Sinet. Good?
Sinet. Good?
Anybody have experience with Sinet? Thinking about buying their $440 Fiber Home Edge package.
The only downside is that you have to pay yearly. I’ve found them to be the best and $440 is a great price.
Ensure that IPv6 works after installation and nag them until they fix it if it doesn’t.
Ensure that IPv6 works after installation and nag them until they fix it if it doesn’t.
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Sounds good.
A) What "top speeds" do they deliver ?
B) What does their speed between 16:00 and 24:00 ?
C) Do they have their own "out of the country" fiber wires/connections, or do they also join the line to Vietnam and/or Malaysia ?
D) Fixed IP ?
A) Up to 1 Gbps
B) You get the bandwidth that you pay for.
C) Yes, and as far as I know they are the only ones to have IPv6 peering. They route via Singapore, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur.
D) Yes
A) I do have some doubts, whether the out of the country connection would be that BW .....
B) Having a 1 Gbps home connection does -unfortunately- say nothing about the upstream capacity and capabilities, there, where the connections do get aggregated.
C) IPv6 has nothing to do with the "out of the country" wirings. According to my info, Cambodia does have 2 out of the country connections. One going through Vietnam and one direct seabed one to Malaysia. See:
SubMarineCableMap
The one through Vietnam gets routed differently across the world, depending on the time of the day.
The one to Malaysia seems to be used as a traffic "overflow" for the Vietnam one AND when you connect to something in Malaysia.
As such, the Malaysian one making good connection speed and response, when you use a VPN to a Malaysia node and from there with proper connection to the rest of the world. Except early mornings, this works the best. In the early mornings the Malaysia connection seems to be routed through the Vietnam link anyway.
In the evenings, best have a VPN to a Hong Kong node, because by then, the Malaysia outbound seems to get overloaded by the Malaysians themselves.
D) OK.
Feel free to correct me on this
Edit: Ah, all those "varying" routings are all about money
Edit one more: The fixed IP is not fixed, it's DHCP and for the $440 account, it's not a public IP. Also, this seems to be "edge" technology, implying "shared", except for the connection between the inbound router and your own cabling/network. Still potentially interesting.
- Barang_doa_slae
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I have their fiber plus subscription and at this time (4pm05) my speed is 80Mps download ans 45Mps upload
If you do believe websites, then all is rosy. Reality shows to be different.
Usually, the most challenging is this one:
B) What does their speed between 16:00 and 24:00 ?
Especially for out of the country and not-youtube/google/facebook connections.
The latter parties do simply buy bandwidth at providers world-wide to take care, their websites do give sufficient speed all over the world.
I am well versed in ISP caching techniques and traffic shaping. I already answered your question. If anything is unclear they have relevant info on their website.
the cheaper (fiber edge) plan being behind cgnat makes it useless if you want to host any servers. $200 extra just for an IP address. No mention of port blocking though.
"Goodness me! Now STD free..."
Good to hear, we do have an expert on the board !
Actually, the sinet website silently avoids giving an answer on the 2 questions:
A) Out of the country speed specs.
B) The hold-up of the speed specs during rush hour: 16:00 - 24:00.
Barang_doa_slae gives some figures, but it's unclear how/what the speed measure is. Many providers do fake (or prioritize) the general purpose speed-test websites, so those results are looking impressive though aren't that useful. Better would be to do SFTP traffics to/from a server in Europe and the USA for testing. SFTP is a non-streaming protocol and as such very sensitive to long network delays. Good SFTP traffic is the best indication that interactive sessions to EU/USA would be feasible.
rektj00 correctly raises the port blocking issue. Add to that, the probably varying DHCP IP number, requiring messing around with dyn-dns things.
For the real work, I think, the minimum would be Fiber Plus. 80 Mb Up/Down at the speed level is more than enough for nearly everything. That pricing would be roughly equal to what you pay in the EU for a 100 Mbit home fiber with no traffic limits and a DHCP based fixed IP address.
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