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Not very up to date, but interesting nonetheless. From The above link if anyone can be bothered to read it. "The largest foreign community are the Burmese, followed by the Cambodians and Laotians.[30] As of March 2018, Thai government data showed that over 770,900 Cambodian migrants, meaning five percent of the total population of Cambodia, currently live in Thailand. Some NGOs estimate that the actual number may be up to one million.[31] Laotians are particularly numerous considering the small size of Laos' population, about seven million, due to the lack of a language barrier. The Chinese expatriate employee population in Thailand, mostly Bangkok, has doubled from 2011-2016, making it the largest foreign community in Thailand not originating in a neighbouring country. Chinese hold 13.3 percent of all work permits issued in Thailand, an increase of almost one-fifth since 2015.[32] Japanese expats are on the decline, and now rank sixth, behind Chinese and British. One in every four foreigners working in Thailand formerly were Japanese, and the figure has now dropped slightly to 22.8 percent of the foreign workforce as of late-2016.[33] Foreign residents in Thailand, according to the 2010 Census. It was found that there were 2,581,141 of foreign origins, composing around 3.87 percent of Thailand's population.[34] Migrants from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar, the most prevalent, accounted for 1.8 million foreigners.[30] Research by Kasikorn Bank estimated that in 2016, there were 68,300 foreigners over 50 years old—the minimum age for a retirement visa—holding long-stay visas living in Thailand, a 9% increase over the preceding two years. In 2018, Thailand issued almost 80,000 retirement visas, an increase of 30% from 2014, with Britons accounting for the majority of the new visas.[35] In 2010 there were 27,357 Westerners living in the northeastern region, 90 pecent living with Thai spouses, according to research by the College of Population Studies at Chulalongkorn University in 2017.[36] "

Some interesting data on expats in Thailand, amongst other stuff, here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Thailand#:~:text=Thailand is also home to,%2C North America%2C and elsewhere.

Ah, well that sounds highly relevant. It's just odd the connection appeared stable for maybe 6 months after the installation of a UPS. After power outages, it had had difficulty reconnecting. The addition of the UPS appeared to cure that. There are a lot of thunder and lightning storms down there at this time of year. It's possible something's getting knocked over. Yet another variable!

It's 300 km away from where I am living right now. That's been the main problem all along. The problem involving disconnection appeared to have been solved by the addition of a UPS, but the problem has returned. Even after reset, it disconnects after about 24 hours. I will try to sort it out on my next visit.

D LINK, but not sure of the model. Only about 6 months old.

Yeah, and this forum has rules and conventions about staying on topic, and not baiting. If AIS's signal is questionable I've every right to bring it to their attention. I've done it several times in the past having compared noted with others in the vicinity suffering poor signal. As for the "Chinese rant"... I'd like to see your reaction if you found out your SIM was registered to an unknown entity who could take control of it anytime they pleased. There is an article in the BP which I can't link to, but if you Google "Illegal SIM cards 'integral' to scams" you'll see what I was on about regarding Chinese scammers and 1000s of SIM cards illegally registered. I don't know what it is with you, Lou. You treat people with complete disdain on occasion. I'm not happy with AIS's current service provision, so I should move elsewhere? I've been living there on and off for 18 years. I've had problems in the past which they've fixed. Others confirmed there was a problem with their service, Thais and foreigners. We should all up sticks? We're not all just entitled-acting idiots.

The cameras are POE so they get their power from cat5 cables that network them. They don't store anything, just upload photos to a third party mail server which forwards them to one of my Gmail accounts. As with the router, I used to be able to run maintenance on them remotely using port forwarding, but it was way back when and I haven't got round to it for a very long time. These cameras are Chinese, and have a downloadable remote management app. Hooray for Huawei! ???? Just have to add... Even though your much appreciated possible solution will hopefully at least restore the connection, the fault is still there somewhere for the router to keep disconnecting. I will for sure take a new SIM with me on my next visit, registered to my pp so I can add it to my AIS app profile, and try out some other suggestions kindly made here.

Now that IS useful! Thank you @patman30 I am extremely grateful.

You're missing the whole point. The SIM was registered by AIS to another passport number. Geddit? Is that not their fault? And possibly the quality of the signal also, but I'm not on about that. If you've nothing useful to say best say nothing. Why come in with comments like that?

