Are Dsl Speeds Suffering Outside Of Thailand?

[nudnik]

I have TT&T Maxnet Premier rated at 5mb down and 1 up. From Pattaya to Bangkok I get almost 4.5mb down and 700 up. Anywhere outside of Thailand I can barely make it over 900k when before I was getting 3000 at least.

If I try to use SSH or VPN I slow to a crawl.

Is there a problem with the outside links that link Thailand to the rest of the world? I tried Washington DC, Perth, London and Stockholm and nothing goes above 800k. It's so slow I cannot get my internet radio from the USA to work, it just won't load.

VPN and SSH are crawling, is it possible they are purposely throttling that bandwidth? Is anyone else locally experiencing this?

I use the internet at night here in Thailand - that is when it should be the fastest.

Edited September 14, 2008 by nudnik

[dttk0009]

<br />I have TT&T Maxnet Premier rated at 5mb down and 1 up. From Pattaya to Bangkok I get almost 4.5mb down and 700 up. Anywhere outside of Thailand I can barely make it over 900k when before I was getting 3000 at least. <br /><br />If I try to use SSH or VPN I slow to a crawl.<br /><br />Is there a problem with the outside links that link Thailand to the rest of the world? I tried Washington DC, Perth, London and Stockholm and nothing goes above 800k. It's so slow I cannot get my internet radio from the USA to work, it just won't load.<br /><br />VPN and SSH are crawling, is it possible they are purposely throttling that bandwidth? Is anyone else locally experiencing this?<br /><br />I use the internet at night here in Thailand - that is when it should be the fastest.<br />

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I use True and it seems like it's been at a crawl for 2 days now. Nothing seems to work, especially forum sites. Latency to international servers is extremely erratic as well.

[lucky2103]

I also use true 2500 kbps and I encountered the same problems over the weekend.

However today on Monday speed is up agen, except for western European servers.

[terryfrd]

There is definitely a problem, but it doesn't seem to be everywhere. While my international connection was crawling for 24 hours from Sunday noon to Monday noon, TRUE users in some parts of Bangkok were not experiencing problems. My biggest problem now is uploading. I can't seem to upload html files to my website although I can access sites without problems.

TRUE does admit problems when you talk to their reps directly, but never when you email. They give you the standard tests to carry out which are impossible when the connection is slow and trivial when they are back to normal.

Does anyone know what is really going on?

Terry

[lucky2103]

Well, I just happened to subscribe to true (seems more like "untrue") in May with a 2500 kbps line.

After the initial installation, I merely got 100-300 kbps. After calling the technican a few times (almost daily), I was told that it was a pity that I live on the 19th floor, as this in fact wud weaken the signal tremendous.

After a few sessions I accepted the fact that I never wud get more than 1000 kbps in real (although the test site www.adslthailand.com showed some 2200 kbps).

Actually, the system seems to be very much in trouble, as the last weekend was a true nightmare with as much less as 50 kbps + complete loss of signal at some times.

I gave up calling the customer "support" of true as it wont help in any way.

Great differences are experienced when it comes to the location of the respective servers.

Servers located in the US seem to respond faster than the ones in Western Europe (before it was vice versa).

At this time I try to update my Linux system and get merely 400-500 kbps...

I wonder what the folks at true wud say if I came up with the idea off paying only 20% of the internet bill.

I get the impression that they sell bandwidth they actually dont get...

Pissed off in Prakanong

[wpcoe]

I was in Japan this past week, scheduled to fly to Taipei, so was monitoring a couple weather sites that had good typhoon-tracking maps. One evening when I refreshed the pages, the response was so instantaneous, it was almost like a screen flicker, so I decided to use speedtest.com to check my connection speed.

Unfortunately I didn't print-screen the first test result: 28.8 Mbps download! (This was using a hotel's cable-modem.)