Cafe Living Room (st 306 near Norodom Blvd) has a good connection, free with a small purchase, but is often busy which slows things down (esp those making voice calls despite the polite request not to). During off peak times (weekday mornings, weekends mostly) it's got pretty good speed, also good coffee.

Villa Langka (St 282, behind Wat Langka) has a good fast connection and also a nice pool for a dip. Very friendly staff.

BC

I will second La Croisette although it has been slow lately. K West also has a good connection (but the food is not so great and expensive). Also on the river the new Jup Cafe next to Riverhouse also has wifi but I've not had too much experience with it.

Cafe Fresco and FCC charge $2/hour for wifi which is crazy. The advertisement of "free" wifi at Fresco between 3-5 with purchase of a cup of coffee is a rip-off-- you only get 1/2 hour free. Not sure if Chow pulls the same scam.

Oh yea and Cafe 33 isn't so bad- although the power seems to go out there frequently.

right now sitting at Huxleys

Cappucino USD 2.25

free wifi. speeds seems good

Cnr 136 and street 5. street 5 is one back from Sisowath Quay.
136 is the street that the Hope and Angkor is on

Boddhi Tree Aram (St. 244) has great access, free, what I think is the best coffee in PP, and good food.

Cafe 33 for wireless is good

- good connection
- good coffee (but expensive)
- comfortable seating and aircon

However, I don't go back after several experiences of choking on the heavy cigarette smoke.

The place has no fresh air, just air-cons, and sometimes there are 6-10 people smoking and not giving a **** about the rest of the customers.

I tried to bring this to the attention of the manager, even wrote a note (I'm not the only customer to notice this), but management weren't at all interested.

Kill all smokers, that's what I say (or, at least make them suck back in their toxic waste)

Happydaysarehere

We also have wi-fi in the bar at Pickled Parrot, admittedly it has been a bit slow with intermitent losses lately hence a new ISP provider starting 1st December. Now we have 256k available which is free for as long as you like providing you spend $5 with us.
We also have great coffee with regular size Cuppaccino @ $2 or a Mug for $3.50! We are also fully airconditioned, open 24 hours and serve good food from 6am to 12am.

who is the new provider? who was the old one? why/

go one ....you know you can

I got nothing to hide! The old was Camintel & the new Ezecom. Whether one is better than the other we will have to wait & see, but the speed difference should help.....

Coffee here this morning. Neglected to get the cost of the coffee as someone else was buying. Back soon with prices

How much are Apple paying for product placement??

gotta love a good mac?
We need to meet BC...coffee tomorrow?

I'm noise phobic, and Boddhi Tree has loud construction nearby right now. As does Living Room - where I am now, barely able to hear myself think early on a Sunday morning.

I love both these places - not wild about the bars & steakhouses mentioned elsewhere on this thread. But the noise levels preclude them from now on.

Are there any quiet equivalents?

The change over of ISP provider has occured and all is working well to date. There is a noticeable speed increase and pages open faster than ever. Come in and check it out if your in the area Anthony.

will come up with my "new" camera tomorrow

Ray Bubble Tea has the internet connection also.

Monireth

Thx BC

Is it a regular digital or a webcam type - if the latter could you tell me maker etc.?
Thanks

Its a canon G10. Very happy with it so far.

Here is a review

Monireth, an address would help us find Ray Bubble

anyone tried the new wifi at the pickeled parrot since they changed to the new isp yet? anyhow, planning to go give it a try this arvo sometime, maybe tomorrow lunch if i end up busy ... will run a few speed-test-type diagnostics, and report back here ...

Northeastern corner at Monivong Blvd and St 360. Look for the red and white wifi sign and the butterfly motif.

BC

ran a speedtest ( http://www.speedtest.com ) at the pickled parrotthe other day, recorded 53kbps up, 22kpbs down ... dunno if i'm just unlucky, or if it's always that slow ... tried to download a firefox update, download speed ranged from 7k/s to 1.2k/s ...

went to the Pickled Parrot yesterday (Sunday) all seemed good to me. noticed about 4 - 5 others online at the same time. and I am fussy about my speeds. maybe the ISP he uses does not have much Sunday traffic

Yeah, Ezecom doesn't have too many private users, so off-peak speeds tend to be consistently high. I use them at home.

@Az... maybe the per-user download speed is capped at the Pickled Parrot to prevent bandwidth hogs slowing down everyone else?

BC

BC
Are you calling Azuriel a bandwidth hog?

Nope, except when he's running speed tests to max out the system!

I suspect the results may have been 53KB/s down and 22KB/s up, which isn't too far off a 512Kbps link speed (64/32) assuming there was probably other internet activity besides Az's speed test at the time.

Not sure why the Firefox download would have come at such a reduced speed, though...

BC

PS that URL you gave just has some random camping on it - possibly dodgy content linked? Try using http://www.speedtest.com.sg/ instead.

For reference I'm with Ezecom 512K and I get 510Kbps down (63.8KB/s), 292Kbps up (36.5KB/s) at the moment. That's basically 100% download rate performance and 114% upload performance. This is typical - I rarely if ever have any concerns about the download speed.

BC

Yes it's on the Monivong Blvd next to the traffic light of Mé Ploeung.

Monireth

We use Ezecom 256kb deal but it is not dedicated so generally it slows down with high volume traffic which is around lunch and late afternoons . Otherwise mostly it is fast, well faster than previously! I too tried that test site and just got "site not found" from the links!

