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What this means is you get full speed 3G up to the cap limit, the capped speed once breached.

e.g. (speeds up to 3GB) means, the first 3GB of data per month is at full 3G speed (whatever that is for you), then after that your max. speed is limited. The limited speed varies depending on plan from 128kbps to 384kbps (not mbps as shown in the graphic)

for the lower plans < 759 Baht, you start paying excess data rates after you use the plan gigs (expensive).

The bottom line is, 3G is still uber expensive.

Ok, thanks.

As I was Googling for the number to dial to renew my 3G plan for TrueMove (with a data cap of 3GB per month) I came across the graphic below. Before this I didn't think TrueMove had an unlimited 3G plan. Before I sign up for this, does anyone know if these unlimited plans still exist? In the small print for the unlimited plans, it says "speeds up to 3GB", "speeds up to 5GB", etc. That obviously doesn't mean anything, since there is no such thing as a speed of 3GB for mobile internet. Maybe that's just a typo and it's not actually unlimited but has a data cap of 3GB? Anybody know what's going on here?

You would put all in the countries allowed space.

You should at least put the name of a hotel and the address of one if possible.

Great, thanks ubonjoe

One of the questions on the Thai visa application is "Countries for which travel document is valid". The travel document is my passport. Are they asking which countries my passport can be used to travel to, or which country issued my passport (which they already asked in a previous question)? Also, for my proposed address in Thailand, is simply putting "HOTEL, BANGKOK" a valid answer?

I had no idea alcohol was cheaper in America. Thanks! That'll save me a lot of hassle...

I'm flying to America and I'd like to buy two bottles of booze and stuff them into my checked in bag. On the U.S. customs website is says up to 1 liter is allowed, but anything after 1 liter is subject to duties and taxes. Does anybody know how they decide what to charge you? Say for example I am bringing in two bottles of Absolut Vodka and they cost 800 baht each.

And another question, is it even cheaper to buy the alcohol in Thailand and bring it with you? I don't know what the cost of booze is in America these days.

EDIT: Ok, so I just found some information about the state I'm traveling to specifically (California)...

The new overstay rules are not in effect yet.

You will have no problem returning to Thailand. Others have done it with much longer overstays.

You should get a tourist visa while you are in the states. You can get a 3 entry from the embassy.

Thanks ubonjoe! That makes me feel much better. I plan on getting a 1 year multiple entry visa when I'm back in the states.

So I've been planning a trip back to the states and also moving to a new place in Thailand, and during all that it completely slipped my mind that I never went to the local immigration to get a 30 day extension on my visa. It's been so routine that after I forgot to go it just never crossed my mind. I feel like an idiot.

My flight black to the states leaves on the 15th, so by then it will have been 30 days overstay. I'll need to pay 15,000 baht in fines, right?

It sucks to pay the fine, but what I'm most worried about is being able to return since I have a return flight 1 month later. I checked out the newer, stricter overstay rules and those don't kick in until you've overstayed 90 days or more.

So, once I pay the fine, will this overstay not affect my ability to come back into Thailand? Is this overstay bad to have on my passport and would it be best to renew my passport while I'm in the states?

Since it's summer in the states, I've been seeing my friend's mountain camping and fishing photos on Facebook. I'm really missing that and I'm hoping there's something in Thailand that's in some ways similar. Obviously I'm not going to find the Sierra Nevadas in Thailand, but I want to find a freshwater lake with cooler temperatures where I can camp and fish. In the past in Thailand when I've camped in a tent it got so hot at 8am that I couldn't stay inside the tent, so i want a cooler climate. I know in the north in the mountains it gets chilly... are there any lakes there where you can camp that has some decent fishing? (Shore fishing, not boat fishing.) I'm not looking for places where you can "probably" camp, I want to find somewhere that's known for camping. Mainly for safety reasons since my girlfriend would probably be coming with me. Any ideas?

