Shame on CAT

[pen]

Asia's worst internet gateway..shame on you

[Iamemjay]

Some amplification would help!

I have issues with them too - but I'm not sure if they are the ones that you find shameful

[RandomSand]

Care to elaborate ?

[pen]

So bad streaming even slingbox with 30/30 fiber back home BTV or CAT can't provide a decent gateway out, i'm fed out with these decisions guys at CAT

[Phronesis]

I am on the minimum plan 599THB plus tax here on Phuket and have been for the last three years. No complaints whatsoever...

[JakeBKK]

half of asia, has problems at the moment, reaching europe and the us. this is not cat.

[RandomSand]

So bad streaming even slingbox with 30/30 fiber back home BTV or CAT can't provide a decent gateway out, i'm fed out with these decisions guys at CAT

Shame on CAT? How do you know that your ISP that serves the Slingbox is not to blame? Do you expect CAT to lay a dedicated fibre cable accross the sea to your home so you enjoy TV? They can't lay direct fibre to every other router on the planet can they?!!

If you can do a traceroute from your home IP to your CAT IP then you'll see where the problems are..

If the traffic is sent to TH via San Jose then you're already on the best route. If via L.A then there's room for improvement. Some ISPs have good technical support and they''l be able to flag your traffic through San Jose. You might have to sign up for a fixed IP or business class service before they'd consider it. I refer to your home ISP, btw.

edit: basically - Asian internet routing is one the most expensive in the world. It's likely that your traffic is sent via a free "peering" arrangement. Far superior is "transit" but it's more expensive. CAT already have decent transit but that doesn't mean they freely take in any old traffic from any other random network. Can't blame them really. So maybe your requests to your at-home Slingbox are going via transit but the stream is coming back over peering. Sorry I can't help any more as I'm not an expert on Slingboxes!! If you want to resolve this then make sure you have transit from CAT to your ISP, AND from your ISP to CAT. I suggest contacting your home ISP first and then copying CAT into the thread. gud luk.

edit#2... CAT are better than you think. When I set-up a VPN in the states, after about 24hrs CAT had transparently permitted a premium static transit route - from my VPN to my CAT IP - using their Savvis Transit. That's not to be sniffed at when you're only paying 2,000 bhat for consumer broadband. Like I already alluded to; You can't expect CAT to be able to "suck" the traffic effectively if (1) your slingbox is behind a changing IP or (2) your other ISP has shitty peering/transit.

[RandomSand]

DO you have Verizon fibre or some other decent business ISP in another country ? Maybe you use Comcast or Virgin Mediain the UK?... well those entertainment ISPs spend their cash on getting media *into* your home and not *out* to SE Asia.

Something that all THAI users need to think about before bashing Thai ISPs for no good reason.

[infernalman7]

I have to admit that some ISPs in Europe are shockingly bad. Thai ISPs are doing a very good job most of the time especially with respect to maintaining the gateways. (I'm not talking about the last mile dodginess which include dropped packets)