Thailand's internet back to full speed - Asia-America Gateway (AAG) submarine cable fixed

[george]

Thailand's internet back to full speed

KUALA LUMPUR: -- Internet connectivity speed in Thailand and Malaysia seems to have been restored to normal today after about two weeks of patchy service.

The fault was due to problems detected on the Asia-America Gateway (AAG) submarine cable system at a segment near the Philippines linking Thailand and Malaysia to the US and North Asia, Telekom Malaysia Bhd ™ had announced.

“This information was relayed to us by the consortium that manages and maintains the Asia-America Gateway submarine cable system (in which TM is a part of).”

While the problem had initially been scheduled to have been fixed earlier, TM had announced on Monday that the completion date had been postponed to today “due to challenging sea conditions and additional repairs required”.

Delay due to sea conditions

TM had earlier said: “Works to restore the AAG cable system involves the concerted efforts of all consortium members, and is expected to begin on Saturday, Jan 31.

“In ideal conditions, the restoration work is expected to be completed on Saturday, Feb 7, subject to sea conditions, the identification of the actual location of the fault and the challenges presented working at great sea depths and pressure.

“During this period, Internet users may experience intermittent slow browsing and high latency while accessing international websites mainly hosted in the US, North Asia and Europe.”

TM had also said it had taken “proactive steps to optimise our network to reduce congestion by diverting traffic to alternative routes, thus, minimising the impact to our users”.

Source: therakyatpost.com

[wxpwzrd]

LOL "Full speed"

[tonytigerbkk]

So we are back to 1mb per hour.

[siampolee]

'Pon me soul sirs, get this new fangled internet thing working properly, it needs bigger cocoa tins, stronger and longer string too.

Man can't watch good English cultural programmes in peace nowadays like Coronation Street and East Enders with all the confounded breaks in the streaming speed,.

I shall have to write to ''The Times' and make my feelings known.

http://hourglassera.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/britannia.jpg?w=720&h=973

[Rod Wallop]

Mine has been patchy for several months

[tonytigerbkk]

Mine has been patchy for several months

Mine has been patchy for 17 years.

[AlQaholic]

does anyone have any idea why the cable is damaged so often just off Vietnam (although not this time but most of the times)? I tried to google for it but found very little info.

Seems to me if a cable is damaged at roughly the same locations over and over someone would take a closer look at what the root cause is?

[muffy]

Fishermen .

[casualbiker]

North Vietnam hacking into the internet ..literally :-D

[Jiggo]

Two speed Internet in LOS, Slow and Super Slow........and of course no choise of service providers.....

[casualbiker]

Two speed Internet in LOS, Slow and Super Slow........and of course no choise of service providers.....

Really! Mine is fast enough. 1.5 g torrent download in about 12- 13 minutes. Admittedly sometimes that can be double the time during busy periods. But for £14 a month (700b) I'm generally happy.

[CajunCruiser]

79 Mb in just over 3 hours here, haven't had a decent Skype connection in the 2 weeks I've been in BKK. Is this normal?

[sgtsabai]

I've had a "popping" sound, loss of connection, slower than the usual slow speed, and SKYPE is unusable. I thought and probably is the problem, the "popping" started after the computer took a bit of a hit during an electrical outage. All of the above still in effect. Maybe NSA....lol.

[SamuiAxe]

Being on Samui and having a download speed of 23.54Mbps and an upload of 3.04Mbps I'm quite happy. CAT isn't that bad... Though I pay a bit more than 700 or 800 THB, 1600 THB per month, for me it's worth it..

[bob009]

I had a real shit connection with 3BB up and down all the time. I was about to get my wife to call their service number as the shop don't want to get involved. It's call this number. Anywhy 2 guys from 3 BB called at the house before my wife had even called them. They had come to check to see if my internet was okay, something they werte doing around the village. After explaining the problem they got to work checking my modem. After about 30 mins they told me that there was a problem with my modem. I had only had it around 18 months. They connected one of their modnew box with ems and said to try it and they would call back in 2-3 days.For the next 3 days it was great no problems at all TV box never stopped once ans fast internet. They returned and asked me what I wanted one of their boxes or to buy a new one, I opted for the top of the range box with a printer port. It is working Great. And at the same time I got the guys to set me up a wireless extender. Very happy with the service.Told my wife to get the 2 guys personal phone number in case of problems.Nice tip works wonders, they were more than happy, just like me.!!!!!!!

