3bb Inter - MyTest Results

[sniffdog]

This afternoon I applied for an upgrade to my 200/50 mbs 3bb package. It's called Inter and supposedly speeds up international access. Although I have no way to check if it really helps, I did some testmy.net speedtests. Personally I am not into these results, but I know many of you, especially Pib are. These are for you:

 

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Again, I am not sure if the upgrade has been implemented yet on my account. But I tried to stream a movie (which previously had 2-4mbs speeds) and saw speeds of upto 80Mbs. I will do a check tomorrow night. If they are significantly different, I'll replace the above ones.

 

 

Edited March 21, 2017 by sniffdog

[muratremix]

Thanks for tests!

can you try europe servers too?

[muratremix]

I see you had eu tested aswell.

how about speedtest servers?

[sniffdog]

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Bonus (with PureVPN).

 

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[muratremix]

Multi threaded speedtests looks good!

[Pib]

Yea, those of good results.   But only you would know if he results are better now with the Inter package than without.  I expect you did do some tests before getting the Inter add-on, right?  

 

Maybe some others on the 3BB 200/50 "without the Inter add-on" will run and post some comparison tests.

[Pib]

sniffdog,

    As FYI, using below Testmy.net webpage will show you speed results for 3BB.  Now it don't tell you what speed plan a person is on, but many times you can figure out whether a person is on the 200Mb plan especially if he is pulling results significantly higher than an ISP next lower plan like a 50Mb plan.  Changing the All Identifiers to a specific test server location will show you result to only that location...like to Singapore only....to London only....to Los Angeles Only....etc.   And changing the number of results per page will increase the number of results shown on the chart by expanding the time period being looked at since your are looking at more test results.

 

http://testmy.net/host-history/3bb_broadband

[sniffdog]

Well even 3BB isn't sure if Inter already has been activated on my account. I still use the old password (I got a new one). One support gal yesterday told me I have to do nothing (not enter new credentials). As I saw better speeds on movie streaming from Europe, twitch.tv had a good 'source' quality (it used to buffer constantly) and download speeds were more consistent for torrents, I assumed Inter was activated. Just a moment ago I got an SMS with the new credentials (same as I got from  the counter). Called 3BB again. She could not tell if it's activated or not. Tomorrow technician will call .... Story continues.

 

Perhaps someone already uses Inter and can shine a light on this.

Edited March 22, 2017 by sniffdog

[wpcoe]

I'm curious of anybody here has subscribed to the "Inter" supplement with 3BB's VDSL service that could compare before and after speeds to overseas sites.

 

I have a 3BB ADSL 18/1.8 Mbps plan and 3BB told me that "upgrading" to their VDSL service -- even the 50/20 Mbps plan -- would be a downgrade in overseas speed.   That was before they introduced the B200 Inter supplement for VDSL, so I wonder if that now makes it worth switching to VDSL.

 

I found it difficult to believe that a 50/20 Mbps plan could have slower overseas speed but I tested a TMN FTTH 20/7 Mbps plan and the overseas speed WAS slower than my 18/1.8 Mbps ADSL, so it definitely *is* possible.

[sniffdog]

Well finally Inter was finalized. The results: Some a little higher, some lower. First impression that 'Inter' isn't much of an improvement. The 'vanilla' speeds are pretty good already, I guess. 

[Pib]

1 hour ago, sniffdog said:

Well finally Inter was finalized. The results: Some a little higher, some lower. First impression that 'Inter' isn't much of an improvement. The 'vanilla' speeds are pretty good already, I guess. 

 

It some limited speedtesting 6 months or so ago with a person on AIS PowerPro plan which supposedly provides enhanced international speed compared to my equal speed AIS PowerHome plan there was little difference in international speed between the Pro and Home plans although the Pro plan cost significantly more....but to be fair the Pro plan did come with some other features like Public IP and faster response when repair support is needed.

 

With these deals/plans which supposedly offer high international speed over a regular plan about all a person can do is take the ISP's word for it unless you can find some one in your same area with the enhanced package to do some comparison testing "at the same time" over several days.  Even my testing with the other guy, he was in another part of Bangkok probably at least 10Kms away where our local AIS circuits were not the same....the only thing that was the same was the AIS backbone....and even our test were at least an hour apart if I remember right.

 

Since international speed/bandwidth changes so much during any 24 hour period it can be hard to validate an ISPs claim their "international" package/add-on truly does give significantly better international speed.

 

Edited March 23, 2017 by Pib

[sniffdog]

Correct, Pib. I will take my ISP's word for it and spend an additional 200 baht per month.

[sniffdog]

After two days using Inter I discovered that the usual throttling of torrent traffic during the evening hours (sometimes as low as 600KBs) is virtually non existing on Inter vs Regular. If this holds true for now and in the future, the 200 baht is more than worth it.

 

It seems that 3bb has started to throttle Steam traffic. But with a SIN VPN ... full speed again.

[muratremix]

32 minutes ago, sniffdog said:

After two days using Inter I discovered that the usual throttling of torrent traffic during the evening hours (sometimes as low as 600KBs) is virtually non existing on Inter vs Regular. If this holds true for now and in the future, the 200 baht is more than worth it.

 

It seems that 3bb has started to throttle Steam traffic. But with a SIN VPN ... full speed again.

Steam speed is not reliable. They use thailand servers which could be saturated due to everybody in Thailand downloading from same server.

[sniffdog]

You actually can change servers in Steam settings which I did .... I tried about 10 servers ranging from Singapore to West Africa ... all same result ... starts fast (25MBs) then quickly goes down to 200Kbs, after a while go to 10Mbs, then slow down. A week ago all around high speeds.