Khun Jack

I use the Linksys wireless router with a fixed IP address 192.168.1.10 and the enter 192.168.1.1 ( ADSL modem) as gateway in the Linksys setup. So you don't need to change settings on the ADSL modem.

Asus was always my brand of choice from the early 90's. I have installed many Asus main boards over the years but in the last year I had more and more trouble. Can be incidents but it happened to much on a row and it costs me to much time. Its no fun to deliver two computers to a resort on a small island and within one month two failures. One server with Asus main board loses it's bios setting after a reset. Raid setting wrong. Other new office pc with Asus main board didn't boot the next day, replaced this one and it crashed with some applications or using media player, replaced it with a Gigabyte main board, running as it should now. And I do an extensive burn-in test before delivering. The last main board showed after the 18e completed runs memory suddenly a memory chip failure, next run failure again on a different memory location.

I had the renewal problem with Netfirms, without billing or notifying me they charged my daughter's credit card for renewing one year web hosting. My daughter did a charge back and my websites were taken down. Not a single message from Netfirms. When I contacted Netfirms they reply me that they always automatically renew hosting as good service for their customers who might forget to renew. I was not happy with Netfirms hosting so I didn't intend to renew it, but Netfirm's control panel has not an option to deactivate the renewal. I had to send a registered letter three months before renewal date to end the hosting service, Netfirms points to their TOS and will charge me 80$ to activate my account and consider the credit charge back as fraud. Now I was accused for fraud as well. I had at that time no credit card when I bought the one year hosting.

The charge back is never received as well, the Siam Commercial bank asked for the email conversation and months later nothing yet.

Lesson: never give a company your credit card details, use PayPal or another credit card processor.

The problem with a lot of farang's is that they seem to know everything better, even if information drops right in front of them they ignore it.

If I buy something I not bla bla much. Going back to a shop for service is stupid, most distributor or manufacturers have service centers where in case of faulty Asus motherboard you get a replacement in less then a week (and this was with a 3 year old motherboard), I'm pretty sure that for a newer motherboard the replacement would be faster.

OCZ memory modules, are replaced without ever being asked what was wrong...

Jedicool has a very good reputation of good service, I'm a happy customer...

Service center Synnex in Phuket gave me another faulty Asus mainboard in return after a week. Dcom exchanged two Asus mainboards for types with other problems. I am sick of it, it cost me so much time. Now I will show that guy in at the Synnex agent my version of the angry farang syndrome when I return that crappy board. Will never buy Asus mainboards again.

This yet another subject on Thais Money...and Far rang trying to make an earner here.

THAILAND IS A NATIONALIST STATE MASQUERADING AS A DEMOCRACY.

Far rang are tolerated guests seen as ATM'S and a way to scamming money

Come FOR HOLIDAY ONLY pay enjoy and go home...DO NOT EVEN CONTEMPLATE TRYING TO BUY... LAND ..HOUSE.. CONDO.. OR BUSINESS...JUST A MATTER OF TIME UNTIL YOU GET SCAMMED.

And the scams wil get worse.

Mass unemployment on the way,fueling more scams and resentment against Far rang.

Thai Airways declare 21.4 Billion Baht loss for 2008.

Exports 40% down

Hotel rooms and Tourism 40% empty.down thus far.

Thaxsin must be rubbing his hands to use all this to mount another rebellion and gain power.

Happy Days...Hope all the Farrang her long term have a safe haven to run to.

Yes it's terrible here, please go away!

I recommend ... myself.

But I work for money not beer ...

Quote: A new study by the Dutch government shows that 3G radiowaves can cause more health problems than current 2G networks. The study shows that radiation from third generation base stations causes headaches and nausea while current mobile signals have little affect.

I worked for the Dutch government, did official field strength measurements after complaints from citizens living near transmitters.

From shortwave to super high frequencies and was exposed to near field radio wave radiation my life long from my navy time till now with my GSM telephone.

But never felt something, only the Navy radar was dangerous (that they found out in the 50's after accidentally sterilizing navy crew).

Visited one time a house where the owner covered all his walls with aluminum foil, was a good job but he forgot the windows.

And what does the employment department say in the province where you need to apply? That’s what really counts.

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Maestro

Update: I received my work permit, with no changes in my non-O Visa.

Oh you received now really bad advice here, Fuji has an excellent service center in Bangkok.

