Re: re TTT ADSL Max in Chiang Mai : further comments


"maxwell" <mmmaxwell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "orang37" wrote ...
> > using TTT Max 790 baht per month plan on Windows XP Pro machine with SP2
> and all latest security patches. Sygate Firewall,
>
> Kerio here, Sygate at my other location.
>
> > Norton Corporate Client Anti-Virus,
>
> AVG, Avast, or both 'here' (3 boxen at 2 locations)
>
> > AdAware and Microsoft Beta anti-mal-spy-trojan ware.
>
> I've had issues with the MS anti-nasty ware.
> BTW--I strongly recommend BoClean--best AT ware I've ever seen, bar none.
>
> > D-Link simplest model USB ADSL modem. Using Internet Download
Accellerator
> for all downloads.
> > While download speeds have remained consistently good in the last four
> days, averaging about 48-50k per second for mp3 downloads, etc. web page
> loading has
> > varied wildly from cold molasses slow to snappy.
> >
> > Their
>
> . . There --gotcha! <G>
>
> >have been two outages I have been aware of where the whole net has been
> out. Both of these lasted less than an hour and may have been caused by
> factors other than TTT's Max service. Maybe sever or eight times when the
> connection dropped and was easily restored by just loggin on again. These
> may have been
> > related to frequent heavy rains in the last few days in Chiang Mai ?
>
> _Quite_ possible--also please note, WRT your up/down speeds, that even
with
> dry lines the distance from central office impacts significantly (I'm
under
> a kilometer from CO here, and at the best of times we get up to 5mb
> down--though normal 1.5mb down)
>
> > A friend of mine who has the technical knowledge and "connections" to
know
> what is happening at the "higher-levels" of internet service in Thailand
> wrote
> > yesterday :
> > "The international pipes out of Thailand have been up and down like a
yoyo
> for the past 6-7 days, so it's a bit difficult to truly evaluate any ISP's
> service
> > right now. My guess is that it's probably all the hackers in the world
> trying to exploit the security hole recently announced in Cisco routers..
If
> > successful, it's the ultimate hack - shut down the internet - so I
suppose
> everyone is vying for the title."
>
> hmmmm...the pipe in and out of Thailand is at the best of times definitely
> not the best, due to a far greater willingness by ISPs to sell user time
> than to pay for backbone bandwidth.
> I just did trials of several downloads (ranging from 900kb-12mb) from
> Thailand and from US to my ADSL-connected box here on the US east coast,
and
> got ~60 KB/sec from Thailand versus ~196 KB/sec from US.
>
> BTW--no 'accelerator' d/l utilities on board here, and Westel DSL modem
via
> NetGear router; W2Ksp4
>
> > All in all, still very happy to be getting a better service for 60% of
the
> price I was paying for JI-Net. By the way I found JI-Net's tech support
very
> good, and
> > I have yet to have to use TTT's tech support.
> > ~o:37;
>
> I'm very glad that DSL is spreading through the north--by the time a few
> years from now that we retire in the region, it may well cost less there
> than dialup now costs here! ;~)
> (currently paying for my ADSL (nominally 1.5mb down/128kb up) US$30/month)
> -maxwell
>
>
Anyone using Skype on their broadband connection? They say 128K up is
marginal, but seems to work ok for me for calls to the U.S. from Bkk,
although there is a slightly noticeable delay. I understand this delay
disappears at higher rates, becomes intolerable when on dial-up. Some
disconnects once in a while, perhaps attributed to the sub-par international
link. Any other experiences to report?


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