The pavillion in street 19 opposite wat botum, usually DL speed of 30 ko/s, Living room speed is really better since 1st december as
they changed provider, close to an average of 30ko/s, Fresco really sucks because its not free, their food is expensive enough, don't need to charge an astonishing Two dollars an hour for the wifi. Same critic for Java who offers an online access at one dollar an hour.
Those places should all offfer free wifi.

In europe usual dl speed is 400 ko/s, if we get close to 30 or 40 in ko/s in cambodia its pretty good, faster is too expensive for those kind of buisnesses, you'll never get more than that in a wifi cafee here anyway, but 5 or 6 ko/s is really slow barely enough for mails, forget about surfing or DL.

Jean

Johnmac: From one noise phobic to another; try the Boddhi Tree Del Gusto in Bkk 3. Go upstairs; Peaceful and quiet, and good internet connection for free. Good coffee, too. For directions, check http://www.boddhitree.com/boddhitree_del.php

Try Manor House for a good connection...Nice pool, small bar and wifi. $5.00 includes swim. one drink and free wifi.....nice an quiet.

#21 street 262 juast behind mobitel

WELL finally after weeks of problems with the internet, various calls to Camintel & Ezecom the problem seems to be resolved! Having checked out the cabling into the building I was AMAZED to find that the so called Camintel Technicians had 3 individual pieces of cable, all different, all connected by simply twisting together, with no insulation or terminals all over a 6 meter span!!!?? No bloody wonder we had problems..........
If you want a job done right, DO IT YOURSELF.

Not telling! All of my best places have recently been squatted by people Skyping or downloading; sometimes I can't even get ONE web page to load. I have been to quite a few places in the city, but given the behavior of some of the people I've seen (staying for hours and hours, never ordering anything, using up massive amounts of bandwidth...) I'll be very tempted to keep it to myself if I find a great place!! (That said, Anthony knows that I've already "told" when I've found good places... Although I'm going to have to modify some of my evaluations...)

from the looks of this thread, seems if i go open a little cafe, serve up crappy food, but have a very fast net connection, i'll still be making lots of money ... ? ...

some people wont even pay for water...ferals....

personally, i think wifi should never be free ... instead, it should be free with a minimum order of $XX ...

At the Pickled Parrot we do exactly that, spend $5 and your wi fi is free. We do not have any problems with "ferals" either!

try this http://www.speedtest.net./

at my apt across the river i got this today

download 179 kb/s Upload 82 kb/s 345 ms Penang
note that they now go via Penang which is twiuce what i was getting when we went via Bangkok.

it's times like these that make me reminiscent of PP internet, hehe ...

just ran that speedtest from home, and got this:

Download: 6355kb/s; Upload: 2624kb/s; Ping: 119ms (Seoul)

Update in wifi cafes, as I've been all over town lately looking for a quiet one & one where the wifi is working:

Metro still out of commission till the weekend.

Lone Star has been down, due back on any day. But deafening construction by day, above LS.

Huxley's fast internet, tho loud construction right opposite.

Living Room Internet works, but construction adjacent very loud.

My best one right now is La Croisette (Riverside): net fast most days; no construction noise; food tolerable. Plus aircon if needed. About the best combo in town in my limited experience.

Have you tried the Pickled Parrot? I would not mind any feed back you can give!

DOUBLE XL CAFE #138 st. 118 free wifi for customers after you order food, Lavazza coffee $2.00 espresso $1.80. No worries with durries we have a powerful extractor, 3 aicons, ceiling fan and minimal traffic noise.

Don't even bother with Cafe Sentiment - i checked out the new one on St 63. Aside from the waft of sewage that came in every time someone opened the door, the connection was woeful. it was varying from a few bps (yes, that's not kbps) to 0. i suspect it was the half dozen or so Khmers in there downloading porn or music or whatever they were doing....totally not worth the experience although drinks are pretty cheap.

Just what I like to read when I'm sitting in the place.

At the moment, I'm getting a whopping 4.6Kb/sec while trying to download a pdf document from the states.

I don't like the rude staff at Sentiment either - plus that kinda generic/franchise look.

My travels in he last week have revealed that:

La Croisette on Riverside might be the best deal in town as they're online all hours, & the food is not that expensive by Riverside standards

Metro is back on (I'm there as I write) - tho their Internet stops at 6.30pm or so

Lone Star Saloon in St 172, 200m west of Norodom is a pretty good connection (& as a bonus they have the only photo of George W Bush remaining on display in the Western world)

Living Room & Da Gusto in BKK are as good as ever, tho the former closes at 8.30pm

If you're near Olympic there's always T & Coffee on Sihanouk opposite the market - cheap & basic, but a good enough connection. They have a branch on Monivong near Wat Kon too.

To all the above would have to be added the T & Coffee franchise.

I've used the Olympic & Monivong branches, & am now sitting in the Tuol Kork one, which is much the same as the rest:

Slightly down-at-heel furnishings & furniture.
Food prices: pretty cheap
Food quality: not as wretched as before, tho still nothing like the mouth-watering photos in the menu
Brilliantly-selected staff: always smiling & helpful
Good wi-fi

have anyone try Clicknet before? they seems offering a pretty good service especially on the wifi prepaid cards...USD 10 for 15 hours and its valid for 3 months....good deal for me.....

Corner 33 on st.178 was ok speed for surf last time i was there (jan. 2009)

Speedtest from home (Sweden) to Penang
Ping 394ms
Download 5,13 mb/s
Upload 0,46 mb/s
Distance ~5600mi

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Do you have an address for this place? The link doesn't work.....