Comments on: Vietnam, Country Of Motorcycles http://www.furuanimepanikku.com/2008/02/04/vietnam-country-of-motorcycles/ Anime, Otakism and the Rantings And Ravings of Japanese Popular Culture Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:27:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Doug http://www.furuanimepanikku.com/2008/02/04/vietnam-country-of-motorcycles/#comment-3922 Doug Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:47:37 +0000 http://www.furuanimepanikku.com/2008/02/04/vietnam-country-of-motorcycles/#comment-3922 Found your post while searching for info re the slow internet between US and Vietnam. I'm in Y Van hotel in Danang. Daily room rate includes unlimited internet, as is common policy here. As a sysadmin, I am poking around and it appears that the packets slow down in Singapore. 20-30% packet loss - that's a BIG BIG problem. No problem to places like China, but to US there is this Singtel bottleneck. It's not the Vietnamese carrier in my case. Singapore must be helping out a bit with some VOIP QoS, because for the most part, voip (skype) and skypeout/in works pretty well. Beware though, as Skype terminated my Skypeout/in after 2 days because they have a terrible fraud unit. They figure a connection from VN with an American credit card is suspicious. Switched to Yahoo Voice to call regular phones, and they had no problem taking my money and charge much less per minute than Skype. Can't say the quality to a landline with Yahoo is as good (it's worse) but it's intelligible. And, at least they have customer service via live chat, something Skype does not offer. Found your post while searching for info re the slow internet between US and Vietnam. I’m in Y Van hotel in Danang. Daily room rate includes unlimited internet, as is common policy here. As a sysadmin, I am poking around and it appears that the packets slow down in Singapore. 20-30% packet loss - that’s a BIG BIG problem. No problem to places like China, but to US there is this Singtel bottleneck. It’s not the Vietnamese carrier in my case.

Singapore must be helping out a bit with some VOIP QoS, because for the most part, voip (skype) and skypeout/in works pretty well. Beware though, as Skype terminated my Skypeout/in after 2 days because they have a terrible fraud unit. They figure a connection from VN with an American credit card is suspicious. Switched to Yahoo Voice to call regular phones, and they had no problem taking my money and charge much less per minute than Skype. Can’t say the quality to a landline with Yahoo is as good (it’s worse) but it’s intelligible. And, at least they have customer service via live chat, something Skype does not offer.

]]> By: double http://www.furuanimepanikku.com/2008/02/04/vietnam-country-of-motorcycles/#comment-1462 double Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:00:10 +0000 http://www.furuanimepanikku.com/2008/02/04/vietnam-country-of-motorcycles/#comment-1462 Seiryuu > I actually gave up after a while. LOL Seiryuu > I actually gave up after a while. LOL

]]> By: Seiryuu http://www.furuanimepanikku.com/2008/02/04/vietnam-country-of-motorcycles/#comment-1443 Seiryuu Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:59:43 +0000 http://www.furuanimepanikku.com/2008/02/04/vietnam-country-of-motorcycles/#comment-1443 woah u can still tolerate the slow internet speed. If i was me, i'll be feeling frustrated and definitely give up the idea of using the internet there haha. woah u can still tolerate the slow internet speed. If i was me, i’ll be feeling frustrated and definitely give up the idea of using the internet there haha.

]]> By: double http://www.furuanimepanikku.com/2008/02/04/vietnam-country-of-motorcycles/#comment-1428 double Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:38:01 +0000 http://www.furuanimepanikku.com/2008/02/04/vietnam-country-of-motorcycles/#comment-1428 Windbell > Unfortunately, no cute girls yet >_> Sylon Beta > I haven't ate anything which was really good. All the food is too sweet for my liking. I was actually expecting Vietnam to be somewhat like Thailand, but it seems that Thailand is far more developed than Vietnam. Windbell > Unfortunately, no cute girls yet >_>

Sylon Beta > I haven’t ate anything which was really good. All the food is too sweet for my liking.

I was actually expecting Vietnam to be somewhat like Thailand, but it seems that Thailand is far more developed than Vietnam.

]]> By: Sylon Beta http://www.furuanimepanikku.com/2008/02/04/vietnam-country-of-motorcycles/#comment-1427 Sylon Beta Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:17:41 +0000 http://www.furuanimepanikku.com/2008/02/04/vietnam-country-of-motorcycles/#comment-1427 The hotel rates are relatively expensive, where I stayed they had 125,000 VND per hour for the Internet. So I passed on that. As for cuisine, I had some good crabs there, since I stayed close to a river. Though I'm not quite sure if the two are related. The hotel rates are relatively expensive, where I stayed they had 125,000 VND per hour for the Internet. So I passed on that.

As for cuisine, I had some good crabs there, since I stayed close to a river. Though I’m not quite sure if the two are related.

]]> By: Windbell http://www.furuanimepanikku.com/2008/02/04/vietnam-country-of-motorcycles/#comment-1425 Windbell Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:30:33 +0000 http://www.furuanimepanikku.com/2008/02/04/vietnam-country-of-motorcycles/#comment-1425 Like what canikizu says. I remember staying in the internet cafe for over an hour to use the internets. Much cheaper than what you pay for in the hotel. Have you seen any cute girls yet? ^^; Like what canikizu says. I remember staying in the internet cafe for over an hour to use the internets. Much cheaper than what you pay for in the hotel.

Have you seen any cute girls yet? ^^;

]]> By: double http://www.furuanimepanikku.com/2008/02/04/vietnam-country-of-motorcycles/#comment-1423 double Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:18:12 +0000 http://www.furuanimepanikku.com/2008/02/04/vietnam-country-of-motorcycles/#comment-1423 Canikizu > Thanks ^^ Canikizu > Thanks ^^

]]> By: canikizu http://www.furuanimepanikku.com/2008/02/04/vietnam-country-of-motorcycles/#comment-1422 canikizu Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:04:33 +0000 http://www.furuanimepanikku.com/2008/02/04/vietnam-country-of-motorcycles/#comment-1422 Welcome to Vietnam ^_^ Just an advice for next time :D Don't use internet in the Hotel, you can get the internet access all over internet cafes around with the price 0.20$/HOUR - 0.50$/hour, and the speed is about 200kbps, still slow but better than modem :D. Welcome to Vietnam ^_^

Just an advice for next time :D Don’t use internet in the Hotel, you can get the internet access all over internet cafes around with the price 0.20$/HOUR - 0.50$/hour, and the speed is about 200kbps, still slow but better than modem :D.

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