Anyone having problems with TOT?

[Freddy]

It doesn't help you today but for the future it may be worth checking out CAT fibre optic. 2 yrs ago our only option was the 25m tower and Wi-net. When that went Tits Up and we spoke to CAT like you I was dubious that we would find another 4 villagers wanting to sign up. In the event we got 5 in a day all of which are now connected. Additionally a further 3 have contacted CAT direct requesting connection after seeing the line being hung. Only been a week but so far the service has been good and reliable.

[iammike]

Dear Freddy !!

Nothing here is available except for TOT WiNet, CAT most certainly isn't available, 3BB is coming but when that is the question, they are already advertising in the next (big) village. The cables aren't in place yet as they (3BB, CAT or TOT) have to bridge a gap between villages (without any buildings/houses) of at least 2-3 kms and I don't see that happening very soon, as there won't be many subscribers in our village.

I am stuck with Tot WiNet or 3G no other alternatives for the distant future unfortunately

The outage today lasted a couple of hours and more then happy to use 3G in the meantime (49THB per day unlimited however speed is a max 256Kbps), but it's absolutely useless for iPTV.

[iammike]

What a day what a day.

Now the power is out in the whole village 55555

Edit: Time to get a Genset

[KhunG]

I guess we've been lucky with TOT (ADSL).  We had it hooked up at the in-law's while building our place, and moved it over to our place 1.5 years ago. 

We had the router blow twice during bad thunder storms - the second time on a Friday night - which they replaced on Monday. I bought and configured a second router that we could drop in if we ever lose one again on a weekend.

The only time we actually lost the TOT signal was for a couple days when they were widening hwy 24 and had to re-route the lines.  We used AIS 3G until that was sorted.

Our only real problem with it is waiting a few minutes for it to reconnect after one of the many short PEA power outages during the rainy season.  Other than that it's fine for streaming videos or anything else we do, and We've got over 10 devices connected to it constantly.

[iammike]

Hi KhunG,

what speed do you get with your TOT Adsl ?

We are limited to a max of 10 Mb, unfortunately no higher speeds available (at the moment) for WiNet.

When it's working I don't have any problems streaming iPTV, we watch mainly UKTV/ThaiExpat as iLikeHD /Kodi and the sorts are buffering (sometimes) so it's sometimes unwatchable.

We only have 3 PC's, 1 NUC, 1 Printer and couple of phones and iPads connected, but they aren't using the iNet all at the same time fortunately, so it works for us.

[KhunG]

Hi Mike,

We're on the 10MB limit, too, but it's sufficient.  I haven't checked to see if we could get a faster plan.

We've got a couple smart tvs, several pcs, tablets, cellphones, a printer, a VOIP box, a wii u and a wii connected, but you're right - they're not all moving a lot of data at once.  We usually have a couple streaming videos and some non-streaming access happening at once.

The youngest is happy watching YouTube baby einstein type stuff, and we watch some of the online news channels and recently switched to iflix for our entertainment streaming needs, since notflix finally shut down our access to the US catalog.

While we were using AIS 3G, we were getting about 15MB down, but with a 1.5GB cap that can go fast.  I notice when we visit Buriram city, it clocks in at 40MB+ down on their 4G network.

Edit: It makes me realize the multi GB speeds we were getting on cable in the US wasn't really doing anything but making downloads fast - if the site your downloading from also supports the speed.

[Sofa_King]

recently switched to iflix for our entertainment streaming needs

Thanks for the heads up with iFlix

For those with Android Boxes try

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http://terrariumtv.com  .........  For Movies and TV Shows

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Who needs ilikeHD when these are for free