Where is the best high speed internet access in Phnom Penh?

2Matt · 5 minutes to kill Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 3

Hi.

I'm a sports journalist who will be in Phnom for some late nights in a few weeks. Does anyone know where the fastest connections at a internet shops are? How about all night access connections? Any ideas?

seamallowance · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:34 am Post subject:

When I was there in January, the fastest was at the Banana Bar. Word has it that it has, um, changed a bit in the evenings, but during the day should be just fine. It has (or had) good food too.

LaudJohn · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:01 am Post subject:

Use an online HotSpot. Get an Online prepaid Access card and sit at Tony's bar in st 130 and use your own wifi laptop.... blisteringly fast speeds $10 buys you 6 hours.

Tonys is opposite the Online HQ (on the corner of st 130 and Norodom) and is open at nights, this is the best connection of all the online hot spots apparently. Otherwise just sit in their showroom in A/C comfort at a desk with power and use it there.

I don't bother with internet cafes anymore... too bloody slow for some of the large files I need to download for work.

enjoy yourself
LaudJohn

Doctor Seuss · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:25 pm Post subject:

LaudJohn · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:48 pm Post subject:

jm · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:28 pm Post subject:

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Jungle has a very fast connection, free for customers, wired for laptops.

While we were down for remodel in the morning I tested out the two places I generally use when we're down, Freebird (w/two customers) and FastNet on Sisowath (maybe half dozen customers) and found they offered roughly the same download speed (75-83kb/s) as each other. Jungle with two lines being used tested at 430kb/s. I'd love to know what kind of speeds people are getting at the hotspots. The site I used to test this time is here.

nohgoot · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 2:41 pm Post subject:

I took LaudJohn's advice and bought a prepaid card and set up my laptop at a desk in the air-conditoned offices at Online's retail facility on Norodom. I consistantly got good bandwidth as I downloaded the entire 600+ megabyte Oracle 10G database software package and simultaneously uploaded over 300 mbytes of video and photos for my online family photo gallery.

The Online retail office closes at 5:30pm, but I was taken to a back office at 5:25pm and given a desk in the support office to use until 9:00pm. Good value at $10 for 6 hours if you've got lots of data to move around.
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jm · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 2:50 pm Post subject:

Phuket2006 · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:23 am Post subject: connection

I all.
Thanks for the info
does anyone know about a sim card that you can use. I am in thailand and have a tegno wireless modem that uses a sim card for GPRS connectiona dn although not fast works all over thailand

Also how about connections in Siam rep and Sihanoukville??
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LuckyIrishman · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:01 am Post subject:

Good Q Phu, some of us will be luxuriating in Siem Reap - it would be nice to know.
Perchance Gorshar is reading, his info is spot-on as far as SR.
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Admin · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 2:00 pm Post subject:

I'm with Camtel and whilst the connection can sometimes be lousy, last night I was bounding along at 80-100kb a second which for Cambodia is about as good as it gets. Good enough to watch about five old episodes of the Larry Sanders show on You Tube last night without having to pause.
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Starving Pelican · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:07 pm Post subject:

KiR and Jungle Jim: is it still some ridiculous charge to have a residential broadband/cable/ADSL connection? A computer-learned friend of mine just couldn't accept somewhere in Asia would have such a shitty and overpriced internet system. Then again, he hadn't had the concept of a monopolised industry explained to him either.

He also said there's some cheaper way to do it in a place with high internet charges, something about connecting your broadband/cable/ADSL account to an overseas provider via your mobile or land phone. Does anyone know about this or has tried it?
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bar one · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:10 pm Post subject:

I have booked into the FCC which has complimentary high speed wi fi in all the rooms.
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jm · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:31 pm Post subject:

I still have my $200+/month Online DSL connection. It's fast (256k and I get that) and seems to be more reliable than most. Jungle was up when most of the cafes were down after the quake last week. CityLink is comparable in price when taking into account their data limits and I've heard some not so great reports about the new AngkorNet's wifi results.

I'd love to know what download speeds folks are getting at the wifi joints (Online offers exactly same speed/price/data limits for their wifi and dsl packages). Bar One, could you go to a couple of speed test sites just for the hell of it?

There are cheaper alternatives, but available speeds vary more with time of day and they have lower data limits (mine is 2GB and I use it up easily). Believe me, if I could find a less expensive alernative that gave me speed and reliability I'd jump on it.

(and SP it's Jungle Jeff, not Jim)