Thaimaishoe

Sorry for the late reply, but there is another way to skin this cat. You can cascade two routers. The main advantage as I see it is flexibility, since the second device is just a standard wi-fi router if you don't need this configuration anymore (or your main router dies) you have a standard router you can put into service until the broken one is replaced. The second way this is more flexible is the network configuration. You can decide between two distinct wi-fi networks or one continuous network. With the first, you would have a 192.168.1.0 network in the house, and a 192.168.2.0 network in the backyard. In the second config you would just have a 192.168.1.0 network broadcast from both routers, so that you can take your tablet or phone and walk from inside to outside, and the switch between routers is seamless. You also get ethernet ports so you can use wired ethernet in the backyard if you like.

I am not familiar with range extenders or access points, so they may be able to do the same things, at least an access point might I don't think range extenders can. The network numbers are just for example, you can configure anyway you decide.

If you want a proper guide on this look here:

http://www.wikihow.com/Cascade-Routers

and a clearer, easier to follow write up from linksys here:

http://kb.linksys.com/Linksys/ukp.aspx?pid=80&vw=1&articleid=3733

If it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features!

Thanks for the replies thus far. I've done a little research. I'll be in Los Angeles. T-Mobile offers prepaid service. They will ship the SIM card to Thailand so it can be used upon arrival. I need to determine the type of SIM card; i.e. SIM, micro SIM, or nano SIM after buying the mobile.

All 3 mobiles I'm interested in have 900 and 1800 MHz frequencies. One of them also supports 850 and 1900 MHz.

I copied this from T-Mobile website where it talks about EDGE @ 1700 MHz.

• T-Mobile’s network currently only supports GSM-compatible phones.
• Only 3G phones that support the 1700-MHz band are compatible (not all 3G phones support it). If you own a 3G phone that does not support the 1700-MHz band, it will operate at 2G (EDGE) speeds on our network.

Are the 3 Nokias "GSM compatible"?

It also talks about 3G/2G, 1700 MHZ, etc.

What does all this mean? Can I use one of the 3 Nokias I'm interested in?

Thanks again for all the help.

Of the three phones you are looking at, only the one that "also supports 850 and 1900 MHz" will work in both Thailand and North America.

All three phones will be GSM phones, and as such will need a SIM card (CDMA does not use a SIM card, but you probably won't find any CDMA phones for sale here in Thailand, and if you buy one in the US it will be unuseable here) but as I said, only the one that supports all 4 frequencies will work in both locations.

As far as pre paid SIM cards go, I usually buy ATT because I'll be damned if I'm going to pay $10 to T-mobile for a piece of plastic that costs .000001cents to make (Take note, T-mobile has upped the price to $15). Just for the privilege of buying air time on their network! Sorry, I get pissed off about it everytime I think about cell service in the US. I have long thought of buying a sim from e-bay... they are available for a more reasonable 2-3 bucks, sometimes with airtime loaded.

BTW, this is straight off the ATT website about what your phone must support for use with them:

Phone Requirements: AT&T Multi-band GSM, UMTS, or LTE Phone or unlocked Multi-band GSM Phone (850/1900 MHz), UMTS Phone (850/1900 MHz), or LTE Phone (Band 2 1900 MHz / Band 4 1700 MHz / Band 5 800 MHz / Band 17 700 MHz).

BTW, this in no way should be taken as an endorsement of ATT... I hate them with a passion. But both t-mob and att are piss poor value in my opinion, but the att sim is 'only' $5. Both companies minutes "expire", even though they are prepaid, and as such are much more expensive on a per minute basis than what is advertised. The advertised per minute price, is only the lowest price it could possibly cost.

Download Linux Tails and make a bootable USB stick. Boot ANY computer from that, and do your banking. When you shut down there will be no hint of your presence on the computer you used, and Tails is about as secure as you are going to find for the actual connection.

Read further here...

https://tails.boum.org/

and act accordingly.

Interesting but doesn't seem good for banking. Bank sites notice when you change computers. They expect the same "home computer" every time and if they don't see it, they demand additional authentication each time.

Well, I'm not sure if its geared towards the homosexual community or not (not from your post I realize, but...) but additional verification should really not be viewed as a 'bad thing' should it?

Now for the longer reply. I am not sure I agree banks notice when you change computers, ISP's, especially cable providers oftent do by monitoring the MAC addr, but it is not my experience that banks do. I do know for a fact that they look at the geolocation of your IP, which, since this uses the TOR network, will likely change a lot, possibly prompting additional security questions.

