11.31 Mb/s 22 Czech Republic 11.30 Mb/s 23 Kyrgyzstan 11.23 Mb/s 24 Ukraine 10.92 Mb/s 25 Slovakia 10.56 Mb/s 26 Russia 10.46 Mb/s 27 Norway 9.81 Mb/s 28 United States 9.68 Mb/s 29 Luxembourg 8.95 Mb/s 30 Monaco 8.87 Mb/s 31 Estonia 8.54 Mb/s 32 Canada 8.39 Mb/s 33 Slovenia 8.19 Mb/s 34 Taiwan 7.90 Mb/s 35 United Kingdom 7.74 Mb/s 36 Poland 7.11 Mb/s 37 Australia 7.09 Mb/s 38 Greece 7.02 Mb/s 39 Mongolia 7.02 Mb/s 40 United Arab Emirates 6.71 Mb/s 41 Ghana 6.70 Mb/s 42 Kazakstan 6.55 Mb/s 43 Isle of Man 6.40 Mb/s 44 Singapore 6.21 Mb/s 45 Liechtenstein 6.20 Mb/s 46 New Zealand 6.14 Mb/s 47 Georgia 5.90 Mb/s 48 Malta 5.89 Mb/s 49 Ireland 5.83 Mb/s 50 Spain 5.77 Mb/s 51 Macedonia 5.58 Mb/s 52 Chile 5.29 Mb/s 53 San Marino 5.24 Mb/s 54 Jamaica 5.22 Mb/s 55 Turkey 5.08 Mb/s 56 Croatia 5.06 Mb/s 57 Jersey 4.88 Mb/s 58 Faroe Islands 4.79 Mb/s 59 Trinidad and Tobago 4.72 Mb/s 60 Israel 4.60 Mb/s 61 Philippines 4.52 Mb/s 62 Italy 4.51 Mb/s 63 Maldives 4.47 Mb/s 64 Thailand 4.45 Mb/s 65 Macau 4.36 Mb/s 66 Montenegro 4.08 Mb/s 67 Vietnam 4.03 Mb/s 68 Aruba 3.95 Mb/s 69 China 3.87 Mb/s 70 Belarus 3.85 Mb/s 71 Saudi Arabia 3.74 Mb/s 72 Brazil 3.73 Mb/s 73 Guernsey 3.67 Mb/s 74 Bermuda 3.30 Mb/s 75 Cyprus 3.20 Mb/s 76 Greenland 3.18 Mb/s 77 Qatar 3.10 Mb/s 78 Guam 2.95 Mb/s 79 Uganda 2.94 Mb/s 80 Martinique 2.81 Mb/s 81 Grenada 2.80 Mb/s 82 Azerbaijan 2.78 Mb/s 83 Serbia 2.78 Mb/s 84 Bahamas 2.67 Mb/s 85 Kuwait 2.62 Mb/s 86 Armenia 2.50 Mb/s 87 Tunisia 2.47 Mb/s 88 Rwanda 2.44 Mb/s 89 Costa Rica 2.42 Mb/s 90 Cayman Islands 2.41 Mb/s 91 Albania 2.32 Mb/s 92 Gibraltar 2.32 Mb/s 93 South Africa 2.30 Mb/s 94 Malaysia 2.25 Mb/s 95 Mozambique 2.24 Mb/s 96 Guadeloupe 2.23 Mb/s 97 Cape Verde 2.22 Mb/s 98 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2.20 Mb/s 99 Morocco 2.19 Mb/s The rumors I'm hearing are that we're trying to build out a 100mbps everywhere network by 2020. I don't foresee this as being a good thing though, and if anyone cares I'll happily explain it.
35 United Kingdom 7.74 Mb/s Sounds about right, if you live in the countryside you can actually be lucky to get 0.8Mb/s. If you live more than 100m from the exchange as well the ratio that the amount drops is staggering. I know someone who lives in the middle of Cardiff and he struggles to get 1meg, I actually got better on 3g sim card modem than he did on broadband. However 1 thing they havent factored in is numbers, when you have more people playing there is going to be a greater chance of lower numbers than a country where less people actually play. Luxemburg, Aland Islands & Moldova for example
For as small as the UK is I'm somewhat surprised you guys didn't just go with a wireless solution. I really think that's ours and especially our hat's (aka Canada's) biggest problem, to much ground to cover.
