Beer Chang Posted December 16, 2009 Report Share Posted December 16, 2009 So has your download speed improbed? From The Nation: BANGKOK: -- CAT Telecom will today open the Asia-America Gateway it has jointly built up with other 18 leading telecom parties. The gateway is a high-bandwidth fibre-optic submarine cable system that connects Southeast Asia to the United States. Internet users throughout Asia should start to see a dramatic increase in internet speed for websites located outside of the region when the $US550 million Asia-America Gateway (AAG) comes into operation today. The new 20,000km (about 12,400 miles) AAG - an optical fibre cable network stretching from Malaysia to the West Coast of America via Guam and Hawaii - is now open, according to CAT Telecom. The cable has additional landing points in Hong Kong and the Philippines, with branches to Singapore, Thailand, Brunei and Vietnam. The cable became a reality in June 2006, when AiTi of Brunei Darussalam, CAT Telecom (Thailand), PLDT (Philippines), REACH (Hong Kong), StarHub (Singapore), Telekom Malaysia (Malaysia) and VNPT (Vietnam) all signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) for its construction. In addition to being one of the longest undersea cable rollouts in history, the AAG will actually shorten the route for data from Asia to America, avoiding some of the wolds’ areas most prone to seismic activity in the process. The demand for better quality communications services throughout Asia has been an ongoing battle between foreign and local businesses and regional communications carriers, and one that has affected economic growth in some countries. The AAG uses the latest Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technologies with a minimum design capacity of 1.28 terabit/s and a design capacity of 1.92 terabit/s. The last of the undersea cable work was completed in June and all 10 landing points were completed months ago. The new cable will improve e-commerce traffic and help meet the increasing demand for faster and more reliable internet, video and other multimedia services and applications Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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patong Posted December 31, 2009 Report Share Posted December 31, 2009 So has your download speed improbed? No, it's gotten worse... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaimo Posted December 31, 2009 Report Share Posted December 31, 2009 So has your download speed improved? I don't notice any particular improvement. As a matter of fact, that bandwidth pic you posted just now took 7 seconds to load and it's 302k. I'm still on ASDL. A friend converted to broadband earlier this week and he is delighted with it. He had the same service I use. His broadband costs about half the price and he says he is getting significantly faster speed. I am soon going to switch over to it and give it a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wino Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 I haven't notice much of a difference, either. Although I a friend of mine is delighted with the speed of his broadband. He says it is so much better this year than last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patong Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 I haven't notice much of a difference, either. Although I a friend of mine is delighted with the speed of his broadband. He says it is so much better this year than last. Still no difference as far as I can measure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaimo Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 I would be willing to settle for the same speed I get with ASDL, if that's all I can get, since it is half the price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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