RedBackman

3 hours ago, blackshadow said:

I have never ever heard of a landline receiving sms's....

lazaada send a mail.....thats all you need

dont know if shoppee does the same.......

If it's a plain-old-telephone-system landline it can't receive true text. Some providers (not sure about thailand) support a text-to-voice service where it will call you and read out text messages. You could add third party compatibility, especially if you're not attached to your number. Incoming text -> voip that supports text -> call-to-text to your landline or check it on the internet etc.

Fixed service voip is usually also considered as a landline because it's still tied to fixed physical location traveling via wires to the customer, but the signaling is digital and more modern. You'd sign up for this likely through your internet provider. Still works with emergency services for location, seems less scammy, might be able to receive actual texts or text-to-voice depending on your provider.

Non-fixed voip are like google voice, skype, many other services. It can receive texts if you check on compatible devices/apps, You could setup a non-fixed voip number on a "home phone" like device and use it like a landline. It's not tied to a location so it might not work with emergency service. Scammers love to use it so plenty of financial services don't accept it for authentication anyway.

If you're planning to use sms authentication really cell mobile numbers are the only surefire way because plenty of services will refuse to send to anything non-mobile.

33 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

OP, I'm always buying rubbish off lazada, and cant recall a need to receive SMS codes. Maybe explore the other options on Lazada, as I'm sure it can all be done via email

It depends how you're trying to pay, some options are legitimately locked behind sms confirmation or mobile app.

If OP just wants sms they should just get a bargain bin 4g/5g phone and probably the cheapest prepaid plans will work. I'd still recommend going with a cheap modern smart phone though just in case you need any apps later. You can find 5g Android 10+ models for under 1500 baht even.

On 8/4/2022 at 12:51 AM, shdmn said:

It's possible but not easy.  What I did is port my landline number to a hosted VoIP service and connect the phone to one of these.  From my VoIP service I can send/receive SMS messages.  That does not always work because some online services will not send SMS messages to phone numbers that are not owned by a legit mobile phone operator.

 

The alternative is to send automated voice calls to landlines that read out the code.  I don't know about Lazada but most banks and some online services seem to have that option as well now a days.

The problem with this is landlines and fixed service VOIP numbers aren't portable in Thailand to my understanding. So if you do want a VoIP service that supports text as a go between you'd have to at least change the number you give out before forwarding to the landline...And then some services still won't support VoIP for 2fa anyway. So for a non-business user the advice is pretty much "get a cheap cellphone".

Yes, just look up submarine cables. Most of the world, including Samoa, primarily depends on these to reach any portion of the internet that's overseas. The other viable way for internet to cross the ocean is through satellite connections.

As far as a government shutting down internet for its citizens, that's also very possible. A Georgian woman accidentally cut an underground cable in 2011 and shut off internet for all of Armenia. Iran shut down internet for their country for a week in 2019. China's great firewall regularly restricts access to a ton of different sites and services...our current internet is pretty centralized so government censorship and control is a real threat pretty much everywhere.

On 8/1/2022 at 9:34 AM, JayClay said:

Ahhh there's nothing more satisfying than watching people geek out over technology; where everyone thinks they know better than everyone else.

 

For what it's worth I agree with people who think the OP is misguided but the only way to find out for sure is to ask the very simple question:

 

OP, why do you want the product on CD rather than as a download?

People already asked...and in this case the confusion is understandable because there's really no reason to demand an optical disc. At least with some games, movies, media there are some legit reasons to buy physical discs like legal backups and sharing...but Kaspersky is a digital subscription service regardless of installation method and needs frequent updates to stay effective. Literally no benefit compared to shoving it on a flash drive if you need it to be physical.

Generally speaking there isn't an easy way for home users to receive SMS on a landline.

43 minutes ago, gennosuke34 said:

thanks a lot , i dont know how to run it  did it work for u ? u know how to install ? 

Depends on your system but I'm guessing you'd want to go to the binaries and pick the windows amd64 version.

Again I haven't tried it myself or looked into it, it's just a github repo I saw that might help. I'd still recommend just buying a cheap VPN service.

5 hours ago, gennosuke34 said:

So i Tried today with opera vpn europe works but u know how to grab with opera all link at once ? Is there a browser link manager , i user jdowloader for the links but with the IP blocked i can use only browser 

The obvious easy answer is to pay for a relatively cheap vpn service that runs on your whole computer instead of just the browser. There are also free proxies out there that might help but a lot of them are shady. I see a github repo about using opera itself as a background proxy service that might help you:

https://github.com/Snawoot/opera-proxy

I haven't tried it myself or looked into it deeply though.

Usually if the Thailand government is blocking a site you'll either directly get a page like this, or possibly a browser warning about untrusted connections that if you click through to go anyway will lead to the same.

If you're on a network that you don't control the sysadmin might try blocking access to some sites in different ways OR more likely it's a problem from the websites end. They could be trying to block connections from certain countries, vpns, etc. They might just be having errors or downtime. They might be getting shutdown for legal reasons if it's a sketchy site. etc. Using different vpns and clearing cookies/data is pretty much all you can do to resolve it from your end if that's even possible.

