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Is the internet very slow (overall) in HK?

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  1. #1

    Is the internet very slow (overall) in HK?

    Hi all,

    I've wondering about something I've noticed repeatedly over the years in various business trips to HK - the Internet speeds seem very poor. Maybe it's just because I frequent western websites and/or am usually connecting from a hotel (but even at the office I notice this) ... but basically, Internet access (measured in terms of how long DNS lookups and page loads take) are noticeably slower here in Hong Kong than they are in Japan.

    Anyone have similar thoughts?


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    Here's an example - these numbers are pretty shocking:

    traceroute to redditstatic.com (69.22.138.145), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
    1 172.25.0.1 (172.25.0.1) 1.889 ms 1.934 ms 1.511 ms
    2 220.241.144.249 (220.241.144.249) 2.396 ms 2.359 ms 4.547 ms
    3 * * *
    4 192.168.130.21 (192.168.130.21) 7.517 ms 3.707 ms 4.720 ms
    5 210.87.246.62 (210.87.246.62) 4.451 ms 13.890 ms 14.942 ms
    6 210.87.249.130 (210.87.249.130) 40.401 ms 10.611 ms 3.412 ms
    7 ge9-2.br01.hkg05.pccwbtn.net (63.218.145.21) 4.450 ms 6.296 ms 3.573 ms
    8 pos3-0-0.cr02.sea01.pccwbtn.net (63.218.114.42) 377.878 ms 406.922 ms 409.799 ms
    9 pos3-0-0.cr02.sea01.pccwbtn.net (63.218.114.42) 306.894 ms 409.570 ms 409.417 ms
    10 pos1-1-0.cr04.sjo01.pccwbtn.net (63.216.14.46) 181.926 ms * 265.374 ms
    11 tenge3-1.br03.sjo01.pccwbtn.net (63.218.6.242) 283.406 ms 306.745 ms 307.169 ms
    12 xe-2-0-7.ar2.sjc1.us.nlayer.net (69.22.130.89) 166.109 ms 162.723 ms 165.463 ms
    13 69.22.138.145 (69.22.138.145) 160.488 ms 159.793 ms 159.833 ms


  3. #3

    That's interesting...I'm not sure how these routing decisions are made but we obviously took very different paths to arrive at the same location in the end.


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    Last edited by chris_yang22; 06-08-2013 at 11:07 PM.

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    160-170ms round-trip ping time to San Jose seems quite reasonable to me. There are some basic laws of physics involved here.

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