If you ever feel like a trip up to Essan I'll be happy to take you out on the lake here in Loei.It's a little piece of heaven. I've got a good custom built fishing boat with electric outboard I brought from Scotland. There have been great days & disappointing days over the past few years for me but when you get lucky there's nothing to compare with catching a big wild fish. August, September & October are the best times to go for the big boys. Now I just spin with poppers for Plachon & Plachado. I'm sure you know that a bad day fishing is always better than a good day at work! I used to own a fishing tackle shop in Scotland & brought loads of good gear here. You are welcome to experience what I have available up here any time. Here's one of my better catches. Tight lines mate! Joe

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Really nice fish! I'm down in Trat, but I'd love to head up to Issan and fish sometime. I brought 14 fishing rods and 18 reels with me from America.

There's plenty of fish in the gulf, but you need to put the time in. It obviously depends where you're fishing, but it also depends on when. I've been on expensive trips where I chartered a big boat and only caught small fish, and I've been on small boats and caught big fish. And on both sizes of boats I've had many, many days/nights where I caught nearly nothing. Yes, the gulf is overfished due to a lack of (or no) regulations, but there are fish. You don't have to pay for an expensive boat to catch fish... the locals know where to find fish. But like I said, even though there is a spot that typically holds fish, it depends on if they're biting that day. If I was going to spend loads of cash on a fishing boat, I'd opt for the 7 Seas Pro Shop boat that operates out of Pattaya. I've seen many videos of them jigging up loads of quality fish.

Edit: Also don't forget the freshwater fish. Snakeheads (plaa chon and plaa chado) are a really powerful and fun fish to catch and they're all over Thailand.

I've used MacHome Service for years. Small, friendly shop operated by a couple, with very reasonable parts and labour rates.

http://www.machomeservice.com/map.php

Thanks bubba, I'll get in contact with them also.

Hi,

The name of the shop is Help Service. It is located on the 3rd floor of Phantip Plaza in Room 363. The technician's name is Woodtichai Uooncamme, E-mail [email protected]. Telephone number 085-100-0811.

I told him about your situation today and asked him if he had the parts on hand to replace your motherboard and possibly more. He said that he does and estimated a cost of around 8,000 BHT.

Good luck with getting your computer fixed.

Awesome, thanks for that info. I'll get in touch with him soon.

There is a very good Mac repair shop that seems to carry lots of parts in Phantip with at least one very helpful young technician. I can't remember the name right now but it is in the front part of the building on floor 3 or 4. I'm going to Phantip in a day or two and I will look up the name and post it here.

Thanks!

I'm looking for a respectable MacBook repair shop in Bangkok. Are there any that have parts like logic boards, dvd drives, etc. in stock already and don't have to send your computer to Singapore for repairs? After living on an island for 9 months, first my power adapter got fried from the bad electrical and then since my MacBook had no protection from the adapter, the MacBook got fried next. So I'm pretty sure the logic board and maybe other components need to be replaced. Thanks.

I've done a bit of saltwater fishing... everything from the more expensive chartered trips, to just going out on tiny Thai boats with friends, to fishing off the piers, to fishing off the beaches. I live a bit south of Chonburi in Trat province. I'll give you a rundown of some of my trips. Hopefully it'll give you some useful info.

The chartered trips have not produced for me, although i've seen some companies in Pattaya that seem to have nice results. 7 Seas Pro Shop (the shop at Bungsamran Lake) has a fishing boat that operates out of Pattaya. They do lots of jigging trips. Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=7+seas+jigging It's expensive though. At the islands around Trat and also at Koh Samui and Koh Tao I've done boat fishing trips. About 3,500 - 5,000 baht for a big boat for the day. The only fish I caught out of 3 fishing trips was a 1 kilo golden snapper.

As far as sharks, I've heard of people catching them, but they're small... like 2kg. There's definitely bigger sharks around, but I don't hear about anybody catching them.

A Thai friend of mine took me out on a small boat. We were catching small barracuda (~1 kilo) all night long.