I'm talking intermittent unexplained as yet untraceable disconnects. What workstoday won't necessarily work tomorrow. Of course it's working when I leave the house. 3 days later, gone.

It was a comment on the registration of SIMs with passport numbers unrelated to the buyer.

I never saw that as a settting in any router. Somebody suggested using a timer which might work.

The poster I was quoting bought one from shopee, but his SIM came pre-registered. I bought mine from AIS. AIS appear to have registered mine with an unknown passport number, despite my handing mine over at the time of purchase.

In my condo, electricity cost just went up 25% from 6 to 7.5 THB per unit.

Sorry, you've lost me. What kind of routers are we talking about? There's no way my router(s) can dial out. And there's no display. They hold just standard SIMs. And getting an OTP on a device 300km away isn't of much use. I used to have remote login set up, but it was ages ago and involved port forwarding. I've forgotten how to set it up, but I guess it's another possibility.

It amazes me AIS would sell a SIM registered with someone else's passport or ID card. How can they do that? I bought mine in the AIS shop in Central and presented my passport etc. So how come it's ended up being registered with another passport? It's really a problem when you try and add it to your main profile on the AIS app, as you'll get an error message saying can't add as it's registered to a different ID. If you're able to add it, you can then top up etc without having to receive an SMS on that number, which obviously you can't in any case as it's in a router. And unavailable for phone insertion.

I will investigate next time I have to visit. Thanks.

You may have a point. I will investigate.

The router's plugged into a decent fairly new UPS. That cured the problem for quite a while. Now the problem has returned. My house is on a fairly remote island, and the AIS signal seems to vary a lot. I've reported it numerous times, but I'm never there long enough to monitor it. I could try other SIMs but travelling down there and back is a real pain. Maybe I could try a True/DTAC one for maybe 3 months.

I've had an AIS SIM for my phone for many years. Everything ok. But I bought another one for my router and loaded it with the same package I use on my phone, 12 months 100 Gb per month, 1890 THB. I've had intermittent problems with the router SIM, which is 250 km away, and is used to send motion detect triggered photos to me from my house's CCTV cameras. It seems to lose its internet connection, ie, no photos, which is fixable by rebooting the router. At least, temporarily. But I have to pay someone to go round and do that. I went to the AIS shop in Central in Pattaya and asked them if they could check the SIM. Useless. After about an hour they came up with nothing. But after talking to their 1175 number it turns out the SIM is registered with a completely unknown passport. They gave me the last 4 digits. I bought it in the AIS shop in Central. They say I have to bring in the SIM to the shop as I can't prove I "own" it. Huh? How does taking it into the shop prove ownership, especially if it doesn't appear to be registered to me. So I'm jumping to all sorts of conclusions, like, did they register it to a dummy passport when I originally bought it? I had/have no way of checking, though I showed them my passport, and assumed they used the details on that. I got mad at them and started ranting about 10,000 SIM cards being sold to Chinese call centre scammers etc etc. To no avail. I'm going to buy a new SIM (they're only 70 odd THB) and watch every move when they register it. I'll replace the one in the router, but take it into the shop later and get them to check it there and then. It just came as a bit of a surprise that the original was registered with an unknown, to me, at least, passport. Any ideas? Similar experiences? It's like I'm the one who's the possible scammer if I can't produce it in court, so to speak

The same happens at Trad airport, probably one of the smallest in the country, yet the orange taxis charge 500 a head to the piers/ferries to get to the islands, 20 minutes away. Reported to TAT. Oh, it's the Department of Land Transport's problem, not ours.

Just a bit confused about your last paragraph. Are you saying it's really hard work doing all that stuff in Mexico? And fight for it how?

Yeah, that's an obvious drawback. Are gringo lower in status than farang?

How do they stack up? For US citizens I guess it's simple to hop across the border, but for those of us further afield would Mexico be a viable alternative to Thailand?

Well no, their database is up to date, they just didn't exclude the deceased from their query, and those who had already left. I can't imagine they were querying a national database. The returned data sets are miniscule. So I guess this was run as a test at a single IO office, but probably a large one. So what should have been the query on the database to find overstayers? "List all known foreigners currently in Thailand that haven't renewed or extended their visas in the last 12 months up to or beyond today's date, excluding the deceased and those who have left"? That would retrieve those whose renewal applications were "in process", plus the untraceable ones - well, immigration must still hold visa data on them, even if they don't know where they are - plus the actual overstayers.