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I'd say ok place for the beer, friendly owner. Mostly old people. Don't go there for food, it honestly sucks.

Your point of contact would be the PEA. 5A sounds pretty low, not sure if you got the right information.

If you build new you may also consider solar panels, for electricity and hot water, and become independent from outside supply. It will break even within 5...6 years.

Hmmm....ok, never had any issues with that. Another reason to get a yellow housebook I'd say.

It does not really matter what local bandwidth you purchase, the lowest package is usually good enough, as the bottleneck sits somewhere else. I run a small Android TV box on our 30MBps TOT and it usually works fine with 1080p, that is Kodi and some add-ons, that get the stream from servers outside Thailand.

Yes, that is certainly true for the local access. So more subs you have, so less of the share you get. That's why I mentioned TOT. They do not promote it at all, so chances are you will get a higher junk of the bandwidth available, compared to private companies who want to actually earn money.

In terms of international bandwidth it does not really matter as they all share the same  handful of subsea cables.

TOT Fiber is actually quite good. They cabled our moo baan first and then handed our some flyers, meaning there is almost nobody on that fiber access, less sharing, better QoS. Only a government company can do that :). Other than that I'd recommend AIS, haven't tried, but they use their excess capacity to provide broadband access now. Limited number of subs in the moment, but growing fast and pumping a lot of money in. True and 3BB, forget it.

That was answered. Living near to a Makro may not limit your international bandwidth. But we cannot prove otherwise :)

Guess you could apply for war refugee status in Germany now....

That works only if you live in a house of cards :)

1 minute ago, eyecatcher said:

it certainly is because they are building a new one in Nimman, in the most ridiculous place ever.

Really? I would have suggested Maya, just to ease the traffic, but in the center of Nimman will be the killer MaKro 

Sure, you may use Feng Shui to select your ISP. There are some gurus around here too, try Doi Saket area. Not sure if they can fly on carpets to your home to advise, in worst case you have to drive there.

Nevertheless, it does not matter what local ISP your guru recommends, as they do all use the same subsea cables. Thus the international bandwidth is the same for all. Good luck. And if you come along a flying carpet, I take one :)

Use your phone and program a contact number in. There are dumb phones with big keypads if necessary.

There are exactly 2 Makros in Chiang Mai. They have nothing at all to do with Internet access. International bandwidth furthermore has nothing to do with Makro or Chiang Mai at all. But nice that we tried to correlate unrelated issues. Maybe we could even prove that so more Makros you have, so lower your Internet speed is, but that's just a hypothesis :).

I'd say, get fiber, AIS has good bandwidth and low subscribers, alternatively TOT. International traffic goes through international gateways and subsea cables which all share.

It's called MaKro! 

It is offline for a while I believe.

There is a water-jet cut shop in some soi off  Charoen Muang, near Nawarat bridge, on the east side. They made me an end piece for the bike exhaust. Round plate with several holes inside. CNC cut, the metal is too hard to drill it. Not exactly sure where it was, too long ago, but you should find it in Google.

Interesting, I know they knocked down the massage a while ago. Was wondering what for, now that makes sense. Looking forward to the great mess to come, we stay ~500m from the junction, but not at the main road (Koolpunt 8).

On 1/27/2017 at 9:38 PM, johnmcc6 said:

There will be an overpass plus underpass at the Samoong  ?? Rd intersection. Estimated time for completion 30 months. There is a big sign at the lights if you can read Thai.

Samoeng junction is the 108/121 one (Hang Dong Rd.). Or do you mean the Canal Rd/121? Haven't seen a sign but will look out for one.

Heavy traffic is going to be channeled through the new Canal Rd towards 121 and then 11, bypassing the Hang Dong bottleneck, that's a good thing.

2 hours ago, xtof2 said:

The balcony was too high?

There was no balcony, obviously! So people get inventive to commit suicide other ways. Balcony is a bit old fashioned and worn out anyway

19 hours ago, JimmyJ said:

 

Which do you feel are the friendliest  in Asia?

Indonesians and Burmese.

9 minutes ago, NancyL said:

It's a big outing to go to Promenada and hang with the folks at Immigration and G4T.  

Did not know you have that masochist gene :)

3 hours ago, balo said:

 

I would not call it illegal....

 

Just call it what it is....corrupt.

Friendlier than in most parts of the world, not the friendliest in Asia.

My one is now full of birdshit, Mazda service is over, so have to find another way :)

14 hours ago, Ace of Pop said:

I clean the Car

Come over, we can try a beer on the new LG while you wash mine :)

I got this mail back from immigration after trying to register for the online access:

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Basically saying they only give access to the online filing to hotels and guest houses with large customer throughput. But it is possible to file by mail. That's of course for Bangkok and no 1600B required. See attached for details.

เอกสารประชาสัมพันธ์ พ.ร.บ.มาตรา 38.doc