Internet has come to a standstill

[voip]

It is clear it's not just my true connection here.
In the internetcafe internet was creepingly slow as well and they were using another provider.

Since a few hours, there seems to be a general internet 'freeze'.

How bad is it at your place?

[chitown]

It is clear it's not just my true connection here.
In the internetcafe internet was creepingly slow as well and they were using another provider.

Since a few hours, there seems to be a general internet 'freeze'.

How bad is it at your place?

Call and complain, and complain and complain. Finally they will tell you that the "pipe" is not big enough and they have more users than they can handle. They will also tell that the Thai government caches everything so they can investigate people (sores user's history of porn sites being viewed and anything they do not approve of etc) and this slows things way down.

Then they will sell you a business package for 3000 baht a month and everything will be fine.

Go down to their main office with a sign announcing there poor service and one of the VP's will fall at your feet, give you a few months free and promise you the world. That's what I did - farang pud mak!!!

[dirtydog]

Seems okay here in Pattaya

[melvbot]

Been crawling along at a page a minute since 4pm. 350 Km's outside BKK

[Bobcock]

agreed, mine is crawling along when normally the service is excellent.

[Timber]

Mine sucks but I think its something to do with the 512k wifi at my apt. Highest speed available......AAARRRGGGHHH.....and they've got the nerve to pillage me 600bt a month for it.

[Thetyim]

Ok for thai websites but anything outside LOS is taking ages to load

[voip]

Actually, here in Bangkok (Thonburi side) internet had been unworkably slow since about 1700 today.(browsing the forum at stoneage speed, posting taking a few attempts)
However, after posting the message on Teakdoor the problem seems to be resolved now (really), internet connectivity is back to 'normal'

I will remember this for next time!

[chitown]

You must have signed up for the TD connectivity package. DD will be billing soon.....

[bkkandrew]

There does seem to be an internet connectivity issue with Thailand today, as 19 out of 20 internet phone calls to and from BKK have failed...

Also, on a separate note, the Nationwide ATM cards do not seem to work in BKK today. Anyone else withdrawn using Nationwide in Thailand today?

[Bobcock]

I was in Central world yesterday and they were announcing that they could not process sales by credit card.

Anyway, my service is flying again this morning.

[buad hai]

Anyway, my service is flying again this morning.

Same here; torrents zipping by at about 4.6 K. I should be able to watch last week's "Saturday Night Live" around the 4th of July.

[ChiangMai noon]

^
hehe, getting them at well over 200 from thebox and demonoid.

[buad hai]

^Send me an invite, I'm not a leach....

[buad hai]

Look at this crap:

[Thetyim]

Send me an invite, I'm not a leach....

Done.

[ChiangMai noon]

^
he got a demonoid one from me too.

[buad hai]

Thanks to both of you. I've now signed up for both The Box and Demonoid. As soon as Ms. B gets off the main machine I'll start.

[peterpan]

Its woeful here last night and this morning, on dial up because the cvnts at TOT won't give me anything else, but last night it just refused to complete loading up and now its also at turtle pace.

[Gallowspole]

My TOT is going up and down like a whore's drawers.

[melvbot]

Seems to have picked up this morning back to about 75% of normal.Must have been some hard to find ladyboy porn being seeded yesterday.

[Norton]

Normal



Today

[NickA]

Same here; torrents zipping by at about 4.6 K. I should be able to watch last week's "Saturday Night Live" around the 4th of July.

Are they popular torrents with plenty of seeds?

I was downloading at similar speeds, but I like very obscure and unpopular torrents. Went to thebox and picked a popular torrent and it's coming at 90-95 kB/s (I'm on a 1 MB connection)

[buad hai]

Are they popular torrents with plenty of seeds?

I'm downloading "Saturday Night Live" from last Saturday. Seems to have about 16 seeds and 50+ peers. I'm getting 1.9KBs now. This is some public torrent

I'm also downloading a Dr. Who episode with 60 peers and I'm getting about 37K.

I was downloading at similar speeds, but I like very obscure and unpopular torrents

Same here. I'm downloading an NCIS from Demonoid and it's only got 4 peers and I'm getting less than 1K.

Kind of a dilemma as the popular stuff doesn't interest me and the stuff I want takes for ever.

What I'm trying to do is pick torrents that have a decent number of peers that aren't total trash. Not an easy task.

[NickA]

^I don't mind waiting as I struggle to watch all the torrents I download anyway and still have 10's of GB of stuff waiting to be burnt