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webfact Grand Master Member

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I can guess for what it is needed at a University and I also trust to know such speed will never be available for a humble common user... at least not in Thailand.

In case your income exceeds more than a 1million Baht per month you might have the chance... :o

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Phil Conners Diamond Member

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Really enjoying the 50 MB broadband after suffering with crap in Pattaya for 2 years. However I would still trade Pattaya for the UK any day.

You get the fast internet, we get the LBFM with the big boobs :o

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Tywais Star Member

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The advantages of working at a major university in Thailand. :o

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Amazing! is that going through TOT or CAT?

That's through CAT. My firewall server at the facility I'm at has a direct 1GB fiber connection to the campus backbone. There are actually two fiber links from the campus to Bangkok - CAT at 192Mbps and Uni-net at 198Mbps for just under 400Mbps aggregate. :D

Probably not a fair test at the moment in that it is semester session and the majority of students are not around now.

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Great speed without question but who really needs it that quick ??

Yes movies and music lovers I guess but for me with a 3MB connection it is more than adequate ??

Chivas

Somehow that reminds me of Bill Gates' now-infamous statement in 1981 that 640 KB was enough memory for anyone.

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Can I ask what for all that speed?

I feel happy with my 2 Mb CAT connection, I download more movies and serial I can see and I watch my football every sunday with some streaming website. Sure, 4 Mb better, but what for 50 ???

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Tywais Star Member

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that university speed was domestic... right?

Yes, within Thailand. Suspect the OPs test was also domestic within his country. I did do a 1GByte download recently of a Linux distribution which was International - 9 minutes.

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When I lived in Japan a few years ago I had a 24Mbps connection, but couldn't find a single site that could upload information anywhere close to that speed other than connection to my ISP's mail server.

For those of you with 80+Mbps connections, how often do you actually experience downloads more than say, 5Mbps?

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webfact Grand Master Member

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that university speed was domestic... right?

Yes, within Thailand. Suspect the OPs test was also domestic within his country. I did do a 1GByte download recently of a Linux distribution which was International - 9 minutes.

It would be very interesting to learn if every server is capable to cope with such up/download speed? Personally I have my doubts.

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that university speed was domestic... right?

Yes, within Thailand. Suspect the OPs test was also domestic within his country. I did do a 1GByte download recently of a Linux distribution which was International - 9 minutes.

It would be very interesting to learn if every server is capable to cope with such up/download speed? Personally I have my doubts.

Why not?

PCIe bus can handle 1GB per second.

Ethernet card (Host Bus Adapter) of 100 Mbps is merely 12.5 MBps, if we assume no collisions and IP packets are bumper to bumper.

BTW, I have been (everyone is) on 100 Mbps for 6 years now in Japan, 1200B per month, includes IP phone number for my land line (no PC needed to make calls, just my regular landline phone), heavilly discounted international calls to anywhere.

100Mbps - what for? For <deleted>. Absolutely nothing I need works better now than over 56Kbps modem back in stone age Australia.

Small wonder Kevin Rudd (Oz PM) has stopped talking about high speed Internet for everyone. Of course, someone must have told him it's a load of useless <deleted>, just look how high speed Internet has helped growth in Korea or Japan.

The only beneficaries are porn sites whose number has exploded.

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I wouldn't like to trade LBFM's (with or without big boobs) for any kind of speed .....

With 224kBs to download a couple of movies, my 2Mbs TOT connection satisfies me. 50Mbs would fill up my HD faster than I want.

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With 224kBs to download a couple of movies, my 2Mbs TOT connection satisfies me. 50Mbs would fill up my HD faster than I want.

I agree. I can't even be bothered to upgrade to True's 8MB package for a couple of hundred baht more, and it's not just because I have serious doubts getting anywhere near that speed. SDSL would be a huge plus though...

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nikster Diamond Member

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I think 4 or 5Mbit would be enough for me ATM. Downloading more series and movies than I can watch already so a bigger pipe would not make all that much difference.

If you are too far ahead of the curve, then services and international lines that can make use of your connection are basically not around yet. Once the majority has 50mbps it will be a necessity to make use of all the new stuff that requires loads of bandwidth but meanwhile being somewhere in the middle is totally OK.

Main improvements I would pay for right now:

- Shorter lag time. This is what makes the internet in the west seem 100x faster. There is no wait. Unfortunately, that's not something that can be improved easily. Signals just travel a long ways, and it takes time even at 2/3 of the speed of light.

- Stable connection. If I had 2MB 24/7, it would be great.

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nikster Diamond Member

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Really enjoying the 50 MB broadband after suffering with crap in Pattaya for 2 years. However I would still trade Pattaya for the UK any day.

Do you really get that speed when surfing normally?

I had a 50Mbit connection in the USA, and it delivered maybe 10Mbit or so real speed - could be that it was a server limitation of course. But I was also on a 10Mbit home DSL which never delivered more than 2Mbit under normal circumstances, and only very rarely went up to 6Mbit.

I think they throttled traffic selectively, actually. For websites, you wouldn't notice the difference between 2 and 10. For bittorrent, it was throttled to 2Mbit. And I am pretty sure for any kind of "DSL Speed Test" website, there would be no throttling at all. At least that's what I would do if I was an ISP :o

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Tywais Star Member

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The advantages of working at a major university in Thailand. :o

Hmm... does anyone know what kind of speeds Chiang Mai university has? Maybe I can be a guest lecturer or something... :D

Note above speedtest and just below my avatar is .... :D

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The advantages of working at a major university in Thailand. :o

Hmm... does anyone know what kind of speeds Chiang Mai university has? Maybe I can be a guest lecturer or something... :D

Note above speedtest and just below my avatar is .... :D

Oh well in that case ...need guest lecturers in software engineering? I have a master in CS (1998) and 11 years of practical experience which includes developing software for Apple Computer and at the time hot startup companies in silicon valley, plus the pragmatic programmers book on my bookshelf :D

Well I don't even know if CMU has a CS course...

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