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  1. Does the new limit apply to using prompt pay for online purchases? If so, then i see a potential problem. Say I am trying to purchase an airline ticket from the official airline website. This may well cost in excess of 50kTHB for a business ticket. Having to visit your local branch to request an exemption is clearly not going to work unless things can be planned well in advance. Trying to buy a ticket a short notice - and the prices do vary wildly over time - is not going to be easy.
  2. Allegedly some 4000 different varieties grown on the Peruvian Altiplano. I have tried maybe six types - all delicious.
  3. If you ever do go to Cullen, Steve Marsh knows a good place for Cullen Skink. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nHE1OGUB0A>
  4. Well, yes, that gets me into my ASUS router OK but there is no status page for the modem, which is a separate unit. I think that the best that i can do is to upload an image of the information sticker that is on the base of the ZTE modem. If that's not enough then I'm sure that they will tell me. Another poster has suggested that I just call into the office. I could do that but the place is quite a hike from here so not very convenient. I think that this can all be sorted out remotely, from their end. Both modem and router are gigbit spec. so neither should need to be replaced.
  5. Thanks, I'll try that.
  6. You may be correct that they need to check if my existing modem is compatible with the higher speed. My router is an ASUS gigabit model so that should be OK. I actually managed to find a link to their contact centre so I emailed them to try to find out what they actually wanted. i didn't get an answer that made any sort of sense. As you suggest, I may just take a photo of my ZTE modem - with info label, if it has one - and upload that.
  7. ZTE modem used with my own ASUS router.
  8. I'm wanting to upgrade my NT fibre internet package as I seem to be paying for a faster service already but not getting it. I'm on a 400/400 plan but should be able to get 1000/1000 for the same price. The NT website has a section for upgrading the service. Seems straightforward apart from needing to upload a 'MODEM/ONU' file. I have no idea what this is or where I might find it. Anyone know about this?
  9. I've just had the same info from TTB so it's not just Kasikorn.
  10. Ed Microbrain - energy minister and net zero nut job.
  11. I was in Egypt one time, long ago, and contracted what is termed as 'traveler's diarrhea'. This was from the dodgy food on a Lake Nasser cruise boat. The usual Imodium stuff has minimal effect on this Egyptian-style bog rot - ended up going to a local pharmacy in Luxor to buy what I can only describe as quick-setting concrete. This enabled me to get back to the UK but the problem didn't go away. My doc reckoned that i just had the aforementioned 'traveler's diarrhea' - Every visitor to Egypt gets it', he said. Just to be on the safe side he gave me a little pot and a small wooden spatula and wanted a stool sample. What a joke - have you ever tried putting a sample of brown water into a pot with a spatula! The problem cleared up after a few days - had to keep drinking re-hydration fluid for a while. I also had an encounter with green mussels from a certain french supermarket - long gone - in Pattaya. That was an interesting 48 hours as well!
  12. Been getting a lot of timeouts on ASAEN over the last couple of days. No other sites affected. Cloudflare Error message says it's a Host problem at your end. I'm in Thailand, using Singapore VPN if that's relevant.
  13. In my experience, 'package is in transit to destination country' doesn't necessarily mean that it is actually on a 'plane flying there. What seems to happen is that the package clears Thai customs, outbound, and then waits until a suitable 'plane is available. If you use EMS then the delay is usually short but registered mail seems to take longer. Again, in my experience, sending stuff to the UK, the package will not reappear on the tracking radar until it has cleared customs inbound at the Langley Postal Centre at Heathrow and this can take several days. Langley has been described as a 'black hole' because things seem to disappear there, sometimes never to re-emerge. Once cleared by Langley it is possible to track the package, either on the Thailand Post website or by using the UK Royal Mail site. For other destination countries YMMV, as they say.
  14. 20,000 max per withdrawal so would take quite a long time to withdraw a million - even assuming that there was that much in there in the first place. Do ATMs actually hold that much anyway? How long does it take to make 50 withdrawals? Something doesn't sound right here.
  15. Yes, bankbook needs to be updated on the day of application. Not a problem. Wouldn't it be good if all Immigration Offices and IOs sang from the same hymn sheet!
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