If their servers are anything like Guild Wars', then it doesn't matter how fast your internet is. You still get 10,000ms pings.
Basically the main problem as I said before is location. Obama wants everyone in the country to have access to highspeed internet, whether they use it or not. This includes all the fringe communities. As someone who works in the cellular industry I'll basically be making my argument from our point of view. Running fiber costs a LOT of money, running fiber to hit 1 person out in BFE is just plain stupid. Do you know why Verizon is stopping their FIOS expansion? Right now it's costing them $5,000 per subscriber to build the network, and they have insane market penetration in the areas in which they're located. It's just not cost effective. For the entire country to hit 100mbps (which in 10 years I have a feeling will be entirely outdated, even more so if data caps remain in place by our ISPs) we will be spending tens of billions on a project of this magnitude because we need a completely new infrastructure. The current copper lines are at their peak Comcast is pushing upwards of 50mbps down but exceeding that just won't happen. Over the air the fastest we're topping out at is 18mbps and that's under perfect network conditions (25mbps is the best lab speed I've seen) but we're still a long way from 100mbps. And to be quite honest, rather than pushing a land based network, I'd love to see Clear & Verizon get more traction on their 4G and LTE projects. Once those go nation wide, keep adding capacity and get rid of this tied to our homes BS. I can tell you, being able to stream TV in my car or on the train in Chicago is bad ass. Now that I've gone off on a completely separate direction I'll try to get back on topic with a decent summation. Spending billions on an infrastructure to provide a network with an extremely fast throughput rate will simply be a waste of money so long as data caps remain in place as consumers will run out of bandwidth in no time at all. Everything should be moving towards streaming but anyone who is a Netflix OnDemand addict can tell you that streaming HD will suck up your monthly limit in no time at all. All cloud based applications, as well as movies (netflix), music/podcasts (itunes/zune), or even gaming (OnLive) continue to be nothing more than back burner projects because our ISPs want to keep us tied to our couches because they can't seem to find a better way to shove advertising down our throats.
You would think so, but as well as being a small country the uk is very hills and valleys. They struggle to get analogue signal, digital signal and in some places 2g phone reception. And scotland is as bad if not worse than parts of america for being countryfied and very difficult to access for cabling. Main problem for the UK is the infrastructure was placed back in the 18th & 19th centuries for a lot of things and it is so hard to modernise because of all the restraints and constraints this imposes. I see this so much in the industry I work in, as much as the UK railways wants to push forwards we are constrained by what is already there, and the need to keep as much operational as possibly.
Exactly right. We have such a big system here at the moment that its a mammoth of a task to upgrade. This is same for nearly every 'service' here in the UK to be honest! I live in West Sussex, UK and I get:
That's even more so why I assumed you'd go wireless, because you just build up not around/with the existing infrastructure. Cell service can be put anywhere, it just has to be cost effective. Hills and valleys are easy to overcome, it's not like you can't get a microwave shot to go tens or even hundreds of miles if necessary. It may not be fast on the fringe but it is doable. One of my colleagues is currently expanding the Air Cell network, which is what feeds wi-fi to planes, some of their microwave shots are 300 miles, which not meaning to be a dick, but how much farther N/S are the isles than that? Anything is doable with funding these days.
problem is the valleys and hills, as I said, a lot of the country doesnt get proper mobile phone 2g coverage, to expect them to sort wireless out and at a cheap price would be expecting too much. Due to land mass and primary industry issues, as well as "health scares" there isnt a lot of opportunity to increase mast/antennae spacing to place it all. Besides, most governments will never think outside the box, as the box is nice and safe with loverly padded walls.
Haha, the only way RF is going to hurt you is if you wreck your car while texting and driving The biggest part that amazes me, the people that complain about radiation from the towers are the same cats with a phone in their pocket 3 inches away from their junk. Hills and valleys can always be compensated for with downtilt and playing your splash/angles properly. But, at this point we're arguing the same side.