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[kerr17]

Hi all,

I currently having a 3 mb wireless connection with true but i was wondering how to increase bandwith as I'm watching Tv online and sometime the band is not enough to watch it properly.

Does anyone have any suggestion?

Is there a way to increase band?

Cheers

[monty]

Wireless (I assume wifi) is a shared medium, so if any other user connected to the same wifi point is downloading a big file, you will lose part of your bandwidth.

The only way is to get a direct line in (ADSL). This is also a shared medium, but is manageable on a bigger scale, i.e. you share with 19 other customers, but if your node is heavily loaded, and there is another node somewhere lightly loaded, the system can transfer capacity from the lightly loaded node to your node.

With wifi this cannot be done. The wifi point is connected to the ISP with a 3 Mbps line, and that's all there is ever going to get through.

AS well, with ADSL, depending on what package you subscribe to (and of course what price you pay) decides how many customers you share with.

On a cheap home package (less then 1000 Baht/month) you will probably share with anything between 20 and 50 other customers.

This will most probably not be usable for watching TV online, apart from maybe between 2 AM and 5 AM when everybody else is asleep.

Move up to a business package (much more expensive) and you will stand a much better chance. I'm on a CAT premium ADSL package (rated at 2 Mbps) and streaming video (up to about 600 kbps streams) works very well pretty much all of the day. Costs a tad under 2800 Baht/month...