Amazing Tot?

[muratremix]

This is 7/0.5 mbit basic package in a village in Ban Kruat, Buri Ram. Since I got adsl to village-home on monday, I was a bit disappointed on ping times due to domestic connections being overloaded. However, download speed was fine, just not the pings.

Now I am doublechecking every location, ping times are reduced like hell. What happened? Half of the Bangkok evacuated (so the lines are empty) or what?

[rakman]

As you stated, the slow pings were due to overloaded circuit. Pings (ICMP) are not priority packets, so they will have more latency than data packets.

As the network is less busy, ping times get less, you may find your data rates improve as well.

[Pib]

I know I'm a western Bangkok residence that evaculated 9 days ago to Nakhon Pathom due to 1.5 meter high flood waters in my western Bangkok moobaan in Khet Talingchan....so, I guess I"m helping to free up bandwidth since I'm not using my True Cable 20Mb plan.

Now using an AIS Aircard (EDGE+) at a blazing 100Kb to 220Kb depending on the time of day...right now (7:50pm) it's around 100Kb and my Speedtest.net ping tim to L.A. is 604ms. I expect about 400ms of that ping time is within the AIS cell circuits just to reach Bangkok-based international gateways. The Aircard can do 3G but unfortunately there is no 3G coverage in my jungle area. But hey, at least I have some internet access while we live with the Thai wife's mom's here in the province.

The low 200ms ping time you are getting is what I normally got from Bangkok to the US when on TOT, JINET, and now True cable. Looking forward to using my 20Mb cable internet again, but it appears I have another 2 to 3 weeks to go before we can return to our home/the water recedes enough. Floods suck.