Fastest Internet

[photoguy 0]

Pretty straightforward. I will be coming to visit for a few weeks and will have to work some days, so need a place that has really fast internet. Where would you all recommend? I am not opposed to sitting at a bar or something somewhere to download files and stuff if need be, so that is also an option.

 

Thanks all!

[john5001 54]

Not Opey De Place...Went down most days and the staff were unhelpful and unfriendly.

[joekicker 53]

What hotels/rooms have the fastest internet?

 

Good news: There are lots of them.

Bad news: None of them is in Thailand.

 

Most hotels have the same Internet speed as all the others. Mostly it is not all that fast.

 

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[CheshireTom 1,377]

Pretty straightforward. I will be coming to visit for a few weeks and will have to work some days, so need a place that has really fast internet.

 

 

If you drop the "really fast' requirement, you might be in luck.

 

 

[sinbinjack 251]

If you drop the "really fast' requirement, you might be in luck.

I was talking to the guy who supplied my WiFi in Pattaya around August last year and his response to my unhappiness was to tell me that the Thai government has them using smaller transmitters than they use elsewhere,but that the Thai government was allowing them to double the size of their transmitters soon.Has anyone any idea if any of that is or was true or was I just getting the usual Thai runaround.

PS he did give figures but not being particularly tech minded I have forgotten all that he said about the technicalities.

Edited October 18, 2011 by sinbinjack

[MM 6,562]

I was talking to the guy who supplied my WiFi in Pattaya around August last year and his response to my unhappiness was to tell me that the Thai government has them using smaller transmitters than they use elsewhere,but that the Thai government was allowing them to double the size of their transmitters soon.Has anyone any idea if any of that is or was true or was I just getting the usual Thai runaround.

PS he did give figures but not being particularly tech minded I have forgotten all that he said about the technicalities.

 

Runaround.

 

WIFI routers (transmitter/receivers) sold here are the same as those sold elsewhere.

 

I have brought them from the States, and bought them here, and aside from voltage differences, they are the same.

 

Oh, and for the original poster, most smaller hotels and guesthouses have a single broadband connection that is shared by all their wifi access points.

 

Staying in a bigger hotel, targetted to business travellers (the big chains), will possibly get you "faster" internet access. But you will not get "really fast" internet in Pattaya.

 

My information is not current (about 3 years old), but the LK Metropole had decent internet to the rooms (wired RJ45). I plugged in my own wifi router to that, and didn't share wifi with anyone else. I was still sharing the hotel's broadband link, but as I think they had more than one.

 

 

 

 

[joekicker 53]

Runaround.

 

Funny though. Made me guffaw loudly, scaring the damned dog.

 

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[sinbinjack 251]

Thanks for the info MM ,but I wasn't talking about Routers that you buy for your own use ,I was talking about the commercial transmitters that providers use.I might be wrong but I seem to remember him saying they were only allowed to use 1 kilowatt but would soon be allowed 2 kilowatt transmitters.Now I might be wrong about the Kilowatt bit ( I think that I remember electric heaters were in Kilowatts)but He definitely stated that the size of the transmitters would be doubled.

as I said it could have been Thai waffle just to get me off his back as my downloads speeds were so low as to be unusable at certain times.

[joekicker 53]

Thanks for the info MM ,but I wasn't talking about Routers that you buy for your own use ,I was talking about the commercial transmitters that providers use.I might be wrong but I seem to remember him saying they were only allowed to use 1 kilowatt but would soon be allowed 2 kilowatt transmitters.Now I might be wrong about the Kilowatt bit ( I think that I remember electric heaters were in Kilowatts)but He definitely stated that the size of the transmitters would be doubled.

 

What did Khun Runaround claim that these transmitters were transmitting?

 

Was he maybe referring to caddywampus convolutors?

 

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[cicero1520 19]

Mate if it's the caddywampus convolutos, you are in trouble.

[Bazle 1,485]

I am a bit of a Luddite on technical matters like this so please feel free to correct me but isn't it a very relevant point to ensure that THE ROOM in which you stay has good wi-fi as reception tends to vary throughout the building?

