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I'm sure that someone else pointed out that if you get an IP address from MaxNet that starts out with 117 your bandwidth will suck and your DNS lookups will be slower than molasses, even if you use an external DNS server.
In fact, I am now checking daily to see what IP address I've been given and if it is 117 I keep rebooting the router until I get one beginning with 222.
Anyone have any idea why the major difference between the two sets of IP's?
Is there a better solution to the problem?
I thought it was the other way round.
In fact a rain shower has just disconnected me from a 117 to 222 and now my speed is awful.
BTW that trick with leaving the phone off the hook...doesn't work
^ the trick worked on most phone lines, but if your phoneline is badly wired (soaking in the gutter water) then it's possible that the current is not strong enough to maintain the line
I wonder if it depends on where you are. This morning I had a 117 address and the performance was dismal. Couldn't even do dns queries. I kept disconnecting until I got a 222 and things picked right up.Quote:
Originally Posted by CharleyFarley
But, just to prove how wrong I am, look at these two speed tests done within a few moments of each other, the first with a 222 and the second with a 117:
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2008/05/129.jpg
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2008/05/132.jpg
117 is routed via CAT in 2 directions , US and Europe.
It works well for torrents and web access to both places.
222 is TT&T's private route to US only, it is heavily bandwidth shaped for torrents but works ok for web access to the US. Can't use it for any type of access to Europe, too long distance, too much delays and packet loss.
So I guess CAT was having problems when 117 was down in performance.
I'm back in Sweden for a couple of weeks, here is my speedtest results: :)
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2008/05/151.jpg
with tt&t I didn't see a 222 address for the last 2 months of my contract before moving.
it was always 124 which was odd since i used to have to re-boot 5 times to get my 124 nimber because it was infinitely faster for torrents.
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2008/05/150.jpg
Fcuk me! what kind of line do you have there?
Jesus H Christ, I am IP 222 and I just checked my speed and on this connection I am getting 1747 DL and 407 UL. and when I ran the test my monitor farted and fell,, never seen such speed in LOS.
CM ROCKS
^
oh shit.
:(
^ Don't worry Dude, the Thai techs noticed the speed we were getting and fucked it up so bad that it is offline most of the time now and showing that little hour glass on screen, sumbitches,, and my one bathrooms full of black flyin ants too, so just a world of shit tonite..
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2008/05/157.jpg
Nothing to add to the discussion. Just wanted to put one of these groovy speedtest things up. Seems mine is pretty average. I'm on CAT. never had any problems, occasional 5 min downtime. well seedded movies on BT come through in about 2 hours.
I have mostly 58.xxx.xx.xxx, never seen a 117 or 222. BTW, my connection is very good.
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2008/05/158.jpg
Better than what's displayed above :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Spin
Got back here to my condo after 2 years in Thailand.
The Internet for the condominium had been upgraded meanwhile.
In true Swedish socialistic fashion :frog:, every condo owner now have to pay for internet, ie the condominium is group connected.
Monthly fee is ~800 baht for basic service (internet) with addons like video on demand and telephony.
I have just finished a Skype call with the missus in Samui (very good voice quality) while at the same time seeding a torrent with 700 KBytes/sec :1st:
I guess my pipe limit is around 30/10 MBits..
I'm thinking of extending my stay here a few weeks before returning:)
Racing right along here as well. Torrents downloading at about 3.6 K and seeding at just over 4 K.Quote:
Originally Posted by lom
It looks like I'll have the latest episode of NCIS downloaded by Sunday afternoon or Monday morning. Whoopeee!
:)Quote:
Originally Posted by buad hai
I'll check and post my real speed later when I have stopped Azureus, the estimates I did was quite a bit low.
Right now seeding to another node from the same ISP as mine.
He is now pulling between 14-16 Mbit/sec, has downloaded 5GBytes from me during the last 45 minutes..
I know that feeling well, been in the uk now for three weeks on a 20 meg line. I did have one problem though, the connection dropped out for 20 seconds one afternoon about 2 weeks ago:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by lom
Not looking forward to getting back to Thai style internet:(
For the last 24 hours I've been on 117. But, it simply stopped working on non-Thai sites. I disconnected and reconnected and got a 222 IP and now all is well. So strange....
Farking CAT mucked up my line completely for 2 full days.
I probably spent 5 hours altogether with TT&T support rebooting the router, resetting the configuration, rebooting the router etc. etc.
Then in the end they say 'Oh, your router must be broken'. 1 hour later Internet is back to almost normal with only the occasional two minute dropout. The next day everything is normal again.
Great, great support techs they have.
finally managed to buy a number for 4,000 baht off someone in the village and the tot technicians came this morning to put the line in, 9 days ahead of schedule.
package is [at]goldcyber and I'm getting a 118. number.
it's extremely fast, first torrent is coming down at well over 200kB/s.
:)
maybe it's because nobody else in the area has the internet.
^ can you open a DVD burn shop for us so we don't bother downloading again ? still waiting for those teenage twin porn DVDs
^
sent loombucket the entire babylon 5 collection because he is a nice chap.
you can fukk off.
:frog:
I am not into gay SFX series, only porn twins will do for me, but you are welcome to jerk off to whatever you likeQuote:
Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon
No, it's because you are on ToT now.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon
Sadly, TT&T who was a good provider in the past, has managed to screw up their network and connections during the last year.
Sounds great. How much per month, and what is the nominal speed? 2000/512 kbps?Quote:
Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon
I might go TOT number hunting myself. :D
I'm now living in Korat (JoHo area). It seems to me that TOT has a faster connection out here. Just moved into my new home and have the silver package (1536/512Kphs) for 700 baht per month. Seems very good so far it is almost 20:00 hours and here is my download speed is 1307.
So far I have not seen a download speed slower than 800 kphs
that's the one.... 1,000 a month.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frankenstein
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by lom
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.
Odd that we've had such different experiences.Quote:
Originally Posted by lom
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?
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2008/05/660.jpg
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:
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u.../bw_080521.jpg
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?
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u.../bw0805221.jpg
^ Is your modem LED flashing ? Please restart your modem! :)
Which LED, or are you trying to be funny?Quote:
Originally Posted by lom
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.
sounds impossible, more likely your torrent resume where it failed and it was fasterQuote:
Originally Posted by buad hai
yeah, having monkeys in the server room doesn't help, you should be grateful that you actually get somethingQuote:
Originally Posted by buad hai
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Butterfly
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u.../bw_080523.jpg
I checked and all the numbers for SNR and line attenuation are fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Butterfly
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.