if i have my own VPS in Singapore, will it help if I set up my own private VPN node? (putting aside VPS's speed or its hoster restrictions, if any)

awh.... speedtest.net via browser.

raw unifi island to seberang jaya gets 120/200.
raw unifi island to starhub gets 160/200
openvpn through contabo vps only get 50/70 to starhub.

i guess better not use vpn 😅

right above your post 😅

imagine if EVERYONE relied on single DNB for 5G uptime....

Is maxis affected?

jumping into this new field of observation.

apparently AAG is broken for quite some time, APG broken since 13th december.


https://subtelforum.com/aag-still-not-fixed...-another-fault/

Cable ships layered on map.

https://subtelforum.com/submarine-cable-map/

subscribed 500/100 Mbps but forced to flow through 200Mbps Contabo Singapore server. not acceptable, even if just a workaround.

Fed-up, so I wanted to set up my VPS in Singapore as VPN gateway to better undersea fibre.

.... and then I noticed the packet loss between the candidate VPS and TM Seberang Jaya.


Keep in mind this is between TM and Singapore, not yet some faraway land.



This post has been edited by Oltromen Ripot: Dec 29 2021, 05:14 PM

i reckon now have to look north not south for alternative path to exit this region.



AWS us region.
typing into SSH session took 3 seconds to echo back.
really flip table. risky to execute command in case typo is introduced.





OMG! After checking, Thailand's VPS hosting price even more flip table than MY!




This post has been edited by Oltromen Ripot: Dec 29 2021, 05:43 PM

ping from laptop the ec2 server above gave me avg 370ms 14% loss.

I use Contabo VPS because they give unmetered 200Mbps for 4 of 16 cores EPYC 7282 and 8Gb RAM for €7.5/mth.


(but few months ago i noticed they silently changed to 32TB outgoing, unlimited incoming)


Shinjiru's cheapest KVM linux is no-contract RM39.90

This post has been edited by Oltromen Ripot: Dec 29 2021, 06:14 PM

ping to my ec2 server

avg 2xx ms

7 transmitted, 4 received, 42% loss
6 transmitted, 4 received, 33% loss

TIME does not share TM's infra.

BUT, they might be using same upstream network provider.

cable rosak. what other other solution are you expecting other than ​to REROUTE through another cable.

thus, this is what we are experiencing now. instead of using shortest and fastest path which is broken, we are now saturating up somebody else's path and link.

you should by now also gain understanding why weebotage's mantra "REROUTE" is unacceptable - we had a chance to get another cable landing in our backyard, but he practically erected barrier gate, causing investors to rethink and aborted.

even to reroute require you having alternative. but weebotage practically eliminated the future of having that alternative.

(though, if we were to get it, it wouldn't help in the current situation as it is not yet laid)

the cable supposedly broke on the way to HK.
which, is also the shortest path to get to Canada and US.

try going the other way around peninsula. europe, russia, india, middle east. hopefully if you exit the tunnel over there, it uses different path to get to your destination.

This post has been edited by Oltromen Ripot: Dec 30 2021, 10:55 PM

well, that is expected.

we're metered by raw data up and down.
regardless what protocol and we actually use.


just like water meter.
it does not matter whether it's sirap, pepsi, teh, or just plain water that flows through.

How's the "weather" today?

No chance of optical light shining through the internet cloud?

Is this it?

APG Repairs To Begin In February
Repair work on the APG undersea cable will start February 2 and is expected to be completed on February 6.By Luu Quy
December 27, 2021
https://subtelforum.com/apg-repairs-to-begin-in-february/

Vietnamese internet users will continue to experience slow speeds for over a month, with repairs to the disruption-prone APG undersea cable scheduled to start early February.

The Asia Pacific Gateway (APG), which links Vietnam with Hong Kong and Japan, has encountered technical problems since December 13 due to a ‘cable fault’ about 125 km from the Hong Kong landing station.

The representative of an Internet service provider in Vietnam said the traffic loss due to the impact of this disruption was estimated at 1 Terabyte (TB).

The operator of the APG cable has informed local internet service providers that repair work on the undersea cable will start February 2 and is expected to be completed on February 6.

Vietnamese internet users, therefore, would have to suffer sluggish access to international websites for over a month.

The APG cable has suffered technical problems four times so far this year, with the previous disruption happening in October. The cable resumed full service on November 27 after over a month of repair.

Vietnam, where more than 64 percent of the population is online, has six submarine cable systems, plus a 120 gigabit channel that runs overland through China.

The APG cable, officially launched in December 2016, is capable of providing bandwidths of up to 54 Tbps (Terabit per second). It runs for around 10,400 km, with connection points in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

As of January 2021, out of its population of over 96 million people, the number of internet users reached approximately 69 million, according to a global consumer survey by German data portal Statista.