Internet: Argentina Ranked 107Th

[sesamosinsal]

Moreno probably prohibits you from importing any more data than you export.

hahaha,,, Gold star for you!

 

[PatagonianPilot]

I heard this and surprised me a lot, I live in Recoleta, near the National Library and the connection is amazing.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

I heard this and surprised me a lot, I live in Recoleta, near the National Library and the connection is amazing.

When I was last in town in December, I was watching streaming video (Netflix) on the iPad with no problems.

 

[erian]

Out in Provincia and the internet speed is very good!

 

[2GuysInPM]

Being 107th does not mean the internet speed is no good. The average 3mbps here is good enough for most users and for day to day tasks and video streaming. The 107th ranking only indicates that other countries have it even better.

Look at South Korea where the average speed is over 17mbps (over 5 times faster than here), and with peaks around the 50mbps range. What we have here is good, but what they have is excellent. At those speeds you could stream HD content to multiple TVs and have dozens of devices at home (TVs, phones, appliances, computers, etc.) connected without issue. Here at our place, with two connections at home (one 6mbps and another 3mbps) I sometimes have to make sure no downloads or streaming are occurring so I make a simple Skype call. The average internet user in Seoul probably does not have the same issue.

 

[scotttswan]

Being 107th does not mean the internet speed is no good. The average 3mbps here is good enough for most users and for day to day tasks and video streaming. The 107th ranking only indicates that other countries have it even better.

Look at South Korea where the average speed is over 17mbps (over 5 times faster than here), and with peaks around the 50mbps range. What we have here is good, but what they have is excellent. At those speeds you could stream HD content to multiple TVs and have dozens of devices at home (TVs, phones, appliances, computers, etc.) connected without issue. Here at our place, with two connections at home (one 6mbps and another 3mbps) I sometimes have to make sure no downloads or streaming are occurring so I make a simple Skype call. The average internet user in Seoul probably does not have the same issue.

Its funny people always use South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong as places with really fast internet, but other places like Bulgaria, Romania and Latvia are all up there in terms of speed too.

Argentina desperately needs to move with the times in technology terms if it doesn't want to be left behind.

 

[2GuysInPM]

South Korea has ranked #1 for a long while, that's why it is often used for comparison.

 

[Crema Americana]

Out in Provincia and the internet speed is very good!

Not where I'm at. My brother-in-law has it even worse in Castelar. Even watching YouTube videos can get annoying - having to pause and wait for them to 'load.'

In any case, it's not really the speed that's the issue, it's the reliability.

 

[EricLovesBA]

Not where I'm at. My brother-in-law has it even worse in Castelar. Even watching YouTube videos can get annoying - having to pause and wait for them to 'load.'

In any case, it's not really the speed that's the issue, it's the reliability.

Exactly. Here in Florencio Varela, same problems. Speedy DSL. The package is 3M, but on a perfect day it tests out around 1.3M down, 0.4 up. You must watch youtube at the lowest resolution (240) and you are still waiting for it to load. There are intermittent problems with connectivity. DNS is flaky I use google's 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 DNS, which helps, but it seems I still have occasional problems reaching sites outside Argentina. Skype audio calls usually have distortions or dropouts from insufficient bandwidth, sending video pretty much impossible.

Customer service - far worse than the technical side. The extended family shares internet, and I have been going round-and-round almost 2 years waiting for a second line with internet. They did a bait and switch and finally brought in the second line but couldn't *certify* the modem to run at the 6MB speed we had been sold. They got the telephony working after about 2 months, but a few months more and the tech still hasn't come out with a modem.

 

[dennisr]

Why internet is slow...

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/global-observer/why-is-argentinas-internet-so-outrageously-slow/10520