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Lannig
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That Thailand isn't nearly as nice and easy to live in when you need to work hard here to make a living as when you come here with your expat euros/dollars/pounds/whatever to spend.
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Entirely a matter of taste. I hate gel. Foam for me.
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Sounds like a lot of "friendly" advice but I can't help finding this a bit suspicious. Hope that's not the first stage of some kind of setup to offer you some extra "protection" from fake or corrupt "low ranking police officers" at a price.
Maybe I'm just paranoid.
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I hope this is the end of TOURISM here
Thaiand does not need it
It only accounts for a small part of the economy 5555
10% of GDP (most conservative estimates) up to 20% if including indirect business doesn't look like something you "don't need".
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More "immersive" I guess, kind of like IMAX theaters.
Not that I'm very convinced myself, especially for that price (must be AMOLED too)
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I love the implication that I'm not a frequent flyer.
Yeah. I walk to Thailand.
Not implying anything, but amazed you've never lived such a situation at the detection gate if you fly often.
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Is this the number usually printed on the SIM itself?
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So this phone would be of the SIM #1 is 3G, SIM #2 is 2G static configuration? no way to switch 2G/3G from one SIM to another?
Can't find anything on this on the web.
Anyway, in either case, your DTAC SIM will continue working in slot #2 in 2G mode until some time in 2018 as mentioned above and you want to keep your AIS SIM in slot #1.
After 2018, your phone probably will be a single-SIM model as far as Thailand is concerned.
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I have a tough beard and indeed razors are the only thing I still don't buy in Thailand due to their inferior quality and/or high prices.
I usuall come with my packs of Gillette Blue II from Europe...
Prices quoted above by CMKiwi match what I can recall. Very reasonable indeed for good quality shaving foam from a brand that is virtually unknown in Europe.
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30 Ah capacity? really? I seriously doubt this.
That's the capacity of a small car's battery. Even with the latest Li-Ion technologies, such a battery would be the size (and the weight) of a brick.
Some of these power banks are advertised with completely unrealistic capacities on internet shops...
The fact that that it consistently powers a 10" tablet for 8+ contiguous hours with power to spare is a pretty fair indication that it's power rating is not far off.
Hardly the size of a brick: 9oz, (250g), a bit larger than a king size pack of cigarettes.
Well, considering that a high-end 10" tablet can run over 14 hours over a 7,900 mAH battery, no I don't think that proves anything: http://www.trustedreviews.com/samsung-galaxy-tab-s-10-5-review-battery-life-verdict-page-3#tr-review-summary
But if believing in this 30,000 mAH figure makes you feel good, who am I to tell otherwise eh?
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7/11 does not sell sims and haven't for a long time ( since they required u show passport)
there are Dtac, Ais, True shops everywhere and als as stated at the airports
no address needed ,just ur passport and Thai Baht :-)
Well, that must not be longer than last May then because I just bought an AIS SIM in a gas pump 7/11 along highway #32 on my way back to BKK at that time.
And the 7/11 store in my Nakorn Nowhere place in central Thailand still was selling them as well.
They have a dedicated smartphone phone for the ID registration process, with which they take shots of the ID card (for Thais) or passport page (for foreigners) and which displays a QR code they can scan with the cash register code reader to finalise the sale.
So if they stopped selling, that must be very recent or more likely staff couldn't be bothered to do a passport-based registration they're not comfortable with, so that's what they've told you.
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I see your point, Lannig.
However, I'm in the UK and regularly get the same problems with TVF regardless of ISP (BT internet at home, Vodafone on my phone, various others on other people's devices), browser or device I'm using at the time.
I never get these problems with other websites.
Other's have posted similar, whether they be in Thailand or elsewhere.
Which, whilst I am no IT expert, indicates to me that the problems originate at TVF's end, not mine.
Not necessarily, because in such a case, I would probably experience the same problems from here over the Channel, wouldn't I?
I don't.
On the other hand, whatever international backbone providers UK ISPs uplink to might have issues with TVF's provider.
Mind you, it can be a combination of many factors. Keeping optimal routing to/from most of the world for ISPs peering with multiple international exchange point is a full-time job, and a complex one for experienced network engineers, believe me. Been there, done that.
Sometimes network routes to/from non-mainstream sites (I wouldn't call TVF a mainstream site for European internet users) end up being vastly sub-optimal with many more network hops than should be and possibly going through bottlenecks. This will go unnoticed for a long time because not as many people complain as if the issues were with a mainstream site.
The worst part is that the cause for non-optimal routing might well distributed among the various actors here: your ISP, the international exchange and backbone operators and TVF's network operator.
We might want to compare traceroute output as a starter and compare network paths.
From where I am now:
C:\>tracert www.thaivisa.com Tracing route to www.thaivisa.com [175.41.131.133] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms livebox.home [192.168.1.1] 2 21 ms 20 ms 21 ms 80.10.123.207 3 21 ms 20 ms 20 ms 10.123.203.10 4 20 ms 20 ms 22 ms ae41-0.niaub201.Aubervilliers.francetelecom.net [193.252.98.161] 5 26 ms 23 ms 22 ms 81.253.184.182 6 23 ms 34 ms 28 ms hundredgige1-3-0-0.pastr2.Paris.opentransit.net [193.251.129.84] 7 20 ms 21 ms 19 ms tatateleglobe-2.GW.opentransit.net [193.251.250. 48] 8 255 ms 275 ms 255 ms if-ae-2-2.tcore1.PYE-Paris.as6453.net [80.231.15 4.18] 9 270 ms 270 ms 270 ms if-ae-8-1600.tcore1.WYN-Marseille.as6453.net [80 .231.217.5] 10 284 ms 287 ms 288 ms if-ae-9-6.tcore1.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net [80.231.2 17.78] 11 270 ms 270 ms 270 ms if-ae-7-2.tcore1.CXR-Chennai.as6453.net [180.87. 36.34] 12 259 ms 263 ms 260 ms if-ae-5-2.tcore1.SVW-Singapore.as6453.net [180.8 7.12.53] 13 257 ms 258 ms 259 ms 180.87.12.26 14 199 ms 198 ms 199 ms 203.83.223.56 15 196 ms 196 ms 194 ms 203.83.223.177 16 * * * Request timed out.
