Hello everyone,
I live outside the main area of downtown Chiang Mai, near the Hang Dong market in one of the housing projects. I was very excited when I learned that TOT ADSL is now available in my area, so I signed up right away.
After visiting my local TOT office, signing a few papers and picking up their ADSL modem for 1,070 baht, my service was turned on and available the next morning. The TOT promotion I received was two free months of ADSL service.
I signed up for the 1,000 baht a month Cyber Gold package which is suppose to be 1024 kbps download, and 256 kbps upload. All last week I have been complaining to the TOT office about not getting more then a 200 kbps download speed.
Now that the New Years celebrations are over, I finally received a phone call from one of the head TOT technicians, on a Sunday mind you. I explained to him the slow speed ADSL problem I was experiencing. The TOT guy apologized and said there was some sort of mix-up in communications. They had accidentally started my service with the slowest speed offered through TOT. He told me to wait 5 minutes and then power recycle my ADSL modem. He said he needed to adjust the signal to give me the, ( Cyber-Gold package), of 1,024 kbps I had subscribed too.
I really didn't think they could do anything due to my location and being so far in from the main Hang Dong road.
Five minutes later, Low and behold, I tested the speed using the www.adslthailand.com web site and got 869 kbps with a server in Thailand on my first attempt. Then I tried the American server located in San Francisco and got 852 kbps.
No one will ever actually get a 1,024 kbps download speed, it's the same as a 56k dial up modem, no one ever gets faster then 52 kbps.
After reading a lot of the posts here, I thought I would never see speeds greater then 200 kbps in Thailand.
I use a UPS for all my computer and ADSL hardware. Now that my system and speeds seem stable, I purchased a Belkin ADSL2+ Modem with high speed Mode wireless-G Router, Model #F5D7633-4 from “IT CITY”.
Now I am able to use my notebook anywhere in the house, while my Desktop tower is plugged directly into the Belkin Modem/ Wireless Router.
As an experiment I hand carried my notebook three houses away before my wireless signal was dropped.
For anyone new to wireless, I recommend you change the router ADMIN passwords right away and enable 128 bit WEP security key to prevent someone from borrowing up all your bandwidth.
P.S. I hope I didn't jinks myself by posting this positive feedback. As for any future TOT ADSL problems, only time will tell.
