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Good to know. As you say, for longer stays of more than 90 days, it still makes sense to buy an onward ticket to prevent any hassles with the connecting flight.

Thanks I appreciate your knowledge. So there are vans at the Udon Thani airport that only go as far as the bridge and then turnaround and go back to UT?

Good to know. I'd be happy doing the Patttaya visa run option but just wondering about possibility of DIY without an agent if doing consecutive 60-day visa exemptions. My preference would be to go up to Isaan and cross a friendship bridge on my own. In theory, there shouldn't be a problem since they are now "unlimited" but in practice who knows. Thanks again. I'll get in touch with Tod Daniels.

Cheers. Thanks Jack. So I gather there is greater risk doing the DIY land border crossing at Vientaine or Nakhon Phanom. I was hoping to combine the DIY border bounce with a visit to a buddy who lives near the border up there. Oh well. It could be a separate trip.

Actually in Chachoengsao so easy trip to BKK or Pattaya

Aside from Aranyaprathet, would you still say that land borders are a safer bet than flying into DMK or BKK? I have to do a second consecutive visa exempt entry early in the New Year and am weighing the relative benefits of Udon and VTE (or Nakhon Phanom and Thakek) vs. a visa run service to the Cambo border.

Hi All, I just wanted to share my experience with other members. I arrived at BKK on Nov 6 with a return ticket dated March 25. Since I had no visa and was entering with a 60-day visa exemption stamp, I assumed that I would need an onward ticket for my connecting flight in Seoul ICN. My point of departure was Toronto YYZ. Last year, I almost missed my connecting flight in Tokyo HND with ANA because I didn't bother buying an onward ticket. After much back and forth with airline staff, they finally let me board the flight to BKK. I didn't want a repeat of that experience so I purchased an time-delimited onward ticket before I left YYZ on Nov 5. As it turned out, I didn't need to even show the onward ticket in Seoul for my connecting flight. They never asked for it. Is this just a random thing or does it have something to do with the new 60-day visa exemption for Thailand. Or is this a difference in policy between Korean Air and ICN (2024) and ANA and HND (2023)?

A happy ending it seems. For now anyway. Its a family run hotel so the technician was a husband of one of the owners/managers. He was working away at it yesterday and got it up and running but it only lasted an hour before conking out again. Weird. But he was nice enough to give me my own temporary router in the room that is about 15 years old just until their system was fixed. It only gets 2 Mbps but it's a good back-up. They have a Cisco system of repeaters mounted on the ceiling every 10 meters down the hall. The one nearest my room was not working as evidenced by the different color light on that unit compared with all the others. Anyway, I talked to them again this afternoon, and now it's up and working again. I don't know what they did to fix it. But they know it's a problem so that's good. I was just relieved it wasn't anything at my end. It's their system that is at fault. Thanks again for everyone offering ideas.

Hopefully the technician can figure it out. If he can't, then I may go rogue on the hallway router.

Ok I asked the front desk to reset it again. They did so, it still didn't work so now they're going to call the technician. So that's progress. Thanks to all who have replied. I'll let you know how this IP configuration saga turns out. One thing I notice is just how messed up the hallway router is. It's a jumble of cables, it's no longer in its case and it's just sort of hanging off the wall. I've seen this several times before in Thai hotels. Whoever is doing IT is doing it by the seat of their pants. It's just like all the sea of cables one sees on the street utility poles. There is no effort to tidy it up. It's just a series of ad hoc additions, probably by unqualified people.

Maybe I'll sneak out into the hallway in the middle of the night and unplug the router on my floor and then plug it back in.

No router in room. There are routers and repeaters in the hallways.

I can connect on the ground floor, no problem. Same password throughout the entire hotel. The staff has already rebooted it for me to no effect. It seems like it is a more serious issue, probably how it was set up in the first place. It's not the end of the world as I have unlimited but slow 4G data on my phone although having the hotspot on for a long time burns through the battery. Well, I was going to buy a new phone on this trip to Thailand anyway, so I may look forward to connecting with that. Thanks for your suggestions. Really appreciate it.

Not connecting at all with the laptop. For the network adapter, there are two possible moves: one is to disable it, and then enable it again. Second, would be to uninstall it, and then it gets reinstalled on a reboot. I've read that sometimes it disappears however and doesn't come back so easily. I haven't tried it yet, but I will. I did try the google dns 8888 8844 but no luck.

I got a reboot from the hotel staff but I don't think I can ask for anything more than that. I don't have access to the router. It's odd. Could I be the only person in the hotel with this problem? I don't know. To be clear, there is a difference in the way the phone and the computer behave. The computer has no signal at all, whereas the phone has an unreliable and intermittent signal. But it's clearly not right. And yet, as I said, if I'm on the ground floor, the wifi works fine on both devices.