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Just some problems I have notice here. 1. We have 3BB internet and True phone SIM card. I have noticed that when I watch the same TV program on 3BB and True, 3BB will intermittantly drop out but the program on TRUE is fine. So there is an intermittant problem with 3BB. If you can, do the same test and see what happens. 2. Also watching TV from Aus, one TV on an old computer goes to buffering and many times between ads and program, program drops out and have to connect to the TV program again. Does not happen on TV program without adds. But, another feed using a later version box, doesn't drop out, so I suspect the old computer is the problem. 3. I can measure 100mbps at the WiFi router, but not at the TV inputs. Lower but usually OK. If I connect a coaxial cable from the router to the TV read 100Mbps. So it's best to hardwire from the router to your TV points. Don't rely on your WiFi signal, as when something happens if you are hard wired, you know the router speed is the same as your TV input speed, just takes that out of any problems. (I've been going to do it for years but still one of those jobs left for Ron.) I suspect with most of these problems it's speed (bandwidth) but difficult to communicate with Telco companies unless you have something concrete to show them. I think that with speed problems, the receiver (router), says to the transmitter (3BB etc) send again, maybe send again etc, then signals get all confused and signal to the router drops out. The only conclusive was to find an intermittant problem would be to monitor the signal and hand shaking signals on a Storage Cro or a program to capture all the handshaking signals. You can go into your computer and set up a continuous PING and see what's happening.

I think it could be their 90 day report upgrade. Mine got rejected to. Rang them up and they said they never received it, do it again, then all OK.

Hello, Well the roll-a-door was another stuff up. Initially there were 3 of us all building and we decided to get these 10 doors from China. Orded them all but then two of the guys had issues about money, so, after months that all fell thru. Then got a mob in Mukdahan, Mukdahan Shutters to do the job. The boss wasn't there at the time so the office girl took the order. Horrible job. Went back and complained and they sacked the girl as she moonlited with her unkle, not the real shutter mob team. Same happened with my Q Con blocks for the shed. Drove the 100km to Roiet to QCon suppliers and ordered the 100mm blocks (normally 70mm if I remember) from the store manager and their installation team. Wrong blocks arrived, so sent them back. Q Con installation mob arrived and were drunk for 3 days. After some blockwork I had to sack them as well, then I did it myself with a couple of the local farmers. Back to the Roll a doors after my winge. I think there are good doors and company in Bangkok when I checked, but that was years ago, may be better now. China is still an option for well constructed cheaper doors, but the freight and port marfia is a problem. Make sure that you have enough head room to install the tracks for the door to slide under the ceiling. Good luck. As well as this DIY forum, the Electrical Forum is excellent. Crossy from the electrical forum is a world ex a pert. 🙂 Also plan to install solar.

He can't be a Cunning Linguist as that's me ....that's my HASH name. 🙂

Yes but you do get warnings on TV. I've been thru 3 coups. TV's programs stop and they play military music. There are no police around...all hiding. After the programs return with a warning for all tourists to go back to their hotel. In Cambodia you know because on dusk you see guys on motorbikes with AK47s and you can hear the gunfire.

Thank you. I see what you mean. I'll get another roofing 'expert' to replace the ridge cap. The project was a horrible building job done by other 'exerperts'. I ended up getting rid of the building mob and finishing it off myself, but the frame and roof were already completed. I completed the rest of the walls, windows and doors and electrical wiring. Head builder now retited to the Moonkhood. 🙂

Just thinking more about it and the problem may have started after the tree fell on the shed. Only the top 1m of the tree hit the shed. So it could have made the gap at the apex join bigger and water flowing down between the metal and insulation. Will get the guys to check.

Thanks, could be ...will get the guys to check.

Thanks for reply. The roof is factory painted with that pressed silver heat sheild, but that is all peeling off.

I thought (but unsure) that the steel garage roof is leaking around the roof screws. (The roof screws have that black washer around the head). I can't get up on the garage roof at the moment, so some of the locals are inspecting the roof. The garage has two dividing walls seperating the carpark, store room and aquaponics areas and it seems only the car park is affected. The ceiling paint is peeling off around many of the ceiling screws, as the pictures show, but there does not seem to be discolouration around the peeling paint that would indicate water leaking through the roof screws. Also the roof screws are in different places than the ceiling screws, so now I am not sure the peeling paint is from water. Can you have a look and give us some advice please? It's impossible to get a roof plumber around here. Garage Images: Aquaponics room on the left with the roll-a-door, storeroom in the middle and carpark on the right. Only the carpark has the problem. Carpark with the peeling paint around many of the ceiling screw holes. Water damage in the middle front from a falling tree.

When in Thailand for awhile you get used to Thailand driving. Safe, as long as you drive the same (or nearly the same) as everyone else. Same every country you go to, you learn and drive like them. No problems...usually. Drove a motorbike for the first 4 years in Bangkok and up country. Only accident was out the back of MayHongSong when a guy riding a bike with a gaggle of live chickens and I collided. Both fell of but only going slowely.

This forum is getting worse (love it :)). I'm glad our community standards are near rock bottom. 🙂

Thanks for the reply. How does this work exactly?

Thai's are under estimated. As a non-Thai you can get big and powerfull to a point, then the carpet is pulled from under you.

Imm changed to a new 'wonderful' 90 day reporting system recently. I usually do my 90 day report on-line, but the last one (under the new system) was rejected. I rang our local Kalasin Imm. mob and they couldn't find it and said to submit again, which I did and it was approved. Give them a ring.

Unfortunately our phones have only 1 SIM slot. When we travel from Thailand we need phone numbers from the country we are in. (We usually purchase a SIM at the country we are in airport). Would a virtual SIM be better? 1. What are the pros and cons of having a virtual SIM? 2. From your experience, which virtual SIM would you purchase?

Mod. can you move this to Worst Joke Ever forum?

What's wrong with that? NY GUNTRY is a place in Pakistan.

Years ago students were mixing spirits with valium.

Marry a Thai.

I don't think tourists are idiots. My country doesn't have ID cards. Does the UK? So when you first arrived in Thailand and had a bit of hanky-panky, did you ask for them's licence or ID card? Specific places have their specials, gay bars, pump stations, S&M etc., but I just thought that Hua Hin could have caught this person off guard if he is a tourist or not part of the local scene. Anyway all speculation. Hang him I say. 🙂