Ais Edge

[Gary A]

The past ten days or so, AIS Edge has been pretty bad. I am now using my D-Tac card and it is quite a bit better. I guess between the two of them, I can keep a decent connection. I have a farang friend up here who also uses AIS and he too has been complaining.

[JohnC]

yup same problem in Pattaya, some days its good other days cannot oepn pages although it says I am connected. I switch sim cards and get online no problem, switch back to ais and that then works!!

[monty]

I've noticed AIS having DNS problems, many URL's simply not resolving, while the ones that resolve come in OK.

Speedwise I didn't really notice much deterioration, apart from over the Songkran period, where all the visiting Thais were probebly jabbering away on their phones, taking up our precious data slots!

Yesterday evening I downloaded a rather big file (28 MB) in less then half an hour at an average of 18 kBps, or 150kbps...

[Crushdepth]

Been a while since I used AIS, but DTAC has been consistently better for me.

[2008bangkok]

Iv tried both Dtac and AIS and fo me where i live in Suk DTAC is by far better than AIS which is really really slow...unfortunately im using the slow one AIS at the mo as its free

[dave_boo]

I've never really been impressed with AIS' EDGE when I've been in an area that's supported it. Seems to be much too willing to revert to GPRS, etc.

[Gary A]

I don't know what has happened to AIS but it certainly has gone bad. Every time AIS gives up and I change to D-Tac, D-Tac works well and hasn't let me down yet. It appears that I'll be splitting my packages and if AIS can't get it together, then I have bought the last package.

[ballbreaker]

AIS connections seems about normal at my location. Early morning 12-18KB/s download speed and as day progresses it slows down as network traffic increases.

Sometimes later in the day if connection is slow I disconnect then reconnect and its ok. Have not figured out why.

[nikster]

If lots of people around you have AIS phones, AIS will be worse. If lots have DTAC phones, DTAC will be worse It seems like DTAC has invested in new towers / better equipment recently though.