I"m going to try this fixed IP. I think my router should be okay. I"LL check my firewall, too.
Give you guys a report.
Kenneth
Itās been a week since Iāve been using the fixed IP service. Iām very happy with it. A friend in the U.S. sent me a 700MB file and I got it in about 6 hours over instant messenger. When I had the dynamic IP service it was taking half an hour to download 3MB email attachements.
Almost a week for me too, and ditto.
nope, fixed IP doesnāt solve the problem either.
My grandpa can finish taking a dump before pages finish loading
[quote=āfrokkyā]nope, fixed IP doesnāt solve the problem either.
My grandpa can finish taking a dump before pages finish loading[/quote]
I have a fixed 8m 640K from Hinet and it runs very fast. But at the office we have a 10mb up/down guaranteed service at our server. We are getting that speed.
Only problem is if you have routers rated at max 10mb they tend to fail after 48 hours of solid 10mb/s uploaded throughput.
Changed to some other gear and fixed that.
[quote=āfrokkyā]nope, fixed IP doesnāt solve the problem either.
My grandpa can finish taking a dump before pages finish loading[/quote]
Did you change your login to username@ip.hinet.net?
I got the Hinet 8M/684 service and its been fast last 2 yrsā¦
What international sitez ppl find slow?
I use a dynamic IPā¦
the TW speed test gave:
running 10s outbound test (client-to-server [C2S]) . . . . . 528.0kb/s
running 10s inbound test (server-to-client [S2C]) . . . . . . 5.84Mb/s
International sites like CNN, slashdot, anandtech, forumosa, etc. load up fast most of da time.
Perhaps it varies with area?
i tested with
speedtest.net/
international servrs in NY, Japan, Toronto and Philipines, all gave great speeds in upload and dwnldā¦
I have the 8M connection and Iāve got my fixed IP and have changed my username to xxxx@ip.hinet.net
The connection is fast most of the timeā¦ but at night, around 1-2am it is very very slow to international sites, rarely going faster than 60-100k/s (combined from many sources) whereas during the day I could max it out ~1200k/s.
Definitely something weird going on on Hinetās end.
I think it depends on what international sites youāre going to. I also noticed it slows down slightly late at night, but 1-2AM Taiwan time is lunchtime on the east coast/central USA. I suspect theres a lot of internet traffic to MSN, hotmail, CNN, etc during those hours as people are surfing while eating lunch.
All things considered, Iām very happy now that I switched to the static IP service. 56k dial-up was faster than my connection when I had the dynamic IP service.
Here are the step-by-step instructions of how to set up a fixed IP address with Hinet ADSL.
How to Set up a Fixed IP Address with Hinet ADSL
A. First You Have to Set up a Hinet e-mail address
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Enter in your current Hinet ADSL ID and password. (ID is an 8-digit number. Password is 8 alphanumeric characters.)
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Click on que4 ding4 (āSureā)
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Then you will be re-directed to msa.hinet.net/cgi-bin/msc_chk_access_v2
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Now you have to choose a Hinet e-mail address. It has to be composed of two āwordsā. (The address will have a dot between the two words.) Each āwordā must start with a lowercase English letter, but the rest of the āwordā can by any alphanumeric character.
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Choose any password, but it must be 6 to 8 characters in length. Enter your password twice.
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Click on song4 chu1 zi1 liao4 (āSubmitā).
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Then it will tell you your new Hinet e-mail address.
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Click que4 ding4 (āOKā).
B. Now Set up a Fixed IP Address
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Click the red words at the very bottom of the webpage (on the left side) that mean āI agree to accept all the articles of this contractā (wo3 tong2 yi4 jie1 shou4 ben3 qi4 yue1 tiao2 kuan3)
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You will be re-directed to this website: service.hinet.net/2004/adslstaticip_accept.php
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In the middle of the webpage, you will see two blank orange rectangles, one above the other one. In the first rectangle, enter your Hinet username (an 8-digit number). In the second rectangle, enter your Hinet password (8 alphanumeric characters).
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Then click que4 ren4 (āConfirmā) (the orange button to the lower right of the two orange rectangles).
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Then you will be re-directed to this website: lcss.hinet.net/adsl_staticip_2.pl
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Check (by clicking) both squares on this form. (The first question asks you whether you want a fixed IP. The second question asks you to confirm your Hinet e-mail address.)
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Then click the small box at the bottom of the webpage that says que4 ding4 (āSureā).
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Then you will be re-directed to this website: lcss.hinet.net/adsl_staticip_3.pl
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This website says āCongratulations! You now have a fixed IP address!ā, and then it will tell you your current IP address (four numbers separated by dots). The range of IP addresses is 220.129.0.0 to 220.143.255.255.
