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Undercover work as a TPV?

No absolutely not

I was on the way to BaliHai pier to listen to/watch some music.

A group of motorcycle taxi's on the corner saw I had a camera and sugested I take a snap... for when she (I'm told she's a she) awakened from her beauty sleep.

There's one in Jomtien needs a bit of restoration though

I snaped this Thai crashed out... just past the Bamboo bar near the entrance of walking street last night.

In some area's in Pattaya you can get the Hinet service from TT&T. 2mbps top speed, but high contention ratio so will slow down a lot during peak times... Think it is 999 Baht/month

I'm using the Hi-net service and it's settled down now to be quite reliable.. speed is ok too. There are problems with file sharing and some voice over IP applications

(Skype works fine) but for email and surfing the web it's fine.

Last time I asked in Carefour they said they don't offer the Hi-net service anymore !!

However if you have a look here http://www.tttbroadband.com/eform1.php

There it is first offering CAT ชุด Hi-Net ราคา 999 บาท (+ VAT)

For Linux you can use almost any "standalone" external 56k modem ...that is one that is in it's own box, with it's own power supply and connects to your computer via the serial cable. You can find them very very cheaply now that everyone is changing to ADSL.

He can also goto the TT&T office in Carefour (second floor) the girls there are quite helpfull if you go at a time they aren't rushed of thier feet ! (sometimes not very knowledgeable) but they will tell him all the options for internet via a TT&T line. Really he should have applied for the ADSL at the same time as the phone line.

Don't think there is a cable modem option in Pattaya at all judging by the amateurish Sophon cable TV.

ADSL modems are available in Tukcom for about 1600baht

Before he connects to the internet he should install (or turn on Win XP) a firewall

A couple of days ago I ruined my Epson 830 by messing around with the print head.

So today I went Tukcom in Pattaya to look for a new printer...they don't seem to have a very good selection but in the end I bought a Canon IP4000 as it's had good reviews.. 7000 baht OK it's not the cheapest , but cheap isn't always cheap in the end.

Sorry, I don't know how much they charge to park your car at Bangkok airport.

Recently left mine in a petrol station near the airport for 2 months !!

On my return the owner of the petrol station had towed the car away.He thought it might be a bomb as one would ha ha it's a wreck of a car.

Cost me 2,000 baht to get it back ... he said if I had parked it on the other side of the forecourt that would have been no problem :-)

Next time I'll be getting a Taxi ... driving in Bangkok is a nightmare.

useless for small network as it had been asked

Francois was the above a typo ? I hope it was or poeple here might get the idea that IPCop is useless.

I have been using IPCop since it branched from Smoothwall, and although my Linux skills are useless, Ipcop has certainly been very usefull for me.

The best things about it are that it takes an old pentium low spec computer and turns it into a firewall/router internet gateway,DNS server,Web proxy/cache, NTP time server etc very easyly. (use new hispec hardware if you want)

If you run into problems there are many support groups that offer quick and free support. If you don't like something about the way IPCop works you can change it. There are many addons that enhance it's features. http://firewalladdons.sourceforge.net/index.html (hope the mod is ok with that )

http://www.ipcop.org/

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Maybe you could try changing the encoding in your browser setup from Thai to Western European, it should autoselect but seems to get confused sometimes.

For internet Explorer its View -->Encoding --->Thai or Western European.

Can't see anything about money at all !

It says you can put the sender name in English only upto 9 characters

the message can be 135 characters (English) one Thai character = three English.

You can send to AIS and DTAC contract numbers with about 70 percent success Dprompt and One2call 5 percent success

Orange 0 percent

Then it says we won't keep your details.

Ah ha now it says บริการฟรี! ทั้งผู้รับและผู้ส่ง free service for sender and receiver..

That's enough isn't it ???

I used Skype today to call England and Sweden PC to PC and used the Skype out PC to landline with no problems I'm using TT&T / Hi-Net.

Also a friend called England today using Skype PC -PC

TT&T/Ji-Net 256k and it was fine.

We are both in Pattaya.

Errm well I just tried mail.cis.cattelecom.com myself and it doesn't work.

Seems they are blocking port 25 now :-(

Anyone else having trouble sending email fron Hi-net ????

Sorry can't help with your ADSL problem except to point you to the TT&T site for coverage checking enter your phone number to see if you are in the coverage area.

http://www.ttt.co.th/T-Speed01/thai/inside_3a.asp

Where exactly is Eakomongol 3 in Pattaya ??

As you mentioned, international speeds are (at times) at dial-up "modem" speeds.

from Ji-net's web site

DSL-Compax 256 limited data transfer for 5 GB per month, The surplus user may cause to reduce speed to 25 Kbps(True and ADC Only)

DSL-Compax 512 limited data transfer for 10 GB per month, The surplus user may cause to reduce speed to 50 Kbps(True and ADC Only)

8000 baht per month two storey shophouse south Pattaya utilities not included.

Try this.

mail.cis.cattelecom.com

Just had a tiny bit of rain here in south Pattaya.

Hi-net VPI=0 VCI=66

use PaP for password Authentication method

PPPoE framing type LLC

Hope that's of some help

udon: the transport is a mini bus (rot dtoo ) and the drivers are inveriably mad ! that's how they get there and back so fast

The "Visa Shop" charges 2200 baht all inclusive but no breakfast or lunch is included... they normaly make two refreshment stops on the way to Cambodia and two stops on the way back. I believe they only go to Pong Nam Ron on Mondays. No need to show funds on the 8th of November.

I went there on a visa run ( with the " Visa Shop " ) on monday the 8th of November.

It was much much better than Aranyaprathet, no beggers no kids no other tourists/ visa runners at all. I think (could be wrong ) everyone of us was on 30 day visa's the imigration officers on both sides where very friendly,

all smiles it probably made thier day to have some work to do

I'm in Pattaya........accessed it no problem just now. I/m using T-Net on a T .T &T phone line

I also had to use a proxy for Betfair when I was using Ji-Net as an ISP

The Hi-Net service does seem to block more sites ( but it's cheap ) recently they had a spate of blocking sites that listed proxy servers like

http://www.publicproxyservers.com/page1.html

and

http://www.stayinvisible.com/index.pl/proxy_list

Ministry Of Information and Communication Technology

What a bunch of wowsers!

Agreed

A lot of photographic shops in Pattaya have a room either upstairs or in the back for taking all sorts of snaps