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Thanks all for the comments !!!

I picked up a Honda Scoopy i Club 12. The last last bike I rode was a 1997 CBR 900, it's definitely different. Very different.

The main reason why I wanted to get a scooter was because of the traffic, I live in downtown Bangkok and commuting 5km to work which takes about 1 hour was just too much. So took the plunge and decide to try scooters.

I did go with the 12 inch wheels instead of the 14 inch, honestly.... compared to the CBR 900, lost for words. The roads here in Bangkok just plain suck! Cracks, cat eyes, drain grates, etc.. roads here just utter crap!!!

That said.. thanks all for the comments.

My next thread, where to get some "hip" helmets to go with my new ride !

bazmlb, thanks for the quick response! I'm assuming bigger in width. What were the differences?

I'm eyeing the Fino, Filano, Scoopy-i, Zoomer X.

Hi,

I'm shopping for a new bike and was wondering if anyone knows the pro's and con's of 12 inch vs 14 inch tires/wheels.

Any advice, opinions, comments greatly appreciated.

Hi All,

Anyone here have any experience with Truemove's "Smart Data Roaming Protection" package with their postpaid account?

(http://truemoveh.truecorp.co.th/international_services/roaming_services/entry/2543)

I'm planning on going to Malaysia, KL, and wonder if anyone have signed up for this service and finds it useful.

Just bought an Epson CX17NF at Powerbuy for about 9,000 baht. I previously had inkjets, with aftermarket tanks and they just keep clogging up. I got sick and tired of unclogging so decided to take the plunge with the CX17NF (Color all-in-one LED printer).

The toner that it came with are "initial" toners and would last about 500 pages at 5% coverage. I bought replacement cartridges from a company from AliExpress for a lot cheaper (obviously not original replacements).

Something is wrong with this story.

- He could have unlocked the door from the inside to get out. I'm pretty sure someone could have given him some instructions before damaging the car. Couldn't someone have help call a Benz dealer for instructions?

- Don't these new cars come with electronic keys that prevent this sort of thing. It's almost impossible for me to "accidentally" leave my key in the car and "accidentally" lock myself in or out, Nissan March / Honda CR-V / Toyota Camry.

Static IP's here are ridiculously expensive. I contacted True about it and they quoted me some obscene amount.

I believe it has something to do with how companies need to be legally "setup". It is possible that Apple cannot comply / not happy / unwilling to comply with business compliance in these countries. It gets very complicated, both legally and logistically, so it would be easier for Apple to just find "partners" in these ASEAN countries to sell their products and services.

Nothing to do with fakes or knock-offs.

Just thought to ask, read an article about it (http://www.mcot.net/site/content?id=51ae8df8150ba03a06000437), wondering if anyone is actually using it.

Anyone in Thailand using IPv6, if so, which ISP and any problems?

I've got multiple webcams setup to show the inside and outside of of my place.

It think popular cams are ones made by DLink, but I caution their WiFi performances. Weak WiFi performance.

I can view my cams using DLinks own dedicated webcam website "mydlink.com" via web browsers, or i can use my iPhone / iPad to view the cameras (free versions available from DLink only for iPhone, you can use the free version on iPad but it will be stretched. A paid version is available on iPad).

I'm not pimping DLink, in-fact, their WiFi performance issues put me off a bit (weak signal strength from their cameras). Their price and variety, software availability across platforms, accessibility between platforms, are the reasons why I stuck with them.

The fixed cameras are usually the cheapest, they get more expensive with image quality and pan/tilt capabilities.

Don't expect smooth motion video over the internet, it all depends on network congestion and ISP links.

I too was looking for a fixed IP, I contacted their online chat support and they directed me to (http://www.trueinternet.co.th/ENG/product_corporate_goldFixedIPpackage.html).

FYI: They like to call it "Fixed IP" here instead of "Static IP".

Based on the link above, prices are ridiculous beyond belief. Please let us know if you can get better prices.

Just a thought, if you are stuck with Dynamic IP then maybe you can use a "Dynamic DNS Service"?

