On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Michael Clark <[email protected]>wrote:
> Chris Henry wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Patrick Haller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> Anyone have any comments good/bad about StarHub, PacNet, or MobileOne? >>> >>> >> >> Just to share my friends' experience: recently, 2 friends of mine kept >> having connectivity problems with StarHub Cable. They weren't able to >> access some websites (including gmail!!); they are pretty frustrated >> because StarHub customer service didn't help much. >> >> > > I have been using Starhub cable for about 9 years - it has had its ups and > downs but overall it has been mostly good for me. > > The quality of the physical cabling you use, the number of devices in your > apartment connected to it, and the particular condo or development you are > located in all seem to make a difference (older places can be problematic). > Sometimes just changing the cable to the wall can solve most of the problems > (the supplied ones can be dodgy). > > For locally severed or akamized content I can most often get the advertised > 12Mbs bandwidth of my plan (roughly 1.5MBytes/sec). For traffic to US or > Europe it is more likely to be 1-2Mbs which is a fairly common sort of over > subscription ratio and I am reasonably happy with it. The outbound is > 384Kbps which I also seem to be able to get (although their bandwidth > management makes it a bit choppy). When stuff is not mirrored locally, I > tend to go for a mirror in Japan for which I think Starhub has quite good > connectivity to. > > I do have some problems though... Starhub transparent caching seems to > break access to a few websites. For me it is mainly the Apple iPhone > Developer web site <http://developer.apple.com/iphone/>. It is very broken > for me and sometimes unusable with it constantly asking me to > re-authenticate (may be due to the cache source IP changing and Apple's > session management using the IP address - or perhaps borken HTTP cache > related headers from Apple's server - I don't know but it is really broken). > It all works perfectly on Singtel mobile broadband so I'm certain it is > Starhub transparent caching related. > > This problem is too hard for their customer service to handle so I get > around this buy running openvpn to a slice hosted in the US, and then > selectively routing Apple's subnets over that VPN. > > ~mc > Since no one has mentioned this yet, StarHub clearly throttles bittorrent traffic (at least they did last year). After moving to a new apartment, I've been using my friend's SingNet broadband and IMO it's way better than StarHub and they don't seem to be shaping any bittorrent traffic. re: iPhone Developer site problem - if you're on SingNet, just setup the proxy for HTTP(S) to proxy.singnet.com.sg. That solves it. This problem occurs whenever the session management is very strict - it binds the IP address to the session key. Trac by default is also configured to do the same. Cheers, -- Harish Mallipeddi http://blog.poundbang.in
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