My New Tt&t Adsl

[monty]

for Thailand anyways

Subscribed for the 3M package (1990 Baht +VAT), but when hooked up a few days later my ADSL router showed only a 2MB connection.

Called 1103 to inform them of their little mistake and they promptly bumped me up to 4MB :D

Ain't gonna call them this time though

Apparently Maxnet does not have much shortage of international bandwidth either, tests withing Thailand and to the US return roughly the same speeds!

[maxvs]

Is it possible to use Maxnet through TOT phone line in Pattaya?

Edited November 6, 2008 by maxvs

[Phil Conners]

Yes, but you need a TT&T line in order to subscribe to Maxnet.

[NHJ]

Yes, but you need a TT&T line in order to subscribe to Maxnet.

not at all, i got a tot cable and a tot phone number and maxnet adsl.

[monty]

Yes, but you need a TT&T line in order to subscribe to Maxnet.

not at all, i got a tot cable and a tot phone number and maxnet adsl.

Simply impossible.

Most people think they have a TOT line because they get a bill from TOT and can pay at TOT.

Actually TT&T is a private company which got a concession from TOT to install and operate phone lines in the provinces (not Bkk). Hence the billing gets done by TOT so they can deduct the concession fees at the source!

TT&T owns their own lines which are in now way connected anywhere to the TOT system.

You cannot get Maxnet on a TOT line, and neither can you get cybergold on a TT&T line.

[longball53098]

Just out of curiosity? Who owns and operates the switching equipment and other gear that the TT&T cables are connected to? I have never seen a TT&T central office anywhere only sales offices.

[monty]

Just out of curiosity? Who owns and operates the switching equipment and other gear that the TT&T cables are connected to? I have never seen a TT&T central office anywhere only sales offices.

TT&T owns them.

For example in Pattaya they have a big exchange in soi Nova, almost opposite the parking entrance of Bangkok Bank second road (opposite soi 6).

They have an exchange above the sales office in Naklua, and another on Soi Chayapornviti close to the Soi crocodile intersection.

They have their own micro DSLAM's as well spread all over town, all fed by fiber cable.

From their exchanges they have trunk cables connecting them to the main TOT exchanges.

[longball53098]

Ok thanks Monty. I thought maybe they just leased equipment from TOT. So if I understand this now TT&T has cable running around town (Pattaya) and the provinces right next to TOT stuff and then it terminates in dedicated switching centers that TT&T owns and operates.

Are there any agreements that prevent one or the other from invading the others territory? Or do they both string cable and equipment all over the place.

Glad to hear your new ADSL line is working so well and lets hope it stays that way.

Edited November 8, 2008 by longball53098

[monty]

Doesn't seem like they have exclusive area's.

Sometimes you can only have TOT sometimes only TT&T, but more often then not you can have both. That is if tey still have numbers available!

If you look at the termination blocks at the main cables between the poles, you often see old derelict ones marked TOT and shiny new ones marked TT&T.

The above picture for example is the micro DSLAM TT&T installed right behind my corner allowing me to have the fast ADSL.

You can recognize the boxes easily, they have two big cables coming out (all the phone lines) along with one small one (the fibre optic data feed)..

[JetsetBkk]

...Most people think they have a TOT line because they get a bill from TOT and can pay at TOT...

Yes - confused me at first when my TT&T phone bill came in a ToT letter and printed on paper with a ToT letter head, but with a TT&T advert at the bottom.

[NHJ]

Simply impossible.

oh surprising, i thought their dslam were common like in europe aswell as the line for all public networks, i was even more confused as my cable(from 2000) is labelled tt&t and TOT unlike a friend cable wich is labelled only tt&t(2006).

[grrr]

I'm having great luck with Maxnet these days too...since I moved to the middle of nowhere! I had to pay 10,000 baht for them to run a phone line down to the green box on the road 1km away, but I'm getting pretty consistent 3MB (download of course) speeds with my 2MB subscription...

[monty]

Simply impossible.

oh surprising, i thought their dslam were common like in europe aswell as the line for all public networks, i was even more confused as my cable(from 2000) is labelled tt&t and TOT unlike a friend cable wich is labelled only tt&t(2006).

It's possible older TOT lines might be shared, the exact details are a bit shady on how they work.

Their DSLAM's are definitely not shared, Less then 200 meters from where TT&T has the micro DSLAM I'm hooked up to, TOT put a DSLAM of their own! Huge beast sitting on a concrete pedestal (a Chinese made Huawei)...