I just bought one also. Hope to upload some nice videos to youtube soon.

There's a a site that does dash cam reviews (http://dashcamtalk.com/category/dashcamreviews/), not too shabby I think.. just in case anyone is interested.

I'm not sure if they can legally collect interests on unpaid condo fees, I've heard mixed stories and and I cannot confirm details. The condo committee/management can put in "conditions" over unpaid fees, but the legality of it is very very foggy.

There is also a statute of limitation on these fees.

Investigate thoroughly, hire good lawyers, never trust someone that knows it all, be careful, & good luck.

Kind regards,

A condo owner.

Hopefully the OP will spend the time to troubleshoot, I'm on True but have little faith with their "technicians" and their logic. The've gone out of their way to blame every DSL modem in the market, and didn't even bother to check to see if the problem was actually with themselves.

Here's a tip:

Ask them to check their logs on how many times you have logged on with your DSL modem. Assuming you've set your modem to always stay on, then should only see connect/disconnect every 12 hours or so. But if there are frequent connect/disconnects, then ask them to investigate why (again, here is where they will blame your modem settings and here is where you can show the technician that the settings are correct). If there are connects/disconnects every 2 or 3 minutes then that's a "hint" to a bad physical line, either loose connection or bad wire.

Remember, when talking to these guys be patient and depending on the situation always first try to prove yourself to be right.

At one time I had 5 different modems and the technician brought his "trusted" modem to finally fingure out that the problem was in fact at their side. Took a month to fix the problem, but definetly worth the effort.

WD has their own service center at Pantip, swapping hard drive is pretty much immediate, that is unless they don't have your model in stock. This is probably where retailers (ie: JIB, Banana IT, etc) send in their drives for replacement. It is possible that the drives get sent to the factory by the retailers, but I doubt it. Synnex is a distributer/retailer.

I don't run an IT store here, so my guesses are based on U.S. experiences at the consumer level.

The Asus DSL-N55U should be a solid router, most consider that line to be a prosumer router. I'm using the RT-N56U, and like it very much. I'm using a different firmware on my unit though.

Marketing ploy. Or a way to gain temporary votes. It so dangerous to ride bicycles in Thailand, let alone in Bangkok.

I do wish it is safe to ride bicycles, I really miss it.

If they can do it Jakarta, I wonder why it can't work here:

(http://m.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/05/11/city-intensifies-car-free-policy-more-streets.html)

My 1TB WD drive is doing just fine thank you. But i always keep a fan on mine. Keep it cool, and shock free, and it will treat you just fine. Also had luck with seagate and samsung. I buy whatever is on sale, and make sure i keep it cool. Its worked so far.

Here they work in aircondition 20-25 degree and the computers have excellent ventilation. And no shocks I hope.

But they run a 12+ hours 6 days a week.

I'm guessing are going to use it in a PC and not a laptop. And it seems you need it to run 12+ 6 days a week, that's close to a 24/7 operation. Most consumer desktop drives cannot meet your requirements and will probably fail before the warranty, unless you buy their Enterprise lines or those specifically stated to operate 24/7.

WD: It seems the Reds are designed for what you need. Do Not buy the Greens, Greens are for light-duty applications.

Seagate: (http://www.seagate.com/files/docs/pdf/whitepaper/mb538-drive-selection-guide-us.pdf).

Samsung: I think they have merged with Seagate.

I buy WD's only because I can get them swapped immediately at Pantip. I've had 2 fail on me out of about 6, but I think it's because I abused them or incorrectly used their drives.

Note: Drive manufacturers are notorious for not mentioning the "Typical Operation Hours" for their consumer drives, the above link from Seagate mentions it on page 2 under "Reliability", look carefully and you'll see that their Enterprise lines are more suited for 24/7 operation. If this is for an office or work application then I would recommend the Enterprise lines from any manufacturer, as they may have the proper duty-cycle for your needs.

Which model drive failed on you?

After thinking of it, half of the computer are more in the 8 hour per day range (the other half 12+), all computer very light use.

