ozfarang

I got my Non O retirement based on the monthly remittance and only provided bank deposits of 3 months to prove my income was above the minimum required

Yeah, it is possible to get a Non O retirement prior to entering Thailand from Canberra embassy. I did online and entered Thailand in mid February 2025.

Yeah, I did my renewal at Ratchaburi late February 2025 and walked out with a renewed licence for almost 6 years. So easy and quick. Took just over 1 and a half hours

TIT

I filled the TDAC in on the 05/04/2025 and submitted it. Received an email almost instantly. It works well. Australian citizen, live in Thailand on a NON IMM-O extension of stay

No. A lot of legacy carries have free wifi. Most LCC's do not offer or have free wifi

That would assume all pax have internet access. TDAC is only available to access via the www

You can only select, for instance, todays date and the next 2 days. All other future dates are greyed out and not selectable

That's correct on, the last page you can cancel and discard all information

I was just seeing if the TDAC was working as the web site suggested and put in a date 3 days from yesterday and then completed the rest of the details and it worked fine

You need to fill in all Red* fields

Australia

Just filled in the TDAC and worked fine for me. It worked as they say it does. Australian citizen, residing in Thailand on Non Imm O extension of stay.

I recently called Centrelink International from within Australia 4 times over a month, mid January to mid February '25. The wait time was never less than 40 minutes, the longest 55 minutes. Once the calls were answered the person on the line, on every occasion was extremely helpful and answered all my questions. Very happy with their service. Maybe calling from outside Australia you may need to take into account the current wait times as i did. Hope this is of some help as to the current wait times

I'm with you @Chris BKK my agent does mine. Using Thai websites sucks