What's With Maxnet?

[jaideeguy]

Over the last couple of weeks, my maxnet doubled in speed, as another post implied it was a loyal customer bonus [thank you maxnet]. Then, it started going from superfast speed to totally dead, starting in the mid morning and that was explained by an article in the bkk post that the Thai govmt evesdropping with slow software and jamming it up. I bought that explination until the weekend came and the same pattern occured. Now, over the last couple of days, my maxnet is back to normal speeds but still dropping. Can anyone explain this to me?? What's really going on?? Could it be my router??

[Upcountry]

My international access has gotten very bad over the last two days. While web access is okay, bittorrent has ground to a halt. Seems like it is blocked.

I did a speed test and got a surprise. My Premier service is supposed to give me a maximum of 1024, but I was getting 1734kpbs! The first thing that went through my mind, with the speed discrepancy and the blocked bit torrent, was that Maxnet had somehow converted me back to Indy.

I called them at 1103, pressed 9 for English and of course got the Thai menu again. The Thai-speaking operator, that I eventually reached, said she'd have someone call me back (I had asked for English). A Thai-speaking tech called back. He couldn't grok my problem, so he had someone else call back. This one also could not understand the issue, didn't see a problem, and said he'd have my account checked, and someone else would call. No call yet, many hours later.

I stopped in at the Maxnet office to pay my bill. The clerk said they were making many changes and improvements in speed. I saw a flyer showing that my speed was going to increase from 1024/512 to 2048/1024. So that would explain the 1734kpbs. Maybe the changes are causing a disruption to overseas access. I can't authenticate with Eudora to one ISP right now, and that might be related as well.

With all the Maxnet hops I see with traceroute lately, it's clear they're messing around. I really hope they are not masking a move to Big Brother behavior with the speed increase, etc.

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1

2 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms mx-ll-58.147.40-1.tttmaxnet.com [58.147.40.1]

3 * * * Request timed out.

4 * * * Request timed out.

5 17 ms 17 ms 16 ms mx-ll-58.147.0-25.tttmaxnet.com [58.147.0.25]

6 18 ms 17 ms 17 ms mx-ll-58.147.0-86.tttmaxnet.com [58.147.0.86]

7 19 ms 16 ms 16 ms mx-ll-58.147.0-54.tttmaxnet.com [58.147.0.54]

8 17 ms 16 ms 17 ms mx-ll-58.147.0-106.tttmaxnet.com [58.147.0.106]

9 46 ms 46 ms 47 ms if-2-0-1.core2.S9R-Singapore.teleglobe.net [209.58.96.45]

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