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13 minutes ago, nellyp said:

It turns out I get no 4G reception and I cannot acces my data plan. Phone is Ok, it is just that I can only use it for phonecalls. A bit of a waste of money really. A trip to True office is required to check if my plan (which says  something like "un-interrupted 3G/4G coverage" actually works with 4G. I checked on the coverage map, and Uttaradit (where I live) is supposed to be complete 4G coverage

 

 

Take note that if your phone has 2 sim slots, probably only 1 of them will be 3G/4G compliant. You will also have to set up the APN of your phone, which can be done automatically by an SMS message your receive from your provider

I got mine today at Banglamung. Went there with blue book, yellow book, and passport.

It was straight understood what I came for, and the documents were printed out of the computer, using the details in my yellow book.

Then the usual " I make new rules on the spot" clerk turned up and said I would need a Thai witness to sign otherwise I could not receive the card.

I told her straight away that she should not make up her own rules, and that if she needed a witness she could sign for it herself, because I don't know anybody in Thailand.

After some back and forward talking with the chief of the administration, it was accepted that no witness was needed.

All by all took 2 hours, lots of copies of all they could think about, all at my expense of course, and the price was 100 Baht without any receipt offered.

Pithy detail : when the id card was finished they asked me to go take a copy of it, sign and hand to them, as if they didn't have a copy of something they just printed out of their own computer.

A funny detail to the 3BB saga I don't want to withhold, however not so sure if it is funny.

When 3BB built there installation in my soi about 6 months ago, they contacted me if I wanted to use their service, but since I still had 6 months to go with BTV I had to refuse.

The lady told me to save her number, so if I ever needed her service I could call her.

So a few days ago, and a few time thereafter , I called her with a few questions.

Questions like, how long do I have to sign up for, do I need to use the provided router or can I use my own, and other normal questions.

I also went to the shop in big C extra and asked the same questions, as I learned already that everyone in this country just make rules and laws on the spot.

Yesterday I called her again and asked if they throttled speed to UK or US streaming sites, on which she couldn't answer. Today I called her again and asked what speed I could expect to US/UK servers on which she again didn't answer, so I asked what is the minimum speed I will get. Again no answer, which is a bit strange since I'm probably not  the only customer who connects overseas, and they probably can find such things in their log files.

I reconsidered then a few hours, let my son do the speedtest at his mums home, and going from the result I decided to sign up.

As my house is about 20 meters from the road, and I had some 24 wire cable, that starts at the road and ends up in the loft, buried when I built the house with future internet installations in mind, I called her again and asked if a technician could come around and check if that cable was suitable for VDSL. At that point she started to do difficult and had no idea when a technician would have time, even not in days or weeks,however they drive around daily in the area here.

So I hung up and went straight into the 3BB shop at big C and asked the same question. The lady there called the lady I had spoken with just minutes before, and soon hang up the phone, with the question why I was such a problem maker.

When I challenged her why I was considered a problem maker I was told that I asked too many questions.Her precise words were, why you need our service if you don't want our router and why you need to know the speed.

She even said she didn't want to talk with my any further, and that I better stayed with my current ISP.

So I asked her if I was expected to slam the money on the table without asking which options I had, and what I could expect in return for my money.

I gave her some more decisive arguments about how I thought about this kind of service behavior, and that I could report her to headoffice if she insisted, and that changed her mood a bit and she agreed to an installation with the condition that it could be cancelled if the underground cable is not suitable.

So now you all have a reminder that if you as foreigner want to use a service in Thailand, just pay up and shut up, just crawl over the floor looking down and hold the money above your head while mumbling the words crapon crapon.

Especially don't make the mistake of asking some reasonable question about what options you have.

13 minutes ago, thedivezone said:

I would definetely stay away from Makita in thailand, warranty is six months here as opposed to 2 or 3 years in every other country in the world. That is because there is no official Makita distributor here and all the warranty issues are handled by the retailer you purchased your piece of junk from. They will drag their feet forever, all the while pointing their fingers at the Importer in bangkok, who, of course wants nothing to do with you, the purchaser. I found out the hard way.

Be warned

I wonder why there is no official Makita distributor in Thailand, because I believe Makita built a factory in Sriracha many years ago.

1 hour ago, Pattaya28 said:

I use 3BB live in East Pattaya.

 

Speedtest result Bangkok   ISP 14.13 Mb

                              London     ISP 8.52   Mb

                              New York ISP 8.05 Mb

 

Hope this helps

Thanks, I found my ex has 3BB ADSL in Chayapruek area inside a moobaan where probably everyone has the same internet provider. I asked the son to do a test with Test my net, over his phone connected to the Wifi.

At 5pm he got a test result with 25Mb file to London server of 14.2 Mb. So I placed an order already, because I would already be happy with the 8Mb you get.

Positive is that the whole installation in my street is brandnew, and there are not many houses here, so load will be low.

