i was just checking on a file i'm grabbing with µTorrent and noticed an amazing 600+kB/s upload speed from someone in Thailand. i was surprised as i've only seen half Mb(60kB/s) upload speeds offered from True and others.

who offers these kind of speeds in Thailand? and if the upload is that quick how fast is the download?

CAT Telecom

G.SHDSL line

Nobody AFAIK.

CAT's G.SHDSL is 2 Mbps upload, which works out to only 250 kBps at 100% line speed... Doubt you'll ever see it go much over 200 kBps.

The IP of the uploader resolves to a static True IP, so the client might have a leased line of some sort, or maybe it's somebody within True's/Asianet's data center...

Nobody AFAIK.

CAT's G.SHDSL is 2 Mbps upload, which works out to only 250 kBps at 100% line speed... Doubt you'll ever see it go much over 200 kBps.

The IP of the uploader resolves to a static True IP, so the client might have a leased line of some sort, or maybe it's somebody within True's/Asianet's data center...

monty is right, it's an TRUE internal fixed line running directly at the TRUE Datacenter. In clear: It's an TRUE Employee who's using the line for to down- and upload torrents.

universities?

That IP and other True static IP's have been seeding torrents for ages now. Could be True employees. I think True is providing us with a local cache for torrents. Cuts down on the international bandwidth and requirements to throttle services on it.

I have seen this before, when both Uploader and Downloader are Both in Thailand, and they are both Broadband connections.

You will never see this speed on an International connection.

Hi

I've had last week a download spike from a peer in Thailand, also uTorrent - i don't know if True were fiddling with the lines, however i got a download rate of 5,900 kB/s (yes five thousand nine hundred kiloBYTES per second) and this speed was sustained for close to a full minute before that peer disappeared. Too bad i didn't take a screen shot, i was just watching that in astonishment

My line (True as well) is supposedly 1.5 M/512 K but for some time now i have been getting 3 M/512 K on it. So i wonder how that suddenly went to 47.2 Mbit And it wasn't just a graphical error on the speed graph but indeed that amount of data was transferred. I didn't even know my router can handle such speed.

Regarding the 600 kB here (4.8 Mbit), True and others do offer leased lines with that sort of speed and more, they are just very expensive. I was shopping for a leased line for my office some time ago and was offered 10 Mbit from ToT and up to 25 Mbit from True, each obviously up and down and guaranteed international speed. For a cool 475,000 Baht per month for the 25 Mbit

Kind regards.....

Thanh

PS i'd love to sit on such a fat line...............

It doesn't have to be a True employee.. a lot of people put servers in data centers just for bittorrenting, I know a lot of people who do this. It's only about 1800-2500 Baht per month (depending on the data center you use). Many also sublet their servers for torrenting for a few hundred Baht a month for (say) 50GB on HDD space and unlimited bandwidth.