Satellite Internet

[pipchatel]

Hi all. I searched the site for any past references to this, no luck. We are moving into our new house, very rural (But Electric) ToT not keen to run a land line, and probably too slow anyways. So CS loxinfo do a system, 10,00 baht dish, modem, installed. Then 1600 Baht a month. 24/24 hr access. Have any of you got this? Does it work? thanks a lot if you have any advise or experience with this.

Best regards Pip in North Lampang

[monty]

Not sure what you're talking about...

Csloxinfo has two options for satellite internet.

IPTV, which uses a phoneline for upload and satellite got download. Price is 1500 Baht/month

iPSTAR, which uses a two-way satellite system (bigger dish, no landline needed) at 3210 Baht/month (3000+7%vat).

On the last system they currently have a promotion where the installation is only 3000 Baht.

http://www.csloxinfo.com/broadband/iptv_1_en.asp#price

http://www.csloxinfo.com/broadband/ipstar4_en.asp#1

[Nam Kao]

>>>iPSTAR, which uses a two-way satellite system (bigger dish, no landline needed) at 3210 Baht/month (3000+7%vat).

Is this a fast connection?

thx

nam

[monty]

Nam Kao,

Throughput is 256/128 kbps.

The system actually gets that speed, however because of the big distances the signal has to travel you get a lot of lag.

Ping times of 1000ms are considered good

Practically this means there always is a delay between the time you request something and the time it starts coming in.

If you open a site, with lots of small graphics being requested from lots of different servers this ends up in quite slow loading of this site.

Download a 1mb file and it will come in at full 256kbps speed. (over 30kBps)

Second catch: They only allow you 750 mb of data traffic. This is sufficient for your e-mailing and daily reading of Thaivisa / newspapers, but forget about downloading stuff or P2P networking.

Extra 100mb will get billed at 250 Baht!

They also have the option of 512/256 speeds at 5350 Baht/month, but here there seems to be technical limitations with topspeed seldom being reached.

In my opinion if the budget is there, I would opt for the bigger 1.5 gb traffic allowance package at 4815 Baht/month...

Important note:

With the new iPSTAR satellite having been launched a while ago (it will be operational in about two more weeks), there might be a chance prices will come down, or the data traffic limits might be eased!

[Nam Kao]

Thanks Monty, appreciate

nam