Foot Note.

No Thai ISP can guarantee a bandwidth above 0kps outside of Thailand.

In Thailand ISP's only guarantee 60% of their published bandwidth and only in Thailand.

Hence it cannot be called internet but intranet.

When and if the consortium of Thai ISP's that have laid the new pacific cable and switch it on nothing will improve.

It was supposed to come online this month.

But then so was the airport raillink.

Why does this site attract so many idiots that think they know what they are talking about?

Net1 explains it all perfectly.

The rest of you just don't have a f------ clue.

It's time to evict all you dumb foreigners

might be easier if you where to stop posting here seeing you consider us to be such ting tongs.

I have True and past month I have been averaging less than 300/kbs international, and sometimes web pages like Yahoo and Google will not load after 2 minutes, this includes pages in Thailand too like Thai Visa and Bangkok Post even pantipmarket won't load. I called True to complain and the answer they gave me was " that the speed levels you got is quite normal, which are the committed speed level." and this is on a 2/mbs package. So yeah service here in Thailand sucks!!!!

I don't know how Ji-Net does it, but I have 2MB service with them and have not seen any changes. After almost 5 years with them I am happy with their domestic and international service.

@ virtualtraveller

You wrote: Another excuse for the terrible Thailand internet (CAT) to blame their incompetence on.

You are using TOT and Maxnet, so what has CAT to do with them ?

TOT and Maxnet(TT&T) have their own international and national IIG and NIX.

And by the way, CAT works great for me !

Edited August 16, 200916 yr by prallo

things definitely seem to be very slow right now on TOT... but of course it might just be the normal TOT evening slowdown... hard to tell.

Yes, I think now for a few days,... I can feel it... My Internet is very superslow during the prime times, I mean especially during the prime times. Some pages won't load for tons of minutes.

Seems like SOutheast Asia along with Taiwan has a lot of trouble with Internet service ...

Cyber outage averted second time around (Published August 17, 2009)

Undersea cables near Taiwan severed by Typhoon Morakat, says WINSTON CHAI

A CASE of 'once bitten, twice shy' may have helped avert a major cyber blackout for local Internet users when several submarine cable systems were disrupted last week.

Back to normal: StarHub connectivity to overseas websites returned to 'acceptable levels' on Wednesday; SingTel's Internet services 'fully returned to normalcy' less than a day after detecting the fault

While Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) only reported a fault with APCN2 (Asia Pacific Cable Network 2), other reports suggest that a few more undersea fibre-optic cables were severed near Taiwan after Typhoon Morakat wrecked havoc on the island.

The other affected systems include APCN, Sea-Me-We3 (SMW3), and East Asia Crossing.

Local Internet service providers SingTel and StarHub rely on some of these systems to connect local Internet users to the United States.

SingTel has stakes in APCN, APCN2 and SMW3, while StarHub has a share in APCN2 and it also uses a few other submarine cable systems near the affected area.

'One of the main reasons that there is less impact to the telcos this time round is that most of them are running mesh networks to prevent outages like the one in 2006.'

- Kenneth Liew,

of IDC Asia-Pacific

A similar disruption in 2006 following a 7.1-magnitude earthquake in Taiwan brought local Internet traffic to a near standstill for a few days. This time round, Singaporeans could still surf the Web but they experienced some slower response times for websites hosted outside Singapore.

'One of the main reasons that there is less impact to the telcos this time round is that most of them are running mesh networks to prevent outages like the one in 2006,' said Kenneth Liew, a senior market analyst with technology research firm IDC Asia-Pacific.

'This topology helps prevent a single point of outage, even though there are multiple cable breaks on APCN2, APCN, EAC and SMW3 in Asia Pacific recently,' he added.

With mesh networking, each node within a network has connections to at least two others.

This set-up allows for a sustained connection even if one path is broken. Internet traffic can still hop to its destination by taking another route.

StarHub said connectivity to overseas websites returned to 'acceptable levels' last Wednesday evening, less than 12 hours after a slowdown was reported.

'As we are using diverse routes which take a longer path around the affected area, our customers may experience slower response in accessing some international sites on the Internet,' said StarHub's Michael Sim.

'Since 2006, we have put in place additional measures to minimise the impact of service disruption to our customers from submarine cable damage. We have acquired significant additional bandwidth capacity to expand and enhance StarHub's international connectivity as well as to provide diversity to the existing submarine cable systems,' he added.

Besides better contingency plans, another reason for averting a complete Internet blackout last week was that the damage this time round was not as great as in 2006.

'The last Taiwan earthquake was severe, affecting six of the seven cable systems that connect Southeast Asia to Japan. This time, only APCN2 is disrupted,' a SingTel spokesman said.

Singapore's largest operator said its Internet services 'fully returned to normalcy' less than a day after detecting the fault with APCN2.

'SingTel has made further investments into different cable systems to better ensure our customers experience,' he added. 

www.businesstimes.com.sg/sub/bizit/story/0,4574,346301,00.html?

I'm in the U.S. The international phone lines are still down.

I don't seem to be having any problems with internet communications to Thailand (forums,emails).

My wife has dissapeared from our msn chats for 3 days. I am not sure the reason, but as far as I read here the TOT internet lines are working pretty good.

Just wondering if slow internet is her excuse this time.

How is the internet connections to U.S. via TOT? Anybody know? The earlier posts say "no problems." ?????

I'm in the U.S. The international phone lines are still down.

I don't seem to be having any problems with internet communications to Thailand (forums,emails).

My wife has dissapeared from our msn chats for 3 days. I am not sure the reason, but as far as I read here the TOT internet lines are working pretty good.

Just wondering if slow internet is her excuse this time.

How is the internet connections to U.S. via TOT? Anybody know? The earlier posts say "no problems." ?????

My TOT 2 mb is so slow right now that it won't even run a speed test to the U.S. It just freezes after the ping test.

uh.. slower than the slow times every occasion and so on in LOS??? a ha, maybe people are doublin up on the TOT line because of the loss of the other companies cable lines from the typhoon damage.

My TOT 2Mb connection has never been this slow. I know that normally it can be a bit slow but it is usually consistant enough to allow me to play my PS3 online and use Skype and open web pages with reasonable speed. However, now I cannot get a game online and the connection is constantly dropping.

When I can eventually open Speedtest.net Bangkok is about 1.7Mbps (normal) but SIngapore is about 0.017 Mbps and the UK was 0.01Mbps !

Painful!!!

Same here last night I gave up on the TV speed test after five minutes, I had only managed to past the ping stage which was a 1200ms!

My speed with CAT on Phuket nearby Central is still the same, but the problem is to open webpages, which seems to be a problem of the DNS.

If I connect my PC in Germany by remote access, is really fast and small delays, so at the moment it´s better for me to surf on my German PC by remote - the only problem is to get downloads from there to Thailand, but it´s possible too.

Bagsida