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A VPS in a data centre, as some are advising, won't work if you really need to fool many services. It's trivial for an adversary to do an ASN (Autonomous System Number) lookup on your IP and associate it with a data centre rather than a domestic IP. They can do this on the fly. If your aim is to simply appear you are at home in the UK, then it's trivial to route all your traffic from anywhere in the world to your home connection with the most basic inexpensive equipment, and this is your best solution, no one will have any idea you're not actually there.

Since you have a home in the UK, you can set up a Raspberry Pi, leave it switched on at home, run OpenVPN on it and just dial into the Pi from your notebook anywhere in the world. It'll be like you're surfing the internet at home. It's really that simple. You can expect speeds of 20 or 30 Mbps with a Pi3.

Oh, I guess you won't be ordering any fixed lines then. I should have read the OP properly.

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It's a big variable but it's always costly no matter what. You're paying for the privilege of being able to yank someone's ear at 02:00 HRS if the line goes down and cost doesn't just depend on the speeds you require but the Service level Agreement terms (i.e. does it take them 1 hour to fix, or 4 hours etc etc). For an individual like yourself you would probably be well served by just ordering two or three consumer grade lines and combining them into a failover arrangement with a pfSense gateway. You get VERY high reliability like this for very little cost. It won't matter if one of the lines goes down for days because you have two backups automatically failing over to the others.

If you're trading and latency is business critical for you, you should be looking at a leased line/private circuit. If this is cost prohibitive you can set up what I can a "poor man's leased line". I am an IT consultant working in the IT sphere in Thailand for decades, so I can offer some pretty comprehensive advice on this topic. . . This is what I am doing for my UK connections. I have a part-rack in a Singapore datacentre. I run a VPS in the CAT IDC in Bangkok, which I use to rent uncontended international bandwidth (something like 500 Baht per Mbit last time I checked). I tunnel into that from my office, NAT the connection through the Bangkok VPS through another tunnel to my rack in Singapore, and then onto my rack in the UK via yet another tunnel. Latency is circa 180 ms round trip. If you don't have the expertise to set this sort of thing up, you can pay someone like me $$$$$$$ or just get a leased line. You're never going to get reliable latency with a commercial VPN provider. Leased lines will give you uncontended bandwidth and priority latency but you're still hamstrung by regulatory blocks. You will need your own network setting up if you want reliability and predictability. If you're just a one man band trader, get real about your expectations. In all likelihood you won't notice your latency.

The bandanna, leather waistcoat and peach fuzz beard look will never go out of fashion in Thailand. Pop stars should stick to pop.

You appear to be inferring that the child had it coming...

YOU wake up. . .

Just waiting for some dog lover to tell us it was the kid's fault. . .

This has to be designed VERY carefully, you need a pro to do it. Essentially you need a switchover that ABSOLUTELY ENSURES that the incoming neutral is the last to be disconnected after the phase, the first to be reconnected before the phase, and that the PEA side is never, ever connected at the same time as your generator. The consequences are not just for your generator, but you could potentially kill a PEA linesman by backfeeding. You also have to study the earthing arrangements very carefully (related to the neutral situation, which will vary from property to property).

There's a nice Hyundai built under license being sold at MegaHome. It's a silent 5.5 KWh Diesel (not really silent but you get the idea). It's something like 55,000 Baht. This is the one I've been eyeing up for years. However, I've also been considering building my own with an old pickup engine. You can buy alternators pretty inexpensively, pretty powerful ones too (I'm looking at a 10 KWh system). Thereafter it's just a case of connecting it to the drive shaft and fashioning some form of basic engine speed control. . . Be aware that any genset you get for your purposes will be 3000 RPM. This is what makes them noisy, and crucially what makes them unsuitable for 24/7 duty cycle (you have to service them and do a full rebuild every 1 or 2 hundred hours). This is why I want to build my own 1500 RPM generator.

He almost certainly fell asleep, even the cops know it. I've always advocated driver facing cameras (a la black box) to catch them in the act.

You beat me to it. People drone on and on about the lack of justice, and they'd be correct. . . but there is not a single parent here that wouldn't do anything in their power to keep their kids out of prison, me included. . . although I hope I'm raising my kids in a way that reduces their chances of making bad decisions.

Which one? Are you talking about Duangchalerm? That's one that all been wrapped up, and the perversion of THAT case was Duangchalerm becoming a police officer. . . or are you talking about Mr Red Bull, which has not. . .

The salient point I'm making is that the negative publicity already existed for decades. In fact, there was FAR more publicity on Hopewell back then, I was here, I remember it, and I used to live in Lak Si just a short distance from the project. The running joke locally was the chicane frontage road dodging the columns. Nobody cared then, nobody cares now. The sun, the wind and the rain will erode away the columns before anybody cares. What do you want, a phone call?

I find it funny that people are so blind to fact that they just ignore what's right in front of them. Thailand is full of foreign investment (private and state sectors) and has been ever since before and after Hopewell, which didn't change a thing. . . I ask for substantiation but get nothing and you instead choose to criticise my use of forum functionality. . . I disagree and I know how to use a forum. It's obvious who I'm responding to when it's the next immediate post.

... So check who built every SRT project since Hopewell, who supplied the rolling stock, etcetera, etcetera... Nobody cares about Hopewell Project. No one. . . and I guarantee you, none of you can give me one example of failed direct or indirect foreign investment as a result of Hopewell.

This is about labour costs and free trade agreements, it has nothing to do with Hopewell. You'll have to do better than that.

We saw already, it is what it is. Do you have anything substantial to add? ... because the multinationals, manufacturing, infrastructure importations and related economics are all there in plain sight. There have also been countless SRT partnerships with international consortia since Hopewell. Or are you suggesting they hide in plain sight? Nobody cares when there is money to be made. No, one, cares. No one will ever care.

Yeah that's right. Just open up your computer and check where the hard drive was made. Regionally Thailand is a very attractive place to do business or manufacture. It has been for a looooooong time. Trust me, I know. Hopewell is an abberation at the most. It hasn't changed a thing.

I think we've been seeing for 30 years already.

They won't have any problem whatsoever. The risk is always factored into any investment at any price point, and Thailand is low risk, compared to say, Vietnam.

I bet you've got Chang sockets or some other garbage brand.

How could such a thing happen with those Jatukam amulets they bought for the aircraft in the Naughties?