13 Apr 2011
VPN to USA from SEA: Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore or Hong Kong (sometimes Taiwan)
In the previous post i guided how to set up a free VPN server on the home computers. But if you are looking for US VPN to use from Thailand, be prepare to have very high latency (ping).
Why VPN in Thailand and many SEA countries soo slow? It is related to the distance.
There is only one Submarine Cable going from the US to SEA. It’s called Asia-America Gateway and it is 12,400 mile long submarine communications cable system, connecting South-East Asia with the USA mainland, across the Pacific Ocean via Guam and Hawaii.
This submarine cable is only 2.88 Tbit/s – and this serve all countries located in the South East Asia.
Compare it to the Google’s 7.68 Tbit/s submarine communications cable connecting the United States to Japan….
If you are in Thailand, use UK based VPN service…
TOT has better connections to europe ( only for their sme service ), but in general routing goes mostly over the US, especially if you have TRUE as a provider. Thailand especially CAT and TRUE are using the google network. The experience with US based VPN services is much better
noone
August 23rd, 2011 at 5:25 ampermalink