Reliability, Service of ISP

manyu882 SG · 2006-08-27T23:54:20+00:00

he no proxing ahha. check liao. in his connection tab in IE. btw he’s using PAcific ADSL… very old liao.. 512Kbps adsl..

manyu882 SG

Starhubs's cable broadband www.starhub.com
Singnet's ADSL broadband www.singnet.com
Pacific Internet's Cable bradband http://www.pacific.net.sg/
Qala's ADSL bradand http://www.qala.com.sg/adsl_promo_aug06_staroffer.htm
1-Net Singapore http://www.1-net.com.sg/svc_connectivity.htm

how reliable?
in terms of:
Getting lesser d.c.
lesser network problems.
connectivity to other countries

service:
customer service
speed promised (less fluctuate)

lpx88 SG

IMO......

All ISPs in ISngapore are equally sucky Laughing

Im using singnet now..gettin quite consistent speeds albeit lags...dono much about other ISPs..but thats for me, a singnet 3.5mbps user Wink

FireIce SG

all have their own praises and problems lah

jus pick the one tt suits ur usage and wallet

rathcycle SG

Both starhub and singnet sucks, dunno about the others you mentioned.

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Unless each ISP has their own lines, otherwise expect it to fail horribly.

The only exception would be Singnet, because all the cables are theirs. The rest, are leased from Singnet. So if Singnet sucks, the rest would suck too. To make it better, must see how each ISP handle already.

For me, Singnet handles things quite well, except their customer service.

manyu882 SG

i heard that singnet always get frequent dc usually during peak hours(at night). anyone knows the reason behind it?

rathcycle SG

updates.

ndmmxiaomayi SG

For me, there’s no such problems, but the internet would be super laggy after 10pm.

manyu882 SG

I believe that every internet cables etc owns by singnet.. but one thing that make me confuse... on some occasion,until now ,when singnet user connects to starhub user or vice versa, there tends to have losss packets in between them.
eg. when i play warcraft3 online, the host is is a starhub user, and the players are singnet user. the whole thing lag cos packets were not recieved from each other.

when i ping my friend's I address, i get some request time out after 5-10 sucessful pings

if all ISP's lines, cables etc.. are own by singtel... wouldn't it be not laggy?

Ito_^ SG

singnet and starhub lines different.. am i right?

ndmmxiaomayi SG

That's why I said to make it better, it depends on ISP itself already.

As for your first question, I don't know why either. Different ISPs are using different technologies to manage. That could be the cause.

ndmmxiaomayi SG

As of now, all the lines are Singnet ones. Few years down the road, Starhub will have its own lines.

manyu882 SG

sorry i dun get what u mean.. elaborate?

rathcycle SG

they need to currently update thier server la.. i dunno much, u ask mayi to elaborate for you. Laughing

manyu882 SG

lol i think..(is he a he?) he's busy ba..

One doubt.. i'm not good at ADSL technology.

about pacific internet..
my friend got a problem recently that.. he always can't get into the internet for the past 3 weeks during peak hours and weekends.

when he can't access totrhe internet, i found that the IP address assigned to his adapter is 10.0.0.6(fyi the DHCP is 10.0.0.2). why the ip adress so nice one? i tot it should be 2xx.xxx.xxx.xxx. and maybe cos of this, he can't connect to internet? cos the DHCP sv has no more IP address to assign???

rathcycle SG

she's a she...
anyway, i dunno much, so bye.

ndmmxiaomayi SG

You stalk me? Laughing

Female by the way.

By updates, it means the server is refreshing. Singapore don't assign static IP addresses to users, but dynamic IP addresses. As most of us come online at night, the server needs to cope with the heavy usage.

The server also refreshes every few hours to re-assign IP addresses to users who have not disconnected from the Net.

Adapter IP address is one thing, the one assigned to the user by the ISP is another one. Adapter no IP address, how you configure? Same goes for router and modem.

And IP address need not to start 200++. It can be anything from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255, although technically not all IP addresses can be used.

DHCP won't run out of addresses to assign. Your friend could have changed some settings in the PC to result in this.

manyu882 SG

couldn't be ba.. cos.. he can access during non peak hours.. if tyco, sometimes peak hours can use.. but dc frequently. the ADSL LED kept flashing while in disconnected mode. so maybe got to do with the DHCP sv? he got his internet directly connected to the modem. it has been happening since 3 weeks ago.. if he change some settings den.. maybe he can't access all the way.

the Ip address assigned from the ISP is 10.0.0.2.. and according to this http://www.hackingspirits.com/cyb_forensic/fsic_articles/loc_place.html

the Ip number doesn't fall into Singapore's Ip number range. first time ive seen such a thing.. does it happen to anyone of u?

duotiga83 SG

+1 here Mr. Green

ndmmxiaomayi SG

DHCP is only responsible for assigning of IP addresses. If he disconnects frequently, it's either some settings that are not right or there is some problems with the connections.

As for the ADSL LED light light kept blinking, it is an indication of connections problems.

Is he behind some proxy? Some websites are not able to detect proxy, that's why the IP address is not local.