TOT Internet Issues
Re: TOT Internet Issues - Is it only me?
Mine seems back to normal now after being slow and unresponsive most of the morning. Pete
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Re: TOT Internet Issues - Is it only me?
Not sure if there’s a more recent thread about TOT but during the past few weeks we have lost service completely on a Sunday and not been able to get it sorted until the Monday. We pay for the 50 mb fibre service and the guy who came on Monday this week fitted a new router but told us that we can upgrade to 100 mb for no extra monthly fee, but we would need a new router capable of handling the 100 mb speed at a cost of 1,990 baht. I thought I would give it a try so we called into TOT in Cha Am and explained what we wanted to do, the lady fairly efficiently sorted everything out, updated our connection and set the new router up in the office, so all I had to do was bring it home, plug it in and update the password on any equipment we have. I was just getting my wallet ready to hand over the money and the woman asked my wife for 10 Baht - this was al it cost, other than we had to agree to a new 1 year contract starting this week.
If you have the 50 mb fibre service, I would recommend you ask for a similar upgrade. As for speed, I have just tested and got 88.9 download and 44.1 upload.
If you have the 50 mb fibre service, I would recommend you ask for a similar upgrade. As for speed, I have just tested and got 88.9 download and 44.1 upload.
Re: TOT Internet Issues - Is it only me?
Anyone had TOT issues lately ... or is it just me?
Intermittent and painfully slow at times. Naturally when the technicians rock up to test it, it works fine.
Methinks there is a lot of filtering going on which hampers the speed of overseas connections, the techies virtually confirmed it.
Intermittent and painfully slow at times. Naturally when the technicians rock up to test it, it works fine.
Methinks there is a lot of filtering going on which hampers the speed of overseas connections, the techies virtually confirmed it.
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Re: TOT Internet Issues - Is it only me?
I have TOT and also find it slower lately, however I put that down to using a VPN?buksida wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2020 10:26 am Anyone had TOT issues lately ... or is it just me?
Intermittent and painfully slow at times. Naturally when the technicians rock up to test it, it works fine.
Methinks there is a lot of filtering going on which hampers the speed of overseas connections, the techies virtually confirmed it.
Re: TOT Internet Issues - Is it only me?
Likewise, I know the VPN throttles the speed somewhat and its slightly faster without it, but I've kinda got used to my digital condom!
The techies did add that colleagues in Hua Hin have been called out to many farang houses due to similar issues so I guess its not just me.
The techies did add that colleagues in Hua Hin have been called out to many farang houses due to similar issues so I guess its not just me.
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If I’m watching a UK TV channel (Via the VPN), it will often freeze up a number of times, I even sometimes get a message “you do not have sufficient bandwidth”!!
Re: TOT Internet Issues - Is it only me?
There are probably a number of issues. For one thing, TOT seems to bounce requests between its own servers a number of times before it gets anywhere. I don't know if that's for snooping, censorship or something else.
I run an automatic bandwidth test every few hours from here and get notified if it is too slow. But that's just a test to a local server as all we're paying for is local bandwidth. I've added a test to a server in California for comparison. The only entry so far is at the bottom of the following log fragment. The first line shows the date and time, the second line shows my public IP, then download, upload, test host and finally download bandwidth to a host in California.
