international connectivity in thailand today

[snorkster]

Is anyone else experiencing a lot of oddness with international connectivity today? I see one threat specifically about CAT 3g.

 

I have TRUE and TOT dsl lines, and also a wireless DTAC device, all three are having very similar issues. Intermittently not being able to connect anywhere, sometimes being able to connect only to specific websites such as google.com (perhaps served locally here in thailand despite .com?), DNS lookup failures, etc.

 

Happening on all my computers across all 3 internet lines.

 

Are there just gremlins in my stuff today or is there some systematic problem with thai international internet connectivity today?

 

 

TRUE is currently reporting all systems fine, but my TRUE line can not connect to the sites I need to for work, mysteriously, but lets me connect to other sites like this one.

 

O_o?

 

 

 

[MikeWill]

I am on TRUE, and am also have issues/problems with many sites today. Hopefully, it's just temporary.  

Edited August 6, 2014 by MikeWill

[fvw53]

every ISP has low download speeds from servers outside Thailand after 5 or 6 p.m.

[Jack Mountain]

TRUE sended an SMS to their customers last week to inform them that this month (august) it will be possible that the internet will be slow because of maintenance reasons ....

Edited August 6, 2014 by Jack Mountain

[MikeWill]

I did not get such SMS from TRUE.

[Jack Mountain]

It was in Thai ...

[MikeWill]

Not in Thai and not in English...

 

BTW, the  international connectivity today is much better.

[WhizBang]

Ok last night, but single digit speeds now.   I'm on True DSL.

[muratremix]

Using my singapore digitalocean vps proxy, never had problems for the last few days.

I think problem is within True's transparent proxy.

[h90]

Very bad connection to Europe just now.

VPN can't connect at all.

Email download is extreme slow. with attachments = no

 

[Chicog]

I'm getting crap connections here in the Middle East too, mainly gateway timeouts to Europe and beyond.

 

[Chicog]

Actually, looking at this, if you leave it for a while Thailand seems to be getting more than its usual share.

 

http://map.ipviking.com/

[sgtsabai]

3bb up in Udon sucks yesterday evening and today. Slower than molasses on a 0 F. degree day. I just gave up trying to download and email doesn't want to open, or takes forever. I am hard wired with wi-fi running off main desktop to other computers. Thought at first it was the new hard wire/wi-fi router that replaced the one that died. Took 3 days just to get service here and a return same day when the password wasn't entered correctly at the office. When the "technician" finally finished he put me on phone to boss that explained they were having many problems all over the area and indeed, the internet had gone down completely for a couple of hours. Hard to believe all ISP's are doing maintenance at the same time. At one point last night I got a blue screen and had to re-boot. New router? A minor inconvenience except for those that read my misspelling, the spell check for posts like this has disappeared from my computer.

[muratremix]

[url="http://testmy.net/db/lnWLmcH"][/url]

50Mb file test via Singapore vps proxy to West coast USA.

That is single connection.

 

:::.. Download Speed Test Result Details ..:::
Download Connection Speed:: 11486 Kbps or 11.5 Mbps
Download Speed Test Size:: 50 MB or 51200 kB or 52428800 bytes
Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 1436 kB/s or 1.4 MB/s
Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13
Validation:: http://testmy.net/db/lnWLmcH
TiP Measurement Summary:: Min 5.42 Mbps | Middle Avg 13.44 Mbps | Max 21.56 Mbps | 46% Variance
TiP Data Points:: 6.13 Mbps, 10.26 Mbps, 13.46 Mbps, 18.57 Mbps, 21.56 Mbps, 14.18 Mbps, 13.78 Mbps, 12.24 Mbps, 9.52 Mbps, 10.22 Mbps, 11.09 Mbps, 14.77 Mbps, 13.43 Mbps, 10.11 Mbps, 11.33 Mbps, 14.72 Mbps, 14.75 Mbps, 14.52 Mbps, 5.42 Mbps
Client Stats:: http://testmy.net/compID/1175641961995
Test Time:: 2014-08-07 14:49:44 Local Time
Client Location:: Singapore, GB GB http://testmy.net/city/singapore_gb
Target:: San Jose, CA US http://west2.testmy.net
Client Host:: United Kingdom Network Services http://testmy.net/hoststats/united_kingdom_netwo
Compare:: 7% slower than client avg, 545% faster than host avg, 545% faster than city avg, 66% faster than country avg, 83% faster than world index
1MB Download in 0.71 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~12 Minutes - 205X faster than 56K
This test of exactly 51200 kB took 36.546 seconds to complete
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 [!]