At the islands I've done a lot of fishing from the piers with my Thai friends. I never got a big one, but my friends have. Out of 30 trips to the pier, he caught 2 queenfish at about 5 kilos each. A nice sized cobia went for my baitfish as I was reeling in and he missed it.

On the mainland I've fished a lot at the piers. Lately I've had good luck with the saltwater catfish (plaa got). Each time I've went I've got a 1.5 kilo catfish. I used cut squid and the bait was sitting out for about an hour. Last year I fished at the piers in the daytime. On one trip I caught 2 stingrays: one about 8 kilos and one about 4 kilos. The other times I caught nothing.

Another time I went out with some friends on a small boat. This time it was at the mouth of a river that goes to the ocean in Chanthaburi province. The water was muddy, but we caught small (0.25 kilo) saltwater catfish all day.

Basically, the best thing to do is to go fishing with your Thai friends. You'll start getting invited onto boats, or to places foreigners don't go to or know about.

For bait, at the piers I prefer squid over shrimp because there's so many small fish and crabs that will eat shrimp pretty quickly. Squid stays on your hook for much longer. I've used live shrimp quite a bit, but that hasn't produced for me in the ocean. In brackish waters I've caught some nice sized catfish (plaa dook) on live shrimp. At the piers and on boats I like using live bait... sometimes with a float, sometimes flylined.

There is no limit on the number of days you can be in the country during any period of time on tourist visas or visa exempt entries.

Normally the only limitation is the number of back to back visas you can get from one location. But there are some embassies and consulates that have been reported as not doing a visa because a person had several already (Vientiane is not one of them).

The last visa run I did was in Vientiane and everybody (hotels, visa agents, visa run companies) was saying how they'll only issue you 2 double-entry tourist visas now. Also they don't allow agents to get your visa on your behalf anymore, you have to go in person to the consulate.

http://www.thai-or.com/visa-information/

Additional Closures: Our office will be closed beginning December 30, 2013 and will not reopen until Monday, January 20th at 9:00 a.m. There will be no visa service during this period.

That's not going to work for me, unfortunately.

Is it possible to get a triple entry Thai tourist visa while in the United States? Or is a double the most you can get?

EDIT: Sorry, didn't realize there was already a thread on this http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/568452-triple-entry-tourist-visa-from-the-us/

It's usually one of the following combinations:

user: admin

password: password

user: admin

password: <blank>

user: admin

password: 1111100000

admin/password is always the first one I try. Either I mistyped or just forgot to try that one.

Also, FYI, for TOT their routers have their own logins, but it's usually on the sticker on the router. My last router from TOT was admin/tot.

I have True. Facebook hasn't been working for me for 2 or 3 days now on my laptop. The weird thing is, if I go to www.facebook.com on my phone (connected to the same wifi network) then Facebook works fine. And I don't mean the mobile website, I mean the desktop website.

Plug your LAN cable in give it 1 min then try 192.168.0.1 admin/admin or admin/ password also try 192.168.1.1

Thanks. Can't believe I didn't try admin/password to begin with.

Nevermind, I got it. Username is "admin" and password is "password". Didn't see that combination listed in the defaults for any Cisco routers. Probably should have been one of the first combinations I tried

I couldn't login to my router to change the network name, so I figured the technicians changed the default Cisco router username and password when setting up the internet/router. I reset the router and tried all the different default Cisco modem/router login combinations, but none worked. Does True Online have their own username/password combination, and does anybody know what it is? Or do they set the default login to be unique to each customer? I have the paperwork from when they set it up, but I don't see any login information other than the wireless login info they wrote down. I tried that as the router login info and it didn't work. Does anybody know if there's a default login for True Online's routers, or if it's a custom login for each customer, what is the format of the login info? Thanks

I'm taking the bus from where I live to Nakhon Ratchasima and then hopefully directly to Vientiane. I found some information on Google and here already, but it's somewhat dated. Can somebody tell me if there's a direct bus from Korat to Vientiane and if so what time it leaves? If there's no direct bus, what is the next best option? I'd prefer to avoid taxis/tuk-tuks if possible.