Maxnet

[Boatabike]

As the title suggests is maxnet back to what i hear are its old tricks with capping traffic outside Thailand?

I am on the 512/256 home. I have been checking bandwidth on 5 sites in the US, 2 sites in the UK 1 in denmark and another from Russia over the last week or 2, all of them are saying exactly, or there abouts, the same thing 30kb- 80kb. (evening use, morning i may even get 150Kb) Right now i just did a test from Thaivisa bandwidth test and i have a staggeringly huge 86kb. I have been talking to tech support on the phone yesterday and they tell me its a fault in my line ha ha this is after i had to explaining that 20kb is not the same thing as 200Kb (that took 35 mins to get across) i think she got it as she was getting the same bad speed report from DSL reports on her screen, but she could surf with no problem on Thai sites! I checked out a few Thai based web sites and wow it was fast so i can only assume that they are now capping all traffic outside of Thailand, or so it seems in my area of Kanchanaburi. Prey tell me, if i can get good readings from Thai broadband tests, and get fast surfing from Thai websites but anything foreign is slow or unusable does this mean i have a fault in my line or that they are doing that, lets lie cap the ba****d and hope he keeps paying us good money for crap service?

This is crazy, i have a worse connection that a 56k modem and this is now everyday.

[gharknes]

As the title suggests is maxnet back to what i hear are its old tricks with capping traffic outside Thailand?

I am on the 512/256 home. I have been checking bandwidth on 5 sites in the US, 2 sites in the UK 1 in denmark and another from Russia over the last week or 2, all of them are saying exactly, or there abouts, the same thing 30kb- 80kb. (evening use, morning i may even get 150Kb) Right now i just did a test from Thaivisa bandwidth test and i have a staggeringly huge 86kb. I have been talking to tech support on the phone yesterday and they tell me its a fault in my line ha ha this is after i had to explaining that 20kb is not the same thing as 200Kb (that took 35 mins to get across) i think she got it as she was getting the same bad speed report from DSL reports on her screen, but she could surf with no problem on Thai sites! I checked out a few Thai based web sites and wow it was fast so i can only assume that they are now capping all traffic outside of Thailand, or so it seems in my area of Kanchanaburi. Prey tell me, if i can get good readings from Thai broadband tests, and get fast surfing from Thai websites but anything foreign is slow or unusable does this mean i have a fault in my line or that they are doing that, lets lie cap the ba****d and hope he keeps paying us good money for crap service?

This is crazy, i have a worse connection that a 56k modem and this is now everyday.

many people on maxnet are having the same problem including me, i called them yesterday and today, eventually i was told there was an issue/fault with their network, i asked when it would be fixed ............ Monday. I'm not that confident, I was down to 34kps at one point today, I told the girl i may as well not have DSL, if everyone with maxnet decided not to pay until it was fixed we might see a different response

[Boatabike]

Thanks for this response i did speak to an engineer about 7 weeks ago who gave what i felt was the only honest answer i have ever had from maxnet and he said they just dont have the band width & that they were talking about getting new equipment from China, this sounded straight to me.

I was also supplying my local TT&T office with data from bandwidth check sites over the period of April, May and june readings taken 4/5 times a day. April was down to 48% over the month on download speeds, May a little less less and june has been the joke. TT&T phoned the maxnet head office for me several times and i even spoke to someone high up, when i asked him when the new equipment from China was to be installed he hmm'd and haaa'd and said "how i know about that"? Then told me they had found a way around it and didnt need to get new equipment after all. So read into that what you will but i would strongly advice all maxnet users to look for new isp as i am going back to my previous one or a new one enough is enough, with the constant lies i have been fed i cannot trust this isp to ever give me what they say.

[meadish_sweetball]

I have had a similar ride with TT&T in Chiang Mai. Sadly, it seems other ISPs are more or less the same. They operate with too little bandwidth to provide the services they advertise. Of course there are degrees in hel_l, so it may be worth switching.