Ipstar Satellite Internet In Rural Area

[kLMU3bzc]

Dear All,

shit happens: the new house is a way outside of the city so now I rely on satellite now. I do not like to complain, we all are knowing the constraints.

However one question please: I have the cheapest option as I do not rely on bandwidth or latency but mostly on reliability

Unfortunately my connection is very unreliable dropping down to 0,5kb often. So the question is: if I purchase more expensive service will it be more reliable then granting me with higher priority?

I do not like to try blindly an upgrade when someone has experience already.

Any advice will be very appreciated. Thanks and the best!

[Thaddeus]

A friend of mine did that hoping it would improve matters, it didn't.

Is CAT CDMA not available where you are? some other friends have coverage here, and we are in the boonies.

[garyh]

Cat CDMA is the answer and available in most area's

[kLMU3bzc]

A friend of mine did that hoping it would improve matters, it didn't.

Is CAT CDMA not available where you are? some other friends have coverage here, and we are in the boonies.

Sorry for stupid question: what is CAT CDMA? 3G/UMTS?

I do not think it is available as my 3G Phone only shows GRPS (not even Edge).

Is there any map of availability?

Thank you and the best!

[garyh]

A friend of mine did that hoping it would improve matters, it didn't.

Is CAT CDMA not available where you are? some other friends have coverage here, and we are in the boonies.

Sorry for stupid question: what is CAT CDMA? 3G/UMTS?

I do not think it is available as my 3G Phone only shows GRPS (not even Edge).

Is there any map of availability?

Thank you and the best!

Cat CDMA It is different to GRPS etc. The web site is in Thai, google translate will hill help there are maps but only give the names of the places where the towers are. Might help to say where you are.

[kLMU3bzc]

Cat CDMA It is different to GRPS etc. The web site is in Thai, google translate will hill help there are maps but only give the names of the places where the towers are. Might help to say where you are.

Thank you for clarification. I will send my wife to talk with CAT, as equipment and prerequisites is her job! I just bring the cash

The best!

[george]

CAT CDMA USB Modems are now only 2,000+ Baht, but you must buy them direct from CAT. Great value!

[RKASA]

IMHO higher speed No, but they do have a commercial version which is lower ratio but costs, it might help but;

My IpStar has been working fine still does, but for the last week I have been getting low speeds often less then dail up. Its not IpStar its the ISP, its also not heavy traffic it is just them doing a good job.

My last speed test to Bangkok this morning was ping 1056 and 82/41kbps on a 512/256k contract. When that happens its not traffic its just poor service ( ie limited service). I have seen heavy traffic and the up load would be almost normal and the download low. It seems I went though the same issue this time last year when the ISP lowers the connection speed and will deny it till the cows come home - even if you give then speed test results. They got a problem and won't admit they can't provide the contract speed even from the ISP, which means international is not going to work.

We have CDMA in area, but like the lady across the street it has never worked here. You can see the tower from her antenna and the signal is strong but the system is overloaded and drops connection every five minutes. After more then a month and five service calls she finally gave up on them and closed it just last week. I had GPRS years ago and it worked about a year then the same thing happened to that years ago, after two months of never more then a 3 minute connection I got IpStar. Outside of maybe Bangkok and a few other places - wireless data is a paper tiger only meant to claim territory rather then provide any real service to people.

We have ADSL only a few Km away, but odds of it coming here are like the hundreds of phone line requests they round filed over ten years from this town. NOTTA We are now waiting the PM's promise of 3G for the local school. (like that helps us) Which some how is the latest favorite excuse for delaying any action. Not that it will work any better then CDMA or GPRS, but hay - it sells a lot of handsets right.

I don't mind complaining, They hear from me often. They have hired completely knowledgeable (not) people to answer the phone and write post its which like phone line requests are then dumped daily with the trash.

And so as the world turns so goes the same old story in the HUB of IT here in SEA.

[Thaddeus]

CAT CDMA USB Modems are now only 2,000+ Baht, but you must buy them direct from CAT. Great value!

Depending on your distance from a tower, the smaller modems will not work. I've set up four or five chaps out here, and we have always been recommended to use the larger version which also comes supplied with a roof-mount aerial and cable, costs Bt8,100, quite a bit more, but I thinks it's worth it, as they have all worked a treat.

I would disagree with RKASA on the speed issue, as all the ones I have installed are now able to watch video on youtube like live streaming most of the time, no pauses at all, never been able to do that on ADSL and certainly not on IPstar at any time of day.