Re: Slow Down

Good soldier wrote:
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:28:29 -0400, "maxwell" <mmmaxwell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


True is hardly unique in providing less speed than one might hope for.
http://www.truecorp.co.th/eng/products/online_monthly_hi_speed.jsp
(scroll down to "Things Worth Knowing)

Speed will vary between ADSL connections, even of the same service grade and
ISP. Conditions of the telephony wires and length of the wire run from
Central Office, conditions of the modem and router, of the TCP/IP-related
settings on a given computer, and of whatever ISP-provided connection
software onboard (I lose that whenever possible, going with router-provided
PPPOE, or Raspoet (e.g.) if connecting only with through the modem), and
also security software-- all of these impact on actual speeds, up and down.
The slow ADSL speeds overall in Rangsit may have related to distance from
CO, at least if the nearest CO was anywhere nearby to Future Park, *well*
down the road from their place..
There may also have been technical incompetencies of True's technical
support team (that's another story) though it's very possible the team could
have done better if bothered more often ;~)

However, that doesn't go to the port-specific slowdowns, nor to the overall
network slower-than-hoped-for-speeds, and here the throttle may well be at a
higher level, whether at the link between Thailand and the rest of the
world's internet, or the level of an ISP buying bandwidth and parceling this
out to what is often too many endusers, relative to capacity of the
available 'pipe'

I hope all that uncertainty is of some use to you ;~)

Cheers,
-maxwell

We have fiber optic lines in this muban, at least they were stringing
new lines all over the place some years ago.

There is no question that there are a lot of variables when it comes
to how fast a DSL connection transfers data. My point is that from
the same computer the speeds seem to have decreased radically since,
approximately, the PAD taking over Government House. Whether it is the
government's monitoring system or TRUE I don't know - today seems a
bit faster - which was why I was enquiring.

Cheers,

schweik
(Correct Address is goodsoldierschweikatgmaildotcom)

You seem to have forgotten, or deliberately omitted, the most obvious variable! The situation in Thailand has generated a huge amount of interest, both inside the country and abroad. This factor alone would have led to a greatly increased volume of internet traffic. I'll bet that most internet connected Bangkokians are using the internet to find out what is happening in their country, having given up on the usual media suspects long ago. Also, given that we have well and truly entered the era of streaming media and broadband internet, I'd suspect that the internet "pipes" are beginning to feel the strain. My cable internet connection bordered on useless during the Bejing Olympics. I put that down to the extra load by people catching up on events and, probably, watching streaming audio and video broadcasts.

It's not just people who have their computers connected to the internet that are causing this saturation. Every person who uses a phone card to call overseas friends on their home phones are using VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol. Most would not even realise they are using the internet for their calls.

Having been on the internet since the government here implemented it back in the 80's, I can assure you the "bandwidth" capacity always lags behind what is needed. TCP/IP being what it is, once you get close to saturation more packet collisions occur hence more retransmits. In no time the pipe is bottlenecked. In my department, I remember how the internet sped up every time the boffins added bandwidth. I also remember how traffic grew to saturate that new bandwidth in no time. I still recall how the boffins said that their new video conferencing system would revolutionise interdepartmental communications. In no time at all we were forced to schedule conferences to the internet quiet times which, for us, was early mornings. This was entirely due to the buildup of internet traffic as the day progressed. It became impossible to use the video conferencing any time in the afternoons except for possibly Fridays. At least traffic was light in the early mornings as I drove to my 7am video conferences. Might add that I'm not at my best as a public speaker at that time of the morning.

Krypsis


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