econoMIC wrote:ksl wrote:durain wrote:
cable or adsl, they are all shared bandwidth. the only dedicated line you gonna get is either a leased line or ISDN. all cable and adsl are shared on a contention ratio, typically 50:1. in a nut shell, a 8M line is shared between 50 users.
I have a 10MB with a million users or so it looks like
Though i've given up worrying and accept the fact it's rubbish no matter what! A ping off the Island will be slow, bottle neck and filters for sure!
Agreed, even if they roll out their 1GB access soon, the filters causing terrible pings and a dozen extra hops make it worthless for anybody needing a fast overseas connection, especially to Europe, the US seems better. Hold that thought! File sharers need the bandwidth, not the ping, so at least they stand to gain from it...
Surprisingly Taiwan was much better than Singapore for delivery services, even for customer service with over 5 times the population.The other half used to be assistant vice president, of a internet service provider, so I have the whole run down, though i never got any better service i can assure you
But width is screwed up and down to please, and also to manipulate consumers to move up, economies of scale are more enforced, to maximise top $. Though like most industry there is a lack of consumer concern and normally Chinese would not loose face with complaining the majority that is.
I recall my problems with a push chair in Taiwan for my daughter, who was like 1 year old at the time, the push chair was finished after a week, they tried to tell me i didn't know how to push a push chair, and that it was me breaking it! I freaked out in the Japanese store more out of frustration, that they couldn't except the defect. In Taiwan the sidewalks are very bad for prams and push chairs, with kerb stones being over 1 ft high, so every time you pressed down on the handle, the whole cart would twist out of shape, they changed the pram 3 times and in the end gave me my money back, but i had to really press them, and my ace card was the threat of a online marketing campaign, they didn't want the risk, so gave me my money back.
They also told me that it wasn't feasible to take the pram in return, because they had purchased it in Korea, Not my problem i said, if I pay a significant amount of money, I want quality, not rubbish! besides It had a 1 year guarantee and we are talking less than 7 days use. My wife of course being Taiwanese would be far too embarrassed to complain, that's when she get her culture shock!
