If you arrive from Sweden to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia you are in for are slow ride. Sweden is one of the countries in the world with the best Internet connections.
We have bought a 1Mbit connection from TMNET - Streamyx and most of the time it works fine... But sometimes without no reason it does not work at ALL!! My main problem as an expat here in KL is that most of the information I would like to get access to is in Sweden, US-West or UK. Sometime the connection "times out" because it takes to long to get an answer (see ping below).
When you have problems with your connection ..... I found information on the web that suggests that you should turn your ADSL modem off for ~10 minutes so that the equipment can reset itself at the telephone exchange. Then start the ADSL modem and wait for 1-2 minutes before starting routers/switches and PCs.
If there is thunder and lightning in the air then your Internet connection might go down (might be that they close down the equipment so that it does not get hurt).
I have tried to find tools so that I can find out the speed of the Internet Connection that we have. I started out with the old Swedish developed test program TPtest from Konsumentverket that works fine except that it only connects to Swedish Servers and that it has not been updated for some time. However they have made a new test Bredbandskollen TPTEST which is easier except that it only connects to Swedish Servers and that it is in Swedish only (--Sorry).
Use this Test
After hunting around on the Internet I found Speedtest.net which has a number of servers all around the world to test with and the numbers look reasonable.
The values could be better but these are good values!! These tests below were made before 9 am local time (not too many people on the Internet in KL).
Here are some values from my PC to different parts of the world.
Geek stuff below
Paris is a nice a beautiful city and it is also the host for WoW (World of WarCraft) one of the Online Games that Andrew plays. One can understand why Andrew has problems with "Lags". If you look at the "Ping" field in the results you will see that it is 820 ms or 0.8 seconds for a packet to go from KL to Paris and back to KL. No wonder that Andrews avatars can not see what is coming and they get killed before they can do anything.
Speed of light = 299,792.458 kilometers per second.
Distance to server = ~10400 kilometers
velocity=distance/time => time=distance/velocity
The time to Paris traveling at the speed of light is 0.0347 seconds or 34.7 milliseconds. This is the best that physics can give us. Our test above takes 817 ms back and forth or 408 milliseconds one way.
Sorry Andrew your lag is about 10 times that of the Speed of light!!
My Summery
Here are my coordinates. Push the image and you will find out your place on the Internet.
If you have found a better test or have come to another conclusion I would be interested in your views. :-)
