Here’s how broadband speeds in Thailand rank against the rest of the world

[webfact]

Here’s how broadband speeds in Thailand rank against the rest of the world

BY JONATHAN FAIRFIELD

 

 

Broadband speeds in Thailand are better than many of its ASEAN neighbours, according to a new study.

 

With a mean download speed of 16.85Mbps, Thailand has the second fastest internet speeds of all the ASEAN member states, behind only Singapore, which topped the study.

 

The study also found that broadband speeds in Thailand are faster than in the United Kingdom, France, Australia, New Zealand, Israel and China.

 

The study was carried out by M-Lab and ranked by Cable.co.uk, which took more than 63 million broadband speed tests.

 

The study found that Singapore has the fastest internet, as is often the case with these type of studies, with internet users there are able to enjoy a mean download speed of 55.13Mbps.

 

Sweden and Taiwan were in 2nd and 3rd spot with speeds of 40.16 and 34.4Mbps, respectively.

 

Thailand was ranked 29th out of 189, ahead of New Zealand in 30th, the UK in 31st and Australia in 55th.

 

Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/broadband-speeds-thailand/23480/

[canopus1969]

Korea not in Asia ?

[maxpower]

46 minutes ago, canopus1969 said:

Korea not in Asia ?

Ignore these click bait tests from ISP comparison sites.

[Stocky]

Ummmmm!

 

Sure my TOT Fibre connection will happily get 50/20 all day long locally, but international connections are far more variable, particularly recently; up and down like a whore's drawers. I'll take the survey results with a bag of salt.

[muratremix]

On 09.08.2017 at 2:40 PM, canopus1969 said:

Korea not in Asia ?

Not in ASEAN zone. I guess thats clear?

 

I've been living in Bangkok since 2011, then moved back to my country in 2016, now I'll probably move back to Thailand again. Anyway, I've been witnessed the increase of bandwidth and internet package speed over the last few years.

 

Internet in Thailand become faster compared to a few years ago. Now you can get high upload speed packages via fiber/docsis or vdsl, which is great.

 

3bb is constantly upgrading download + upload speeds to piss off other ISPs which is crazy :)

[Pib]

Yea, Korea is not part of 10 nation ASEAN nations in this part of  southern Asia.   Most of the rankings are based on "domestic speed tests"....like testing from you Bangkok home to a Bangkok server.....testing from your London home to a London sever, basically testing within country, etc.  

 

I can easily believe Thailand's high ranking, because over the last half dozen or years Thailand internet speeds as a whole have indeed increased greatly with the expansion of VDSL, DOCSIS/cable, and fiber optics plans.   The days of slow ADSL plans (20Mb and lower)  is fading quickly although there are still plenty of ADSL plans available and parts of Thailand with only ADSL access or even not internet access unless using Wifi/mobile data.

 

When I arrived my Bangkok home around 9  years ago my only choice and fastest internet available to me was a TOT 2Mb ADSL plan.....around 5 years later True put in DOCSIS/cable internet to where I could get a 100Mb plan if desired (but bit bucks....now they have up to  a 1000Mb plan), and last year AIS Fibre internet plans come to my moobaan with fiber optics plans up to 1000Mb with TV.  I'm currently on an AIS Fibre 100Mb plan....a plan that does not cost that much more than that old & slow 2Mb ADSL plan  years ago and is 50 times faster....and a bunch more reliable.

 

Yeap, been BIG domestic  internet speed improvements in Thailand over recent years.  Now the international speed is not what I would like because I don't think Thai ISPs buy enough international bandwidth plus they can't control the distance and number of servers your internet bits have to go to reach that far-off website in farangland.

 

And Singapore's number one ASEAN internet speed ranking, heck, I can easily understand that because Singapore is just a little city-state only half the size of Bangkok in terms of square kilometers....easily to string a bunch of "fiber optics" all over little Singapore to get fast speed;  not quite as easy for a much larger country such as Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, etc. 

[Turkleton]

On 10.8.2017 at 11:09 AM, Stocky said:

Ummmmm!

 

Sure my TOT Fibre connection will happily get 50/20 all day long locally, but international connections are far more variable, particularly recently; up and down like a whore's drawers. I'll take the survey results with a bag of salt.

Yepp, same line 50/20 and noticed that too in the past few days/weeks.

It also seemed to me, that TOT (like they did before), has throttled the speed for a single connection to something like 2Mbit/s, especially afternoon or evening.

[al007]

I have TOT fibre optic 50/20, and the speed internationally stinks

 

I am only able to get TOT because of my location and six yrs ago paid for 3kms line to our property

 

I have in the last couple of weeks again had meetings with TOT technical and they openly admit internationally there service is awful

 

They suggested CAT to me but that again due to location is not possible

 

TOT tell me their merger with CAT is due to take place on Nov 2 and at that stage they will use CAT international routes and speed will increase substantially, they also openly admit yes they do throttle especially between 2pm and 10pm

 

 

[Turkleton]

The last two days, its impossible to watch streams in the evening, even with a very low bitrate.

Its only usable at day or nighttime.

Reminds me of the "good old times" 4-5 years ago, when the Internet was barely usable between afternoon and midnight.

Sucks..

Edit: This is verfickt noch mal (sorry had to use the german words, because of censoring) ridiculous. Speedtest to Frankfurt/Germany

Edited August 23, 2017 by Turkleton

[Stocky]

My connection is behaving itself again, been pretty consistent this last week. Combined DSL, TestMy and Speedtest results, local and International for this lunchtime below.

 

[Turkleton]

Yes, in the daytime and nighttime my speeds are also ok.

But now, 18:00 from one minute to another, my Live-TV, which worked all the day with 5Mbit/s (only for testing), starts stuttering even with a 1Mbit/s stream.

Youtube is not affected, I think they use local CDN servers in TH.

I will do some additional speed-tests in the early morning.

Edited August 24, 2017 by Turkleton

[al007]

You people make me feel better I am also so frustrated by these lousy speeds, fifteen years ago on my boat a moving platform in the sea I could do better with inmarsat, in the USA 10 yrs ago could get internet via the sat dish

 

Then all the companies are putting in more and more fibreoptic lines surely we should be moving to fastish like 50 mg wireless internet

 

 

[whiteman]

my ping is always 5  and my download is 35.7  and up load is 5.10 is that good?