22 hours ago, JeffersLos said:

Everything was good, but I had an extra 8Gb RAM installed, taking it up to 16Gb (8Gb x 2)

 

As soon I turned it on, the issue was back.

 

Update driver. Already has the newest driver. 

 

Network Reset, as above.

 

In Device manager, go to Ethernet properties and unclick 'Allow computer to turn off'.

 

 

And it's still the exact same.

 

Every minute the connection turns off for 10 seconds or so, then connects again. Another PC connected to the same router has no such issue (both cable connections have been swapped)

 

One difference shown is the ethernet resource settings, the 2nd RAM stick shows as this.

 

 

Right or left mouse buttons doesn't do anything to it.

 

 

Any ideas?

Can you look at event viewer and see of the error messages shed any light? I'd guess it's a driver issue. Roll back and if that doesn't help make sure to try a few different versions both from Intel and your manufacturer if they offer it.

21 minutes ago, peterfranks said:

Can you elaborate on how I would do that please? Note, I don't have the server any more.

 

Like I said, the complete index is on all drives, but many of the folders are empty

 

Each drive has different folders that are empty.

 

 

I'm not super familiar with WHS drive extender tbh, I just remember it had mirroring and parity options that had data redundancy. I think it should all be on the other drives in hidden folders if you set it up that way, but not sure what the easiest way to reassemble it would be. When they were actually part of a server storage pool I think it would just repair itself when you marked a drive dead if you had enough room or you replaced the drive.

10 hours ago, peterfranks said:

HDD seems to be dead. Doesn't show up in disk management either, not with the sata>usb adapter nor connected directly to the MB

Yeah if it doesn't show up at all in disk management that's a pretty bad sign, especially if it's the same model/configuration as all the other drives you tested. If you're only worried about the data I think technically drive extender had a 'duplication' data redundancy feature so you might be able to use the other drives to recover the broken one.

9 minutes ago, peterfranks said:

I only have 1 sata>usb adapter, so can't plug in 2 drives.

 

What I mean is that on each drive all files that were on the server are indexed, while the actual files are spread over several disks. So I can find them, by exploring each disk file by file.

 

I use the same sata>usb adapter with the same cables for each disk. As soon as I plug in the USB, the disks shows up in 'my computer', only one doesn't.

 

I'm using Windows 7.

 

I haven't checked in disk management, but if the disk shows there, I assume I will have to format it anyway, and my intention is to copy the data over.

All part of the troubleshooting. It's helpful built-in GUI to see if your HDD is at least recognized correctly and you can try to force it to mount from there. You could also use mountvol in cmd to do approximately the same thing and chkdsk to try to fix corruption/logical errors.

5 hours ago, peterfranks said:

Got myself such a Sata to Usb adapter and have managed to recover part of the data.

 

With drive extender, I think files are spread over all HDD in the server, which mean I can see all content on every HDD, but the files are not always there.

 

I have one disk, which connects to the PC, as I hear the sound when I plug in the USB, and Windows installs the drivers for the HDD, but my computer doesn't see the drive.

 

Any suggestions on that?

 

Another question is, those adapters are hot plug capable. Why can't I hot plug the disk in the PC?

Sata drives are hot plug capable, so you can...

As far as the drive that powers but windows doesn't see, what steps have you tried to mount it? diskmgmt.msc?

There are a lot of reasons a hdd might not mount. It might just be a simple windows bug or corrupted tables ...or it could be dead even if it spins and is recognized depending on what broke. Contrary to what some others have said consumer hdds and ssds aren't designed around long-tem cold storage and both data and mechanical components can degrade even if they aren't in use. The environmental factors they are exposed to during their time in storage will make a huge difference as well.

If it's only 6 months old you should hopefully have a warranty to get it replaced. 

If not it could be a lot of things. Power supply, tcon, main board, failing connections. Most often with solid color (black) vertical lines and no obvious impact it's where the display ribbons enter into the actual display.

So a first step if it's out of warranty is to take it apart, dust everything and look for obvious damage, then turn it on and see if the lines go away while you apply light pressure to the display ribbon connections with a plastic tool.

38 minutes ago, steven100 said:

Just using my All-in-one PC  connected via my mobile - USB lead. 

It mainly buffers when I try to watch a series on 123movies  ...  

Which 123movies domain?  With one of your speedtests above we can see your network is capable of receiving the full 10/10 connection you pay for which is more than enough for 1080p and lower quality. So either

a. At times your network slows down due to congestion.

b. The problem is on 123movies end, they just don't have enough server capacity.

Next time you are buffering do a speed test, if you're still at 10/10 to international speed test servers then it's option b. If you're at < 5 download then it might be option a.

