3BB Internet
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ironside61
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3BB Internet
Any advice I'm with 3BB and was getting 6MB now I'm lucky to get 3MB..........
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This happens with all providers due to over subscription.
Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? - Hunter S Thompson
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3bb are useless!I have teh same connection which works my satelitte TV and its so bloody annoying when it keeps losing connection.. usually just when they are about to tell the Lap Time on Top Gear or annouce who is getting chucked out of some Chef programme!!
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If you can get internet from CAT they give you what they advertise. Problem with CAT is that there not everywhere. After all they are the master provider for Thailand and all others have to purchase band width from them to service their customers.
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I used the CAT Hinet package for over two years and found it worse than 3BB (who were called Maxnet at the time), speed sold: 2Mb, speed attained: 256Kb. Things maybe better now but I doubt it, CAT is the bottleneck on Thailand's international bandwidth.
Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? - Hunter S Thompson
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I paying 3BB for a 9mb connection and I just tested it and it tested at 2.71mb...
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?
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Exactly, I'm paying TOT for 8Mb, just tested at 1.78.hhfarang wrote:I paying 3BB for a 9mb connection and I just tested it and it tested at 2.71mb...
They're all as bad as each other.
Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? - Hunter S Thompson
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It seems to vary second by second and/or depending on which tester you use. I just used three different testers over a few minutes. The first and worst one tested using a server in Bangkok and got 2.71, the second which didn't say where the server was got 7mb and the third which let me choose my server location (so I chose New York!) got 5.1mb... 
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?
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I always use speedtest.net to LA (dreamhost) so it provides a standard. Pointless testing to Bangkok - its only internal and will obviously be faster.
Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? - Hunter S Thompson
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sandman67
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thats why I always tell people to only get the basic 500bht account.
Mine runs at between 7mb/8mb and 3mb dependng on the time. When the schoolkds are about it runs slower.
If you pay for anything other than the basic account the only thing you get is ripped off.
Mine runs at between 7mb/8mb and 3mb dependng on the time. When the schoolkds are about it runs slower.
If you pay for anything other than the basic account the only thing you get is ripped off.
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Is this a location issue?
I absolutely HATE defending 3BB because I've had other problems with them, but speed has never been an issue. I get what I pay for - the advertised rate of 3.5 Mb down, 0.75 Mb up. It's been that way for four years, and between myself, the missus, her daughter, and a random assortment of nieces, my connection is used about 16 hours per day for downloading, skype, watching videos, etc. I've seen occasional slowdowns, but they have been rare and not very serious.
A couple of years ago we did a DSL survey. Would it be worth doing another one using Google maps to see if there's a correlation between location and effective speed? Or between package level and effective speed? Something is wrong, but we don't know what it is.
Obviously, the further you are from the CO, the slower your connection will be, but that should apply from day 1 and you should be able to see that on the status page of your modem. Over-subscribing _should_ only apply to the cheap accounts - I have a premium account and my effective speed pretty much matches the speed shown by my modem. My testing is long and ongoing, being based on torrent speeds, and I get a LOT of movies and video from torrents.
For the record, I live just south of the King's Palace.
I know nothing about Google maps, but I'm willing to learn if there's enough interest to get a survey going. This is an ongoing problem for many of us, just (knock wood) not for me. Maybe if we can identify the problems we can get 3BB et al. to fix them. Right now, all we know is that some people's connections suck, and some people's connections are okay.
Survey questions might be:
Service provider
Advertised speed
Level of package
Speed shown by your modem
Effective speed (using speedtest.net and an offshore server)
Location
Maybe - did the speed change?
Anything else?
I absolutely HATE defending 3BB because I've had other problems with them, but speed has never been an issue. I get what I pay for - the advertised rate of 3.5 Mb down, 0.75 Mb up. It's been that way for four years, and between myself, the missus, her daughter, and a random assortment of nieces, my connection is used about 16 hours per day for downloading, skype, watching videos, etc. I've seen occasional slowdowns, but they have been rare and not very serious.
