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It's the free version. Go figure.

I've had 2GB with Hotmail for some time now -- and in Thailand!

Agreed.

Penguin,

I've been listening to RP for years. Now, there are 7 of us listening from Thailand. I especially like the 192k mp3 stream.

Try reinstalling your mouse driver. If you don't have the CD, just download it.

Just tested at the Speakeasy site at 91 kbps download and 298 upload. This on a 2Mbps SME account as well. I guess there's still a problem. However, I have a feeling that they keep track of your total monthly usage and throttle your bandwidth if you go over it. I typically stream 400,000,000 bytes a day. Will they admit to this? Fat chance.

WOW. Any guinea pigs out there?

I can still get Fox on a small neighborhood cable company. PM me for their telephone number. Much more newsworthy and professional than Communist News Network.

To save the flash, just copy and paste the link below into your download accelerator.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~jvdkuyp/flash/see.swf

Then, drag the finished download into your browser to play.

Exactly the same situation as StrongView on my SME ripoff from True. Maybe because most well-to-do Thais have already spent their paychecks this month and are at home downloading free stuff and playing games.

Why does the problem always call for sending a technician around to you house to fiddle around?

Maybe the term broadband should be changed to fraudband in Thailand.

Hey, let's go back to stale bread, bad meat and wilted vegetables, and being ripped off by the mom and pop stores. Great direction.

From Bangkok across from True building.

Thanks for the heads up on the CSLoxinfo SME package, Firefoxx. I guess that with anything that seems too good to be true in Thailand, it won't last forever.

I really think ISPs can give us what we pay for if we push them hard enough, but it's a game of attrition, and they're winning.

Very reliable and accurate test.

True 2048/512 SME.

I am in the UK and have Telewest 10MB service I download about 13GB a day!! and I have never had my service restricted. (I watch a lot of HDTV from America!)

Perhaps in another 25 years, we can see this in Thailand. For now, we're stuck with little better than dial-up speeds with a roller coaster reliabilty factor.

Another step backwards?

(For a little background, read the Salon article reprinted here)

Now go to this Wired article here and read how to find out if traffic to a particular domain or mail exchanger is being re-routed through AT&T

Performing a tracert (in the Command Prompt window, which can be accessed from Start-Programs-Accessories in Windows) on several websites I own I discover that 1 is being rerouted through the AT&T substation in Dallas. I only use this domain email and it is the oldest of my domains. My other hosting accounts on the same server do not route through the AT&T substation. I've tried this about 10 times and that particular domain reaches the substation at about the 9-11th hop, while my other domains never do. Again, on the same server.

Yes, AT&T is a major internet backbone operator in the US. However, my webhost connects to the backbone after the AT&T substation for that domain. The other domains connect to the same backbone but skip the substation.

I happen to know that the AT&T/Bell surveillance substations in every region in the US is always in a building nextdoor to an FBI office. (I did some city work a few years ago, and we had to come up with contingency plans). I used to think this was just to make it easy for the FBI to communicate in case of an emergency, but now their relationship looks even more interesting because of these new developments.

(by the way, you can also type in "NETSTAT -P TCP" in the C prompt to see if your system is being monitored, by hackers, crackers, trojans, or otherwise)

So, your point is?

128kbps? Aren't they going backward? Maybe they think they're going to cut back on complaints -- who knows? I don't care how cheap it is. We should expect a lot more from a company as big as True. Why not offer bonded broadband? That way the contention ratio is halfed. Instead of 50:1, it'd be 25:1. And, on an SME package, it'd be 10:1 instead of 20:1. And, come to think about it, why can't they just be up front with customers and tell them what the share ratio is instead of hiding behind the "no gaurantee" hogwash? Let's get serious.

You can still listen to Splash Fm here. Sorry, no luck finding an alternative to Classic Gold Digital.

Fat chance you're going to find something like this in Thailand. Perhaps at Amazon? I'm sure they can process international orders.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001EMLZ...330521?n=172282

Print shops typically use Adobe Illustrator to design and print business cards. If you were to design your own card at home, first find the shop you want to use and ask them what software they use.

Maybe it's time to chuck the decorder box off the balcony.

Abysmal result with same numbers on other test sites. Something funny is going on at True. I should be getting more for my 3,000 baht per month.

Here's an update on True's SME package. This past week has seen a dramatic decrease in international speeds to 100 kbps tested on the speakeasy site. It doesn't even improve after midnight. All day yesterday (Sunday) was the same -- excruciatingly slow. Then at around 1:00 am as if someone programmed it, the speed shot up to 2,000 kbps. It's pretty obvious to me that now, no matter what package you're on, True is capping you. It has very little to do with the share ratio.

Free call to landlines in the U.S. -- that's pretty cheap.

Skype_Goes_for_Broke.pdf