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I used to work in a chain in my 20s but here I married into a Thai family run fiefdom, why I know so much about Thai family run fiefdoms. The hotel is owned by my siblings, my IT business is owned by me. I do all the IT for the company (fiefdom) nationwide.

The OP is likely trolling but it is an interesting topic though. If you go to Agoda, you will find most hotels still there, with availability. This seems strange but it's not, we still have our listing active on the OTAs. This keeps our search engine profile good, just keeps the wheels oiled. Out of 180 rooms, we are keeping 3 rooms active, fully serviced, minibars stocked etc, on a 'just in case' basis. ... .. .. Just in case someone books a room, and just in case I have an argument with my wife and need a bed.

1 minute ago, sungod said:

Dont think the OP is too serious, topic started 7 hours ago and he is still on 1 post.

Good catch, don't know how I missed that.

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This insane economic shutdown is going to cripple millions financially. There will be alot of opportunities. A hotel is a risky one. Tourism could take years to rebound here, and there is a good chance it will never return to it's former levels. Wait. Many other opportunities will present themselves. 

 

And at a minimum, you would need a very good CPA to go over the books. And a private detective to research the background of the seller would not be a bad idea either. 

 

There are alot of scams out there. They are countless. You cannot be too careful with your hard earned savings. It is called self respect!

 

Not sure I'd use the word insane but I sure agree with you. We are looking to be shut down for a year, possibly more. Anyone that thinks the lockdowns will lift and everything will be back to normal on Tuesday is in some kind of cuckoo land.

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In turn there may also be a good selection of talent / workers as well.

Local hotel closures are a boon for me, I get to suck up redundant but experienced staff.

I run a nationwide network of VPN connected offices. We use a spoke/hub topology for the VPNs and the hub being the most critical element runs on a 19 volt rail run from a 12 volt SLA bank. This particular system is like a baby to me and I'm always tweaking it, modifying, improving. I've yet to find a more practical or cost effective solution to lead acid. It's ancient tech but it's totally understood, very easy to charge, and provided you control the float charge according to ambient temperature you will get 5 year or more out of batteries. Personally I set the depth of discharge at 70% and if I every go below that (maybe a dire emergency to keep the gateway online, genset out of fuel), I will replace the bank, no questions.

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You're thinking about DC motors

Excuse me but switching the starter winding leads on a single phase AC motor will cause it to run in reverse. I know what I'm talking about.

Ahem, well some have polarity, ahem. but I know that, yet on some pump designs the wiring configuration will cause the pump to run backwards. This is suspect to be the problem for the OP.

If the computer is ungrounded, it's pretty normal to get a mild tingle. In fact, this is the case with many household appliances, microwaves, fridges etc etc. The reason is a capacitor between output and rectified line voltage putting a small 'safe' voltage on the PSU casing. A proper ground would simply drain that away. No ground, no drain.

Now, if you REALLY have raw phase voltage on the case, switch it off, walk away.

Are you sure polarity is in order? I had a headache with a pump recently. Someone had fiddled around with the start capacitor and it was running backwards.

To add to the above, base packages are so cheap these days you might as well get 2 lines from different providers and load balance. Redundancy at this very basic level should keep your house online at all times. Let's face it, WAN is an essential service these days.

We use CAT, ToT, 3bb and True. I wouldn't over think it because each area will have a different maintenance manager that will have his own set of maintenance priorities. Unless you get a leased line with Service Level Agreement, you might as well just suck it and see.

FTTx networks are generally EPON or GPON and are completely passive from the datacentre to the home/business. As long as the datacentre has diesel for their generator the signal won't go down. How you power your router at home is up to you.

Having said that, we have problems with CAT at one of our sites. When the power blinks, we lose the connection and all our VoIP lines, so I figure they have a local repeater with no battery UPS or batteries that need replacing. We used to pay ~3,500 Baht per month for that line but I got so sick of the poor service in power blinks I demoted the line to a 590 Baht a month backup.

My rack runs on 12 or 19 volts. I have enough battery power to run for 12 hours.

I think you have lost the plot or have not seen the way things are done these days.

