somefellow Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 It has been widely reported in the news that the Asia-America Gateway, a 1.92 tb/s capacity fiber optic cable linking southeast asia to the west coast of the US, would go live sometime this month of August. I have been searching the news and forums for information about this.... there don't seem to be any updates. I emailed the AAG people, without a response. I am really hopeful that this cable will help improve international connectivity issues in thailand... does anyone in the know happen to know if this cable has gone live or not? And whether it will improve things significantly? Thanks- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimf Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 I was just wondering the same thing. A few trace routs though and It seems most of the traffic is still going through Taiwan/Japan etc. So either its not live yet, or the new routes have not propagated yet, but I don't think it takes very long for that to happen. A brief google search for news didn't turn up anything either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikster Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 I sure hope not as Internet speeds are as bad as ever, internationally... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somefellow Posted September 10, 2009 Author Share Posted September 10, 2009 Interesting how hard it is to find out this info........ Im not sure whether to hope it's live or not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohitsuk Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 I sure hope not as Internet speeds are as bad as ever, internationally... Yes indeed, I hope not too since speeds with TOT in Chiang Mai in the last few days have got worse and worse till we are back to, I will grow old and die before this page loads. Why the hel_l this cannot be fixed and kept fixed, god alone knows but ti is total agony at present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dttk0009 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Even when it does you won't notice a difference. If you want better speeds move to a less densely populated area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basjke Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Why the hel_l this cannot be fixed and kept fixed, god alone knows but ti is total agony at present. One of the reasons why not you can see when you look out of your window. The second reason is because they sell more then they got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somefellow Posted September 12, 2009 Author Share Posted September 12, 2009 lol at that picture. there was a similar total mess in front of my old apartment.... i wondered how the heck they keep everything straight, what cable goes where.... looks like an explosion in a spaghetti factory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR Texas Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 lol at that picture. there was a similar total mess in front of my old apartment.... i wondered how the heck they keep everything straight, what cable goes where.... looks like an explosion in a spaghetti factory I'm having so many problem with my connection.......I need to know if it is my computer or some general problem. Will someone living in Thailand please try to access this site: http://www.undp.org/ Can you do it? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUDAS Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 JR. Accessed it, no problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR Texas Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 JR. Accessed it, no problem Thanks........don't know what is happening...........Maxnet sucks for some of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 www.undp.org down for me too...... Maxnet Indy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR Texas Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 www.undp.org down for me too...... Maxnet Indy Thanks for that post........at first I thought it might be my computer........then I thought now way because other sites are coming in....then the first poster said no problem accessing it (now thinking maybe it is my computer).........and now your post. I think Maxnet Indy is the problem..............or maybe the govt. doesn't want us reading anything by the UN these days. But I am not getting that stupid "this site is censored by the Thai govt. alert." Who knows..........I wish Thailand would get a good system in place, but I think that will never happen until they allow real competition to take place. You just don't see this crap in Singapore, Japan, S. Korea..........even China's system seem better to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikster Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 www.undp.org works for me, TOT. It's glacially slow, but that's just par for the course on TOT... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 www.undp.org working today, yesterday not, tommorow ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klikster Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Works on Maxnet in Cha am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phazey Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 The cable may be up, but it all depends if the ISP's have bought bandwidth on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somefellow Posted October 1, 2009 Author Share Posted October 1, 2009 looks like probably not live yet: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/200...en-by-2010.html <h1 class="contentheading">Fibre-optic link to open by 2010</h1> Tuesday, 22 September 2009 15:01 Nathan Green Despite setbacks on Asia-US undersea cable, Cambodia will be involved through Telcotech. Photo by: BLOOMBERG A technician holds part of a fibre-optic cable. Cambodia's Telcotech is part of a consortium building a fibre-optic undersea cable linking the US to Southeast Asia that is expected to go live by year's end. CAMBODIA'S connection to a high-bandwidth fibre-optic cable linking Southeast Asia to the United States is expected to go live before the end of this year, an engineer with the Cambodian member of the consortium building the network said last week. The engineer, who asked not to be named, said Telcotech was aiming to "synchronise its launch" with the switching on of the US$550 million, 20,000-kilometre-long Asia-America Gateway (AAG) network, predicting a lag time of less than a month for testing and integration. Mohamad Izani Karim, a spokesman for Telekom Malaysia, one of 17 members of the consortium building the network, said by email that the AAG was due to be launched in the final quarter of this year. "AAG is physically complete, [but] we are putting it through a series of tests (both by the suppliers and the purchasers) to ensure that the system is ready to carry commercial traffic," he said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 From today December 16, 2009 it's live according to CAT Telecom: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Thailand-Con...th-t322310.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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