WinXP+Office installed, started once a day and taking Excel files from the two "server".

(I am just thinking if it would be possible to install say Win 7 64 bit, put in a lot Ram boot over network or very small HD/SSD copy everything in a RAM Disc)

These "Typical Operation Hours" are a strange idea...."We give you 3 year warranty as long as you start the computer just ever 3days".

If you've got the an IT guy to do the "RAM Disc" thing, then you're all set. Do a thin-client over dozens of PC's over networked NAS/SAN would be best. But if you've got less than 5 to 8 PC's and want to save costs... USB hard drive or simple NAS or network server with decent hardware would do the job. Just stick in a 250GB on those PC's and have a clone image ready. Just have a simple but effective backup plan for those PC's and your data.

Those "Operation Hours" and warranty details were actually the result of a large number of consumers and enterprises complaining a few years back (8 years or so ago), about their desktops failing in large numbers. The HD manufacturers quickly realized that people were leaving their PC's on longer and using it "outside of spec". Consumers didn't really care for the technical mumbo-jumbo and enterprises only wanted to buy the cheapest, so notion of understanding "power-on hours", "Operation Hours", "MTBF", would be beyond anyone... back then.

Most people don't know this, but torrenting actually put extra stress on the hard drives, and approximately after 2 years of releasing the bittorrent technology hard drives start to fail in large numbers.

Unrelated to Bittorrent, a while back IBM had serious issues with their hard drives at the Enterprise level and prosumer level (professional consumer). Who would have thought IBM would be up neck deep in a pile of dung with their Deskstar drives (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_GXP-model_failures_in_2001). This lesson has taught me to NEVER trust in any manufacturer outside of what they are willing to cover in their warranty. IBM later sold their Hard Drive unit to Hitachi and I've bought some pretty good spec'd Hitachi's in my time and none failed during operation. Am I saying that Hitachi is better than IBM?, no.. I think it's just luck and good timing.

I wish that SSD aren't so expensive, I firmly believe that SSD are the next evolutionary step for "Hard Drives", unfortunately they are still do darn expensive.

One of two problems, it's either the line or the equipment.

Line: To troubleshoot this you'll need a known working router, lot's of patients, and a Thai friend to talk to the Thai staff. My wife had line problems at her house and it took 1 month of troubleshooting (by me) a lots of convincing to the "technical" engineers that the problem was not at the house. Prior to this, True would insist that the problem was at our side. You would need to be a technical geek (and know how to speak Thai) to convince those slack asses how to properly do their jobs. Long story short, True ran a new line at their expense and problem solved. Caution: you do need to know how to prove the problem is NOT at your end.

Equipment: To troubleshoot this you'll need a known working router (LOL!). The router seems fairly dated (old), but I've seen older routers work just fine and I've seen newer ones just lasting less than 1 year. Your old router does have built in dsl modem, so keep in mind that you'll need similar equipment. The DIR-615 does not have a built in modem, so you'll need to get one. A simpler way to troubleshoot is to find a friend with a similar dsl connection and ask if you or them can test your old modem at their place.

Note: If you are torrenting, downloading Linux distro's via bittorrent, this can show similar problems... things are seem ok for a while then seems to crawl afterwards. Rebooting solves the problem. Try changing your habits, don't download Linux distro's for a while to see if you are still having problems.

Also make sure you secured your WiFi and not inadvertently sharing your WiFi connection.

Hope the above tips can help.

My 1TB WD drive is doing just fine thank you. But i always keep a fan on mine. Keep it cool, and shock free, and it will treat you just fine. Also had luck with seagate and samsung. I buy whatever is on sale, and make sure i keep it cool. Its worked so far.

Here they work in aircondition 20-25 degree and the computers have excellent ventilation. And no shocks I hope.

But they run a 12+ hours 6 days a week.

I'm guessing are going to use it in a PC and not a laptop. And it seems you need it to run 12+ 6 days a week, that's close to a 24/7 operation. Most consumer desktop drives cannot meet your requirements and will probably fail before the warranty, unless you buy their Enterprise lines or those specifically stated to operate 24/7.

