Update on Bali internet quality

Bob Zilla

Hi everyone. I am trying to relocate my business to Bali and do all my business over the telephone, so I am concerned about the ability to carry on international calls to Australia/New Zealand and the U.S. using VoIP - cheap internet based telphone calls. Also, need non-frustrating internet to send/receive normal business date, like email, and to do research. Is anyone having particularly good results with VoIP out there in Bali? I heard the Telcom ADSL launch had come (again)....any users? All that I really know is a few people I am in touch there with have intermittent success using, say Chanel 11, for VoIP. Your observations about internet access in Bali, and suggestions to help my business, will be greatly appreciated. I am looking at a location in Canggu, by the way...thinking it is still within the sphere of "fastest" internet availability.

Bert Vierstra

Well, you can have the speed, if you have the money 8) Upto 2mbit Ku-Band Sat is possible, and reliable, only hick-ups with very heavy rain... Or C-Band, in various speeds... a bit more expensive....

Tommy

Bert, Do you know of a resonable priced adsl-provider who don't have a mb-limit per month? It doesn't have to be lightning-fast but the flow of data has to be steady.

ColinF

Bob, seems to me a bit dicy to base your company on availability of good internet connections in Bali. I work for a major foreign airline and all of our technical manuals and even a vast amount of our technical training is now done on-line at our stations world-wide......except DPS! A special case has had to be made for us so that we can receive our manuals etc on CD-Rom - which of course must be replaced every few weeks due to revisions. With the speeds available here it is simply impossible to read a manual page when you need it, ie; onboard the aircraft in the cockpit with your laptop plugged in. Training videos/audio? Forget it, the company system, even if you have Authorware previously installed, simply rejects you. It is possible in some areas to get WiFi broadband but not via hardline. And it's expensive. The airport authorities refuse to allow the required antenae on airport property quoting a soon-to-be-installed fibreoptic-link for this purpose as the reason, although 2 years later their answer to our question "when is it coming" is "what fibreoptic-link"?! (Roughly translated means 'welcome to Indonesia'!) However, if you are just looking to set up in a beautiful island environment, I was recently seconded to Palau, in the Western Caroline islands of the Pacific, for a month while our resident station engineer was on vacation - total, utter beauty, uncrowded and with hi-speed connections! (And....NO stinky, noisy little motorbikes. Bloody bliss!!) :D :lol: Doesn't have even the tourist numbers of present-day Bali though. Good luck though, I hear there are moves afoot to improve things in the IT world here.......me, I'll believe it when I see it! Colin.

katschi

ADSL: on Java all ADSL offers based on the TELKOM ADSL-products, mainly in Surabaya and Jakarta area SPEEDY. SPEEDY should also be avaible in 2006 on Bali. But there are some steps to go, that this will avaible. As far as I unterstand a friend from Telkom right, the Telkom is at this time setting up a new InternetExchange point, where Bali will be connected to. ADSL in Surabaya at this time is, for international sites, connected via Fibre to Jakarta and there via Kabel to Singapura. And now a new underseakabel will come up to Surabaya, as far as I unterstand it right. And then it should be possible to bring more user to SPEEDY / ADSL. If you need more then 2 GByte Traffic the month you can get the unlimited SPEEDY. Monthly cost for that at this time around 3,5 juta. I am hoping this informations helping a little bit. Regards Tom

rafalution

[b]Re: RE: Update on Bali internet quality[/b] [quote=Bert]Well, you can have the speed, if you have the money 8) Upto 2mbit Ku-Band Sat is possible, and reliable, only hick-ups with very heavy rain... Or C-Band, in various speeds... a bit more expensive....[/quote] Bert, how much does it cost?

spitfire

We use Telkom Speedy ADSL in the office with 384 mb bandwidth. It's enough to Skype to Europe with. With some people I get better results using MSN Messsenger's calling option (less distrortion and delay). Their uptime has been OK since beginning of december, but since last friday they are 100% down... http://www.telkom.net/infolayanan_speedy.php

katschi

Hi spitfire, you using SPEEDY on Bali at this time? At far as I know at this time TelkomSPEEDY is only avaible at: Divre 2 (Jabotabek, Serang, Purwakarta) and Divre 5 (Jawa Timur) On Bali it is not avaible at this time. And the subject of this thread was "Update on Bali internet quality" !!!! Tom

spitfire

It seems that I have been misinformed about the package. We use Telkomnet, I understand it's ADSL but the guys continue to call it Speedy here. However my "Update on Bali internet quality" is still correct. The subject starter asked about VoIP and reliability and I that's what I responded to!!!!

katschi

Hi spitfire, okay you wrote [quote]We use Telkom Speedy ADSL in the office with 384 mb bandwidth. [/quote]. Something like that is not avaible as far as I know at this time on Bali. Also not via Telkomnet. Sorry. But it is right: for many employees of Indonesia Telkom it is better to say nothing instead of saying something :D Tom[/quote]

sander

Speedy is availlable in bali now only doesn't have a unlimited package. I am using it now, see my topic http://www.bali-information.com/expat_f ... hp?p=23125