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spicyayam

My 15 y/o son has been reading this thread and his quote " these guys haven't a clue, no idea at all, don't know what they are taking about. He's laughing and asking are these guys old ( anything 40 and above is old) The speeds they are talking about they don't understand what's low and what's high speed. They are getting mixed up between megabytes and megabits. There are a couple of people who understand but others are confused. A lower ms is better. I also don't understand Any questions he will answer through me

That's great your son is learning this. Are they teaching this in school now? I admit I have no clue. All ISPs use the download speed in their marketing materials. Usually with the magic words "up to". So basically anything less than what they claim. Maybe you can ask your son what is the best way to test the speed/quality. I think it has been mentioned before about the unreliability of speedtest as ISPs will give extra bandwidth to the site to make it appear that you are getting good speeds. Is that true? There was another site which is supposed to be better. Can't remember the name now. If downloads are fast within Indonesia, but slow to connect to servers outside of Indonesia, what is causing this? In simplistic terms, I would imagine it is Telkom's own 'gateway' to the cable which connects the internet to other countries. You just need to look at a map like this and see there is not a lot of connectivity to Indonesia: Submarine Cable Map

Markit

Speed tests are a simple "ping" like the old WWII submarine movies - a signal bounces there and back and is timed (have also heard the ISP give special bandwidth to the rating sites too) but with the "real world" it looks a bit different. Your "send", be it a Google query or a VOIP with video, is broken up at your closest server into "packets" which are individually addressed and sequenced and sent on their way with no interest in where - they will find their own way on the massive internet through the added addressing. Delays come up all through the network but while it's all so wildly fast, a millisecond is 1/1000 of a second and that's slow stuff in computer terms, it all comes together reasonable soon at the destination. But! if one of those individual packets goes missing or is corrupted (an integrity check is also included in the addressing) then a "resend" command is sent back to your first server and it all starts again. I could go on and on and on. Be glad it all works at all, very glad - 20 years ago most people hadn't heard of the internet and knew more about their spouses and kids than they probably wanted to.

geedee

That's great your son is learning this. Are they teaching this in school now? I admit I have no clue. All ISPs use the download speed in their marketing materials. Usually with the magic words "up to". So basically anything less than what they claim. Maybe you can ask your son what is the best way to test the speed/quality. I think it has been mentioned before about the unreliability of speedtest as ISPs will give extra bandwidth to the site to make it appear that you are getting good speeds. Is that true? There was another site which is supposed to be better. Can't remember the name now. If downloads are fast within Indonesia, but slow to connect to servers outside of Indonesia, what is causing this? In simplistic terms, I would imagine it is Telkom's own 'gateway' to the cable which connects the internet to other countries. You just need to look at a map like this and see there is not a lot of connectivity to Indonesia: Submarine Cable Map

Yes they get taught a bit in school then spend countless hours online and closing the window when you get near them so you can't see what they are doing. A lot of the homework is done online. You need to supply a laptop for them for school use. Sometimes it's best not asking as he looks at you as if your mad ,at that age they know everything. Oh how I wish I was his age and know what I know now.

heerhugo

[ATTACH]2650.vB[/ATTACH] Hello everybody, Speed test to Sydney....... Biznet Fiber Metronet 30mbps 2.200.000 per month

DenpasarHouse

heerhugo wrote[ATTACH=CONFIG]2650[/ATTACH] Hello everybody, Speed test to Sydney....... Biznet Fiber Metronet 30mbps 2.200.000 per month

Thanks Heerhugo, that's the best Ping time yet. I didn't think that was possible in Indonesia.

kabouter

Just a question since both indihome/speedy and globalextreme are using fiber, why are globalextreme's speeds capped so low and their price so high aren't they using the exact same lines?

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