WD: It seems the Reds are designed for what you need. Do Not buy the Greens, Greens are for light-duty applications.

Seagate: (http://www.seagate.com/files/docs/pdf/whitepaper/mb538-drive-selection-guide-us.pdf).

Samsung: I think they have merged with Seagate.

I buy WD's only because I can get them swapped immediately at Pantip. I've had 2 fail on me out of about 6, but I think it's because I abused them or incorrectly used their drives.

Note: Drive manufacturers are notorious for not mentioning the "Typical Operation Hours" for their consumer drives, the above link from Seagate mentions it on page 2 under "Reliability", look carefully and you'll see that their Enterprise lines are more suited for 24/7 operation. If this is for an office or work application then I would recommend the Enterprise lines from any manufacturer, as they may have the proper duty-cycle for your needs.

Which model drive failed on you?

The majority of the people in this country (both foreigners and citizens) take advantage of the culture and have a unconcerned attitude towards traffic safety. We all complain about it, but at the same time condone it when we break the laws ourselves.

I've seen countless embassy cars violating traffic laws countless times, which gives ample reason for the rest of us to break them as well. I've also seen local Thai Police on motorcycles breaking traffic laws they are supposed to enforce themselves.

Catch-22, if traffic laws were strictly enforced 99% of us will complain about it. Lack of enforcement will lead to more sensless deaths.

The shitty Singer unit we have now is mostly on 21c, and sometimes that's not cold enough

Have you ever checked what the actual room temperature is with the the shitty singer on 21

I know I posted that I keep my temp room temp at 26C, but by no means do I actually mean 26C perfect. I'm going by the "gauge" on the remote of my A/C unit, and I'm pretty sure it's not accurate.

I see the numbers 18C and 20C being thrown about like it actually means anything, do you guys actually have a decent thermometer to measure your room temp?

I tested my bedroom temperature last night, first time was about 30 minutes after I turned it on 21c, the temp in the room was 24c, after 2 hours it was 21c surprisingly, here's a picture to (sort of) prove it, it looks like the thermometer is reading 22 but that's just because of the angle I took the photo.

I compared all the thermometers in The Mall Tha Phra and they were all showing 23c in the shop so I assumed they were all working fine, or all inaccurate!

21C is pretty cold, but I wasn't trying to disprove anyone. Place where I work keeps it around 21C also, and I find it way too cold... but that's just me.

I know I posted that I keep my temp room temp at 26C, but by no means do I actually mean 26C perfect. I'm going by the "gauge" on the remote of my A/C unit, and I'm pretty sure it's not accurate.

I see the numbers 18C and 20C being thrown about like it actually means anything, do you guys actually have a decent thermometer to measure your room temp?

I haven't had any problems...I just checked without using the True proxy. I'm on a True DOCSIS and usually use the proxy because it can help speed-wise with some sites like ThaiVisa. I don't know why, when surfing around the Forum pages my surfing on ThaiVisa is much faster with the proxy turned on. I can reach the ThaiVisa no problem with proxy turned off or on, but moving around ThaiVisa with the proxy tuned on is much faster for me and writing posts is much faster (your results may vary).

Now, back in late 2011 there were a couple of U.S. govt sites I could not reach unless I used the proxy or VPN...then after a few months that problem just went away. The other True proxy is "proxy.asianet.co.th". Use Port 8080 on either proxy.

When I was still in the States on a cable internet plan they also used a proxy...you didn't have to use it...it was just the cable company recommended using it since it would speed things up. And of course on occassions when the proxy server went down a person needed to turn off the proxy setting in order to reach the internet.

Also, keep in mind that if you decide to use the True proxy setting on your laptop/smartphone/tablet when using you home Wifi that you will need to turn off the proxy setting when using a mobile/3G connection or using a non-True Wifi connection like in a mall. If you don't you won't get an internet connection.

Thanks for your input.