9 hours ago, rbkk said:

Let me use an  example from today 10am. 'Prizefighter' with Russell Crowe and Ray Winston is now up on both PirateBay(PB) and IPTorrents(IPT). On PB.org it's showing 13 seeders/23 leechers whilst on IPT it's showing 315 seeders and 20 leechers. The IPT are members sharing amongst themselves who keep seeding to help their community maintain faster and safer speeds. 

Not sure what you mean by safer speeds.  Higher speeds are nice but private trackers and usenet groups biggest advantages are more in the realm of higher quality (4k) or older/obscure content. If you only care about up to 1080p and mostly newer or popular older stuff it's sort of over kill with the hassles of getting an invite and worrying about maintaining ratios or paying fees. Also if you just automate torrents you probably won't even notice speed differences on the backend unless you're really trying to watch something minutes after the premier or on a spontaneous a la carte whim.

Pretty much you'll know if you need a private tracker if you're not getting the content you want in reasonable times or at all. If everything is working though why bother...

Just now, carlyai said:

Hi, what do you mean by 'all my torrents automated'. Thanks

I use Radarr and Sonarr and plex but there are plenty of other services with varying levels of complexity like duckietv/sickchill/medusa for fetching torrents and emby or jellyfin as a server backend.

Basically the programs grab things automatically. You can have them fetch new movies or all the shows you watch as soon as they come out and then sort them into folders for your media server to play. There's a lot of stuff in the *arr family that just integrates really well too. Like for instance they have a discord chat bot requestrr you can set up so if your family wants something they can just type it in the discord chat and the server will handle it from there. Or there's tdarr if you want to transcode everything you download to your favorite format. etc

5 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

I haven't  done any  bit tormenting since discovering tinyzonetv.to

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Eh, plenty of sites like that. A lot of people use kodi addons to scrape link-aggregate sites without much hassle. Personally I just have all my torrents automated and added right to my plex server. 1080p quality, almost never down, fast signal that doesn't buffer, saves my spot if I get interrupted or switch tvs, even works locally if the network goes down. It's nice to have everything in one place too but I still go to the native apps on my two streaming services (netflix, disney+) just for 4k content.

Java is not the same as JavaScript. You don't need to install JavaScript because modern browsers come with a built-in JavaScript engine. If you really have disabled JavaScript completely on your browser that could be the reason for abnormal behavior from a ton of websites. One of the troubleshooting steps you should take is enabling JavaScript on this site and seeing if the problem persists.

3 minutes ago, peterfranks said:

Hmm, I also didn't say it wasn't loading fine, maybe try to read my posts.

 

It happens a few times a week that my Firefox (latest version before you suggest that) freezes and that popup appears. And it is always the same webpage that get closed, when I click on the 'close the webpage now' button

Chill out a bit, I'm not attacking you, I'm just trying to help troubleshoot your issue. I wasn't talking just about load times either, I'm talking about the whole function of the site. There's a spike on load for cpu and memory but after load as decompression and the javascript calls finish cpu goes to nominal and memory hangs around ~85MB per page...you might want to check about:processes on firefox to see if you're getting different results to see if there's a client-side problem but I'm done helping further at this point.

Good luck.

4 hours ago, peterfranks said:

I don't see a single ad, but clearly AN is pushing some kind of script that intervenes with my browser

Hmm I'm not experiencing the same. Takes 5s to load for me, cpu use goes to nominal after that initial stage and it takes ~85MB in memory. None of that is particularly bad for a modern responsive site. Which browser are you using?

I would guess your house is just too remote so too far from the rest of the fibre grid to be worth it to AIS.

It would probably be better to get fibre from a different provider if they offer it before going to mobile network options. 

As for what router you'd need that somewhat depends on your network requirements. Like how fast of a mobile plan are you using, how big is your house, how many devices, etc. I tend to go through advice just because they have good prices and good warranty support compared to 3rd party sellers on lazada/shopee/Facebook marketplace. Jib, BananaIT, and invade all provide the same sort of thing but a bit worse on average imo.

https://www.advice.co.th/product/4g-router-mifi-aircard

On your browser you could use ublock origin and most of the ads go away.

If you're still having problems you could get a network-wide ad blocker like adguard home, pihole, pfblockerng, etc. Or you could just switch your dns server to adguard's ( ipv4 94.140.14.14, 94.140.15.15 and ipv6 2a10:50c0::ad1:ff, 2a10:50c0::ad2:ff) for a similar but less customizable experience.

The little lock shows that you're connecting via ssl (https) and the public key provided by the site is "trusted". Now just because both of those things are true doesn't necessarily mean that the site is safe, you could still be setting up a "secure" connection with a bad actor.

A site with just http isn't necessarily a major risk. If I set up a site full of cat facts that doesn't collect any information from the user it's not especially risky for the user. Still it's best practice to use ssl for everything these days.

A site with https that shows a broken lock means the certificate isn't "trusted". A certificate authority verifies that such-and-such website owns such-and-such public key to prevent attacks. There are half a dozen other reasons for ssl certificate errors too though so the site might still be safe even if the lock shows broken.