6 minutes ago, mortenaa said:

 

Was installed? Haha, its not built yet. And when did Solar City go bankrupt? Where is your media source? Is this wishful thinking? 

You're right, Musk bailed them out, actually bailed himself out before they could go bankrupt.

https://www.macroaxis.com/invest/ratio/SCTY--Probability-Of-Bankruptcy

http://cleantechnica.com/2016/06/24/thoughts-teslas-stock-price-collapse-following-solarcity-buyout-offer/

7 minutes ago, OMGImInPattaya said:

The batteries are very eco-friendly as they are almost completely recyclable at the end of their useful lifetimes. The Lithium and other metals in the batteries can (and will) be recovered and made into new batteries. So once a critical mass of vehicles is on the road and enough time has elapsed, there will be minimal need for new batteries from scratch.

 

All of the power for the new Nevada Tesla Gigafactory is provided by onsite solar and nearby geo-thermal power sources. The factory has been designed from the ground up as a net-zero energy consumer.

 

Maybe better to actually know something about what you post on.

 

http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/teslas-gigafactory-will-produce-much-renewable-energy-it-uses-net-zero-energy.html

 

(My Mark of the Beast post   )

Welcome to the world of Mr Elon Ponzi Musk, who is creating one of the biggest scams known to mankind, with government money. Read, average Joe's tax money.

The solar roof of his factory was installed by Solar City, a company once considered the the leader in solar energy in the US but also owned by Musk, but which strange enough went bankrupt after such a big project. Hey I also can build something massive that speaks to the imagination if I don't have to pay for it.

After the bankruptcy Tesla bought the company, which was owned by Musk already, with borrowed money. So in fact he bailed himself out.

It is noit a question if this guys projects will blow up, but when.

Thanks for the link to the fanboy site of Mr Ponzi Musk

Let me see who's the source for the article in the OP. Ooh, it's AP.

No further questions your honor.

13 minutes ago, KittenKong said:

 

I know that. What I dont know is why you want to change from something that is satisfactory to something unknown that costs the same. If what you have does what you need at the right price, why look elsewhere?

 

As I said, better the devil you know.

As you will have read in my earlier posts, my download is about 5Mb to UK servers, 4.2Mbps according to test my net.

This is an acceptable speed, though nothing to write home about, as I experience occasional buffering on high resolution streams.

If I can improve that download speed with only 2-3 Mbps, that could make a big difference in my streaming experience, and with a speed published at double of what I have now I think that is a reasonable expectation.

49 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

For better comparison I would suggest the following test procedure:

 

Open http://testmy.net/download

At the upper edge of the site you click on "Test Servers".

Move to the line " Europe >> London, GB" and click on "Set default".

Then click "Download Test" on the site menu.

Now click on "Manual Test Size" and select "25 MB".

 

Depending on the result one could repeat with bigger test sizes and/or repeat with same size.

 

As I neither live in Pattaya nor have 3BB my results are of limited value for the OP (8 MBit/s with high variance 4.27 to 22.42).

And I am not alone on the router currently.

I did the Test My Net test plenty of times with 50Mb of data to London and San Francisco servers, and my average speeds were 4.2 and 4.3 Mbps respectively.

What I recall now is that when I called the main 3BB office yesterday with the question if they throttle speeds to overseas servers, the lady commented that the only complaints she get is of people who stream from German servers.

7 minutes ago, KittenKong said:

 

Hmm. I think the phrase "better the devil you know" applies as what is obvious in other countries is not necessarily so clear here.

 

I have kept my "old" 15/1 3BB ADSL package as the new VDSL package seems to offer less bandwidth outside of Thailand.

So there you explained the purpose of my thread, to find people near my area who have said package, and who can forward their experience.

1 hour ago, KittenKong said:

Which ISP currently gives you a reliable 5mbs connection to the US/UK, and how much does it cost? Why dont you want to continue with them?

BTV, which is a CAT reseller over DOCSIS, gives me that speed.

The reason I want to change should be obvious, since a 20Mb connection is supposed to give a better speed than a 10 Mb one, don't you agree?

Price for both is the same, give or take a few hundred Baht a year., so the change should be an improvement at no cost.

My post is directed to internet users, in the East Pattaya area particular, who have the VDSL from 3BB.

My current internet contract with another ISP finish by the end of this month, and the only other option I have is 20/4Mb from 3BB.

That's a nice speed of course, at least on paper, but I need to sign a 1 year contract payable upfront, without knowing if it is an improvement on my current ISP.

Currently I have a 10/1Mb connection, which in real life gives me a ping around 280mS and steady download of 5Mb to UK and US servers.

The speed to UK/US servers is important to me because I stream from servers over there.

So I would like to ask for members who have such a 3BB connection, if they could perform a speedtest to UK and US servers and post the result here with mentioning the speed they have signed up for and their location.

