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By Bal(t)imoron, 4 months and 21 days ago

ISP Problems in Busan

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Gravatar #2. Bal(t)imoron
4 months and 21 days ago

I feel your pain, too. BTW, I also, according to my ISP rep, had to give up speed. As if I can really notice the deficit!

Another rant has to do with districting. My neighborhood is lumped with Lotte Hotel in Somyeon supposedly, so I'm captive to whatever a hotel wants. I can't get Pizza Hut delivery, but Lotte can dictate what service I get!

Maybe someone in Somyeon or Apkujong has great service, but not me. But, no one stays in Jurye-dong and writes for an international paper.

Gravatar #1. James Turnbull
4 months and 21 days ago

I think I speak for all expats in Korea when I say you're preaching to the converted. As for myself, for some reason my moving to an apartment at one end of the building (1401) means that we lack the cables and some other things that are availabe to those living in 1402. Practically speaking, it means that our internet will suddenly stop working for 30 seconds several times a day, sometimes as frequently as every 5 mins in one hour, but our internet company repeatedly looks at it rather than fixes it per se, and living in 1401 means that we can't swtich to most of their competitors.

I had better service in my hotel in NZ and my father's place in Australia, even though inadequate broadband penetration was an election issue in the latter.

My other major gripe with Korean internet companies is their shotgun approach to dealing with sites they don't like, for whatever reasons. Last year, I was literally solely responsible for restoring people's access to the Scribblings of the Metropolitican by drawing my cable company's attention to the fact. Before I did, they had had no idea that it, and hundreds of others, had been cut off in the process of cutting off another site sending viruses to everyone.

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