Sorry to flood the list with posts, but I have a million questions. And so far only a few answers, and few people to turn to for politco-technical advise in singapore ;-)
I am in the process of moving into a flat on Sunday. And volunteered to sort out comms. I come from a heavy network architecture point of view, but need some recommendations from people here about the following. 1) ISP choice. So far I have established there are 5 ISP's (this is a tiny fraction of the number in NZ). And I am used to dealing with small Minoe ISP's and knowing people who run them. My choice of ISP generally depends on 3 things; 1) Actively Peer at Public Internet Exchanges, and are committed to improving global network infrastructure when they can 2) Offer personalised service, without 'valued added' crap (I.e I want a pipe, and maybe a /29 subnet, I can deal with a single static IP for the moment tho) 3) Quality of service is acceptable (I don't expect to have my ping and RTS times fluctuate erratically in peak periods). I don't expect a 5 9 SLA either tho, so long as I can reach someone during outages who can not feed me bullshit lines as to the problem, I am happy sucking up for the outage window. So these are my observations on the 5. I am leaning towards Pacnet as the can offer me Cable with decent upload speed (I need at LEAST 1mbit upstream, down is not so important). And I know they actively peer. However I have heard mixed things about there QOS, and there support line seems to be manned by monkeys... I am hopping I am missing an ISP here... otherwise can anyone offer recommendations. I deffinately want to try and avoid either of the encumbents (Singtel, and Mediacorp) as they have both done dirty backhanded things in terms of international peering arrangements and I have heard there filtering is invasive. (Shaping protocols, moving IP's) Singtel - Government Owned, But offer good range of services Starhub - Mediacorp Owned, Again good range Pacnet - Privately Held, but I have heard service levels are not great M1 - More Media Corp ownership + Vodaphone Qala - Only offer ADSL in consumer segment, fibre and frame services are heinously expensive Please add your own observations. (I plan to use this post as a base to fixup the current wikipedia page). 2) Voip providers. I want one thing from a voip provider, that they use standard sip or iax protocol that asterisk plays nicely with, and give me a local (Singapore) number with compeditive local rates. Who do people use here for such a thing, anyone know a company that offers this (I have seen the above going for around 13$ a month sing, but that seems overly expensive considering local calls are not free here) 3) I know that many of the ISP's either monitor or filter content in singapore, I have seen it happen to a machine I was admining from NZ which was in singapore. Basically I think in this case was singtel, but they deliberately forced a very low DHCP renew time on the ADSL connection so that interactive services were a pain to use. I also noticed that Bittorrent traffic gets shapped a bit (when not tunneled), and the latencys are all over the place (which can be the result of too many clients on a single DSLAM or stream monitoring...) What do people know of the methods employed here by ISP's to filter/tamper with service ? Any comments much appreciated. Kind regards JoelW
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