I've been working with the PEA and Thai electricians for over 20 years and no one here knows how the 'out of sight out of mind' attitude prevails quite like I do. While the PEA have some very basic standards, you're going to have a hard time convincing me you know better.

Any cheap garbage ONU will handle Gigabit speeds in isolation. If it has a built in WiFi transmitter it is a router ONU. If your WiFi is slow, either the WiFi signal is impeded, the local node ISP side is overloaded, or your client device is a piece of cr@p

As others have suggested, if it is a router ONU, ask the ISP to bridge it and set up your own router if you so desire (they can bridge it remotely, no need to visit your house). They will provide you with the PPPoE username and password. If what they gave you is just an ONU, it is already a bridge.

We have pfSense gateways in all our offices. As such, the ISPs always just give us a bridged ONU, I take care of the routing myself. If you're into tinkering, any old abandoned computer can be turned into a pfSense router (pfSense offer a community edition i.e. free)

I played around with ExpressVPN and Netflix for a while. I actually built my own small network of VPN servers in the UK and Singapore (for work purposes other than unlocking geolocked content) but the reason to use Express VPN is they have the data centre and IP space capacity to dodge detection that they are a VPN service, so they are one of the only providers that really can reliably unlock Netflix content et al. Personally I didn't find the additional content it unlocked to be of much interest, so I cancelled.

My own VPN network UK side works well for the BBC, and that is more than enough to satisfy my needs. Pro-Tip: I route my UK connection through my rack in Singapore. This actually improves latency to the UK significantly, around 190 ms round trip via Singapore (if I connect directly from Thailand to UK, round trip time never gets better than ~230 ms). Also, make sure you're routing your DNS queries through the tunnel, this tricks BBC servers into giving you full HD 5 Mbps data rate, constantly (verify by right clicking on the iPlayer stream to see the data rate)

To add to the above, our Bangkok office has a True line. They originally gave us a carrier grade NAT IP, but I called and asked them for a public IP and they gave it to us.

I have packages from 3 separate providers, CAT, ToT, and 3bb. . .

• CAT updates the dynamically assigned IP every 24 hours, or when the consumer reconnects, whichever comes first. If the consumer does it first, the 24 hours is reset CAT side
• 3bb lets the dynamic IP stick for days, even when the consumer reboots router or reconnects.
• ToT give us a block of 5 static IPs ($$$$$!!!), so I don't know what they currently do with dynamic assignment.

Bear in mind different regions may have different assignment policies for each ISP.

21 minutes ago, jackdd said:

Unless you have an internet package which offers you a personal public ipv4 address you share your public ipv4 address with many other people. So you it could happen that you notice different people logging in from different places with the same ipv4 address.

 

 

What you describe is called Carrier Grade NAT. The end user wouldn't notice anything different with the assigned public IP when visiting a "What's my IP" type service, even though many people are sharing it.

Full disclosure: I'm an IT consultant

Just to be a pedant (though it is an important point of pedantry), data cables can and do pose a serious risk. They have steel sling wires, even fibre optics have them. These can come into contact with energised wires and become energised themselves, even importing high voltages into your home.

On 3/20/2020 at 2:04 PM, Kwasaki said:

All cables have been tidied up in our village most are underground now,  looks good they are starting on our soi's too.

About buried cables, in many cases this makes the risk even greater, they are often buried just a couple of inches under the ground just to make them disappear, you can't see them, but they are no less of a risk. They are often the wrong cable type to be buried, THW cable being a common example, the insulation is hygroscopic and lets water in, creating electrical leakage in wet ground. Very hazardous. We had a serious problem at our hotel, with cables to rooms buried just under the grass. Someone digs a hole, straight through the cable, all THW. Crazy really. All were replaced with conduit buried in concrete using NYY cable and great cost, but we managed to claw some of the money back by screwing the electrician that originally screwed us. He didn't anticipate me coming along and inspecting his 'work'. He got a big shock (pun not intended).

As others have suggested, just stay away from cables, of any kind, and I'll add, don't walk through puddles. Seriously, don't walk through puddles.

You're being absurd. I can converse with Americans just fine.