[sgtsabai]

I'm not educated enough to make sense of all of it, but I know slow when I see slow. It wasn't slow yesterday, or rather before the router went out. I do a lot of downloading and right now it is so slow it disabled all downloads. Could be the new router isn't set up correctly, could be 3bb up here, could be, could be. :::.. Download Speed Test Result Details ..::: Download Connection Speed:: 124 Kbps or 0.1 Mbps Download Speed Test Size:: 256 kB or 262144 bytes Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 16 kB/s Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13 Validation:: http://testmy.net/db/qXYKHLG Client Stats:: http://testmy.net/compID/101025540789 Test Time:: 2014-08-07 16:09:21 Local Time Client Location:: TH http://testmy.net/country/th Target:: Dallas, TX US http://dallas.testmy.net Client Host:: JasTel Network International Gateway http://testmy.net/hoststats/jastel_network_inter

[Diplomatico]

Been having problems all day today, beginning at about 03:30 a.m.  Connection goes in and out intermittently.  

[sgtsabai]

Same with the dropped connections, hard to believe all ISP's having maintenence problems at the same time.

[draftvader]

Jumping on in here.  Yep, seen this.  Today I have been trying to use my VoIP service and had been getting many complaints from my UK contacts about call quality.  I started to troubleshoot with my provider and we isolated the issue down to the international routing from Thailand.  I have run tracerts (using Axence NetTools) and I note that this particular request is being routed via Singapore where it is suffering packet loss at the SingTel nodes.  Other sites/IP in the UK are routing more directly and are working fine.  This could explain the issue of some sites working and others not.

 

My reaction to this was to switch on my VPN (simple one, tunnelbear) which is having problems connecting too.

 

As I have been typing I have just spoken with a 3BB technician (another issue requiring an engineer visit...if only to stop them reducing my service periodically I call the technician EVERY TIME it happens) who didn't have a clue what I was speaking about (I have always said that the TRUE call centre matched with the 3BB onsite engineers would be a dream ISP).  I have drowned him in tracert results, packet loss, ping rates, etc and he baulked.  The end of it was that I told him to pass a message onto their international connection team to check the routing via SingTel.

 

So, that is my discovery.  Doesn't change the issue at all.

 

3BB - Pak Kret (about 2km from Jasmine Tower!!)

 

For anybody that cares the IP address that has a 60% packet loss over 5 minutes is 203.208.172.66 - SingTel

[draftvader]

50Mb file test via Singapore vps proxy to West coast USA.

That is single connection.

 

:::.. Download Speed Test Result Details ..:::
Download Connection Speed:: 11486 Kbps or 11.5 Mbps
Download Speed Test Size:: 50 MB or 51200 kB or 52428800 bytes
Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 1436 kB/s or 1.4 MB/s
Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13
Validation:: http://testmy.net/db/lnWLmcH
TiP Measurement Summary:: Min 5.42 Mbps | Middle Avg 13.44 Mbps | Max 21.56 Mbps | 46% Variance
TiP Data Points:: 6.13 Mbps, 10.26 Mbps, 13.46 Mbps, 18.57 Mbps, 21.56 Mbps, 14.18 Mbps, 13.78 Mbps, 12.24 Mbps, 9.52 Mbps, 10.22 Mbps, 11.09 Mbps, 14.77 Mbps, 13.43 Mbps, 10.11 Mbps, 11.33 Mbps, 14.72 Mbps, 14.75 Mbps, 14.52 Mbps, 5.42 Mbps
Client Stats:: http://testmy.net/compID/1175641961995
Test Time:: 2014-08-07 14:49:44 Local Time
Client Location:: Singapore, GB GB http://testmy.net/city/singapore_gb
Target:: San Jose, CA US http://west2.testmy.net
Client Host:: United Kingdom Network Services http://testmy.net/hoststats/united_kingdom_netwo
Compare:: 7% slower than client avg, 545% faster than host avg, 545% faster than city avg, 66% faster than country avg, 83% faster than world index
1MB Download in 0.71 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~12 Minutes - 205X faster than 56K
This test of exactly 51200 kB took 36.546 seconds to complete
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 [!]

 

Where are you located in Thailand?

[likewise]

CAT was down yesterday, today all good so far, lets keep it that way shall we ?