I have send Fuji digital cameras for my clients in the last years in and outside the warranty period to this service center.

They repaired for free a camera after it was dropped in the sand of the beach.

Call them before shipping.

Camera Repair Center

Fuji Photo Film (Thailand) Ltd.

388 SP Building ( IBM Building), 8th Floor

Phaholyothin Rd, Phayathai,

Bangkok 10400

Tel 02-2730029 Ext 761-762

I have seen a lot of around a two year or more old laptops with problems.

Repair costs are high if it's a not an Acer (in Thailand).

I will not comment on another brands because every series of a random manufacturer comes with design or part flaws.

When studying a schematic of a laptop, the designer notes showed that from an original design it was three times (at least) redesigned to replace higher cost parts with the cheapest parts.

I have tried three different law offices but they all say you can't get a work permit with non-o if your extension is based on stay with Thai Child.

No sorry can't help with the Thai website menu, I let my son do all the ordering for me.

Ordered many times with Thanni, always received the goods or money back from them.

If things are out stock and that happens a lot, it takes to long to resolve.

I tried to email first with my order but they don't want take the trouble to check stock.

Thanni's website is poorly maintained with outdated stock.

Found the service and speed from JIB much better but their website is in Thai only.

hi,

what are the delays, shipping cost and way of payment for JIB?

No delay, immediate contact by telephone after the online order when an article was out of stock.

Received the orders in two - three days with EMS, payment by bank transfer.

In the last two months I started to use SDS more (Southern Delivery Service) and it takes only one day to receive goods from Bangkok to Phuket.

Yeah always here the righteous people who never buy pirated movies. Let me think, 35 years ago when a vinyl LP was 1200 baht in my country, that was the time when record companies made zillions with there cartels and it was way to expensive to buy for a 18 y old music lover. Now I have my revenge!!!.

Ordered many times with Thanni, always received the goods or money back from them.

If things are out stock and that happens a lot, it takes to long to resolve.

I tried to email first with my order but they don't want take the trouble to check stock.

Thanni's website is poorly maintained with outdated stock.

Found the service and speed from JIB much better but their website is in Thai only.

Get this the last hour or so, lots of sites don't load.

Network Error (gateway_error)

An error occurred attempting to communicate with an HTTP or SOCKS gateway.

The gateway may be temporarily unavailable, or there could be a network problem.

For assistance, contact your network support team.

Static electricity is generated by friction of non conductive materials like nylon etc, but this is a current leakage from the power adapter or from a external connected monitor or device like a tv set to earth through your body.

Grounding is the only solution.

The lawyer states that Phuket Labor department only issues work permits to non-b visa holders. Have some Thai friends making inquiries about this, but I told my employer from the start that this issue would pop up. Phuket is with the immigration office also different in interpreting laws (for obvious reasons of course).

Can anyone explain me why Vista can't remember if the wireless AP is home or business?

Every time pops this stupid question up with several notebooks.

And yes Vista absolute sucks with network access.

What the the basis for your non-o? Marriage no problem. Otherwise maybe a problem.

Just had a post from a member that had a problem getting his work permit because immigration had not written in his passport that his extension was for marriage. So all he had to do was go to immigration and get it fixed.

My non-o was on basis of marriage some years ago and my one year extensions are on basis being a father of a Thai national.

Today I was informed by a lawyer that I have to change my non-O visa with one year extension for my workpermit to a non B visa.

Now I was pretty sure that I could keep my non-o visa , and I don't like to have to do the 3 month border runs again.

I was told that Phuket Labor department only issues workpermits to non-B visa holders.

Is this true?

Phuket TOT internet was down for about 12 hours.

I have the same problems as Tony and use OpenDNS but the GoDaddy site is bloated with code and always slow as their control panel. Namecheap is loading much faster, btw they have a nice promotion to transfer domain names for a little more than 6 dollars now.

Things should be easier for me on the proof of income paperwork as when we filed/paid our joint income tax in February 2008, the tax office issued an extra certificate to give to the immigration office clearly showing income earned & tax paid in 2007.

So you need to have paid taxes for a full year before you can apply for a one year extension?

GangsterOfLove, you can use a 220 V power supply for the USA xbox360 , I repair game consoles and have repaired blown up powersupplies for the Wii and the Xbox360 when the owner forgets to use the 220/110V voltage transformer.