These Korean streamers looked as amazed as if they had just seen monsters upon arriving here. They kept exclaiming in wonder as they toured PM and touched all kinds of top-of-the-line equipment.
In the end, no matter how proud they were, they had to admit that an Internet café like this could never exist in Korea.
There was only one reason: Korea was too small, and land was too precious.
There wasn't even enough land for farming. It had all been bought up by real estate developers to build housing complexes. Where would there be any vacant land for them to open an Internet café this huge? Dream on!
Even so, they still managed to find something that could restore their pride—the one thing they could use to save face: Internet speed.
That was right. After finishing their amazed exclamations, they began trying to win back some dignity for Korea by complaining that China's Internet was too slow.
And it was indeed true. Although Jiang Siming's PM Internet café used an exceptionally powerful dedicated fiber-optic line, with its annual broadband fees alone costing several hundred thousand yuan,
the Internet speed was still what it was. By domestic standards, it was among the fastest, but compared with Korea, the country with the world's fastest Internet, it was still far behind.
Korea ranked first in the world for Internet speed, while China ranked forty-fourth.
That gap could be called enormous. Take PUBG, for example.
When Koreans played PUBG, their ping was only in the single digits. If it went above 20 ms, they would say the game was too laggy to play.
Everyone knew that after the M16 was reworked, it was no longer fully automatic.
But in Korea, a country with practically no latency, the M16 could still produce the effect