But again, how is that a bad thing? If you do not remember your 'additional' security questions it could be quite the PITA, but all that takes is a phone call to the 800 number to sort it (been there done that) It is a less convinient thing, but usually the more security the less convinience.

Again, the OP is willing to set up a new computer to do his banking, this is a "New" computer on a USB stick, designed for security.

Download Linux Tails and make a bootable USB stick. Boot ANY computer from that, and do your banking. When you shut down there will be no hint of your presence on the computer you used, and Tails is about as secure as you are going to find for the actual connection.

Read further here...

https://tails.boum.org/

and act accordingly.

That's an interesting question for me because I was in the epicenter of the PC industry from the start. I guess I missed Window 1.0 as I was using a Radio Shack TRS-80 ("Trash 80") with TRS-DOS operating system at that time. I think so anyway. Perhaps starting with Windows 2.0? But not sure ... the fog of computer wars.

Talking to "kids today" about the early days of personal computing is pretty hilarious. Sure makes me feel old but they're gonna have the same experience later themselves ... with their ancient smartphone memories.

Speaking of memories ... remember when computers didn't connect to the internet? Forget the web ... no connection at all!

You're as old as I am if you remember this.....

Ahhh, the heady days of dialing into the WOPR for a nice game of "Global Thermonuclear War"!!! :-)

Lemme guess your phone made the dialing noises like the dial was spinning, even though you pressed one button right!! :-)

Hell I remember we had to walk to school and back home... up hill... both ways!

But seriously, I remember the phone! (never used a sonic coupler type modem though!)

Trafficking does not exist in Thailand. Everybody is now happy <<< c.f. Gen. Prayuth 11/11/2014

The place was busted on Gen. Prayuth's watch.. I wonder how long it had been operating under Shinawatra watch? There were reports then of the police taking them BACK to receive a payment!

Who knows... but we know it was operating for 6 MONTHS under the generals watch. And they only busted it when a few of the slaves escaped. So what was your point again?

Does anyone sell/install proper skylights in Bangkok?

Maybe even more important, does anyone PROPERLY install skylights!!! (in BKK)

You're obviously pretty slow, so I will use small words for you.

The bold text above, is a quote from you.

The bold text above, clearly indicates an opinion about the legal situation.

So the conversation you were involved in WAS about the crime.

Either you don't understand the words that are coming out of your own keyboard, or you're taking the piss.

If you think "... died from some medical complication" constitutes "discussing the nature of the medical condition" you are dumber than you sound.

You appear to have personal issues and a problem controlling your emotions, based on threat of violence against the attackers rather than caring for the child as you indicated in an another post.

Your out-of-control emotions and hostility appears to be clouding whatever reasoning you were born with.

I can't make this any clearer for you. Of course you can't, you're not very bright, and you are wrong.

My question was of a medical nature, it concerned the time frame involved between the assault and when swelling finally started over a day later and when she died two days later. It was a question as to why the first hospital exam and x-ray did not identify a serious issue. It was a question about the 2nd hospital's practice of placing numerous tubes which filled her mouth (and which possibly went into her throat) and the description of her throat swelling while those tubes were in situ. It was a question about medical practices that may or may not have contributed to her death. It was not a post suggesting the attackers were guilty or innocent.

I typically do not make such assumptions of guilt or innocence based on the sketchy and one-sided details we have available in one news article. Unlike yourself who is ready to kill based on same news article.

Since you appear to only want to start problems and you are not wanting to discuss the medical aspects of her assault, there is really no reason for you to waste any more of my time. Run along will ya?

Well, I guess you are even dumber than you sound. You question my comprehension, and yet you think I said I was ready to kill over this?? I said if this happened to ME I would kill. Very big difference, lost on the stupid.

I quoted you not discussing the irrelevant medical complications you think you were "discussing". I don't see anywhere in your previous posts where you mention these issues. I will generously give you one more chance to cite them or you are lying, and as I said, dumber than you sound thinking that these issues are encapsulated within your short comment.

You are right about one thing though. I do not want to discuss the medical aspects of the assault. First and foremost, this article is not about her medical treatment. Her medical treatment is also completely irrelevant. It has no bearing on the crimes outlined, which, by the way, for the slow like you, IS what this article is about. Even if the Dr. that treated her had strangled her in the ER, the guy that hit her with the bamboo stick is still guilty of her murder.