[elgordo38]

Mine has been patchy for several months

Me to. I get so much of this sorry this is unavailable right now crap

[elgordo38]

does anyone have any idea why the cable is damaged so often just off Vietnam (although not this time but most of the times)? I tried to google for it but found very little info.

Seems to me if a cable is damaged at roughly the same locations over and over someone would take a closer look at what the root cause i

Chinese submarines looking for oil.

[billd766]

Two speed Internet in LOS, Slow and Super Slow........and of course no choise of service providers.....

Really! Mine is fast enough. 1.5 g torrent download in about 12- 13 minutes. Admittedly sometimes that can be double the time during busy periods. But for £14 a month (700b) I'm generally happy.

It all depends on where you live, how you are physically connected (adsl, fibre, WiNet, satellite etc) and who your provider is (AIS, DTAC, True, TOT, CAT, 3BB) and if of course you have the luxury of a choice.

[BlackJack]

3bb kept blaming my router

i had 6 of them and all tested

plus their own HUAWEI router

so I ended up buying one of the 3bb ones they insisted would work

so 750 baht later same ol same ol

I wish someone had of told Thailand and all ISP's that it was the AAG

[maidee]

you can read it as : CIA had to put some of there devices so they could listen to all internet communication, just an upgrade

[casualbiker]

Two speed Internet in LOS, Slow and Super Slow........and of course no choise of service providers.....

Really! Mine is fast enough. 1.5 g torrent download in about 12- 13 minutes. Admittedly sometimes that can be double the time during busy periods. But for £14 a month (700b) I'm generally happy.

It all depends on where you live, how you are physically connected (adsl, fibre, WiNet, satellite etc) and who your provider is (AIS, DTAC, True, TOT, CAT) and if of course you have the luxury of a choice.

That's very true .. 3BB. Nakhon Pathom (about 30km from Bkk centre) Medium sized moo baan approx 350 houses. Presume ADSL as it has thin green cable coming into house.

[wpcoe]

Oh, the irony. As of the time I'm writing this post it has been more than 18 minutes since this page started to load. In addition to the thaivisa.com domain which I believe might be hosted on SE Asia servers, data from the following sites is also s-l-o-w-l-y downloaded, probably many of which are over that "back to full speed" underwater cable:

bcp.crwdcntrl.net
ab.expatgroup.com
googlesyndication.com
doubleclick.net
trc.taboola.com
facebook.com
youtube.com
us-u.openx.net
mycdn.media.net
a.rfihub.com
googleusercontent.com
i2.wp.com
s0.2mdn.net
apis.google.com
accounts.google.com
static.ak.facebook.com
ssl.gstatic.com
s7.addthis.com
a.akamaihd.net
c1.rfihub.net
p.rfihub.net
s0.2mdn.net
c1.rfihub.net
adosx.com
addthis.com

[Doc46]

Two speed Internet in LOS, Slow and Super Slow........and of course no choise of service providers.....

Really! Mine is fast enough. 1.5 g torrent download in about 12- 13 minutes. Admittedly sometimes that can be double the time during busy periods. But for £14 a month (700b) I'm generally happy.

Got Ultra High Speed updated from 15 G to 30 G for Gaming,,,,,still same , click and wait , wait and wait

[casualbiker]

Two speed Internet in LOS, Slow and Super Slow........and of course no choise of service providers.....

Really! Mine is fast enough. 1.5 g torrent download in about 12- 13 minutes. Admittedly sometimes that can be double the time during busy periods. But for £14 a month (700b) I'm generally happy.

Got Ultra High Speed updated from 15 G to 30 G for Gaming,,,,,still same , click and wait , wait and wait

That's your problem .. you updated :-D

[aboctok]

North Vietnam hacking into the internet ..literally :-D

There's a North Vietnam again? Woo-hoo!

[casualbiker]

North Vietnam hacking into the internet ..literally :-D

There's a North Vietnam again? Woo-hoo!

It was reintroduced so that current US students understood the Vietnam Veterans badges!!

[Langsuan Man]

For those who are inclined here is a diagram of the undersea cable that they are talking about, but I don't see where Vietnam is even involved with Thai connections

source:

http://submarine-cable-map-2014.telegeography.com/