[muratremix]

 

50Mb file test via Singapore vps proxy to West coast USA.

That is single connection.

 

:::.. Download Speed Test Result Details ..:::
Download Connection Speed:: 11486 Kbps or 11.5 Mbps
Download Speed Test Size:: 50 MB or 51200 kB or 52428800 bytes
Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 1436 kB/s or 1.4 MB/s
Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13
Validation:: http://testmy.net/db/lnWLmcH
TiP Measurement Summary:: Min 5.42 Mbps | Middle Avg 13.44 Mbps | Max 21.56 Mbps | 46% Variance
TiP Data Points:: 6.13 Mbps, 10.26 Mbps, 13.46 Mbps, 18.57 Mbps, 21.56 Mbps, 14.18 Mbps, 13.78 Mbps, 12.24 Mbps, 9.52 Mbps, 10.22 Mbps, 11.09 Mbps, 14.77 Mbps, 13.43 Mbps, 10.11 Mbps, 11.33 Mbps, 14.72 Mbps, 14.75 Mbps, 14.52 Mbps, 5.42 Mbps
Client Stats:: http://testmy.net/compID/1175641961995
Test Time:: 2014-08-07 14:49:44 Local Time
Client Location:: Singapore, GB GB http://testmy.net/city/singapore_gb
Target:: San Jose, CA US http://west2.testmy.net
Client Host:: United Kingdom Network Services http://testmy.net/hoststats/united_kingdom_netwo
Compare:: 7% slower than client avg, 545% faster than host avg, 545% faster than city avg, 66% faster than country avg, 83% faster than world index
1MB Download in 0.71 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~12 Minutes - 205X faster than 56K
This test of exactly 51200 kB took 36.546 seconds to complete
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 [!]

 

Where are you located in Thailand?

 

 

I'm in north Bangkok Metro, somewhere in Ram Inthra.

Where I live has no farang (perhaps 1 or 2), thai residential area so I'm getting better international speeds compared to people live in farang congested areas.

[muratremix]

Just made another test, against Amsterdam via Singapore vps/proxy

 

[url="http://testmy.net/db/2atCLoc"][/url]

 

:::.. Download Speed Test Result Details ..:::
Download Connection Speed:: 8681 Kbps or 8.7 Mbps
Download Speed Test Size:: 50 MB or 51200 kB or 52428800 bytes
Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 1085 kB/s or 1.1 MB/s
Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13
Validation:: http://testmy.net/db/2atCLoc
TiP Measurement Summary:: Min 3.87 Mbps | Middle Avg 10.17 Mbps | Max 19.1 Mbps | 51% Variance
TiP Data Points:: 3.87 Mbps, 8.6 Mbps, 9.96 Mbps, 10.81 Mbps, 10.95 Mbps, 11.64 Mbps, 10.18 Mbps, 9.01 Mbps, 7.83 Mbps, 9.87 Mbps, 19.1 Mbps, 10.83 Mbps, 8.32 Mbps, 9.68 Mbps, 10.51 Mbps, 8.73 Mbps, 7.53 Mbps, 9.27 Mbps, 4.94 Mbps
Client Stats:: http://testmy.net/compID/1175641961995
Test Time:: 2014-08-07 18:27:41 Local Time
Client Location:: Singapore, GB GB http://testmy.net/city/singapore_gb
Target:: Amsterdam, NL / Europe http://eu.testmy.net
Client Host:: United Kingdom Network Services http://testmy.net/hoststats/united_kingdom_netwo
Compare:: 30% slower than client avg, 374% faster than host avg, 374% faster than city avg, 9% slower than country avg, 7% faster than world index
1MB Download in 0.94 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~16 Minutes - 155X faster than 56K
This test of exactly 51200 kB took 48.353 seconds to complete
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 [!]

