I'm getting sick of this slow internet !!

TEFL Can Tho wrote:

Not sure why you put throttling into mocking-quotes.  It's the industry term for deliberately restricting bandwidth for a specific IP address.

Your interpretation of quotation marks, not mine. 'Throttling' is a pejorative term used by the technical press and adopted by users.

'Load shedding' in the electrical distribution business could be described as 'throttling', when in fact it is a method of reducing system failure.

Likewise for communications, if a certain URL is disproportionately used in such a way that other users are affected, by applying network management techniques, such as load balancing, can distribute user access and make it more fair for all.

In cell and landline communications using digital switches it is constantly applied. Each subscriber is assigned a 'Class of Service'. In cases of emergency 'throttling' is achieved by changing the facilities made available to a Class. It is used everywhere in the world.

Senior government/essential services are given the highest Class of Service, ordinary users the lowest. This ensures that facilities are made available to the appropriate people. It doesn't necessarily mean the lowest Class is denied service, it simply means access to facilities is limited and, in the cell business, results in 'no signal' showing. In the landline business dial tine is not applied to end-user circuits and without dial tine a user cannot proceed as 'dial tone' is applied by the circuitry that also connects a subscriber.

Every line InterNet subscriber has a 'Class' - it is applied at the DSLAM. In the case of cable TV InterNet services, the COS is actually a small file on a Users computer which is referenced by the WAN modem. Modifying this file, using a text editor, can increase your speeds to very high levels.

I wasn't talking about electrical distribution, I wasn't talking about prioritizing entire classes of service like government agencies over users.

I was and am talking about limiting bandwidth to specific URLs, which is indisputably happening here.  I can switch from my ISP to a mobile provider and those websites are instantly faster; I can switch to a VPN over either transport and those same sites are as fast as any others.  I know what I'm seeing.  Certain destinations like YouTube are being deliberately starved of bandwidth.  And be it colloquial or technical, most call that throttling.

TEFL Can Tho wrote:

I wasn't talking about electrical distribution, I wasn't talking about prioritizing entire classes of service like government agencies over users.

I was and am talking about limiting bandwidth to specific URLs, which is indisputably happening here.  I can switch from my ISP to a mobile provider and those websites are instantly faster; I can switch to a VPN over either transport and those same sites are as fast as any others.

My electrical distribution was an example.

Everything on digital switches is given a COS (Class of Service) even URLs. So COS does matter - on top of it FB, Google, everyone can apply restrictions. These restrictions can take many forms.

Whilst you might enter a URL that is common around the world, the host might decide to redirect you. Google does it so it can put on it's own cable; others connect you to a MUX.

You are from the States. If you enter BBC.CO.UK in a browser there you connection is redirected to a MUX in White Plains, New York. FB might decide to allow faster connections from mobiles because of their cost or because FB wants to promote mobile use.

Still, you carry on strangling people, it simply reveals your depth of knowledge of Networking.

"What should be burning you up is running down the side of Nguyen Van Linh, in your area of Quan 7, are at least 3 fibre optic trunk lines."

Our building is situated on Nguyen Van Linh - knowing that the fibre optic cables are there but due to the corrupt system in which we have no alternative providers but SPT just increases the rage. If this country has any designs on advancing itself in the region and the rest pf the world these practices need to stop immediately.

Guess that won't happen.

Our service remains horrible....

I think I've taken enough of your insults, Mr. Jaitch.   Good day.

Hi everybody,

It will be really appreciated if we can remain friendly with each other.

Thanks

Priscilla

Apologies for resurrecting an old topic but it seems that the Sharks have been at it again.

Internet has been horrid for over a week and news reports stated that it would be fixed yesterday have proven to be false. Anyone else in the same boat?