If you can not grasp these concepts, you really should leave these discussions to the adults. Children should be seen and not heard, in your case.

Nothing in my post suggested the assumption you have made.

My post had nothing to do with the legalities of the assailants guilt or innocence.

My post was of a medical nature and wondered about the victims onset of death.

I did not mean to offend you by calling you American. However, it is not much of an assumption since you have, in this very thread, as much as said you are.

Your post had nothing to do with legalities... really? "This poor man watched his wife assaulted in front of his very eyes. (I will refrain from saying murdered since the description of events seems to leave open the possibility she died from some medical complication)."

The conversation you involved yourself in seems to be above your comprehension level.

I will state this one last time. The conversation I was involved in was not about the crime, it was a discussion of the nature of the medical condition the victim of the violent assault succumbed to.

I can't make it any more clear.

You're obviously pretty slow, so I will use small words for you.

The bold text above, is a quote from you.

The bold text above, clearly indicates an opinion about the legal situation.

So the conversation you were involved in WAS about the crime.

Either you don't understand the words that are coming out of your own keyboard, or you're taking the piss.

If you think "... died from some medical complication" constitutes "discussing the nature of the medical condition" you are dumber than you sound.

Bold words. Bold thoughts. Do you have the bottle?

I must admit I am unfamiliar with this particular turn of phrase. If you mean can I walk the talk, the only thing I can say is... you never know until you are actually faced with the situation. However, in my past experience I have both won and lost against long odds (and for smaller stakes to boot!)

I can say for dead certain, that would be my reaction. I am quite sure I would carry it to conclusion. One thing I did not say, this is all in leu of a proper police investigation and prosecution. I am not for barbarism nor chaos. But justice should be served one way or the other.

Really? CC you seem to be from the USA, so you should be well aware that if someone dies while you are committing a crime (say an old timer has a heart attack when you stick up the local bank) you are gulty of murder. Its not premeditated, but that person would be alive if you did not hold up that bank. THEREFORE YOU killed them. SAME SAME with the wife. There is no indication she would be dead if she had not been hit with a wooden stick, therefore the blow killed her. Therefore the person who struck her murdered her. Furthermore, you can not claim that bringing a wooden club to a confrontation and using it on someones head is not premeditated. Therefore this person is guilty of premeditated murder... take your hand wringing "oh, we don't know WHAT caused her to die..." BS and <deleted>.

Now as for this case. I am not a parent, and I am having a great deal of difficulty trying to account for the son. That being said, my first reaction would be to wipe out the entire family. Unless they help me find and kill the father and older brother. They aided them in the assault by hindering the falang, as far as I would care they are dead. I would use all my money to find them... but I would want to kill them myself.

I'm with you man. Can't believe some of the cowardly advice being dished out here: Sure, just run back to the home country, tail between legs. After some cretin raped your wife and then brought around his father to kill her right in front of your eyes? I'd be after blood. First I'd make sure my son was In a safe place, then go for some justice. First within the law. If that failed then outside it.

Some men think they can rape and, if confronted, just kill the victim. These scum count on their victims family getting scared & running away. Which only emboldens them in the future. A stand must be taken against this sense of impunity or it will never die out.

Most posters here recognize their first priority is to be there as their son grows up and provide guidance and love--rather than to exact vengeance on the kilers and leave an orphan to the world.

It has nothing to do with the level of anger anyone feels about this injustice.

Yes, I do as well, that is what I meant by having a great deal of difficulty accounting for the son. I know that is the overriding priority, but I can not feel it.

"I'd return it (still new enough) but don't have the receipt."

What country did you buy it in... because even if you had the reciept, you wouldn't be returning it in Thailand!

caveat emptor!

Rushing to close OFF the gas valves?

So these things drive around with open valves, containing LPG.

And when driving with bald tires, which we all know they do.

Heaven forbid.

Happy Loy Kratong everybody.

BUT what surprises me more: no one smoked close by

would not have mattered... Thai LPG is highly INflammable!! Not sure why they were concerned about an explosion in the first place!!

INflammable is the same thing as flammable so those little avatars are laughing AT you.

Whats far more interesting is the reason for the gas leak and how it is connected to a flat tire.

DOH!!! Son of a Mo7h3r$$Q{Ping female dog in heat!!!!

mmmmm . . . find 2,000,000 THB, returns it to owners and gets 5,000 THB "reward" . . . I wonder if he'll bother next time . . . ?

