german news just lead me to this article, so, guess it will take its time, i am curious about theyr “tools” or so called “repairing-equipment”
i find the internet in the morning-hours is quite good, but if it gets closer to evening & night time, it gets slower and slower… weekend is actually almost impossible to do anything…
just wanna let u guys know - it doesnt make sense at all to complain to CHT, keep just watching the news about the cables… thats it
like others said, ISP’s like TFN or SeedNet are better… i am not going to believe that, coz they all are routet through CHT, nobody has its own line - and about TFN it gets even worse but thats another story - so… if someone who calls itself a computer-genius buying a adsl-line from a reseller… i’ll give him the bird… for not understanding the business at all :loco:
Not completely true, and where companies do route traffic over CHT-owned lines it is completely separate from Hinet’s traffic. The not true part is that there are multiple physical cables out of Taiwan, not all of which are operated by CHT. Each ‘cable’ includes dozens to hundreds of pairs of fiber optic lines. Each of these lines can be dedicated to a particular customer or can be multiplexed amongst several customers. In most cases, each customer has a contracted amount of bandwidth that is dedicated only to them.
ISPs will typically buy bandwidth from an International backbone provider, or occasionally will directly lease a line themselves. If they lease a line themselves they will have exclusive access to that line and it is not shared with any other company or service provider. If they buy from a backbone provider they will be sharing amongst the different customers that backbone provider has, but will typically have a contracted minimum service level.
Backbone service can be obtained from a variety of providers in Taiwan, two of the bigger ones (besides Hinet) being Reach and NTT/Verio. Their traffic all goes over dedicated lines completely separate from Hinet’s traffic. The cheaper ISPs out there will contract for bandwidth at lower levels and just let the users suffer during peak periods. A better ISP will pay for enough bandwidth to handle their peak loads. It’s complete nonsense to say that there are no differences in service levels between different ISPs.
Besides, the performance problems on Hinet started BEFORE the earthquakes. And my TFN line at home is performing much better than my Hinet line at work right now.
german news just lead me to this article, so, guess it will take its time, i am curious about theyr “tools” or so called “repairing-equipment”
i find the internet in the morning-hours is quite good, but if it gets closer to evening & night time, it gets slower and slower… weekend is actually almost impossible to do anything…
just wanna let u guys know - it doesnt make sense at all to complain to CHT, keep just watching the news about the cables… thats it
like others said, ISP’s like TFN or SeedNet are better… i am not going to believe that, because they all are routet through CHT, nobody has its own line - and about TFN it gets even worse but thats another story - so… if someone who calls itself a computer-genius buying a adsl-line from a reseller… i’ll give him the bird… for not understanding the business at all :loco:
kcs[/quote]KCS, I think you’re confusing the previously-existing connection problems with things that happened after the recent earthquake. Look at the date of the first post in the thread. Certainly, my own connection woes were no different after the quake.
So, anyone got a decent proxy server – either free or not – to recommend?