Internet Information Resource Center

Last update: November 11, 1999.

This page is NECTEC's official collection of reports and statistics about Internet in Thailand. It is maintained by several members of NECTEC staff, independent oraganizations, and volunteers. Please send your comments, suggestions or offer to participate in this service to webmaster-iirc@nectec.or.th.

IIRC main index page is designed and maintained by Thaweesak Koanantakool and Supachok Jantarapatin.

The Internet Index of Thailand
	Report date: 1999/11/02 unless stated otherwise.	sources
15	commercial Internet service providers
4	non-commercial Internet hubs
2	domestic Internet exchanges
112.75	Mbps total international bandwidth	(1999/11/08)
800,000	Internet users (NECTEC own estimate)	(1999/09)
64,988	Internet hosts under .th top-level domain.	(1999/11/11)
3,186	Internet domains under .th	(1999/11/11)
4,512	class-C IP numbers.	(1999/11/02)
45	Autonomous systems	(1999/11/02)
145.9	Gigabyte of data circulate in PIE each day (28.326 Mbps)	(1999/11/08)
17.0	Gigabytes of data served by PubNet daily (FTP+Cache)	(1999/11/11)

Total International Bandwidth

IP number assignment

Public Internet Exchange Traffic Volume

To use Whois by Network Solutions, simply type in your search string (i.e. example.com or smith, john). Please note that requests like "www.example.com" will not yield a correct answer; Whois can query only for second-level domain names such as kasetsart, or chiangmai, or phuket.

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Current Status

Milestones of the Internet in Thailand - Thaweesak Koanantakool

Internet Maps for Thailand

The latest map (November 1999)
All maps
Frequently Asked Questions about the maps. (Updated monthly)

Public Access Network (PubNet)

Introduction to PubNet
NECTEC FTP server statistics - (updated monthly)

Public Internet Exchange (PIE)

Introduction to PIE and its milestones
Connectivity Map of PubNet and PIE (updated monthly)
Traffic Volume (updated every 30 minutes)
Growth

Autonomous Systems in Thailand: Description, Contact points

How many hosts and domains are there in the .TH top-level domain?

Domain names and host counts in AC.TH, CO.TH, GO.TH, MI.TH, NET.TH, OR.TH,

Academic Networks

SchoolNet Thailand Directory (2 November 1999) - 1182 schools online, 393 schools on the WWW
ThaiSarn Links showing information of 49 nodes, aggregate bandwidth of about 11.6 Mbps.
NECTEC ThaiSarn cache statistics - (updated monthly)

Internet Service Providers - THNIC.

Internet Service Provider Survey - Thailand Internet Users Group.

Isp Watch - A tabulation of comparative delay time between each ISP in Thailand and Digex's Looking Glasses.

Review of Internet Dialup Services in Thailand

Historic Documents

The History of the Internet in Thailand by Sirin Palasri, Steven Huter, and Zita Wenzel. The Network Startup resource Center (NSRC), 1999. ISBN 0-87114-288-0. (Also in pdf and postscript formats. Thai version is also available in pdf format.
How Big is the Internet in Thailand? By Trin Tantsetthi (17 August 1998)
FAQ soc.culture.thai - Editor: Trin Tantsetthi (last update Oct.1996)
The Role of Internet and Thailand IT Year 1995 - By Thaweesak Koanantakool, January 1995
ThaiSarn: The Internet of Thailand - By Thaweesak Koanantakool, Trin Tantsetthi and Morragot Kulatumyotin (June 1994). ISBN 974-7978-32-6
ThaiSarn: A Year Later - Beyond yet-another-Unix network - By Trin Tantsetthi (1992)
Pubnet - Public Access Network - Proposal by Trin Tantsetthi (July 1991)