^^^ Very nice.
After you follow those steps your username will have changed to xxxxxx@ip.hinet.net as opposed to xxxxxx@hinet. net like you were before. Therefore, donāt forget you will have to update your username in your router/wireless gateway/dialer/etc. or whatever you use to connect to the Hinet service.
Thanks. I hadnāt gotten round to doing the change but with your procedure all laid out it only took a few minutes.
download is down to 9.8 KB ā¦ 80 Kb ā¦ 0.08 M ā¦ downloading from Adobe, which is not the slowest server on the internet ā¦ fixed IP ā¦ Hinet, shit ā¦
I typically get 800 - 900k/sec from local sites and anywhere from 100 - 500k/sec for international sites, with static ip.
Iām trying again to download from Adobe and at the moment the speed is 8.7 KB, meaning a good and well 64 kb, 0.067 M, more than a hundered times lower than their max 8M marketed speed ā¦ less than dial-up ā¦ hinet, shit ā¦
Jeez, it can go even lower ā¦7.7 KB ā¦
Iām not getting things as bad as belgian pie, but Iām not too impressed either. I needed to download a new OS from sun.com and figured Iād do it at my shop which has an 8mbps line from Hinet. Best I got was 90KB/s, about 1/10th the speed of the line. Then I tried it at home on my 2mbps line from TFN. Averaged around 212KB/s which is pretty much pegging the line. Also did the same download to a server in the US on a 6mbps line from Speakeasy and got 630KB/s which is also pretty much pegging the line.
Doesnāt look like static IP is that much of a help.
I got linked with Hinet ADSL (Chunghwa Tel) a week ago and saw this thread, thought it was going to be a gift from God because itās the EXACT problems Iām having. I signed on for the same 8M/640 you guys are talking about.
First, the guy came out and set up the modem and all last week, created the ābroadband sign-onā icon but refused to enter any IP #'s, instead put it at automatic. Sure enough Iām getting GOD AWFUL download speeds, on torrents Iām getting an average of 7 ~ 11 KB/s and if I do a direct download (i.e. Adobe.com) I get about 18 KB/s. The web surfing and page loading is sometimes worse than I remember getting with a 56K modem 5 years ago in the US.
The technician just came out this afternoon (my first follow-up visit) and all he wanted to do was convince me my service is fine. First all he kept doing was tests with his local website Hinet.net which was giving me 700 KB/s. I tried to tell him Iām in the real world and downloading from all over the world, not just from a server in Taipei. He spoke zero english. When I got my Taiwanese friend on my handphone it was no use, he didnāt want to listen to my reasoning.
Anyhow. A few days back I followed step-by-step the instructions listed on page 5 of this thread. The good news is that all steps performed perfectly as explained in the post, I walked through until the end. Unfortuntely 2 things are wrong, 1 being that the website never gave me an email address for xxxx@ip.hinet.net, but instead only produces xxxx@msa.hinet.net. However at the very end, where the page is all in Chinese and asks you to verify your email address, I entered username@ip.hinet.net and it actually made one like that for me.
However another problem. The IP number that was finally produced for me looks nice but has been useless. Iāve clicked on my original broadband connection, gone into properties and INTERNET TCP and entered it there, but upon login attempt I get something like 735 error or something. I also went ahead and tried changing the username for the broadband connection wizard from the digit number (i.e. 78459034 HN#) into my actual new user name, altered the passwords and all. I also tried doing this with my LAN connection wizard, which also has a properties box to enter in your IP number. However in each of these attempts I always get āID or Password errorā messages. Iāve gone back to the same HN digit # and that Hinet card password you have to scratch off with a coin. One more question: when you enter in the IP # in the TCP/IP properties box, you also have to enter Preferred DNS server and such. What is that and do I need it? Where?
Anyways thanks much for this thread and especially all the instructions and replies, but Iām dead in water and getting 56K speed for dsl prices and the technicians have told me everything is fine. They said theyāll do āmore testsā on Monday, but that sounds half hearted and doesnāt seem to offer any real resolve.
fallon:
thereās no need to be changing IP and DNSās in TCP/IP settings.
The only thing you need to change it in the Hinet sign on link.
Change it from #####@hinet.net to #####@ip.hinet.net
the second one is for static IP.
This way you can change from static to dynamic quite easily.
hey there, thanks for the reply. I tried to do that. I just left the username as HNdigitnumber@ip.hinet.net and tried but I got something like Error 56: cannot connect because a same user name already exists on the network. Go to System and change your computer name.
Didnāt make sense. Thanks though.
hahaā¦ iām stumpedā¦
maybe it has something to do with the way you registered your static IP as you mentioned that it was slightly different for you.