Speedtest from Thailand to California

[mac90]

Hi!

Could someone located in Thailand (preferrably Phuket) with ADSL broadband connection post a speedtest against a server in California?

It would be really helpful!

[longball53098]

I have a TOT Fiber to Home connection.

[CFC]

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Edited December 10, 2014 by CFC

[CFC]

[fvw53]

^{Test done with OOKLA at 12 noon BKK time with servers in Silicon Valley}

^{I am shocked as to a Thailand based server I get directly 30 Mpbs download speed but to California at this moment (there peak hour?) I get max 5 Mbps download speed}

[CFC]

Should have added my test was from Phuket.

[GinBoy2]

Two tests done a few minutes apart, both to Sonic in San Jose. One 3BB, one on my TOT connection. Both are 16/1 within Thailand. Not Phuket I'm afraid, both from deepest darkest Isaan. In my opinion, when it comes to international speeds it doesn't matter where you are in Thailand.

[Pib]

Speedtest.net result from Bangkok to San Jose..at around 6:10pm today. I'm on a True DOCSIS (cable) 15Mb/1.5Mb plan. I ran the test around a half dozen times and got results in the 18-22Mb download speed range...do I believe them? No, because Speedtest.net is easily fooled by local cache servers for download speed and sometimes ping time. Plus, True DOCSIS implements "bursting" which lasts around 30 to 60 seconds which is longer than the time needed to complete most speed tests and which roughly doubles "local/in-Thailand" download speed to 30Mb on my 15Mb plan. Bursting is great stuff for surfing but it really don't help for single-stream flow like video streaming. Anyway, below is my result. Take Speedtest.net results with a BIG, BIG grain of salt.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/3973876023.png

Edited December 10, 2014 by Pib

[KhunBENQ]

I am shocked as to a Thailand based server I get directly 30 Mpbs download speed but to California at this moment (there peak hour?) I get max 5 Mbps download spee

You are shocked?

Welcome to real life

[Pib]

I am shocked as to a Thailand based server I get directly 30 Mpbs download speed but to California at this moment (there peak hour?) I get max 5 Mbps download spee

You are shocked?

Welcome to real life

Yeap, it's called international speed throttling by the Thai ISP...preaching to the choir I know. Plenty of international bandwidth but bandwidth cost money and Thai ISPs just don't buy enough...then again why should they buy more international bandwidth as the great, great majority of their customers are Thais accessing in-Thailand websites plus the ISPs love Flash/Ookla-based speedtesters like Speedtest.net which are easily fooled by local cache servers and frequently give "simply outstanding download speeds and even faster-than-light ping times" many times which makes customers think they are getting great international speeds...then those same customers wonder why they can't get a simple YouTube video to play without pausing which only needs a few Mb of download speed.

[longball53098]

Pib, if Speedtest is not giving true results what speed test will? What is a cache server?

[hml367]

Reliable so far http://testmy.net/

[IMHO]

For those whose international speeds are more than about 20% slower than domestic, check your MTU settings and try lowering them.

[Pib]

Pib, if Speedtest is not giving true results what speed test will? What is a cache server?

It not that they are always totally incorrect, it's just they can be and a person also needs to understand the difference between single-streaming/threading like typically used in video streaming and multi-streaming/threading like used in torrent programs, download managers, etc. And of course "consistent, steady" flow of data which is critical to video streaming

A cache server maintains local content of another website...that other website could be on the other side of Earth. Cache servers are a good thing to speed delivery of internet content (i.e., downloading it from the nearby cache server vs the actual server which is located someone else on Earth). But when doing a speedtest you actually need to be running that test against that sever which could be far off in Farang Land vs the info being mistakenly pulled from a cache server.

testmy.net as recommend hml367 is a good speedtester not fooled by cache servers...you probably won't be happy with the real world results it gives you. And this page at testmy.net will give some more insight on the problem with many flash/ookla based speedtesters like speedtest.net for especially for "international" testing....it's fine to test you local, basic connection to see if you are getting the domestic speed you are paying for but for international speedtesting many flash/ookla based speedtesters can be easily fooled....I guess that's why the ISP speedtesters like True, TOT's, etc., use flash/ookla based testers.

[KhunBENQ]

For those who really want to go into details about their internet connection:

http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/

ICSI Netalalyzer from Berkeley University.

(Unfortunately) it runs as a Java Application, so you have to give "permission to run".

"Serious stuff", no nonsense numbers, it creates a very detailed report of the findings, the upload/download and ping are just marginalia.

Even if you don't understand all content of the report (as I) it still gives important hints for troubleshooting,

(bet you will have "yellow" and maybe "red" warnings)

It would also uncover vulnarabilities of your router.

check your MTU settings and try lowering them

Exactly this is one of the trouble areas that is found during the test (at my site).

The reports are stored on their server and can be inspected/compared by you or others.

An older report that I have run (Jan 1, 2014):

http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/restore/id=36ea240d-25879-d2088478-7879-48c1-948f/rd

Upload: 430 kBit/s, download 4.7 Mbit/s.

Poor! (although this was with my previous 7 Mbit/s ADSL).

Just repeated the test today.

Better results for up/down today:

Upload 1.6 MBit/s, Download 7.2 MBit/s

Theoretically my ToT FTTx should deliver 2 Mbit/s, 20 MBit/s (it does for Thai websites).

No more MTU problem reported today, but I still havent fixed my router

Always present: "hidden proxy" (Port: 25 , Response Time: 18 ms).

Guess it has to do with the censorship infrastructure?

Overall only two "yellow cards" remain (besides the "red" router vulnarability):

We detected at least one proxy
Network packet buffering may be excessive

Much improved in the last two years.

Edited December 11, 2014 by KhunBENQ

[mac90]

Thanks for replying everyone!