Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 8:14 am Post subject: True Broadband
Signed up for Thailand's True high-speed internet access the other day. Am expecting a better surfing experience. Anyone else here using that? _________________ Asia Expats Forum Expat Friends Dating
make sure you get the correct package. I would go for the 1150 baht package. For thai web only 590 is enough. The bandwidth numbers are not really an indication of what you will get. Good luck.
Well I finally got the true up and running and am not overly thrilled.
Keep losing the connection and sometime have to reboot my pc to get it working again.
The speed is just barely better than 50K dialup-althought I have not tested any big downloads yet.
Jack my rating up to B- Downloaded a 8mb file in less than 2 minutes. Connection seems more stable as well _________________ Asia Expats Forum Expat Friends Dating
The internet connection sharing works but it is considerably slower on the machine accessing the share. We have a 10MB lan co9nnection between pc's.
Can't figure out why it would be much slower. _________________ Asia Expats Forum Expat Friends Dating
Get an Billion ADSL Router, they work fine and if you need info on the config I can give you the details for VCI/VPI. About the Network Share, make sure that the MTU is set to 1492 on all involved Equipment. There are good tools to change the MTU on windows machines, for all others, you will have to see where in the config it can be done.
About the speed with True, we are upgrading our International Link, it was 320 Mbit when we started the promotions, it is now 759 Mbit and will be 1 Gbit before the end of the year. Now, the most sense makes a package with 2,5 Mbit as that is about what you will be able to get in most Bangkok Areas (it has something to do with the lines involved). In some areas that are connected to the newer exchanges, 4 Mbit works fine too. But keep in mind, that is the speed from you PC into the TRUE network, not to the final destination. Since so many Webservers are hosted on 2 Mbit leased lines, how can a provider guarantee 4 Mbit to them? Now, since in Thailand, CAT has the monopoly for international calls and traffic, we are depending on them a lot for the international links, more then 95% of uour international capacity goes over CAT. Providers are only allowed direct links for backup reasons (which are needed often theses days as CAT is having serious problems with some of their Catalyst Routers). Inisde Thailand we use our own infrastrucutre and there the speed is much better of course. It is also the way CAT routes the traffic. Check out some routes to websites that are slow for you, you start to think that they are idiots at CAT.
Recently we had problems with our Authentication servers (because of the huge amoung of new subscribers) but they should be solved now.
Any problems, you can PM me and I will try to solve them for you.
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:30 am Post subject: Re: wifi
Lius wrote:
get a wireless adsl router and get the adapters for all the computers that you want connected to the Internet
I could never figure out what I need to go wireless at home. I have 2 pc's. What equipment do I need?? 1 wireless router and 1 Wireless lan adapter--or do i need 2 wireless lan adapters? _________________ Asia Expats Forum Expat Friends Dating
I have only 1 phone line and can't get another so adsl is out for me, and I am not sure it would be much better anyway.
I use CAT. LOXINFO and INET and none are stable connections,,seems like Thai ISPs cannot stay hooked to the web and the connection keeps going off and on.
I also try to use phone dialers for web phone that I have that makes calls to Korea and USA for less than 2 cent a min [USA money], But it is hard to understand phone calls because of the connection breaks and dead spots.
I had IPTV incoming sat internet from CSCOMS for awhile and that would never work either,,always got the 1500 baht per month bill but never got the service,so dropped it.
Do you get a stable,continuous hook up to the web with dsl?? I read somewhere that a guy in BKK had adsl and web phone dialer and it wouldn't work well because of the web hookup was not stable and he had to keep reloading it.
My adsl connection is fairly stable. and yes it is open 24/7. Adls uses existing phone lines and is good because the I can use the vioce line at the same time as internet is connected. I think where u live kevin adsl is not yet available. maybe cyber can answer that one _________________ Asia Expats Forum Expat Friends Dating
Why would you need another phoneline for ADSL? ADSL does not make use of the phoneline in the traditional way, so your line will not be busy when you are online. It is a lot different if you use a dial up (which is sometimes a pain in teh ass in Thailand even though very much depending where you are located) and at least with the ADSL connection from TRUE it is rather stable and you do not get the disconnects usually that you get from Dialup. Even if, there are no additional charges if you connect again. The only Bill you ever get is the one from TRUE for the mentioned monthly amount (from 590 to 2250) with no extra time charges no matter how long you are online.
VoIP works pretty cristal clear with True (or any other ADSL provider for the matter) - much better then a regular Phone Call at times. The connections are very stable in fact and hardly ever will you be forced to reconnect. There where problems with TRUES authentication Servers in the last 2 weeks which caused disconnects and problems when reconnecting, but these issues are basically solved in must segments of the network.
So be it TRUE, Samart, ADC, TOT, TT&T (these are the providers, other ISP's use their infrastructure to get you into their network) - teh ADSL Service is the best solution you can get for higher speed at a cheap flat rate. A Dialup has 56 kbpts in theory but I never saw more then 49.9 kbps in practical applications. ADSL has a theoretical capacity of 9,2 Mbit down and 1 Mbit up but the most ISP's don't give out that speed for matters of performance (That is for the Asyncronous mode, there is also a syncrone ADSL mode which get get up to 2 Mbit up and down)
Then there is the Cable Internet service from TRUE (which works over the HFC cable TV infrastructure from UBC (UBC is partly owned by TRUE Corporation). That can give a bandwith of up to 2 Mbit via a cable modem, the connection is always on like ADSL but it is a bit more expensive.
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Now, since in Thailand, CAT has the monopoly for international calls and traffic, we are depending on them a lot for the international links, more then 95% of uour international capacity goes over CAT. Providers are only allowed direct links for backup reasons (which are needed often theses days as CAT is having serious problems with some of their Catalyst Routers). Inisde Thailand we use our own infrastrucutre and there the speed is much better of course. It is also the way CAT routes the traffic. Check out some routes to websites that are slow for you, you start to think that they are idiots at CAT.
