Indihome 20MB connection and tv

spicyayam

spicyayam

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So we just got Indihome installed yesterday. It's the 20MB service. Comes together with phone line and a bunch of television channels. Only had to pay for a LAN cable to reach our television. We had to change our telephone number, but that was the only downside. Cost is just over 700K a month. 50MB available for 1.5 million.


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Thanks for the info SpicyAyam. Can I ask a favour?

Could you repeat the speedtest again but point it towards a server location in Sydney or Melbourne, Australia? This would give me a good idea how it'll perform for some of the functions I require. e.g. VOIP, FTP file uploads, Remote Desktop.
 
DenpasarHouse said:
Thanks for the info SpicyAyam. Can I ask a favour?
Could you repeat the speedtest again but point it towards a server location in Sydney or Melbourne, Australia? This would give me a good idea how it'll perform for some of the functions I require. e.g. VOIP, FTP file uploads, Remote Desktop.
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DPH, a pair of 14s is going to eat VOIP (only need 3+), ws-ftp32 (again 3 is enough) and RD. Sounds like you will be 'busy'. And very reminiscent of some of my o/seas activities. I experienced deja vu reading your post.

The world is getting smaller and I hope I am standing next to Nicole Kidman when it really shrinks all the way down! Certainly not Jerry Hall who is tying the knot with Rupert M. What's his game?
 
Markit said:
A pox on you and all your issue!
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Ha ha! Suffer in ya jocks, Markit. I've even stopped buying DVDs as Smartfren give you an extra 12GB you can use between 2am to 8am. Just setup utorrent to automatically start and stop between those hours.
 
paulseawind said:
DPH, a pair of 14s is going to eat VOIP (only need 3+), ws-ftp32 (again 3 is enough) and RD.
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I'm not sure where you're getting the 14 seconds from but the ping in SpicyAyam's speedtest result is 43 milliseconds, which is a good result for VOIP . . . if you want to call Kuta. I'd like to know what the ping result is between here and Australia because that's where I call the most.

I'd be perfectly happy using the mobile Smartfren network for everything if it was more reliable. It basically becomes worse than dial-up in stormy weather. Here's my speedtest results:

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VOIP works well (even on 300ms), Skype works well, Remote Desktop and web browsing are fine but FTP uploading is a bit of a pain for large files. About 50% of the time, files larger than about 20Mb will freeze mid-upload. I use 7-zip to split them up into 10Mb chunks to get around the problem.
 
DenpasarHouse said:
I'm not sure where you're getting the 14 seconds from but the ping in SpicyAyam's speedtest result is 43 milliseconds, which is a good result for VOIP . . . if you want to call Kuta. I'd like to know what the ping result is between here and Australia because that's where I call the most.
I'd be perfectly happy using the mobile Smartfren network for everything if it was more reliable. It basically becomes worse than dial-up in stormy weather. Here's my speedtest results:
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VOIP works well (even on 300ms), Skype works well, Remote Desktop and web browsing are fine but FTP uploading is a bit of a pain for large files. About 50% of the time, files larger than about 20Mb will freeze mid-upload. I use 7-zip to split them up into 10Mb chunks to get around the problem.
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DPH, I am not getting 14 seconds from anywhere. I am getting the pair of 14s from SA's post #1 on this thread. That's MB/sec. I am very jealous he has such a fabulous capacity.

The ping is just on your machine to the 'nearest' server. I find the ping to be of no real value. I usually get directed to Sbya.

And, I am crying crocodile tears over your much slower speeds as shown by your published test result. Poor man. I feel like putting an additional $0.20c in your machine to help it run faster. Do not run ZenMate when wanting speed because it will slow you down a bit.

My experience is talk slower, and enunciate clearly for these VOIP calls. I do several calls a week to Down Under. And USA. In fact, wherever I want to call. I use Skype now which works really well.
 
paulseawind said:
DPH, I am not getting 14 seconds from anywhere. I am getting the pair of 14s from SA's post #1 on this thread. That's MB/sec. I am very jealous he has such a fabulous capacity.

The ping is just on your machine to the 'nearest' server. I find the ping to be of no real value.
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Oh right. If you say something is going to eat something else, doesn't it usually imply a bad result?

A ping result over 300ms will usually result in too long of a delay for comfortable VOIP conversations, that's why it's important to me.

paulseawind said:
My experience is talk slower, and enunciate clearly for these VOIP calls. I do several calls a week to Down Under. And USA. In fact, wherever I want to call. I use Skype now which works really well.
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Yep, that's my experience too. Takes a bit of getting used to. I'm hoping the Indihome fibre-to-the-home will cut down this ping time significantly and be reliable 24/7.
 
DenpasarHouse said:
Oh right. If you say something is going to eat something else, doesn't it usually imply a bad result?
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Yes. No. Please let me explain my 'slang'. When I said 3MB will eat VOIP it meant 3MB+ will be adequate to run VOIP calls. It's not a bad result. It means the technique you will use will be adequate for the job. Thanks for asking, DPH.

I thought everyone knew this stuff but I will be more middle of the road now. I like that too. Imitating a News Radio announcer. They speak such good English. Best I have heard anywhere. Better than Queen Elizabeth, actually. Prince Gnarls is pretty good at English though, I must admit.
 
We only have 10 Mbit Indihome, but here is a speedtest to Telstra in Sydney. The main thing that changes in the ping. Downloads are still close to 10.
 

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Many thanks to RonB and SpicyAyam. It looks like the ping time is only marginally better using Indihome fibre, meaning that there will still be a noticeable delay using VOIP.

What do you guys think about it's reliability? Have you had many dropouts or severe slow downs? Does the router need to be turned on and off sometimes?
 
DenpasarHouse said:
Did you change the speedtest to use a server in Sydney, Australia? If not, you're not comparing apples with apples.
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No. I just fired it up without ZenMate active. It goes via Surabaya. Which is what I would get on a normal day.

I can give it a go now to go thru Sydney. How do I do that?
Let me try it. I just had a shower so I am sharper than before.
 
Nah. Too hard. I couldn't see a button to press for Sydney or anywhere else, sorry.
 
What do you guys think about it's reliability? Have you had many dropouts or severe slow downs? Does the router need to be turned on and off sometimes?
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I don't know yet. It has only been one day. I am watching tv also. Not sure if that will slow things down, but it does go through the router also. I am sure occasionally you would need to restart it and I am sure it will generate some heat.

It has only been a few years since we were using a radio antennae which was more than 1 million a month and I guess we were getting less than 1 mb download, with lots of outages. I don't think you can complain too much about the progress being made.
 
Just to make sure we're talking about the same site. Here's the URL: http://www.speedtest.net/

Instead of clicking 'Begin Test' click the minus symbol on the left hand side to zoom the map out and then use the mouse the position of the map until it's over Australia. Hover your mouse over the white dot that would be Sydney and then choose a server from the list.

I think a lot of people make that mistake of accepting the test results at face value without thinking about the location of the test server. Think of it this way. You wouldn't test the speed and reliability of the postal service from here to Sydney, Australia by sending a letter to Surabaya.

You need to pick a server location that is representative of the where the majority of your web traffic originates.
 
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