Thread: MaxNet IP: 117.x.x.x vs. 222.x.x.x

Originally Posted by Frankenstein

How much per month, and what is the nominal speed? 2000/512 kbps?

that's the one.... 1,000 a month.

Originally Posted by lom

Sadly, TT&T who was a good provider in the past, has managed to screw up their network and connections during the last year.

I've had TT&T for three years now. For me, the last year has shown a huge improvement in bandwidth. I can now use VOIP, VNC, and a bit torrent client, all of which were out of the question until recently.

Well, I've also had them for 3 years and still have them.
Works ok for my son who is mostly surfing Thai sites.
And they were ok until last fall, that's when I first noticed long response times and slow transfer speeds to Europe in particular.

There was an article in AsiaMedia at that time about them not paying their fair share for connections they used.
Searching for that article, I found a more recent one.

"Thailand's TT&T reports that it has sharply scaled down its investment plan this year after it filed a petition with the Central Bankruptcy Court to enter a business rehabilitation plan for debt restructuring."

FASTTAKES: Yahoo, McAfee, TT&T, Nortel, Virgin Media

It doesn't bode well for their customers.

Originally Posted by lom

And they were ok until last fall

Odd that we've had such different experiences.

My two English students have TOT at home and TT&T at their shop (the two are about 200 meters apart) and say that TT&T is much better for them.

Perhaps it has to do with the quality of the copper?

This is with a 222 IP address and is pretty typical of current bandwidth. A few months ago I never got download speeds higher than 700 and 300 was more typical.

So today my torrent download speed sucks. I'm on a 222 IP address. So, I keep reconnecting until I get a 117 address. It sucks even worse. I cannot connect to even one peer; even after waiting 15 minutes.

I reconnect and instantly get a 222 address and the torrents start up again; albeit very slowly.

Case closed: 117 sucks, 222 sucks a very little bit less.

Wow, look at this. Wonder what happened at 12:15 PM? Whatever it was my througput went from near zero all morning to 1100 + now:

Can anyone explain this crap. Almost all of the activity represented here is me downloading a file from Apple. Why the massive variations in throughput?

^ Is your modem LED flashing ? Please restart your modem!

Originally Posted by lom

^ Is your modem LED flashing ? Please restart your modem!

Which LED, or are you trying to be funny?

In the end the 1 GB download failed and I had to start it over this morning.

I am not happy. At least now I'm getting 150 KBs....

Managed to download the 1GB file in two hours. This was on a 117 IP address. But, with that connection I stopped being able to get non-Thai web sites at about 5:15 AM this morning. After the download finished, I kept reconnecting until I got a 222 IP address which enabled me to get foreign web sites again.

I remain baffled by this whole mess.

Originally Posted by buad hai

Managed to download the 1GB file in two hours

sounds impossible, more likely your torrent resume where it failed and it was faster

Originally Posted by buad hai

I remain baffled by this whole mess.

yeah, having monkeys in the server room doesn't help, you should be grateful that you actually get something

Originally Posted by Butterfly

sounds impossible, more likely your torrent resume where it failed and it was faster

It wasn't a torrent. It was an HTTP download of a single file. I started the download at 5:03 AM and it finished at 7:13 AM. 1.1 GB in just over two hours.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

the lost sync is a typical problem of bad phone lines, use the handset hangup trick, that usually works for weak phone lines

I checked and all the numbers for SNR and line attenuation are fine.

But my question is, is there a modem/router that is better at dealing with a bad line/loss of sync.

As I said before, a thai webpage seemed to say that the Billion Bipac was much better than the Huawei.

Also, my modem is now 3 years old, could it be dying?

Billion are wank ime.

Fokkers did it again. Trying to update my fink installation (unix binaries). Going fine from when I started at 2 PM and then, at 2:21, they turn on the damn brakes and I'm fokked again:



Note to BF: this is not a torrent download.

Originally Posted by buad hai

Odd that we've had such different experiences.

You still think we have different experiences?

^I've not had this sort of daily trouble until this month. And I've certainly not seen such huge variations in bandwidth like I've illustrated in this thread. Yeah, before this month it would go up and down, but not drop out completely the way it has lately.

I just switched from 117 to 222 and I'm actually getting a tiny bit of throughput again.

Originally Posted by buad hai

I just switched from 117 to 222 and I'm actually getting a tiny bit of throughput again.

As I've said before, 222 is only useful for http to USA.
For everything else worldwide it is completely shit.

What happened to their good ol 58 series, have not seen that one for a year.

my 118....... series is working rather well at the oment.

Originally Posted by lom

As I've said before, 222 is only useful for http to USA.

Well, right now I'm downloading a bunch of junk from here:

mirror.services.wisc.edu | Platforms and Operating Systems | Computing @ UW-Madison

So the 222 is just fine. With 117 I got nothing at all. The download just stalled out. Now it's crawling, but at least it's something.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

my 118....... series is working rather well at the oment.

Yes, your 118 series is ToT.
And I have not seen those severe TT&T routing problems on ToT.
ToT do also have problems at times.
But I've never seen their routers choking up completely.

Originally Posted by buad hai

So the 222 is just fine.

Yes, for web browsing (includes http downloads and Skype) to/from the US.
Now , try anything Europe or Australia on that one.

Originally Posted by lom

Now , try anything Europe or Australia on that one.

Yep, just tried the UQ weather page and it's still loading....

At just a few minutes after 5 PM someone at MaxNet opened the flood gates and my HTTP downloads (using curl) from the US jumped from about 30 KBs to about 120 KBs.....

^
Somchai went home so no one is touching the controls now..