Repatriate Me!

One of the things I’m not looking forward to when I return to Canada is the slow internet. I previously mentioned this in one of my first posts 5 Things I will Miss About Korea but this article Canadian internet slow, expensive: Harvard at the CBC reminded me of this.

“Our company-level pricing study for the highest-speed offers in the countries we observe here locates all of the Canadian companies but one in the cluster with the slowest speeds and highest prices,” said the report from the university’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/02/22/harvard-broadband-report.html#ixzz0gJmBoPWM

I really don’t like this at all considering I pay about $35 for very high speed internet. Several articles over the years have pointed out the that South Korea has the highest internet speeds in the world here Jan 19, 2010, here Feb 2, 2009 here Feb 20, 2010 I regularly download files at 5-8mb/s – I can get a full DVD downloaded in less time than it takes to burn it.

Too bad I’ll be moving to Canada and plodding along on an overpriced and slow internet dirt road.

Here’s my latest speed test – it’s a lot slower than usual, but still okay.

Feb 22, 2010 Comments(0) Tweet

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