I live in the general Pattaya area and noticed at the south

big C a huge DTAC add talking about 42 mbps service.

Anybody know what that is all about ?

Will any of the carriers ever offer anything close to 7 or 14 mbps ?

thanks,

rudi

It is a type of mobile broadband service, DC-HSPA+ (Dual Cell - Evolved High Speed Packet Access), with a theoretical down-link maximum speed of 42 Mbps, and uplink max. of 11.5 or 23 Mbps. Some service providers refer to it as 4G.

Obviously your equipment, air-card, phone, would have to support this standard.

So is it really available ? Has anybody tried/used it ?

Thanks,

rudi

Yes. Yes. (But not me.)

My DTAC 3G performance is adequate, see attachment.

Obviously you'd burn through a data plan pretty quickly at those rates.

You need a compatible device. http://dtac.co.th/aircard/speedy42.php

http://www.thaivisa....he-first-month/

It is a type of mobile broadband service, DC-HSPA+ (Dual Cell - Evolved High Speed Packet Access), with a theoretical down-link maximum speed of 42 Mbps, and uplink max. of 11.5 or 23 Mbps. Some service providers refer to it as 4G.

I get all confused with the acronyms, but doesn't TrueMove-H advertise speeds "up to 42 Mbps" on what they call 3G?

It is a type of mobile broadband service, DC-HSPA+ (Dual Cell - Evolved High Speed Packet Access), with a theoretical down-link maximum speed of 42 Mbps, and uplink max. of 11.5 or 23 Mbps. Some service providers refer to it as 4G.

I get all confused with the acronyms, but doesn't TrueMove-H advertise speeds "up to 42 Mbps" on what they call 3G?

we have a true move phone and an ais in the house

true move is much cheaper but the service is much crapper (in my home at least )

the ais lags sometimes too but generally its much faster and stays connected better

neither of them should be allowed to call it 3G or even H+ because it slows to a crawl

during peak hours ,sometimes it struggles to maintain GPRS speeds during the busiest

periods

It is a type of mobile broadband service, DC-HSPA+ (Dual Cell - Evolved High Speed Packet Access), with a theoretical down-link maximum speed of 42 Mbps, and uplink max. of 11.5 or 23 Mbps. Some service providers refer to it as 4G.

I get all confused with the acronyms, but doesn't TrueMove-H advertise speeds "up to 42 Mbps" on what they call 3G?

TrueMove H refer to their high-speed mobile broadband (3G) 42 Mbps service as 3G+. Note the "plus sign".

Sometimes you see 3.5G, 3.9G, 4G for the various implementations. Most are positioning LTE as 4G, or vice-versa.

Yes. Yes. (But not me.)

My DTAC 3G performance is adequate, see attachment.

Obviously you'd burn through a data plan pretty quickly at those rates.

You need a compatible device. http://dtac.co.th/aircard/speedy42.php

http://www.thaivisa....he-first-month/

Obviously, that video showing near 42 mbps was made in-house. I defy anybody to get anywhere near that any time of day anywhere in Thailand on any mobile network. If somebody wants to make a wager, I'll put my money where my mouth is, and if the wager is large enough, I will travel to this magical place to see it.

Obviously, that video showing near 42 mbps was made in-house. I defy anybody to get anywhere near that any time of day anywhere in Thailand on any mobile network. If somebody wants to make a wager, I'll put my money where my mouth is, and if the wager is large enough, I will travel to this magical place to see it.

With the proper air-card achieving these results on the air interface is entirely possible and believable, and you'd lose your wager.

If however you stipulated a specific FTP off-shore then yes the data rate might be closer to single digits. Not sure what your point is? That service providers, like everyone, hype their ultimate performance numbers? Oh, I'm shocked.

I've seen some speedtest results on Thai forums with 16 Mbps. Remember that most devices generally available today do not support rates higher than 21 Mbps.