Highspeed = Lowspeed?

[Ramonkos]

As we can read in this forum, people who pay for highspeed internet, get a throttled connection when using fallang websites.

Someone has paid for a 100 MB connection, but actually receives only 1 MB. This guy might be a bit unlucky too.

I`d like to know where`s the border of speed that can be reached for fallang websites in order not to pay too much for nothing. Nothing would make me more angry than signing up for a 20 MB contact and get the same out of it as a 10 MB contract which is cheaper...

And I don`t need any downloadlimits per hour. Any company suggestions?

[Pib]

When I downgraded from a 20Mb cable internet plan to a 15Mb cable plan I noticed no difference in international speed, except maybe a little slower to Singapore but not much.

Sent from my Samsung S4

[Ramonkos]

There`re two provider at the moment that have following offer:

3bb 10 Mbps for 590 = 7080 / year

3bb 13 Mbps for 900 = 10800 / year

TOT Hi-speed 13 Mbps for 690 = 8280 / year

1. Which offer is worth it?

2. Should I try lower speed first and if necessary upgrade? So I can find out whether it suits my needs...

3. Do these companies provide all devices someone needs except wifi router or do you have to pay some more money for any device/modem?

I don`t mind to pay more, but I just want to get what I`m paying for.

Edited May 28, 2014 by Ramonkos

[Ramonkos]

any ideas?

[RichCor]

There are many factors involved in obtaining decent high speed through the various International Internet Gateways (IIG).

Your location

Local user Contention Ratio (the number of same-ISP active subscribers in your area)

Time of day

Community Gateway routing

IIG Contention ratio (the number of ISP active users attempting to use the same International Gateway)

Type of traffic vs Traffic shaping (Single, Multi-thread; QOS, VLAN, VPN, etc)

Connection Destination (there are different IIGs to different countries)

Domain Name Server utilized (contention, congestion, failed resolves)

etc, etc.

If you read the threads, the people who live in a foreign-national dense area have the greatest complaints while those living on the outskirts away from always-connected young adults report fewer throughput issues.

You'll also read that 3BB, ADC, CAT, CSL, TOT, True, TT&T, etc, etc, is the best/worst.

You need to poll users local to your area.

[HooHaa]

i pay for a 30 mbps connection and im currently torrenting at 37.4 mbps.

its all in how you use the connection

[HooHaa]

There are many factors involved in obtaining decent high speed through the various International Internet Gateways (IIG).

Your location

Local user Contention Ratio (the number of same-ISP active subscribers in your area)

Time of day

Community Gateway routing

IIG Contention ratio (the number of ISP active users attempting to use the same International Gateway)

Type of traffic vs Traffic shaping (Single, Multi-thread; QOS, VLAN, VPN, etc)

Connection Destination (there are different IIGs to different countries)

Domain Name Server utilized (contention, congestion, failed resolves)

etc, etc.

If you read the threads, the people who live in a foreign-national dense area have the greatest complaints while those living on the outskirts away from always-connected young adults report fewer throughput issues.

You'll also read that 3BB, ADC, CAT, CSL, TOT, True, TT&T, etc, etc, is the best/worst.

You need to poll users local to your area.

nonsense i live in a very "foreign national dense area" and my connection speeds seem to grow annually. I have a house on the outskirts and coverage is poor.

its all about infrastructure.

[Pib]

Probably just a case of more farangs the more likelihood of complaints appearing on farang blogs like ThaiVisa; less farangs, less chance of seeing complaints. Plus, since many farangs seem to live in high-rise condo buildings, the bandwidth being shared within those buildings and building wiring problems create a lot of problems thereby generating complaints.

Now I live in the suburbs of Bangkok/western Bangkok in a single family house and my bandwidth is fine. It all boils down to Location, Location, Location not to imply a house in western Bangkok gets better bandwidth as I'm sure there are plenty of folks in my part of Bangkok where there a very few highrises whose internet connection sucks. In fact, my internet connection did suck on TOT which had total internet service rights to my moobaan until True put in cable TV/internet and I switched to True....when switching to True cable my internet problems pretty much went away. And when you have ISPs controlling certain areas/buildings, a person living in one building which is say serviced by True may have good internet, the the building across the soi serviced only by TOT may have bad internet (or vice versa on the True and TOT part). Luck of the draw....location, location, location.

[RichCor]

There are many factors involved in obtaining decent high speed through the various International Internet Gateways (IIG).

Your location

Local user Contention Ratio (the number of same-ISP active subscribers in your area)

Time of day

Community Gateway routing

IIG Contention ratio (the number of ISP active users attempting to use the same International Gateway)

Type of traffic vs Traffic shaping (Single, Multi-thread; QOS, VLAN, VPN, etc)

Connection Destination (there are different IIGs to different countries)

Domain Name Server utilized (contention, congestion, failed resolves)

etc, etc.

If you read the threads, the people who live in a foreign-national dense area have the greatest complaints while those living on the outskirts away from always-connected young adults report fewer throughput issues.

You'll also read that 3BB, ADC, CAT, CSL, TOT, True, TT&T, etc, etc, is the best/worst.

You need to poll users local to your area.

nonsense i live in a very "foreign national dense area" and my connection speeds seem to grow annually. I have a house on the outskirts and coverage is poor.

its all about infrastructure.

What is nonsense? My stating who has the greatest complaints, or the statement of the people complaining?

Yes, infrastructure is very important. While the OP is asking if there is a sweet-spot on the amount spent and the International Internet speeds received, I don't believe this can be applied across the whole of Thailand for any given ISP. Not all local infrastructures are the same.

I recently switched from aDSL to a newly deployed FTTx. I get great local and international speeds, but as more and more locals are converted to the same FTTx the local infrastructure will be swamped and I won't be so special anymore.

So, infrastructure and the contention/congestion on that infrastructure.