 

 

[muratremix]

And another one to CDN route

 

[url="http://testmy.net/db/9S6p8cu"][/url]

 

http://testmy.net/db/9S6p8cu

 

:::.. Download Speed Test Result Details ..:::
Download Connection Speed:: 12001 Kbps or 12 Mbps
Download Speed Test Size:: 25 MB or 25600 kB or 26214400 bytes
Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 1500 kB/s or 1.5 MB/s
Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13
Validation:: http://testmy.net/db/9S6p8cu
TiP Measurement Summary:: Min 3.81 Mbps | Middle Avg 19.3 Mbps | Max 32.6 Mbps | 74% Variance
TiP Data Points:: 3.81 Mbps, 6.18 Mbps, 10.97 Mbps, 20.63 Mbps, 30.25 Mbps, 15.45 Mbps, 15.2 Mbps, 32.6 Mbps, 30.2 Mbps, 24.97 Mbps, 22.93 Mbps, 21.11 Mbps, 22.42 Mbps, 24.14 Mbps, 21.72 Mbps, 10.44 Mbps, 7.32 Mbps, 11.59 Mbps, 5.89 Mbps
Client Stats:: http://testmy.net/compID/1175641961995
Test Time:: 2014-08-07 18:31:59 Local Time
Client Location:: Singapore, GB GB http://testmy.net/city/singapore_gb
Target:: Global Cloud http://cloud.testmy.net
Client Host:: United Kingdom Network Services http://testmy.net/hoststats/united_kingdom_netwo
Compare:: Comparable to   client avg, 544% faster than host avg, 544% faster than city avg, 25% faster than country avg, 41% faster than world index
1MB Download in 0.68 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~12 Minutes - 214X faster than 56K
This test of exactly 25600 kB took 17.488 seconds to complete
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 [!]

 

 

[muratremix]

I think Singapore is having bad connection to Europe via Telia and perhaps other providers. That could be reason why you were having slowdowns.

True <--> UK connection seems stable.

[draftvader]

 

 

50Mb file test via Singapore vps proxy to West coast USA.

That is single connection.

 

:::.. Download Speed Test Result Details ..:::
Download Connection Speed:: 11486 Kbps or 11.5 Mbps
Download Speed Test Size:: 50 MB or 51200 kB or 52428800 bytes
Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 1436 kB/s or 1.4 MB/s
Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13
Validation:: http://testmy.net/db/lnWLmcH
TiP Measurement Summary:: Min 5.42 Mbps | Middle Avg 13.44 Mbps | Max 21.56 Mbps | 46% Variance
TiP Data Points:: 6.13 Mbps, 10.26 Mbps, 13.46 Mbps, 18.57 Mbps, 21.56 Mbps, 14.18 Mbps, 13.78 Mbps, 12.24 Mbps, 9.52 Mbps, 10.22 Mbps, 11.09 Mbps, 14.77 Mbps, 13.43 Mbps, 10.11 Mbps, 11.33 Mbps, 14.72 Mbps, 14.75 Mbps, 14.52 Mbps, 5.42 Mbps
Client Stats:: http://testmy.net/compID/1175641961995
Test Time:: 2014-08-07 14:49:44 Local Time
Client Location:: Singapore, GB GB http://testmy.net/city/singapore_gb
Target:: San Jose, CA US http://west2.testmy.net
Client Host:: United Kingdom Network Services http://testmy.net/hoststats/united_kingdom_netwo
Compare:: 7% slower than client avg, 545% faster than host avg, 545% faster than city avg, 66% faster than country avg, 83% faster than world index
1MB Download in 0.71 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~12 Minutes - 205X faster than 56K
This test of exactly 51200 kB took 36.546 seconds to complete
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 [!]

 

Where are you located in Thailand?

 

 

I'm in north Bangkok Metro, somewhere in Ram Inthra.

Where I live has no farang (perhaps 1 or 2), thai residential area so I'm getting better international speeds compared to people live in farang congested areas.

 

 

Not too far from me.  Chaeng Wattana.  Few farang but still these issues....but you've highlighted what I found a few posts on from this so....  we wait it out!

[shariq607]

Anyone getting slowdown today? Youtube not loading and some international websites also not loading. Ping to google dns higher than normal used to be under 30 now 80-100

[draftvader]

Have you tried Axence NetTools (free) to check the routing. There does appear to have been some issues with this over the past week. Let it run a trace for 10 minutes and post results.

Sent from my ASUS_T00I using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

[sgtsabai]

My connections have been slow for a week, slow today. I had new router installed by 3bb last week, had problems with it from the git-go, possible it wasn't set up right so I will call 3bb tomorrow and not hold my breath.

[shariq607]

Have you tried Axence NetTools (free) to check the routing. There does appear to have been some issues with this over the past week. Let it run a trace for 10 minutes and post results.

Sent from my ASUS_T00I using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

Cant even open their website to download

[bartender100]

Anyone else still having problems? most sites lightening fast, but Hotmail and a few others will not load.

 

Sophon Pattaya 3am

Edited August 12, 2014 by bartender100