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Anybody happens to have a phone number to this online store?

I have a RMA stuck there for one month now and they refuse to reply to my e-mails.

No telephone number given on their web site! One can only speculate to reason for that.

Whatever you do avoid this company at all costs!

This is my recommendations for whatever it is worth.

7daysIT is excellent. Quick delivery and professional response in times of problem. Warranty and exchange of faulty products very efficient. This is what you would expect as they are the retail arm of distributor/agent Com7

www.thanni.com I have only used once and will NEVER try again. Despite preferred shipping companies listed on their web site , and requested with my order, they sent the goods with some obscure shipping company I had to track down myself after a long delay as they were not responding to my e-mails!

When one of the part needed warranty repair it took a week to issue a RMA. Have not received the goods back yet!!!

I have to lines of 512/256 ADSL with TOT here in Phuket. I am also in the area where TOT uses Pacific Internet as the ISP.

Apart from intermittent problems with the Pacific part of the network (Yahoo mail, content filtering, routers down) my download speeds with Bittorrent, Newsservers and FTP has been good, meaning I reach the promised speeds and throughput.

However lately my speeds on Bittorrents is down to a tricle, also on torrents with plenty of seeders/leechers and from areas (UK) with plenty of broadband connections. Speeds on other downloads are unaffected.

A friend of mine, also here in Phuket has a 1mb/512 ADSL connection with TOT but uses CAT as the ISP and has no problem with dowloading the same torrents I am trying.

Is Pacific doing traffic shaping on bittorrent packets?

Anybody else on Pacific having the same problem?

Are there any web based second hand car listings available in Thailand?

To the list of online computer shops you can add

http://www.7daysit.com

They are the retail arm of Com7.

Anybody has experience in dealing with online shop Thanni.com?

Speed of delivery?

Warranty issues?

Customer service?

Response to inquiries?

I have been using Ghost from very early years (the program was originally written by a New Zealand company before Symantec took over) and maybe my way of using it might help a few.

First of all my primary partitions are all FAT32 and dual boot to WinXP and DOS7(Win98). I do all backup restore in DOS. I have four workstations all with removable harddrive racks, with about 10 harddrives which are swopped between different workstations plus a USB 5,25 docking station.

My other partitions are a mix of FAT32 and NTFS. On a single computer the advantages of NTFS are limited (except large files) and it wont by itself stop hackers getting into your system. Only a decent firewall will. File access is slightly faster with FAT32 compared to NTFS. Check Sandra.

I do frequent backups and restores. When I want to play around with new programs, settings, altering registry I do all this without fear. When I decided on my new setup I restore my most recent image and then do my alterations and make a new backup.

I have all my work files in D:/ (My Documents, ETC) . A couple of batch files to backup/restore some program settings that sits on C:/ so nothing is lost when I do my restore.

I keep a few basic XP images so if I need to start from scratch I still don't need to reinstall XP at all.

I tried the most other drive backup software (Acronis, Paragon..) and as far as I am concerned Ghost is the best. It is faster and it gives the smallest file with maximum compression. Very, very seldom have I had a corrupted file or difficulty backing up.

Only om my Linux system am I forced to use something else and Paragon works fine with the Linux file systems.

Always found the packages more convenient. Hourly or unlimted, 1222 numbers or local dial up. Instead of a monthly bill you pay for what you use. If you are not happy with one ISP, test another one. As per the e-mail side there are plenty of free pop3 acconts avaialable, Gmail, Hotpop, Yahoo and GMX. Then you will have an e-mail address that will be good for years including when you finally shift to ADSL.

In the early days of internet in Thailand there was only the monthly payment alternative but when Loxinfo started to screw up the billing I began using the packages. To close the account with Loxinfo I think took two years. They were charging me incorrectly but never gave up to try to screw me.

Here is a list of non censoring DNS servers you can try.

dns2.de.net - 194.246.96.49 (Frankfurt, Germany)

ns1.de.eu.orsn.net - 217.146.139.5 (Hildesheim, Germany)

resolver.netteam.de - 193.155.207.61 (Alfter-Impekoven, Germany)

sunic.sunet.se - 192.36.125.2 (Stockholm, Sweden)

master.ns.dns.be - 193.109.126.140 (Leuven, Belgium)

ns1.lu.eu.orsn.net - 195.206.104.98 (Belvaux, Luxembourg)

merapi.switch.ch - 130.59.211.10 (Zurich, Switzerland)

prades.cesca.es - 192.94.163.152 (Barcelona, Spain)

michael.vatican.va - 212.77.0.2 (Vatican City, Italy)

dns.inria.fr - 193.51.208.13 (Nice, France)

ns0.ja.net - 128.86.1.20 (London, UK)

nic.aix.gr - 195.130.89.210 (Athens, Greece)

ns.ati.tn - 193.95.66.10 (Tunis, Tunisia)

ns1.relcom.ru - 193.125.152.3 (Moscow, Russia)

trantor.umd.edu - 128.8.10.14 (College Park, MD, USA)

ns1.berkeley.edu - 128.32.136.9 (Berkeley, CA, USA)

merle.cira.ca - 64.26.149.98 (Ottawa, Canada)

ns2.dns.br - 200.19.119.99 (Sao Paulo, Brasil)

ns2.gisc.cl - 200.10.237.14 (Santiago, Chile)

ns.uvg.edu.gt - 168.234.68.2 (Guatemala, Guatemala)

ns1.retina.ar - 200.10.202.3 (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

ns.unam.mx - 132.248.253.1 (Mexico City, Mexico)

ns.wide.ad.jp - 203.178.136.63 (Osaka, Japan)

ns.twnic.net - 192.83.166.11 (Taipei, Taiwan)

ns3.dns.net.nz - 203.97.8.250 (Wellington, New Zealand)

box2.aunic.net - 203.202.150.20 (Melbourne, Australia)

Info from http://www.zensur.freerk.com/#4.2 (HOWTO bypass Internet Censorship)

Sorry i forgot to mention the ones I am using now. Located in Japan.

219.127.89.34

219.127.89.37

Hi,

Censorship?. It wasn't as bad as that.

Now some light is appearing on this debacle.

Since thursday Pacific Internet is blocking all web based e-mail access and SMTP through their servers from TOT-Pacific ADSL accounts in Phuket.

TOT-KSC and TOT-Loxinfo accounts out of Phuket is not affected.

The reason for this whole matter seems to be politically related within the TOT Pacific Internet cooperation.

When it will be resolved nobody seems to know.

Talked to a TOT engineer just recently and he confimed that this problem started already on thursday and appears to effect only Phuket??.

If the problem actually started on thursday how can it take such a long time to fix it? Is it a technical or political problem?

PS Also unable to post on this forum from my location here in Phuket.

Have to get help from a friend overseas!!!!

I am using TOT ADSL with Pacific ISP.

Since a few days I have been unable to access my Gmail and Yahoo Mail accounts and as far as I can guess the access is blocked by Pacific somewhere in their network because the accounts can be accessed from other ISP's (non Thai)

I have also difficulties with my pop3 accounts as I am unable to send anything.

This worked fine a couple of days ago.

What is going on? Is this some sort of censorship? When I try to check out the issue via independent proxies I am brought back to life with a message from the Thai government in the form of a warning from http://ict.cyberinspector.org/.

Is this the new Burma, where civil liberties are curtailed and free speach a thing of the past?

Regards

Fyr