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12 hours ago, lungbing said:

The problem will be receiving the voting form from your home constituency and then getting it back to them in time to count.  A proxy would get round that, but do you trust your proxy to vote the way you want?

Yes, the snail mail method of sending out voting papers can be a considerable problem.  I received my Brexit voting paper just one day before the deadline - not long enough to return it, even by EMS.  

A proxy would work - if you have one that you can trust.

5 hours ago, Martin71 said:

As the title suggests I cannot clear notifications and the up arrow to go to the top of the screen has disappeared. Do you have any fixes for this ?.

 

Many thanks,

Martin71

Maybe, just maybe, tonight's forum maintenance will fix these issues.  We shall see.

1 hour ago, 2baht said:

Please go away and annoy the Japanese,,,,PLEASE! 

Or just go away - somewhere, anywhere, just go!!

38 minutes ago, frantick said:

Just open "view notifications" in a new tab, then close the new tab. Done and dusted. 

That doesn't seem to work for me.  Maybe Browser dependent?  I use Brave.

Anyway, I would like to see the 'clear notifications' and 'return to top' options restored.

Yes, this is getting a bit irritating now.  It's been a while and the number of notifications is piling up!

The 'go to top of page' arrow still hasn't reappeared either.

There are two shops that I know of on Threpprasit  Rd., corner of Soi 8.

SV Bike Shop - bought my Trek from there but quite  long time ago.

Numchai Bike Shop

Reviews on Google seem to indicate that Numchai is friendlier and possibly cheaper.

There are other bike shops dotted around town.  Pull up Google Maps for locations.

5 minutes ago, mrblonde said:

Wanted to get some photos and video of Jomtien beach when the tide is right out, went past today about an hour ago and there was only about 4 or 5m of beach (opposite Cafe Amazon half way down beach road) 

 

was over nearer to Na Jomtien last Friday and there was 40m-60m of beach.  Does anyone know when there’ll be loads more beach to see, or is the beach a lot larger down Na Jomtien/Soi 19 anyway?

Here you go:  <https://www.tidetimetable.com/jomtien-beach-chon-buri>

2 hours ago, george said:

Tonight’s maintenance is done. I need your feedback please!

 

Any improvement in page load speed etc?

is the forum loading faster now?

 

We will continue doing nightly adjustments as I still think some page load could be improved!

 

Feel free to post feedback! 🙏

 

 

We are still missing the 'return to top of page' arrow.

Also, still no way to delete notifications.

Overall speed seem to be OK at the moment.

1 hour ago, JohnThi said:

Hello,  how do i fill the correct state/city/ District for pattaya?

Pattaya not shown in city list

thanks

City should be Banglamung

Tambon should be Nongprue

NT-ToT supplied a fibre modem and a separate router.  I don't use the router - prefer to use my own ASUS router.  As MJCM said, if you go this route you need to set up userid and password on the router.  They will provide this when doing the installation but you may need to ask.

8 minutes ago, Mike Lister said:

That's right, there was nothing that low before that, unless you go back to the crash of 1997 when it was around that level.

Wrong way round.  GBP - THB was around 90 for a short while at the start of 1998.

According to XE.com the low point was on October 12 2019 when the mid-market rate between GBP and THB was 37.05.  The rate that you would have got buying THB would likely have been a bit lower, as is always the case, so 35 is quite likely.  The chart that I have only goes back to 2013 so it is entirely possible that the rate was lower at some time before that.  Apparently, the rate was around 25, sometime in the distant past.

4 hours ago, blackcab said:

The shortcut arrow is not compatible with the latest forum upgrade.

 

I am looking for suitable alternatives.

Also no way to clear notifications since the upgrade.

This is actually more important than the issue with the shortcut arrow.

1 hour ago, george said:

Noted. Will be fixed asap.

'Clear Notifications' has also disappeared.

We seem to have lost the 'go to top of page' shortcut arrow.

Can we have it back please!

OK folks, here's an update.

My problem is solved and the following info may be useful to anyone who has a similar issue.  It's all a bit convoluted and I still don't understand some of it but here goes.

Android 13, on the Samsung Galaxy A23, by default, randomizes the phone's MAC address - supposed to improve security.  This would be no problem unless your router is set to filter MAC addresses, as mine is.  Unless you disable this feature, every time that the phone reboots it presents a new MAC address to the router.  In my case, trying to PING the phone from my laptop, the phone could not be found as it was, effectively, not connected to the LAN.  What continues to puzzle me is that it could still get an internet connection.  This is weird!

Anyway, I disabled the random MAC feature, rejigged the router to use the phone's static MAC address and now everything seems to be OK.  Not only does PING work but I can now connect to the phone using SSH (needed to regenerate the Hosts file).  I like it this way as once the connection is made the phone just looks like another drive and I can transfer files with no problems.  A lot faster than Bluetooth or by email attachment.

So, maybe this will help someone.  If not, it has at least taught me something.

2 hours ago, gamb00ler said:

Have you tried Google Drive for transferring files?  It requires twice as much copying of data over the network but is super simple.  I would assume there's a version of the Google Drive app for both Linux and Android.

Thanks.  I'll take a look.

5 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

PING sends a signal from computer A to computer B. 

This only works is it can be send out from A (firewall for outgoing traffic in A).

And this must be received by B (firewall for incoming traffic in B)

Then B must decide it wants to react to this request. It doesn't have to.

When B answers to the PING then that answers has to go though the outgoing firewall from B.

And then through the incoming firewall of A.

And in a public network there are some more firewalls.

 

Lots of possible opportunities why this might not work.

 

I disabled my firewall but, as you say, there may be others on the route.

However, the strange thing is that I never had this problem with my A12 phone and the only thing that has changed is that I now have an A23 phone.  It does have a different IP address but appropriate entries have been made in the laptop firewall and router to accommodate this - but this may be irrelevant as the problem persists with the firewall disabled.  I think that the problem must be somewhere in the A23 Settings.

This is rather annoying but not critical.  I use SSH to transfer files from my phone to my laptop - or, at least, I did but this no longer works!  I can transfer using Bluetooth or as email attachments with no issues but this is far less convenient than SSH.  OK for the odd file but would be a right PITA for multiple files.

16 minutes ago, norbra said:

I recently trawled through  THAI comms menus of a Galaxy a24 and found IPV 6 was set as default changed to IPV 4 all seem to connect ok after this change.

Hope this might be helpful 

IPV6 is disabled at my router.

Not sure how to disable it on the phone - haven't found the option yet, probably buried several layers down in Settings.

6 minutes ago, gamb00ler said:

Set your phone up as a WiFi hotspot, turn your router off and try and connect your laptop to the phone's SSID.

Interesting!

Yes, with the phone set as a mobile hot spot, wifi off and data service running I can PING the phone.

Does this give a clue as to why i can'r ping via wifi?