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MrMuscle:bin mnewman$ traceroute captive.apple.com
traceroute: Warning: captive.apple.com has multiple addresses; using 17.253.83.203
traceroute to captive.g.aaplimg.com (17.253.83.203), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 express (192.168.0.1) 0.579 ms 0.554 ms 1.196 ms
2 * * *
3 203.113.40.217 (203.113.40.217) 3.847 ms 2.008 ms 2.591 ms
4 203.113.44.221 (203.113.44.221) 8.028 ms
203.113.59.145 (203.113.59.145) 7.086 ms 5.741 ms
5 203.113.44.177 (203.113.44.177) 6.542 ms 5.880 ms
203.113.44.197 (203.113.44.197) 6.509 ms
6 203.113.37.186 (203.113.37.186) 5.696 ms
203.113.61.242 (203.113.61.242) 9.828 ms
203.113.37.182 (203.113.37.182) 5.709 ms
7 bun-eth9-kkm-core.net (203.190.251.65) 5.867 ms 7.303 ms
in-addr.net (203.190.250.137) 6.432 ms
8 180.180.249.122 (180.180.249.122) 36.659 ms
p.sg.net (180.180.248.137) 30.762 ms
180.180.255.103 (180.180.255.103) 36.662 ms
9 180.180.249.126 (180.180.249.126) 39.711 ms
s714.sgw.equinix.com (27.111.228.242) 34.093 ms 31.991 ms
10 17.0.183.64 (17.0.183.64) 31.577 ms 38.543 ms 36.558 ms
11 17.0.183.64 (17.0.183.64) 32.783 ms 36.041 ms 31.465 ms
12 sgsin3-vip-bx-003.aaplimg.com (17.253.83.203) 39.389 ms !Z 36.163 ms !Z 36.649 ms !Z
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202002182241
101.51.80.2
169.24 Mbit/s
47.48 Mbit/s
Hosted by TOT (Nakhon Ratchasima) [16.10 km]: 14.192 ms
202002190441
101.51.80.2
173.53 Mbit/s
51.55 Mbit/s
Hosted by TOT (Nakhon Ratchasima) [16.10 km]: 10.862 ms
202002191042
1.20.236.110
172.18 Mbit/s
46.84 Mbit/s
Hosted by TOT (Nakhon Ratchasima) [75.56 km]: 10.006 ms
202002191225
1.20.236.110
174.21 Mbit/s
45.43 Mbit/s
b'Hosted by TOT (Nakhon Ratchasima) [75.56 km]: 3.26 ms'
California 23.97 Mbit/s
Re: TOT Internet Issues - Is it only me?
Not just TOT but all of them. What we seem to have is a growing Covid-19 internet speed problem. With many students now home and going to school on-line, and many companies including Facebook Bangkok working remotely, speed is deteriorating as I type this.
I use both TOT, and TRUE as an alternative, and they both started to slow down yesterday. I can only anticipate that things will get worse as more and more people become confined to their homes.
Netflix Europe has just cut the quality of their streaming to lessen their impact on servers there by 25%. Quality said to be good, but not best now.
Perhaps time to try some other DNS configurations again to see if it helps, and I hope without hope that the ISP's here will buy and activate more servers to help the situation.
I use both TOT, and TRUE as an alternative, and they both started to slow down yesterday. I can only anticipate that things will get worse as more and more people become confined to their homes.
Netflix Europe has just cut the quality of their streaming to lessen their impact on servers there by 25%. Quality said to be good, but not best now.
Perhaps time to try some other DNS configurations again to see if it helps, and I hope without hope that the ISP's here will buy and activate more servers to help the situation.
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Re: TOT Internet Issues - Is it only me?
My TOT connection has been pretty unpredictable lately. Whilst certain overseas sites still seem to connect OK, others that I use regularly are terrible and it's difficult to get pages to open.
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Same here - using a VPN to access BBC iPlayer has been very bad of late although last night it was better - I’m just about to check tonight!!
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TOT has gone from bad to worse recently - no point even contacting them about it any longer.
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Touchwood, my TOT connection is working well. It was slow loading sites last week and I saw an article about certain Windows 10 updates that have been slowing computers so I uninstalled those and so far seems to be working better. I'm no techie so please dont ask me anything. I just googled windows 10 updates problem.
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Re: TOT Internet Issues - Is it only me?
Yesterday evening our TOT fiber Internet (we're in Korat) slowed to a crawl and some sites were unreachable. I tried using a US VPN but that didn't help things. Then I tried a VPN in Europe (Czech Republic) and boom, back to normal speed. Perhaps it had something to do with trans-Pacific traffic.
When I checked logs this morning I found that we had no IP address for a period of about five minutes at around 5:30 PM.
When I checked logs this morning I found that we had no IP address for a period of about five minutes at around 5:30 PM.
Re: TOT Internet Issues - Is it only me?
Anyone else got no TOT internet connection this morning? I don't have fibre optic.
I also notice that G cable TV is down so i'm hoping its a local issue and not just me. Thap Tai area.
I also notice that G cable TV is down so i'm hoping its a local issue and not just me. Thap Tai area.
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