Maxnet

[ohpont]

I am customer at Maxnet 1024/511 at baht 1000.-- per month, called Maxnet

for Home from TT & T

when I subscribed, I knew about some P2P limitations but it has never been

a mention about NNTP, it work well for about

4 months and then the company decide to unilaterally amend our contract,

without any word of information, and put a cap on download speed

for news, quite a chock to get less than 50% suddenly for the same price,

strange practise for the less!

So I send them a few questions

1. Could you tell me what hours is good to use P2P or do you always

slower it and what programs do you recommend?

2. Do you also limit bandwidth for NNTP? (newsreader)

3. What servers do you recommend for binary newsgroup services?

And here are they answer 9 days after:

Dir Sir/Madam,

Thank you for choosing Maxnet as your broadband connection.

We would like to inform you that

Maxnet Indy/Home is designed as budgetary package for beginner and is best

for Thai surf, there will be high sharing ratio for international bandwidth;

download speed will be subjected to number of concurrent users at each

particular time. For those who are heavy user of international web

sites/bandwidth, we recommend to use Package Premier or higher.

Referring to your inquiry,

1. For international P2P will be subjected to concurrent users.

2. There is no limitation for NNTP, except high sharing ratio of

international sites for Package Indy/Home, for domestic sites there should

be no problem

3. Same as above.

Best regards,

TT&T Subscriber Services Co., Ltd.

Well, now, we know you better.

For the better or for the worse.

THANK YOU, MAXNET

oh

Any recommendations on NNTPS or P2P? for hum..International?

Thanks

[JustAnotherFarang]

change to TOT if you can, more bandwidth as they TT&T only rent a limited amount of space from TOT. Too many customers and not enough bandwidth means they are always stealing from Peter to give some to Paul so to speak..........

JAF

[monty]

Not sure where the notion comes that TT&T has to rent bandwidth from TOT!

Pretty much all ISP's have to rent international bandwidth from the CAT IIG, including TT&T.

TOT do have the only IIG next to CAT, but they only provide access to their own ISP arm!

TOT's ISP currently has 450M international through CAT and a 2Gig to their own IIG although their own IIG only has 620M access to the outside world...

http://iir.ngi.nectec.or.th/internet/map/2...201-800x600.gif

Simply put, due to the de-facto monopoly on international bandwidth of CAT, which charges a whopping 24000 Baht/month for 1024kbps access to the ISP's, a speedy home package for 1000 Baht/month will not exist anytime soon!

Simple calculation, any ISP needs to receive at leat 40000 BAht/month for every 1024kbps they sell to customers (24000 goes to CAt, 16000 to cover their own overhead and try to make some profit as well).

So there you are, you are sharing your 1024kbps homepackage with 40 people or more...

Unfortunately the 620mbps TOT gateway is not going to make much of a dent in CAT's 8Gbps capacity...

I do see several ISP's having their own international links, but they seem more like slow back-ups...

[hereforgood]

Well don't know what is rented from who but I am very happy with the 512/256 4Home package I have from TTT been about 1 1/2 years I have had it and VERY little problems have been had for 790 Baht I am quite happy