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Test the Fastest Internet in Kuwait

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The local coding school “Coded” is hosting an event tonight with Fasttelco to test an ultra fast internet connection that they claim to be the fastest in Kuwait. The connection will be a 500Mbps fiber connection and everyone is invited to come and try it out. To test that speed you can either bring your own laptop and connect it to one of the available ethernet cables or you could use one of their test laptops. If you’ve got a huge file you’ve been wanting to download or upload then this might be a good way to do it. For more information click [Here]

25 replies on “Test the Fastest Internet in Kuwait”

Nice publicity stunt Fasttelco. Anyone could pull down those speeds under perfect laboratory conditions. However, there is no infrastructure in place to actually provide it to the customers. Every if they could, the price would be astronomical.

I don’t know why your Zain speeds are so low. I live in Mangaf and I get between 35-60 Megabits/sec all the time.

I have Zain and WIMD, Zain gets potentially high speeds but is super inconsistent. At least with WIMD I know it’s gonna work and not cut out on me randomly.

viva is just rubbish utter rubbish i m restricting myself from using any harsh language like wtf. the connect is so slow but the bills always arrive on time.i play alot of online games and a stable ping is the only thing that matters to me. but nope you aint gonna win any game if you continue viva. like i have a stable ping and boom all of sudden one signal bar and lags so hard my grandma could sprint five rounds before i see anything moving on my screen again

Your connection speed is between 112-140 Mbps? AFAIK, KEMS doesn’t offer such. The maximum speed they used to offer is 50 Mbps..

Unless both nodes are two points in the same fiber network the above picture is beyond the fastest internet average which means it’s just a publicity “FAKE”. Anyone in a closed fiber lab can product the same results with powerhouse internet caching engines like BlueCoat.

We have a 100mb fibre connection from an ISP (not the one above). It pulls in around 99mb on speedtest.net – not that the website is the perfect indication of speed.

Point is, they can easily provide the speeds to your premise that they promise you over fibre. Doesn’t make you pull a file from NY server that much faster however.

We are a business. Any ISP in Kuwait will give you that speed in most areas if you pay for it. Ranges about 9-12 Kd/mb/mo.

running a local test, IE from a certain location through fiber to the main network of that ISP is NOT how you measure your speed. this is what speedtest.net does, it often pings a local server which will give you an idea of the speed you are connected to your ISP with HOWEVER, testing with an international server will give you an idea of how much bandwidth your ISP is permitting you to have to that destination, hope this makes sense.

I get 20Mbs when I test to a local ISP which realistically is what I’m subscribed at. when I test internationally, I get results ranging from 3Mbs to 15Mbs depending on how much my ISP has in terms of bandwidth to that destination.

REALITY is, Isps will subscribe internationally to 10Gb for instance to europe. they will sell whats worth of 300GB over that 10GB assuming not all users are active at the same time. however during peak, congestion occurs through their international links which results in the slowness which many of us often experience.

Cable cuts also mean losing international bandwidth and the redirection of users to an already congested link.

Hope this makes sense.

When I spoke to ZAIN about my slow speed they gave me the BS Oh speedtest does not report the true speed.

Any excuse they can think of 🙁

zain is giving you the run around.

go to testmy.net

it will test to several servers in europe and take an average.

Not really impressed by this. It’s true that no ISP provides 500Mbps here but I bet if this becomes a plan to subscribe to, it would cost somewhere between 4000~8000KD/Year which is ridiculous.

Wake me up when there’s a reliable 1~2Gbps that costs around 40~100KD/month in this country.

not really impressed by what? I think you misunderstood what this actually was. they’re not planning on providing 500Mbps anytime soon, this was just a one off thing for people to check out. i can’t believe you’re already complaining about the pricing when it isn’t even something they’re offering.

Well publicity stunt or not it still is interesting. Knowing what might be in store for us in the long run. Also I’m happy with my ooredoo 4G+ LTE Advanced (Cat6) Get average of 80mbps peaks at 120mbps. But 1TB per month at 20kd ie. 33.3/GB per day

Um may I mind asking where you live to get these speeds? I live in Messila (still waiting on fiber optics) I have a normal 4G LTE zain router and I barely get 10 mbps DL and UL, also ping is horrible it was 5000ms yesterday. Internet really sucks in Kuwait

we’re being Ripped off none of this matters….. US internet plans are about 620$ a year that’s almost 180KD for 1Gb internet and they get the full affect of it, we on the other hand are bleeding around 320KD a year just to get 100Mbps and we don’t even get the full download speed from it 10Mbps is all we get and 5G isn’t even a steady network and don’t even get me started on the Outages we get from Time to time and the amount of times we have to reset routers or call network providers just to get the internet back up and working. most my friends living in the USA are Tempted to stay there just because of how Fast and stable the internet is there. I suppose complaining here won’t make much if a difference anyway.

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