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By changing the ADSL modem to your own modem (eg. not supplied by True).

Alternatively call the customer service and complain and ask them to fix it for you (would require a tech to come to your place and upgrade the firmware of the modem).

Zonelink Co., Ltd.

02-6420592

No email nor website, but they do carry a lot of decent network equipment.

I'll offer 200 Baht unseen.

Save your money. Torrent (or stream) what you really want to watch and find out how great it is not to have to adjust your schedule to the TV....

Based off of the stated requirements the general suggestion is to buy multicore CPU's (as many as you can afford), minimum 8 GB of RAM (16 GB is better), I would suggest SATA-3 capable mainboard (not critical, but gives you options) but you need micro ATX and I'm not sure SATA-3 is available on those MB's now. GPU of old generation (get one with die shrink and smaller cooling solution). I'm not sure you use CAD programs enough to warrant a pro grade vga card, and it will go over budget.

Suggested: 2x2+TB HDD's (WD Green?) as storage and quick backup

SSD is optional but does improve overall snappiness of your system, particularly when opening heavy programs after a cold boot.

If you have budget and consider between SSD and more RAM, it depends on what type of photoshop files and CAD files you work with. If you are not saturating your RAM then an SSD will be more beneficial.

A suggested build

1. CPU: i7-870 (~9500 Bht)

2. Mainboard: ASUS P7H55-M LX or GIGABYTE GA-H55M-S2 (~2500 Bht)

3. RAM: Kingston DDR3-1333 8 GB (2x4GB) (~8500 Bht)

4. GPU: GF9800GT (~4000 Bht) or HD5770 (~5500 Bht)

Suggestion: 2 TB WD Green (~3500 Bht)

Grand total (incl HDD&HD5770): ~29500 Bht

I solely depends on what you want to use it for.

You said what you do NOT use it for, but it doesn't help sourcing equipment.

NOTE: Do not use Google DNS nor OpenDNS. They are too far away. Using the freeware utility NameBench, I found three DNS servers in Thailand that are consistently 4 times faster. This has a huge impact, not on downloads but definitely on surfing.

Quite a strong statement.

I agree that OpenDNS is a bit slow on responses from Thailand, but Google DNS' certainly are not.

On my connection Google's DNS is only a slight smidgen slower (few ms, confirmed by Namebench) on average than the secondary ISP DNS server. The ISP primary DNS is SLOWER than Google's DNS by nearly double.

The added benefit with Google's DNS is that they are actively being supported and maintained. They are probably much more secure than any DNS server in Thailand.

Conclusion? Every user must draw his own, but the loose consensus is that Google is the dogs <deleted> overall right now.

Its fairly simple.

1. Create a youtube account.

2. Start making videos and upload them on a regular basis. Try to generate as many views per video as possible.

3. Sign up for the partnership program.

4. Wait until approved (this depends very much on your content, how often you upload new content and amount of views you receive).

5. When approved you get a share of the revenue based on ad clicks from your video page.

Sure, address my issue but would you also tell us why you don't think it's related to the OP's?

Yours and the OP's issues differs in a few ways. They might seem small, but make all the difference.

bkinbkk (OP) states: "ZERO throughput lasts for about 1 to 2 minutes and then without prompting it returns to full speed."

Second statement: "When I query my router the signal db (showing the router is getting enough signal to support the upload and download speed) is exactly where it should be -- INCLUDING during the times the internet goes to ZERO throughput."

Quite precise statements, repeatable at any time for sure.

This is a strong indication to the problem I have described. The remedy is to swap out the ADSL modem and/or router(s). Step 1 should be to change the modem.

I would venture to state that the problem is not present if the bandwidth is lowered/throttled to 2 Mbps or less. This is not an ISP problem, but a local hardware issue.

bkksw states that bandwidth varies depending on rain, undersea cable cuttings and the issues last sometimes longer, sometimes shorter, sometimes fine during "peak hours", sometimes not.

No real pattern, quite random. This points to external sources as you so clearly state yourself. A mix of lack of ISP bandwidth (most likely international), undersea cable cuts, rain infiltrating the DSLAM and similar issues. Basically a sub-par ISP service. AFAIK. the True contract we all sign states we are allowed about 4400 MB of data per 24 hours. I have never seen it enforced on my end, but perhaps they are enforcing it for others.

Perhaps a partial solution is to ask your line to be rerouted (if they have enough redundancy and capacity). I have had them reroute my link several times (central BKK) when the services have been interrupted and they estimate a 24-48 hour repair time. Another quite odd solution is to seed a few torrents - limit them to 1 KB/s upload, global peers set to 50-100 - and have them act as keep alives of sorts. There is no real solution to a sub-par ISP experience. Complain in constructive manners, change ISP's, pay a premium for business accounts, change from ADSL to SDSL/Cable/Fiber/Other.

I relay a lot on streaming media (radio mostly, but more and more live video) and I must say I do not have any problems technically with True right now and haven't had any problems with them for quite a while, except the 12 hour outage suffered a few weeks back. I did have quite a lot of conversations with them over a period of several months a long time ago to address issues. They were solved bit by bit, and now services are as good as could be expected for a bandwidth starved country (~158 GBps internationally and ~720 Gbps nationally). International bandwidth more or less doubles every 12 months in Thailand looking at historical records (except 2006).

I hope that sheds some light on the differences in problem.

Linksys RV042

Easy to setup, never had any problems with it.

It does have issues though that are only visible when you load balance with 2 different ISP's and use ISP DNS servers.

It works quite well when you do fallover when one link fails, but doesn't "combine" bandwidth as most people would expect it to.

