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Q: Slower internet connections in newer Chinese apartment buildings?
Internet subscription ran out a few days ago, and I called the landlord to renew it. I told her I wanted a faster connection as the current one lags and she told me that I already had the fastest one available for the building. This confused me, as the building went up in 2008, but she told me that newer buildings in China often have slower connections for some technical reason I didn't understand. Is there any truth to this? I'd have thought the opposite would be true.
11 years 1 week ago in Web & Technology - China
Ýou can try the local China Telecom shop to ask what connection options you have. You probably cannot change it without your landlords ID card being present, but at least they would be able to tell you what is available for you.
I live in a building from 2009, it is connected with fiber. currently my connection is 20Mbit, in reality it is about half that, and often, especially when accessing sites outside China, it is a lot less.
The buildings in my community that went up earlier do not have fiber, I think they were completed in 2008.
I got also fibre connections too, we pay for 40Mb intenernet now, it is much slower, but also much better than keep original 4 or 10Mb, so when I access sites, which are 99,9% outside of china, i got no big problems usually.
We have to take landlord ID copy to the Telecom office, and was working well. include 200 mins of free call from mobile phone connected and provided with this internet options, we pay 199rmb per month. and in the sim card have additional 100Mb free internet, so it is very good package for us.
you have two options:
go to china telecom by yourself. you do not need the ID of your landlord, but your own ID. anyway, you can give them your address and they will tell you whats possible.
or you try one of these companies offering the TV and internet together. bandwidth will be shared, so if u watch tv, internet will be slower... but this option is usually cheaper.
if your connection lags, i guess you r using that kind of service.
Like others said, go to your local internet branch with your landlord and get the account switched over to your name. There is NO reason your landlord should be handling this for you, it just opens the doors to scaming you out of money.
If your landlord doesn't want to switch the account over to your name then you KNOW he's been ripping you off and wants to continue to do the same.
As far as speed. No, I haven't heard anything about newer buildings being slower. That seems very unlikely and sounds like the typical horrible excuse/lie a landlord uses when they simply don't want to do something
I live in a new building (3 years old) and we have speeds up to 40mb I believe. I use the 20mb package that comes with x amount of free minutes and data for my phone as well. In general the internet in China is slow when trying to connect to sites outside of China but 20mb or higher seems just fine for me.