A couple of years ago we did a DSL survey. Would it be worth doing another one using Google maps to see if there's a correlation between location and effective speed? Or between package level and effective speed? Something is wrong, but we don't know what it is.
Obviously, the further you are from the CO, the slower your connection will be, but that should apply from day 1 and you should be able to see that on the status page of your modem. Over-subscribing _should_ only apply to the cheap accounts - I have a premium account and my effective speed pretty much matches the speed shown by my modem. My testing is long and ongoing, being based on torrent speeds, and I get a LOT of movies and video from torrents.
For the record, I live just south of the King's Palace.
I know nothing about Google maps, but I'm willing to learn if there's enough interest to get a survey going. This is an ongoing problem for many of us, just (knock wood) not for me. Maybe if we can identify the problems we can get 3BB et al. to fix them. Right now, all we know is that some people's connections suck, and some people's connections are okay.
Survey questions might be:
Service provider
Advertised speed
Level of package
Speed shown by your modem
Effective speed (using speedtest.net and an offshore server)
Location
Maybe - did the speed change?
Anything else?
"We're all living proof nothing lasts" - Jay Farrar
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Where or how do you find that? I assume logging into the modem and then going to some diagnostics area.Speed shown by your modem
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?
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Exactly. If you use your modem as a router (very common) it's probably at 192.168.1.1. There should be a status screen and somewhere it will have something like this:hhfarang wrote:Where or how do you find that? I assume logging into the modem and then going to some diagnostics area.Speed shown by your modem
Internet Connection Status: Connected
Default Gateway: ppp0
Preferred DNS Server: 110.164.252.222
Alternate DNS Server: 110.164.252.223
Connection Up Time: 02 day,03 hour,14 min,42 sec
Downstream Line Rate (Kbps): 3582
Upstream Line Rate (Kbps): 1021
Mine claims 1 Mb up, but that's not what I was sold or what I get, I get 0.75 Mb and it's solid.
Usually, but by no means always, the status screen will be shown when you log in. Some modems will send you straight to a 'wizard' to help set up a connection, but it should be easy to find a status screen. BTW, login is usually 'admin' 'admin' or 'admin' '1234'. Something simple.
My interest is whether so many of us have sh** connections because of over subscribing. I can't think of any other reason a connection would degrade over time. Nothing else makes sense to me. But... if you're paying for a premium connection, it should never be over subscribed. If you pay for a premium connection, and it degrades, raise hell.
"We're all living proof nothing lasts" - Jay Farrar
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Ok, someone explain this. It seems that these speed testing sites are not testing the same way so how do you know which one is correct. I've been running speed tests yesterday and all morning using two sites with the same parameters; using a Los Angeles server in both cases.
Speedtest.net always gives me a download speed of between 1 and 2mb and takes a lot longer to run the actual test.
Speakeasy Speed Test always gives me a download speed of 5 to 6mb and runs much faster.
Buksi, it would be interesting to see what speed you would get from Speakeasy (Los Angeles server) as compared to Speedtest.net
http://www.speedtest.net/index.php
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
btw HHADFan; I can't log into my modem. I use the address you posted and get the login screen but tried admin, admin; admin, 1234; and a very long username and password that are written on my 3bb contract (installation) sheet and none worked. I get the following:
"Protected Object
This object on the RomPager server is protected"
Speedtest.net always gives me a download speed of between 1 and 2mb and takes a lot longer to run the actual test.
Speakeasy Speed Test always gives me a download speed of 5 to 6mb and runs much faster.
Buksi, it would be interesting to see what speed you would get from Speakeasy (Los Angeles server) as compared to Speedtest.net
http://www.speedtest.net/index.php
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
btw HHADFan; I can't log into my modem. I use the address you posted and get the login screen but tried admin, admin; admin, 1234; and a very long username and password that are written on my 3bb contract (installation) sheet and none worked. I get the following:
"Protected Object
This object on the RomPager server is protected"
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?