You know something’s wrong with your Internet when…
- You must always hit “pause” and buffer YouTube videos before you can play them decently.
- Your top BitTorrent download speeds are in the 30 or 40kbps, even when you’re supposed to have a 768k line.
- Network outages become an annoying everyday trend.
- You experience lag in World of Warcraft even when you’re in the middle of the most deserted area.
- You cannot do two things at a time. Download & surf simultaneously? What are you, mad?
There’s an alarmingly fast pace of Internet downgrade where I live. Sure, it may be that many people in the neighbourhood have also aDSL lines, but why should I care? I pay for my 768k line, month by month, and I want a fluid Internet experience.
Of course, Internet providers are not always to blame. That monster of telecommunications, our beloved OTE, sure knows how to handle so-called broadband.
I’m all for supporting my country. But Greece is pathetic as far as Internet goes, I’ll never cease to say that.
February 25th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
This year there are 20% more broadband subscribers than the previous year. ISPs aren’t ugrading this fast so their lines get oversaturated with subscribers.
Nationwide DSL
February 25th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Hello my love!
Since I’m bored of listening to you complaining for the quality of Greek internet, I have a question.. What do YOU do to change that? I know that you are capable of bringing the revolution, since you are a both talented and devoted web designer. So, stop nagging and do something!
February 26th, 2007 at 3:37 am
I’m afraid that things are quite simple; ISPs can either upgrade their infrastructure to offer quality of service or get lots of new users and lots of complains. It’s quite clear what any company would do, especially in the greek market where users don’t really have any real alternatives. You can only choose between the bad, the worst and the incompetent!
February 28th, 2007 at 6:35 am
[…] You see, my connection speed is supposed to be 768/192 (Kbs , however most speed tests disagree. It seems that in Greece connection speed is somewhat relative (as Sugar also notes in this post). The end result was that in the unlikely event a request didn’t timed out, it effectively brought down my internet connection. As I had already bought a domain from GoDaddy I fell for hosting too. […]
November 2nd, 2007 at 7:46 am
Nice top ten list lol. You would think since there are more people signing up for broadband that the high speed providers would increase bandwidth. http://ds1providers.com