Maxnet Takes A Turn For The Worse...

[relayer]

TTT Maxnet recently had no limit imposed on NNTP connections, but have now throttled them down to less than the speed of a dialup. In other words, effectively making usenet downloads impractical. Also, I hear that torrents are similarly affected.

Anyone else notice this?

They are getting chincy with their intl bandwidth again... ARGH.

[drake]

in Phuket same Problem with HiNet. Few calls to TT&T and speed is back again.

your Location?

[TopDogger]

Pattaya at a guess, half the people I know living their with Maxnet cant even establish SSL connections to sites.

[moo9]

TTT Maxnet recently had no limit imposed on NNTP connections, but have now throttled them down to less than the speed of a dialup. In other words, effectively making usenet downloads impractical. Also, I hear that torrents are similarly affected.

Anyone else notice this?

They are getting chincy with their intl bandwidth again... ARGH.

Hi,

I have Maxnet for 9 months now. NNTP and Torrents were slow from the beginning.

Since 2 months or so, I had full speed downloads and was very satisfied. But as you said, just recently it seems, that they are thrttling down again. Will check tonight, as I haven't been downloading much recently.

Moo9

[monty]

Also important is to mention on what package you are (Indy, Premier) or for those longer with Maxnet maxnet@home or Maxnet@life.

On the Indy and the @home package it is clearly stated that it is "best used" for surfing websites in Thailand and that P2P and VOIP are not guaranteed.

In short it seems that when bandwidth gets in short demand they will start throttling down all protocols with the potential of eating up that precious bandwidth in order to at least be able to offer usable surfing speeds.

Remember, Maxnet pays 25,000 Baht/month to the CAT for 1024kbps international bandwidth, so just to break even they have to share your 1mbps with 25 people, and understanding the fact that businesses are there to make money you can expect a sharing ratio of closer to 40:1.

This high level of sharing necessitates some serious bandwidth management in order for it to operate at least for web access!

I pay 1600 Baht/month for 256/128 (Maxnet@life), which would calculate to over 6000 Baht/month for 1024/512 kbps. At this price level I get rock stable 85% of rated speed or higher on all protocols! Obviously they only need to share with maybe 6 or 7 subscribers to turn in a nice profit, which is very well manageable with their routers set correctly!

[Gerry290]

Hi

I am in Pattaya too, I am on TT&T Maxnet for Life 1024/512 kbps.

It costs me 4280 bhat a month.

I use this, for my Ireland VOIP phone provider, which gives me Dublin number, and lets me work my business into ireland, form thailand...or anywhere else in the world, once I have decent internet.

Also yes a few online software databases as I speak on VOIP and have incoming/outgoing emails, so I like to have the 1024 kps. I find in Thailand, from my own experience, this gives me the best quality for VOIP, any lower I speed I used., open a few web sites and get a few incoming emails, the quality of the VOIP calls dips very very badly.

Anyway.... I found the past 2 weeks, the speed of Maxnet for life 1024/512 kps has been terrible and net has been up and down alot. today net was down from 5pm to 1030pm approx and call center said there was a big IT problem in chonburi offices they have.

Last year the quality was much better.

I certainly allow for the occassional net crash due to heavy rain, which normally comes back after 2 or 3 hours.

But a continous crap slow net this past 2 weeks is just not on.

A business associate that was over this week, has a pocket pc phone wifi thing,. and said BKK get got fast wifi all over the place no problems. pattaya he said the net was crap.

You would think that since pattaya is only down the road fom BKK, and a very busy place, the net would be of higher quality.

Any other good options available in Pattaya to support strong VOIP. and give better VOIP quality?

Thanks

Gerry