True High Speed Problems?

[rainman]

Is anyone else having problems with TRUE high speed at the moment? Most US- and Europe-based websites time out for me ...

[BritTim]

Is anyone else having problems with TRUE high speed at the moment? Most US- and Europe-based websites time out for me ...

I think the DNS servers are having problems. I have switched temporarily to 203.144.255.72, 203.144.255.71 and 203.146.237.237 and things seem to be running better (except that a couple of torrent trackers also seem to have gone offline for some reason).

[rainman]

Confirmed. I called TRUE and they said there was some "equipment failure".

[whisperer]

Is anyone else having problems with TRUE high speed at the moment? Most US- and Europe-based websites time out for me ...

I think the DNS servers are having problems. I have switched temporarily to 203.144.255.72, 203.144.255.71 and 203.146.237.237 and things seem to be running better (except that a couple of torrent trackers also seem to have gone offline for some reason).

Pardon my technical ignorance but how do I switch to these IP addresses, it's a matter of some urgency to me as I need to be online for the next 3 hours for a key business reason. Do I access via control panel?

[rainman]

In Windows:

Start -> Control Panel -> Network Connections -> Right Click on your DSL connection -> Properties -> Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) -> Change the DNS Settings

[rainman]

What's confusing me is that http:// works on some sites, but https:// on the same site doesn't. FTP also doesn't work on that same IP address. I wonder if they're blocking protocols and only allowing http traffic?

[MrSnrang]

I changed the proxy server to proxy.asianet.co.th:8080 and it finally worked. At first I was afraid that the govt shut the internet down and went on a rampage across the city. XD

[Insight]

VPN into the office in Thailand works for me, so using a proxy server based there.

Can't get HTTP access to anything outside Thailand right now though. Traceroute dies here:

203-144-144-9.static.asianet.co.th

[Thanh-BKK]

Hi

Also problem here - Bangna/Sukhumvit 70 Area. Almost all websites open but anything demanding a log-in (such as "Hotmail") doesn't. G-Mail completely unaccessable, bot website as well as PoP access. BitTorrent also "offline/timed out".

TRUE's "network status" lists one link "TRUE-TIG True 280 Mbps Fiber Thailand" as "down".

###### the internet here is unstable.......

Thanh

[rainman]

Everything through port 80 (http) works alright, but anything else like pop3, smtp or https (port 443) doesn't work at all. Either they blocked all ports until they solved the problem (pretty stupid) or only their equipment that handles port 80 requests is running.

[rainman]

Oh yeah, Skype is dead too..

[Firefoxx]

All port 80 traffic for True is automatically routed through their transparent proxy, so that probably means that their proxy is still up. Most things are dead slow. Can't login into my US news server, and bittorrent doesn't seem to work. Skype and MS Messenger can still login, for some reason.

Yep, https doesn't work, so logging into places that require it (yahoo, etc) don't work. Since https requests don't pass through the transparent proxy, then the fact that the proxy still works doesn't help (unless you manually set your proxy, in which case https requests will go through the proxy too).

Edited October 7, 2007 by Firefoxx

[Guest Reimar]

The Fibre Optic Cable to the Malaysia Gateway is broken and they try to fix it.

Just in the moment they using a Backup Gateway.

[Ian_B]

The Fibre Optic Cable to the Malaysia Gateway is broken and they try to fix it.

Just in the moment they using a Backup Gateway.

Thought something was up as was getting really bad pings whilst playing Warhawk for PS3 on the Japanese servers last night.

[Firefoxx]

Seems to be fixed now. Works as usual, not great, but at least you can connect.

[whisperer]

In Windows:

Start -> Control Panel -> Network Connections -> Right Click on your DSL connection -> Properties -> Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) -> Change the DNS Settings

Thanks very much for the advice!