webfact Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 It appears since 4:30pm today CAT CDMA is down in the entire Isaarn region. Has someone the same issue to report or is anything known about? I am aware CAT CDMA users cant post... if located in Isaarn and its down. Any information his most appreciated. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaimite Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 My system came back on line at about 7.30PM a few minutes after I had managed to get through to the CAT helpdesk (3rd attempt) who informed me that due to gateway problems it would be down all night. It seems to have been a Provence wide issue as a friend in Chiang mai lost his CAT CDMA connection at exactly the same time After months of good service that has now happened several times in the past few weeks Always the same symptoms. Appears to be connected but no data throughput Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary A Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Yes, the past few days have been pathetic for my connection. Then today it totally died. It came back up about 7:30 but is very slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiang mai Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 The problem was nationwide, same thing here in Phuket - but after all, CAT does have to perform maintenance/upgrades etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kandahar Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Same here in Chiang Rai. Down and up, but slow when it is up. Getting worse as the weeks go by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiLife Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Same thing here, its been on and off since 4.00 pm to day, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary A Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 The problem was nationwide, same thing here in Phuket - but after all, CAT does have to perform maintenance/upgrades etc. There's no doubt that they need maintenance, BUT, for some reason I doubt we'll see any improvement in the service. You just can't put 10 pounds of crap in a 5 pound bag. I think there are simply too many subscribers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiang mai Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 The problem was nationwide, same thing here in Phuket - but after all, CAT does have to perform maintenance/upgrades etc. There's no doubt that they need maintenance, BUT, for some reason I doubt we'll see any improvement in the service. You just can't put 10 pounds of crap in a 5 pound bag. I think there are simply too many subscribers. As a general rule you may be correct, but frankly, right now, my connection is super fast so hopefully what we just saw was related to performance improvements and not just a fluke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary A Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 I am now using my Nokia phone. EVDO is dead again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrgrims Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 it died here too. back on now. not sure how this can be a "too many subscribers failure". the system use radio signals to the local towers, so it would have to be a central line that is too small...maybe some of the more tech savvy guys can fill us in. in the meantime i will believe its maintenance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaimite Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 (edited) Its on this morning, but seems slow, and many sites will not load. I understand about maintenance, but they should have a way of notifying users. Most companies manage to do maintenance during the night when few users are on, noit starting in the middle of the working day. Edited November 25, 2009 by thaimite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 CDMA is very unstable since about 5pm yesterday. Nearly useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrgrims Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Its on this morning, but seems slow, and many sites will not load.I understand about maintenance, but they should have a way of notifying users. Most companies manage to do maintenance during the night when few users are on, noit starting in the middle of the working day. same for me. something is wrong, cant be maintenance/upgrade taking this long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary A Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 It appears that they are fiddling with thing to free up bandwidth. My speed test shows a good fairly fast connection but many sites will NOT open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loong Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I had the same problem, I could connect to the very few Thai sites that I use, (banks), but not to international websites. Mostly ok today, but still problems with some sites. Did this just affect CDMA users? It seems strange if it did, as only international traffic was affected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiLife Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Same here, web pages very slow to open, or timing out , Download Manager working but slow - reminds me of my dial up days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary A Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 CAT EVDO won't open the sites but my super slow EDGE Nokia phone will. This stinks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoon01 Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Cat CDMA is working fine again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max2000 Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Hutch EVDO is on snail speed to, last 3 days. Last 2 days unable to download. Now downloading at 1500 B/s (yes that is B, not KB/sec)! Download time for 11 MB is 2+ hours. Unable to update my antivirus as well. TV speedtest: download 800Kbps / upload 50Kbps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Advise from CAT-CDMA customer support: Use their DNS not OpenDNS or similar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaimite Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 (edited) Every ISP will tell you that their DNS is best, BUT did they give a valid technical reason? Before changing to Open DNS I had many problems with my CAT connection dropping out. I have just seen an old post (http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Isp-Dns-Server-t305598.html) about some software called treewalk. Does anybody have any updated information about using this Edit I believe that the reason ISPs prefer you to use their DNS is for customer support purposes. Knowing that the customer is using their DNS makes it easier to troubleshoot issues by eliminating one variable Edited November 26, 2009 by thaimite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joka Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 I have been having some issues the last few days as well, and then yesterday...I try to connect and it says username/password is incorrect. This also happened before, and I changed the username/password and it worked again. Does anybody know the correct username/password? I have used [email protected] with evdo (i think) as a password for the past several months. Before that I was using [email protected] with cdma (i think) as a password. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaimite Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 I have been having some issues the last few days as well, and then yesterday...I try to connect and it says username/password is incorrect. This also happened before, and I changed the username/password and it worked again. Does anybody know the correct username/password? I have used [email protected] with evdo (i think) as a password for the past several months. Before that I was using [email protected] with cdma (i think) as a password. Username = [email protected] Password = catevdo. Beofre anybody asks the dongle is hard wired with your user ID so telling the world this infomration is no good unles you have a stolen dongle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joka Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 That username/password didn't work either. I can't remember how exactly I got around this problem last time, I think I had to do something in the internet connections wizard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaimite Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 (edited) Where are you entering the username and pasword? I know that CAT has different GUIs for different dongles, but those are the settings for my Merlin X720. Do not enter them in the Windows Dialup, (DUN) but in the CAT Gui (Profile Manager, Edit Profile) This seems rto override any settings in the M$ DUN wizard (including DNS servers) Edited November 27, 2009 by thaimite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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