[MM 6,562]

I am a bit of a Luddite on technical matters like this so please feel free to correct me but isn't it a very relevant point to ensure that THE ROOM in which you stay has good wi-fi as reception tends to vary throughout the building?

 

Absolutely!

[BigusDicus 9,878]

When I travel I do not necessarily want my clients and friends to know I am out of town.

 

For me it is not so much the speed (as in fast), but the consistency of the signal.

 

I do not usually need to download really large files.

 

But I do need a strong, consistent signal. I make many 'Internet' calls (VOIP) and some Skype.

 

If the signal is weak, inconsistent the calls can be garbled, with interference, or dropped.

[joekicker 53]

When I travel I do not necessarily want my clients and friends to know I am out of town.

 

For me it is not so much the speed (as in fast), but the consistency of the signal.

 

And in general, this is where you're going to be let down, even if you are "hard wired" onto the net with a plug in the back of the machine. The speeds of the DSL-type service that almost everyone has, at home or in the hotel, go up and down - usually because of what others are doing on your "party line" and how many are on with you.

 

The POSSIBLE good news - in Thailand in general, Internet service is way more consistent and often faster at 3am, when most of the country is sleeping. That is good news for those *in* Thailand who work in Yurp and America, on the daylight hours of those countries.

 

Except for that, it's very difficult to be upbeat and optimistic about Internet high-speed or broadband in Thailand, for the fact that it just isn't all that good. There's not enough bandwidth to go around. As Khun Runaround might put it, they're not transmitting the needed bandwidth for all of us.

 

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[Grandpollo 366]

When I travel I do not necessarily want my clients and friends to know I am out of town.

 

For me it is not so much the speed (as in fast), but the consistency of the signal.

 

I do not usually need to download really large files.

 

But I do need a strong, consistent signal. I make many 'Internet' calls (VOIP) and some Skype.

 

If the signal is weak, inconsistent the calls can be garbled, with interference, or dropped.

 

Skype uses so little bacnwidth you can use it with a 56K modem.

 

Here's their requirements, quite easy to find in many hotels. I had no problem working on Citrix VPN, Skype and general internet in Pattaya.

 

 

 

The bandwidth required by Skype depends on the type of calls you want to make. The table below provides the minimum download and upload speeds required, as well as the recommended speeds for best performance.

 

Call type Minimum download/ upload speed Recommended download/ upload speed

 

Calling 30kbps / 30kbps 100kbps / 100kbps

 

Video calling /

Screen sharing 128kbps / 128kbps 300kbps / 300kbps

 

Video calling

(high-quality) 400kbps / 400kbps 500kbps / 500kbps

[Bazle 1,485]

Skype uses so little bacnwidth you can use it with a 56K modem.

I keep in contact with a go-go girl and she has just bought herself a Samsung Galaxy SII telephone. Yesterday, she used it to have a Skype conversation with me. The quality was excellent - considerably better than when she was using her notebook computer. She was calling from her room which is on the ground floor in a block and definitely not a great reception area.

 

How she can justify spending 18,000 Baht and committing to pay 800 Baht a month is a different discussion!

[the_inspector 6]

Skype uses so little bacnwidth you can use it with a 56K modem.

 

Here's their requirements, quite easy to find in many hotels. I had no problem working on Citrix VPN, Skype and general internet in Pattaya.

 

 

 

The bandwidth required by Skype depends on the type of calls you want to make. The table below provides the minimum download and upload speeds required, as well as the recommended speeds for best performance.

 

Call type Minimum download/ upload speed Recommended download/ upload speed

 

Calling 30kbps / 30kbps 100kbps / 100kbps

 

Video calling /

Screen sharing 128kbps / 128kbps 300kbps / 300kbps

 

Video calling

(high-quality) 400kbps / 400kbps 500kbps / 500kbps

 

You are aware that you have no chance in getting a dowload speed of 30kbps on a 56K modem right?

[Grandpollo 366]

You are aware that you have no chance in getting a dowload speed of 30kbps on a 56K modem right?

Well not that it matters since we aren't talking about using them but I have done voice on Skype with a 56K modem, no video though.

 

Skype has even made a UNHCR "bespoke" version for satellite or similar low speed connections that apparently functions as low as 2-3k/sec.