It's a good starter hardware though, and I think it would fit the OP's requirements as per his post if paired with alternative non ISP DNS servers (eg. google DNS or Open DNS).

bkksw's "explanation" no more than guessing and theories at this point.

Yep, it's a guess just like your theory is.

I was squarely replying to the thread starters post, not yours.

Based on HIS symptoms (not yours) it all points towards what I explained.

I never attempted to answer your issue, and only dismissed it as irrelevant to the original post.

If you'd like me to address your issue, I'd be happy to do so. You just have to ask.

I manage several TRUE installations and have not seen this phenomenon.

Can you tell us which applications you are running (which use the bandwidth)? Also what is the time-scale on the attached graph? And how often does this drop-out occur? Without more detail it will be challenging to troubleshoot.

Also what make/model router? Can you provide any line stats?

I have seen this, but it was with old and/or outdated hardware (modem, router, etc). The connection would cut out as soon as many concurrent connections would be made and also when the bandwidth was being saturated by several threads while downloading (using a download manager). The early generations of ADSL modems and routers were never designed to handle massive bandwidth requirements over long periods of time nor where they designed to handle a massive overload of concurrent connections that torrents generally generate.

I wholeheartedly agree that more information is needed to accurately determine the cause of the problem, however, I have given up on asking for more info in threads and instead provide a partial solution based on the info given. I do not even attempt to try to help in threads where the question is akin to "I have computer problems, what do?".

I this thread the OP was quite detailed, which is very much appreciated, and the similarities to what I have seen previously allowed me to draw a conclusion that should solve OP's issues. If it doesn't, then there are of course several more steps to trouble shooting, but that would have to be much more in depth.

Then how you explain when it is different during the day, with the same usage pattern. It seems to be worst right around 9 pm and not so bad around 3pm

The explanation give by bkksw, seems to explain the problem the best

So what True has said when the problem is explain to them or are they too dumb to understand?

One more thing, as I mentioned above I changed my provider from TOT to True thinking TOT is bad, but the problem seems to have gotten worse with True

I went through the thread again, and neither you nor bkinbkk mention anything about "time of day" when the problem occurs. (for future reference, please provide as much detail as possible to gain a more comprehensive and accurate reply).

bkksw's "explanation" no more than guessing and theories at this point.

We are talking about an issue that is most likely a local problem (eg. user equipment), and thus the solution is as explained.

If the solution fails, then we can move forward.

No point in shifting the "blame" to somewhere we can not control, stick our heads in the sand and moan about it.

Either your modem or router is the device at fault.

I had this exact same issue when I went from a 2 Mbit connection several years ago to a 8 Mbit connection. Took a couple of days of troubleshooting, but the culprit was the old ADSL modem. Changed it to a modern (at the time) ADSL modem and all troubles went away.

There is 2 possible scenarios why your modem and/or router fails.

Too many concurrent connections/requests which is overwhelming the device. Quite common with public tracker torrents.

Not fast enough to properly allow for fast bandwidth throughput and buffer fills up. When the buffer is full, it cuts and flushes. The amount of time it takes depends on the processing power of the device.

I would suppose it depends on the country where you receive the income from the ad sales.

I think you misunderstood... I do not sell tablets.

I merely stay informed and on occasion co-ordinate a community purchase of Chinese items.

Yes, there are 10" tablets available, but the specs are not up to the latest standards.

8” 4:3 pure touchscreen, 800*600

Cortex-A8 MCIMX515 processor 800mhz, up to 1Ghz

Android 2.2 OS support Flash 10.1

512MB RAM+ 4GB FLASH, up to 32GB.

WIFI, optional external 3G.

HDMI 1080 support.

4000mAh battery

This is the latest update I have from China.

Sample pricing is US$ 198, with bulk (100+) a little lower.

Apparently it runs most Android Marketplace apps very well (except phone related apps).

Personally, I think these specs are decent and the device is worth considering.

There really isn't any need to compare to any non-android device as they serve different purposes and clearly has different target audiences.

Why are you there? Can anyone help you (locally, remotely)?

Does your embassy assist?

How can you post this without access to communications media (eg. phone, internet)? Intermediary?

Can you upload the proof online?

Available at Power Buy at Central World for 22,900 Baht. Quite a high price if you ask me.

Thanks for the comparisons between different ways of making the images.

I am on a panorama kick with my poor old s3is... some come out ok, others horrible.

I am working on a 33 image, 8773x9332 pixel image. Photoshop auto-merge did the heavy lifting, but still it has required many hours of manual editing.

Incidentally, the PSD file is 899 MB, and when I edit it, it consumes 2.6 GB RAM.

Hi 'filingaccount',

Looked at your photo in the ' Panorama' thread of BKK and that took me breath away "WoW' is not the word , this is much better way to express my thinking of your you photo

Thanks. It's nice to see that people enjoy it.

I just happened on this scene at Central World today.

Thanks for the comparisons between different ways of making the images.

I am on a panorama kick with my poor old s3is... some come out ok, others horrible.

I am working on a 33 image, 8773x9332 pixel image. Photoshop auto-merge did the heavy lifting, but still it has required many hours of manual editing.

Incidentally, the PSD file is 899 MB, and when I edit it, it consumes 2.6 GB RAM.

2 ambulances left the area in a hurry.

There might be injuries (or worse) from the second explosion.

There was quite a crowd earlier tonight.

A second explosion occurred at 01.37 am 2 October 2010.

The explosion was of similar (or same) strength of the first one.

I will NOT go back out this evening but wait until the "all clear" is made.

I could be worthwhile to use the express delivery by fedex. I believe to London it should not exceed 48 hours (I could be wrong, check with them).

Should be priced around 2500 Baht for a a small stack of DVD's.