Taiwan Internet Cable

Post by **Kudjap or Bust** » January 8, 2007, 3:43 pm

Does anyone know if the undersea Taiwan cable has been repaired and all is back to normal yet?

If so I need to go speak with TOT as my receive speed is still down @ 262 kbps. I'm told I should expect anything from 350 - 485 kbps........

Also, a quick question, when I'm downloading from the internet the status dialog box shows a "transfer rate" what exactly is this???

Post by **arjay** » January 8, 2007, 4:51 pm

Kudjap, see:

http://www.udonmap.com/udonthaniforum/v ... 9153#39153

I understand it will take a couple of weeks and isn't yet back to normal. My access to hotmail and various other sites is still inconsistent and sometimes with no access.

Maybe someone else can help answer your last question.

Post by **PopsIcafe** » January 8, 2007, 5:40 pm

1. I was reported after the earthquake that is will be at least a month before the internet and phone services will back to to normal, that includes Japan, Taiwan, and other asia countries.

2. Tranfer rate you are talking about is rate that data is being transferred from the download site to your computer. Transfer rate is the speed at which datat is being transferred and is measured in megabytes (mbs).

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Post by **Kudjap or Bust** » January 8, 2007, 5:45 pm

OK thanks, so do you have any idea what I would expect to get as a transfer rate downloading a file over adsl that shows me a max 262 kbps receive rate?

Post by **PopsIcafe** » January 8, 2007, 5:52 pm

depends on your service which shows like 256 kbs/30 kbps meaning upload at 256 kilobytes per second and down load at 30 kbps per second.

Let me know if I'm wrong on the service speed.

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Post by **Kudjap or Bust** » January 8, 2007, 6:03 pm

Ok, I signed up with TOT for 512 / 256k, but my adsl monitor shows receive 256 transmit 128. The dial up icon in the row near the clock shows a speed of 262 kbps.

Hope that makes sense.

But, my tranfer rate when I'm downloading a file starts high and drops pretty much instantly to about 5 or 6 kbps

Post by **Kudjap or Bust** » January 8, 2007, 6:06 pm

Thought I'd also mention I'm using BitTorrent to download music, video etc, the screen on BitTorrent is showing 5 K/Bs down rate...

Is this normal speed????

Post by **PopsIcafe** » January 8, 2007, 6:10 pm

What internet service are you using??? I have that happen to me when updating games online......running between 4 kps and 30 kps. It really depends on how many users are online, in your grid, at the sametime, as the bandwith is used up with too many users online at the sametime.

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Post by **Kudjap or Bust** » January 8, 2007, 6:14 pm

I'm with TOT. I'll try it in the early hours tomorrow - I ned to be up for a phone call about 3 AM....

Post by **arjay** » January 8, 2007, 6:39 pm

Kudjap, if you are talking about your download/transfer speed from Bit Torrent, that is NOT just governed by your Internet connection speed. That is controlled and influenced by things like at what speed the person from whom you are downloading is able to send/upload, and many people/computers limit their upload speeds. It's not uncommon to only be able to download at 1 kbps from some sources.

I sometimes test my download speed from the TT&T Maxnet site:

http://www.maxnet.co.th/

I have the basic package, and carrying out a speed test just now it read:-

"Bandwidth reading: 217.20 kbps
Which means that you can download from our servers at: 27.15 kbps"

Hope that helps.

Post by **Kudjap or Bust** » January 9, 2007, 8:50 am

I just triesd it but its confused me a little as I got the following

Your current bandwidth reading is:

11.70 Mbps

which means you can download at 1.46 MB/sec. from our servers

Post by **Kudjap or Bust** » January 9, 2007, 8:56 am

WOW just tried it again and got the following

Your current bandwidth reading is:

217.10kbps

which means you can download at 27.14 KB/sec. from our servers

Post by **BKKSTAN** » January 9, 2007, 9:14 am

Mine never shows more than 167-168,but when downloading,the actual speed shown,fluctuares between 1.5 -3,8

Post by **ctm** » January 10, 2007, 9:57 pm

Anyone using hinet? Since yesterday my speed has been ugh @#$%#$% and I'm trying to get the NFL playoff games off bittorrent