Yup things are cruising along very nicely here, free vodka for Vertigo 
Aha! So THATāS why its been so slow this weekend ā Hinetās been trolling for more fixed IP address customers. Sounds like their plan worked, too.
As long as its not painful and slow Im happy either way, fixed or dynamic.
When I first signed up for Hinet ADSL, maybe two and a half years ago, the options were something like this:
- Dynamic IP
- Static IP
- Static IP, guaranteed bandwidth
I asked the guy about the āguaranteed bandwidthā, and whether it was in fact guaranteed. He said, well, itās best effort. I said, so on the other packages you donāt make your best effort to give me the bandwidth Iām paying for? He just smiled.
I read all this as being, the āguaranteed bandwidthā package has a lower contention ratio. I donāt think it has anything to do with static or dynamic IPs as such, except thatās the structure they offer.
As I remember, though, it was quite a bit more expensive. I just went for dynamic IP in the end.
Havenāt Hinet recently launched another ADSL package with a silly name, like Hinet Max or Hinet Infinity or something? They called me a couple times trying to sell it to me, and I said no. Then my internet got slow ā¦ hm.
I donāt understand you dudes ā¦ two weeks ago when I complained about slow connections ā¦ only a few agreed with me, now of the sudden everyone has a slow connection ā¦ some of you even agreed with Hinet and told me it was my problem and I had to accept it and Hinet was the hero ā¦ my problem has been fixed over a week ago thanks to the same procedure, changing to a fixed IP ā¦ I didnāt post it because I was upset, and anyways no one else had a problem ā¦ dudes ā¦ :s
The guy who switched me from dynamic to static while I was on the phone said it wouldnāt cost me more. I think Iām paying about $1150 or so for 8M/640k right now. Iāll make sure to check my bill next month, but I donāt think heād lie to me.
I never had a slow connection problem. I was mostly satisfied with download speeds and overall connectivity. My problem was just recently over the weekend, with many pages timing out. I was using the HINET proxy server to solve that problem until I was switched to static tonight. The timing out problem is gone, and things seem even quicker than before too, which is a bonus.
BP, from what you described about your service trouble before, I donāt think our situations were the same. I could be wrong. But if you got your problems fixed up too, then itās all good.
I didnt even see that thread of yours BP, but Im glad someone did post a fix.
Iām glad this thread was able to help out. And to reiterate what Mer said and what I said earlier, Hinet said that switching to a static IP would not cost us anything more than what we are already paying. But this might depend on what service plan you currently have (I have 8M/640K) so of course, if you call up to switch, you may want to confirm for yourself that there will be no additional charge.
I just kept complaining, it took me two weeks for CHT to call me with the fix, and they had to tell me how to arrange my own router ā¦ I didnāt know it was on the hinet web site ā¦ earlier that week they sent an engineer over to take a look at the download speeds I got ā¦ a week later they called me up to put in the fixed IP ā¦
Unless they were blatanly lying to my wife and to Mer, there was no additional charge for us to switch to a static IP. I guess weāll know for sure when we get our bill.
From my limited reading about fixed IP addresses and otherwise, Iāve seen it referenced more than once that there are not enough fixed IP addresses to go around world-wide.
That could be part of the HINET scheme as to why they wouldnāt just suit a guy up properly from the get go. Kind of stinks though. Give me my fixed IP address dammit!
There are still enough IP addresses for everyone at the moment, but theyāre gonna run out fairly soon (in the next five years, say). Which is why there is now a thing called IPv6, which uses much longer numbers, so can support far more addresses.
A lot of hardware (routers etc) supports it already, but itās being phased in slowly.
Simply request (and perhaps pay extra) for a fixed IP and Hinet will give you one, they would have done so from the get go had you asked for one instead of a dynamic IP, you chose the scheme. For various reasons, many users do not actually want a fixed IP. Unless thereās been a policy change it used to be extremely easy to check Black Ice logs for IP addresses of āhackā attempts and then look-up the owner, if it was a fixed IP the users name, address and telephone number(s) were easily obtainable.
Simply request (and perhaps pay extra) for a fixed IP and Hinet will give you one, they would have done so from the get go had you asked for one instead of a dynamic IP, you chose the scheme. For various reasons, many users do not actually want a fixed IP. Unless thereās been a policy change it used to be extremely easy to check Black Ice logs for IP addresses of āhackā attempts and then look-up the owner, if it was a fixed IP the users name, address and telephone number(s) were easily obtainable.[/quote]
I recall when I upgraded from 512k to 2M, and then again from 2M to 8M, they advertised that the package upgrade included 1 fixed IP and 7 floating IP ones, Iām assuming that is the same as static and dynamic. I guess I wrongly assumed that they would switch me up when I applied for the upgrade.
I understand that with the dynamic IP address, you remain a bit more anonymous on the net, but I donāt have any security concerns per se, so Iām happy to get the static IP address.
Your happy with your fixed IP ā¦ good, but get a good firewall and eventually a router ā¦ double obstruction canāt hurt ā¦
The fixed IP was the reason why my 3M connection was faster than the 8M, I knew that we would only get the best effort, but they promised 2M and not 200 Kb (yes bit not byte) or less ā¦
After about two weeks reasonable speed itās going slow again since Thursday ā¦ even with fixed IP they canāt garanty speed ā¦
What kind of download / upload speeds are you getting with that speedtest.net siteās tests?
Iāve been consciously keeping an eye on my service quality since I got switched to fixed IP, and so far so good. I suppose no matter what service a guy has paid for, on the weekends here the net is going to be a bit more pokey.
I have no idea as the loading of the pages for the speedtests take to long to wait for ā¦ even submitting this post takes several tries ā¦
Something is definitely up there then. When using static ip im getting max speed for local sites and international are still good, obviously not as fast as local but I cant see any difference between peak and off peak. Soon as I drop back to dynamic I can see a huge speed difference with overseas sites compared to static.