Given that in recent poll results show that South Korean has
the most online connectivity of any country in the world, do they also have the
fastest internet connection?
By: Ringo Bones
Back in October 2010, South Korea’s broadband internet was
voted to be the fastest one in the world with an average speed of
1,000-megabits per second. Given that since after World War II, if you asked
the average person of the street on which is the most technologically advanced
country in the world, the United States and Japan are typically the two
countries that top the list. But in the beginning of the second decade of the
21st Century, it seems that South Korea has a faster broadband
internet connection than either the United States or Japan.
On average, broadband internet speeds that prevail in the
world’s other most technologically advanced countries hover between a “lowly”
2-megabits per second – only twice as fast as the digital PCM audio output
stream that comes out of the coaxial digital output of a CD player – to
10-megabits per second. These speeds are 100 or more times slower than your
typical South Korean broadband.
But what aspects of a
1,000-megabit per second broadband internet can do that is useful to the
average internet surfer? Well, a 1000-megabit per second broadband internet
connection allows you to download a two-hour long Hollywood movie recorded at
HD DVD / Blu Ray DVD quality in a little over 10 seconds! Movie pirates will
probably be moving to South Korea to avail of such broadband internet
capabilities.