It's great that he's honest and fair, but honestly, those "tourists" are taking the piss with that reward!

Agree, though the money might not have been theirs.

2,000,000 baht is a lot of spending money.

I don't know about that... bar fines aren't getting any cheaper these days. Then there's all the vitamin V to keep up with the 22 yrold minxes ya just barfined...

Rushing to close OFF the gas valves?

So these things drive around with open valves, containing LPG.

And when driving with bald tires, which we all know they do.

Heaven forbid.

Happy Loy Kratong everybody.

BUT what surprises me more: no one smoked close by

would not have mattered... Thai LPG is highly INflammable!! Not sure why they were concerned about an explosion in the first place!!

"Furthermore, an exercise of the contingency response plan of Ebola outbreak will be conducted on 17 November at Banpu Resort and Spa in Trat."

Furthermore, the health ministers will enjoy an all expenses paid vacation to the Banpu resort for the week of Nov 17.

There, fixed it for you.

USA uses two separate networks; GSM, same as Thailand and most of the world and CDMA, used in US, Canada and a few other countries. AT&T and T-Mobile in the US are GSM and should work in your phone, Verizon (CDMA) will not.

There are many good Pre-Pay options in the US now. Most are much better options than the post pay, multi year contract plans.

Most important is to find a provider with good coverage in your area as no one carrier seems to cover the USA equally.

You can read pre-pay provider reviews and buy a SIM on Amazon or wait until you are in the US and go to any store selling phones.

Not entirely true. AT&T and T-Mobile (and some MVNO's associated with them) use GSM, BUT they do not operate over the same frequencies as GSM in the rest of the world (I know Canada uses the same feq's and possibly one or two other countries, but in general, it is different.) You need what is referred to as a "World phone" or Quad band phone ( there are two frequencies per location, so for use in all locations you need to tune all 4 hence the quad)

You can think of it like this, GSM vs CDMA is like AM vs FM, it doesn't matter how much you spin the tuning dial, you will never recieve an FM broadcast on an AM radio - they just work differently. Your phone comes preset to tune in two particular radio stations, and they are different stations in Thailand than in the US, and your phone does not have a tuning dial. You need a phone that tunes in all 4 stations.

This info is only very basic, I think there are more frequencies in use now, and you might need to consider LTE vs whatever whatever, but the above is true. You can not simply say it is GSM, it will work.

Here is a page for changing in all three major browsers.

http://www.howtogeek.com/113439/how-to-change-your-browsers-user-agent-without-installing-any-extensions/

A note of warning, the user agent is used to customize the page for the browser you are using. It is a way to get around bugs and non standard rendering and other quirks of the idividual browsers - intentional or not. Changing user agent is good for testing like this, but should only be temporary anyway.

As for G+, I think just having a log in to your gmail is the same now. In their words... one login for all of google!! To be honest, I'm not really sure of the distinctions between the services. If you got into the third party website using the google login option, then you have enough connection with google for it to work... obviously. You are usually offered the option to log in by e-mail still.

1 sounds like open ID. You have credentials for just one site to remember (G+ in this case, but facebook is much more common, and there are others) and the other websites ask the google or facebook servers to answer the question "Is this guy legit?" Nothing nefarious, but google does get to know what website you are logging into.

2 I have not heard of that before, but the page layout is easily reformatted by the web server depending on the browser you are using. Change your user agent in chrome and see if it goes back to a single long page. I agree its obnoxious, and it is done to up the count of page clicks to boost ad revenue.

If you are not happy to have google as a VERY close partner in your online life, you need to ask yourself if you want to use chrome. It is a tool they use to further entrench their services in your life - just like android.

BTW, chrome is a google branded version of a browser called chromium. Same browser, less google.

wow, you make up shi# as you go, lie about what you do not know about then you call people names. did i make you lose face? is that the reason for your phony anger? simple is as simple does, man up a little, read a book, stop talking rumors and acting like old women do :-)

I suppose I made up the VIDEO of the idiot actually SAYING what I said he said?

I could be wrong, you may not be a jackass. Based on your comments here, and in other posts from you, you sound more like a 5 year old.

I have cited my source in the most concrete way possible. Come back at me with a cogent argument, if you can. I'm quite sure you can not, because if you are not 5, then you are a jackass. Either way, you aren't up to the task.