(can't trace beyond that point)
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Agreed that e.g. the Superrich exchange offices give significantly higer rates (http://www.superrich1965.com/location.php). I've discovered this myself recently.
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Humm... I'm pretty sure I've bought Barbasol shaving cream from a Tesco Lotus supermarket (and a smallish one upcountry) so I presume that any big one in one of the major cities should have it too.
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Never had any problem with 50EUR notes myself.
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Of couse you can.
Prepaid SIMs are available in just every 7/11 convenience store (i.e. everywhere!).
You'll need only your passport and possibly a lot of patience because not all 7/11 staff are familiar with the ID registration with passports.
But if you're in a tourist place, that should be no issue.
There are also operator booths at the arrival level in the airport if you want to have it right away.
SIM cards go as low as 50 THB with no credit (or very little, possibly one day of free Internet and a few calls). There are also promotions with bundled credit, Internet megabytes etc. So you have to check.
Domestic calls range from 0.5 to 2 THB per minute (roughly) depending on the type of SIM and promotion you subscribe too hereafter.
You can buy top-up coupons in every 7/11.
Almost all operators have low-cost offers for international calls, using a specific prefix (e.g. 004 for DTAC) instead of the "standard" 001 international dial-up prefix.
Calls to Europe using these low-cost services can be very cheap, less than 10 THB/mn if I remember well.
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Kasikorn Bank is a real pain in the [beep] about banknotes. The tiniest stain or tear I can't even see without my glasses on and the note is rejected.
AFAIK they're the only bank so picky. Every time I come from Europe and deposit my Euros on my KBANK account, I know for sure that 1 note out of 10 on average will be rejected. So right after I'm done with them, I walk to the TMB branch just next where they happily change these notes to Bahts. This gives me enough cash for my first week...
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I'd go with that if it weren't for the 10 years I spent in China where the indoor temperature wasn't very well controlled and neither was the power grid. Yet I lose a lot more HD's here than I ever did in China.
It could still be the environment or the fact that typical HD's were in the 100-500GB sizes (mostly brought from the USA because I didn't trust the local quality) when I lived there and now I'm buying 2TB drives.
My main job was sourcing, QA, and failure analysis in China, and they absolutely have different local and export quality goods in many arenas. It would make sense that they do the same in Thailand. Maybe not in HD's. but I'm naturally cynical after what I saw in China.
I had many contracts that forbade steel from China or India.
Well, this kind of goes against Impulse's point which was that the good stuff is exported
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Hardly relevant to an iPhone as requested by the OP.
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30 Ah capacity? really? I seriously doubt this.
That's the capacity of a small car's battery. Even with the latest Li-Ion technologies, such a battery would be the size (and the weight) of a brick.
Some of these power banks are advertised with completely unrealistic capacities on internet shops...
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The name of the connection is entirely irrelevant to a wired connection.
It only has a meaning for wireless connections in case of different SSIDs like in your case.
The Ethernet (wired) connection will run at the maximum of its abilities ie. 100Mb/s or 1G/s, whatever the name shown is.
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For all those who claim this was an inspection failure, may I suggest a reading from a very reputable source ?
http://www.avherald.com/h?article=499e70d2&opt=0
It clearly says that the cracked windshield was the result of a bird strike in-flight
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You are stretching it thin. Coincidentally I have gone through more hard drives since living over here than I ever have in my life.
I believe Thailand makes most of the hard drives everywhere in the world doesn't it?
Maybe they do, but I'm convinced that the Thailand HD market gets to keep the ones that don't pass the tests for export quality.
Consumer-grade hard disks get very limited real quality testing at the end of the chain. That would take quite some time and thus be too costly. Therefore I kind of doubt that they are sorted like this.
Anyway, the only easily obtainable objective measure of a new drive's "quality" would be the number of bad blocks detected and redirected at the end of the manufacturing chain. This is an information easily pulled from the disk using any of the disk health utilities (some are free). Then you may want to compare the figures you get with what people buying the same disk model in the west get.
I do agree that disks fail more often in Thailand. However this can be easily explained by the more adverse conditions in which they operate: temperature and poor electrical current quality (spikes etc.)
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The normal keyboard has both English and Thai and operating system can be in either language. Thai use a lot of English when using computer so easy switching is always available.
Correct, but the dual symbol engraving on every key makes the keyboard messy and hard to the eyes IMO.
Besides this, +1 for JIB at Zeer Rangsit or in any major IT mall. They're serious resellers although I would not expect good technical advice from them. Better see what they have and choose your model based on web reviews and user feedback.
Thaivisa web site performance continues to worsen
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It may not explain these but they don't contradict my points either:
1) AFAIK the TVF servers are hosted in Singapore. Maybe you're not hitting any other site hosted by the same company or using the same ISP, if we assume that this particular ISP has routing issues with yours
2) the problems I have mentioned are in no way specific to international and transcontinental connections, furthermore as mentioned above TVF is not hosted in Thailand, so people in the LOS don't browse it "domestically"