Have been informed that I have also the choice of using VDC rather than my current provider SPT - anyone with experience of either, am I jumping from the fry pan into the fire?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

I am not familiar with your current provider is but if they are somewhat associated with VNPT then I can offer some history and advice. VNPT is a government provider and notoriously famous for poor quality service. As it is, since we have had this service in our "government" owned building where we have owned (apartment) and lived for the past 3 years, we have quite frequently either had very slow internet connection or no connection at all for long periods of time. For example, back in January from 8am on January 1st until the end of that month, we were without any service. During that time, I made several direct visits to their main office where personnel were told to tell me the same thing - that the overseas "cable is broken or that it had been cut". This was not new because the same thing had been occurring throughout 2014 as well during which time, we had even upgraded to the highest level of connection after being told that it would improve our service (ha ha, hee, hee). While I had made my visits to the VNPT central offices in D-1, I asked to speak to the primary administrator, head person, supervisor and boss and was told by several people there that they had no "boss" at their offices. Well, I must tell you that there are either many dishonest or very naive people or both who work in that office and through phone conversations with them that I have had many of. I have had many technical support workers come to our home in D-2 to look at and to "fix" our modem. Truth be it that there is nothing wrong with our modem, never has been and one time last year they even replaced our current modem at the time (with a new - no $ charge modem) just to suggest that there was nothing that they could do differently when the new modem didn't change the problem. They spent so much time on each occasion looking as though they were checking out everything in the system on 3 computers that we have and each time came up short only to complete their check with making a call to their central office to be informed to tell us that the overseas cable was broken (as if they did not know this before coming to us?). The latest episode has occurred this past week having been without service for the past 8 days (and counting). I have notified VNPT as I had during January that we would not make any payment for the time during which we were so inconvenienced by not having any service or with poor connection. When they come around to collect sometime this week or next, I will just refuse to pay the entire bill. More recently, we have spoken to many Vietnamese people who have told us of their horrendous experiences with VNPT (or government-owned internet disservices) and they have encouraged us to transfer to Viettel. This we knew and have wanted to do for so long, however, living in a government-owned building, we are limited from our options to transfer services but as I write to you now, my Vietnamese partner is having conversations with others to attempt to bring a better service to our building (or at least us). The final truth which you should know about is that a "broken overseas cable" is only one big lie. The more probable truth is that the government has, at times, been negligent or unable to pay its own bills with overseas internet cable contractors and the monies that many people continue to pay for poor or no services is only going toward paying off the government's debt.

That may be true...or we can just shrug our shoulders and start worshipping the shark God. Maybe they'll stop their internet cable chomping frenzy. Sharks have to realize at some point that's not how you obtain free internet...

During the time the news saying that " Sharks bite the cable, jellyfishes lick the cable ...blah blah..."

This is Viettel speedtest in my building, Office Fiber package.
1. Inside Vietnam

2. to SG

3. to US, LA


Finally, I remove the VNPT line which is more expensive price, worse quality, snobish agents. 

I have to agree with everyone.  It's annoying as heck when the porn don't work.

At least you can access to expat-blog to complain so the internet isn't bad at all. I use VNPT. Many days ago, I couldn't open any sites, even gmail but at least I was still able to play online game on my phone. Now it has disconnected for 2 days...Sleep early.

I have no idea what internet provider our apartment building is using.  I live in Hung Vuong 2 in Phu My Hung and if I download anything it takes about an hour.  I'm having a hard time with my online masters program since sites won't load.  I find myself driving around for a cheap cafe with wifi and just indulging on the sweet nectar from their grid.  If anybody wants to join me I'm at The Coffee Factory in D1.

Whos_your_Addy wrote:

I have no idea what internet provider our apartment building is using.  I live in Hung Vuong 2 in Phu My Hung and if I download anything it takes about an hour.  I'm having a hard time with my online masters program since sites won't load.  I find myself driving around for a cheap cafe with wifi and just indulging on the sweet nectar from their grid.  If anybody wants to join me I'm at The Coffee Factory in D1.

Go to speedtest.net , you will know what internet provider your building is using.

zanchun wrote:

Whos_your_Addy wrote:

I have no idea what internet provider our apartment building is using.  I live in Hung Vuong 2 in Phu My Hung and if I download anything it takes about an hour.  I'm having a hard time with my online masters program since sites won't load.  I find myself driving around for a cheap cafe with wifi and just indulging on the sweet nectar from their grid.  If anybody wants to join me I'm at The Coffee Factory in D1.

Go to speedtest.net , you will know what internet provider your building is using.

Thank you!  Although I just did it at the cafe, download and upload speed are around 30, the ping is at 4.  What is a ping?  Is this still slow?  I'm slowly learning about the ins and outs of the internet.

Cables have been fixed.

Here we go again:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/tech/some- … 59782.html

Hopefully the new cables will bring some improvements. I have a 25Mb fibre optic connection here and sometimes it's a slow as dial-up used to be.

http://www.thanhniennews.com/tech/inter … 59858.html

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