Thanks in advance

45 minutes ago, oxo1947 said:

Just shoot your self in the head with a starting pistol----the Pattaya Police will defiantly put it down as being race related--

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But seriously-- Are you for real--???--I mean your last 4 posts before this one were on the farang pub joke page....posting so--so jokes......anyway good luck.

 

When my wife left me , I was sad and lonely. So I got a dog, a new motorbike, shagged 2 women and blew a grand on drugs and alcohol.

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She's going to go <deleted!> nuts when she gets back from work.............

You notice that this thread is also in the pub? Maybe this is the OP's latest attempt at worst joke ever.

2 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the army chief who took power in a coup in 2014, has said before that he would hold elections in 2017 but had not specified a month.

Yeah he has also said 2015 and 2016, and probably will say in the future also 2018 and maybe 2019.

3 minutes ago, eyecatcher said:

If you were in Europe, it would be Makita and Bosch. you dont need look anywhere else.

tradesmen would often go with Makita as the service was often better. if I wanted to push the boat out and spend more than is necessary it would be De Walt. I suspect they are more popular in the States. my dad was a Bosch and DeWalt man.

 

 most tools over here are put together under some form of licence. often completely different to the real McCoy.

I dont touch Makita here any more although I do have a big Makita alligator saw.

 

I was always advised inpartially here that Maktec is Thailands copy of a Makita, much cheaper and will do the Job just as well. Aeg also well regarded

 

but with my failing eyesight, I find I am now buying Stanley brand, bright yellow and easy to see!!!

Maktec is not Thailands copy of Makita, it is owned and produced by Makita, and sold worldwide but is made with cheaper materials.

Same as Stanley is the cheaper version of Dewalt, both owned by Black& Decker.

2 minutes ago, Gweiloman said:

 

Really. I prefer to use wifi instead. You know, Starbucks, hotels, restaurants etc etc

And the WIFI get it signal from where?

Hint : Not from Starbucks US.

1 minute ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

 

To be fair he was removed from office by a military coup in 2006. 

 

He didn't see that coming either... 

So you spoke to Thaksin in 2003 and he told you that.I bet you're also ex secret service

1 hour ago, Gweiloman said:

 

You think a would be terrorist would bother to save on a couple of thousand baht?

 

Also, how old are you that you actually still make calls on your phone instead of using apps like Line, Whatsapp etc? And do you realise that even on a foreign sim card, 3G internet access a day is only about 300-400 baht?

 

So, once again, how would you compel a tourist to purchase a sim card? How would you implement such a poorly thought out plan?

You seem to miss the point that a terrorist with a foreign sim card has to use the local phone ( 3G/4G) network to use his Line, Whatsapp.

4 hours ago, boomerangutang said:

Republican voters created Trumpenstein.  He's like a bad disease, and he ain't going away.

 

Glad you finally agree, Trump ain't going away, so better learn to live with it.

I guess his 4 hour seminar for the being licensed electrician failed.

On 8/5/2016 at 5:08 PM, DUS said:

Now the EU says that Britain has to pay its share of EU liabilities first before they "let the UK go". LOL...... € 25bn they are talking about. Oh well, a divorce never comes cheap ... 

That comment shows how poor the brexiteers were informed, if they thought the liabilities would disappear the day after the referendum.

From the beginning has been made clear that the whole exit process would take 2 years from the date it is started, and during that period UK remains a full member with all  duties and benefits involved.

On 8/5/2016 at 5:08 PM, DUS said:

Now the EU says that Britain has to pay its share of EU liabilities first before they "let the UK go". LOL...... € 25bn they are talking about. Oh well, a divorce never comes cheap ... 

That comment shows how poor the brexiteers were informed, if they thought the liabilities would disappear the day after the referendum.

From the beginning has been made clear that the whole exit process would take 2 years from the date it is started, and during that period UK remains a full member with all  duties and benefits involved.

On 8/5/2016 at 5:08 PM, DUS said:

Now the EU says that Britain has to pay its share of EU liabilities first before they "let the UK go". LOL...... € 25bn they are talking about. Oh well, a divorce never comes cheap ... 

That comment shows how poor the brexiteers were informed, if they thought the liabilities would disappear the day after the referendum.

From the beginning has been made clear that the whole exit process would take 2 years from the date it is started, and during that period UK remains a full member with all  duties and benefits involved.

On 8/5/2016 at 5:08 PM, DUS said:

Now the EU says that Britain has to pay its share of EU liabilities first before they "let the UK go". LOL...... € 25bn they are talking about. Oh well, a divorce never comes cheap ... 

That comment shows how poor the brexiteers were informed, if they thought the liabilities would disappear the day after the referendum.

From the beginning has been made clear that the whole exit process would take 2 years from the date it is started, and during that period UK remains a full member with all  duties and benefits involved.