Condo with real high speed internet access

[jackcorbett 2]

For what it is worth here's my experience here at Wongamat Residence. All 60 units have Internet access. It costs us 150 baht per month for the Internet connection and 130 baht a month for telephone. Download speed is 1024 kilobytes per second. Which is one helluva deal. However, the line is shared between several or more different condos or other businesses before our signal is even split off between the condos in this building. Well...we do get 1024 Kps--on a good day, at the right time of the day, and for perhaps five minutes at a time achieving this reliability at such speeds about as often as One is going to get snow in May in St. Louis. However, until two months ago the reliability of this connection was so poor that I could not ftp ten picture files (jpeg) in a row without my connection timing out. The speed of the connection was all over the place. Most of the time it was well below 100 Kps. If you'd watch the speeds while watching the ftp program download a file for several seconds it would be 30 Kps, and then it would hit 200, then several seconds later down to 70, then 20, then zero.

 

This has not been the case with the new connection I got dealing directly with TTNT. I'm paying around 1200 baht per month. The company promises to start up a new line as soon as the one I'm on has 10 customers on it. I contracted for a 128 kps upload with a 256 download speed. And when I use my ftp program to upload or download picture files for the first second or two it starts at a low speed from which it constantly accelerates before leveling out at around 128 upload or 256 kps download. With the setup all of us are getting through the condo which we pay 150 baht a month for we'd oftentimes be without internet service for two or three days at a time. Now, through the direct deal with TTNT I've had three outages in over two months and never done without internet access for more than several hours at a time. After testing this connection against the old over a ten day period of time I'd say in real world terms I'm 4 times faster on average in spite of the old connection being billed as a 1024 kps download system.

[papillon 695]

Hi,

 

Thanks for the link. I checked out the router and whereas it offers a dual WAN connection, it does not double the effective bandwidth. What it does is double the bandwidth capacity. What I mean is this:

 

Suppose you hook up this router to two 512k internet lines. Its load balancing features will not allow you to double your speed to 1mb. In other words, if you're downloading a file, your download speed will still be limited to 512k. What this router will do is allow you to download an additional file at a full 512k speed, rather than share a single 512k connection when downloading two files. So, your capacity is doubled, but your speed is still limited to 512k. Therefore, this router is not a solution to the gentleman's question.

 

There is a way to combine multiple lines to effectively multiply your bandwidth. That requires multiplexors, much more serious routers, and a deep knowledge of data communications. To do THAT is not trivial.

 

I apologize if I wasn't clear in my original post.

 

 

No Mate, you're wrong.

 

Believe me, I know what I'm talking about.

 

I'm not going to post a load of Bollox here, there's no point is there?

 

The 'effective' bandwidth IS doubled.

 

My system, for example, consists of two modems and a dual WAN router. Each modem is capable of a maximum 10 Mbps download speed. The WAN router combines the bandwith and effectively doubles the download speed to 20 Mbps. I can either download two files simultaneously at 10 Mbps each OR one file at 20 Mbps. Also variations such as four files at 5 Mbps, etc.

 

No Multiplexors required.

 

Just unpack the router from the box, connect both your modems, power up and off you go.

 

Easy

 

The router can be fine tuned using the internal Web Pages if necessary. For example, it supports QOS so you can alocate bandwidth for your VOIP traffic, etc.

 

Here's a photo of the speed achieved whilst downloading movies on Usenet........

 

 

Here's a short video clip I made for you monitoring the download session (2.43 MB)..........

 

http://rapidshare.com/files/27221696/Dual_..._Speed.avi.html

 

As you can see, this solution could in fact meet the OP's criteria

 

Regards

 

Edit: Changed download links

Edited April 21, 2007 by papillon

[sumo 0]

I have a house I rent at royal park jomtien. so I got TT&T adsl. I pay about 1200 baht a month I think the download is over a 1000 kbps and the up is around 512. TT&T has packages for faster connection . Out of the 3 months I was there last time (between september -December) the cable went out 2 times 1 time it was about 6 hours the other time maybe an hour or 2. If it went out more then that it had to happen while I was asleep . besides groping my wife I am glued to the internet due to it being fantasy football season around that time.