jayceenik

I went to TOT this morning.

Talked to a very friendly and good-looking young woman.

1/ I'm stuck with the original 2MB. Impossible to upgrade in my area (Pattaya 3 road). Not even to 3MB.

2/ This 8 and 12MB seems to be so much hype.

3/ Instead of the monthly 1,000/month I'm paying now I could cancel present contract and opt for the promotional 490/month with a 12-month contract. Reverting to normal fare after that.

Download Speed: 401 kbps (50.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 222 kbps (27.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 636 ms

Hi,

but you did not say with which server you made your test ??

If it's one in Europe, it seems quiet normal.

If it's Bangkok, you have a problem...

Test done with the TV speed test. That miserable result seems to have been a freak.

http://speedtest.thaivisa.com/

Last Result:

Download Speed: 1464 kbps (183 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 170 kbps (21.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 612 ms

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 1:31:37 PM

Interesting. I have TOT Pattaya Goldcyber 2MB at 1000/Baht a month. I'm on Pattaya 3 road, near the X-Zyte nightclub. That's very close to TOT! As I'm reading this posting here is my speedtest result:

Last Result:

Download Speed: 401 kbps (50.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 222 kbps (27.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 636 ms

Sunday, August 09, 2009 7:45:43 AM

I'm surprised that some OP think this bad experience has to be a made-up tale. Overly defensive of LOS' good reputation? Forty years in SE Asia has brought me often times in unwanted and unsought contact with conmen. Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, even Australia! The story about a relative going soon to study/work in my country and could I please spare some time and give needed advice has been played on me a few times. Fortunately I have some good basic common sense and never fell for a con like this poor guy did. I've found out too that if you listen a couple minutes to those con guys they will pile up so much BS trying to reel you in that they quickly become ridiculously unbelievable.

Seems like the BangNa police station (the one having jurisdiction over Big Swampy) is doing well. Certainly a much sought-after posting. No doubt there is shoplifting going on at the airport duty free outlets. Small but pricey articles easy to lift could even be positioned in tempting places for lightfingered individuals to have a go at it. Catch a few sinners now and then and Tony and his colleagues can buy a new Benz very often. I personally believe Tony&Co blew their game this time by being overly greedy with these Brits.

Although it happend at a King Power store, there is no involvement of King Power itself. Let's not suggest it is or call for boycots etc.

Didn't know they are thai visa sponsors....

I correct my statement, it has now been proven they did not have anything to do with it

My remark was not entirely clear. Let me put it this way: Under Thai libel laws we can not allow that a company is being named and shamed. So let the company out of the discussion and don't suggest they are in on it.

Also our forum rules don't allow to call for a boycot of a certain company.

Is my saying that I'd feel most uneasy walking into a KP outlet at Big Swampy acceptable?

See the video about the british couple here.....

And make your own opinion.

I believe King Power!!!

http://www.kingpower.com/2009/popup/pop_case3.html

Zappergeck

Looks to me as if she is putting something in her bag - definately! I guess that is illegal everywhere or will it pass in the UK?

Sad how people at once start their racist thai bashing.

And I am a Dane!

I've watched the videos three times (case 1 & 2). Case 1 is way to vague to even hint at shoplifting. Case 2 might be a case, but I wouldn't bet my sweet s...s on it! The videos are definitely non-conclusive. One would need to know a lot more (where and at what moment were they addressed about the alleged theft? and a few more questions would need to be answered).

Theft or not, asking 11,000 Dollars is just beyond reality.

VDOs non-conclusive to me too!

I went swimming at the Queen's Park Friday morning. A pack of Thai kids showed up for initial pool lessons. I felt something coming to me soon after I left the pool. Sure enough I've been in bed since then. Slowly improving today but I'm still grounded and only got some little food in for the first time in four days. Was it the kids and the dreaded H1N1 or overexposition to the sun? Friday AM was pure blue sky but I already have a suntan and didn't get any sunburn that day.

I knew Colin from when he was still on that expressway job. A Thermae buddy. He visited me a few times too when I came to live in BKK. I think I still have his business card from that time with the company logo that employed him. I thought it was an Aussie company, though.

Colin liked it in BKK and when the expresswawork was over renounced going back to Australia and stayed on freelancing in the IT field. Maybe he got a few tourist visas in the beginning but then stayed on for all those decades as an undocumented alien. One day the police showed at his aprtment in BKK while he was away. Afraid to be found out without a visa he fled to Pattaya where a common acquaintance put him up for a while. Then the bargirl fracas. The Thais don't look kindly at farangs who beat up their women.

Colin was a stubborn type of guy. Intelligent enough. Subject to nasty temper tentrums. Not evil but also not much endowed with human warmth.

RIP

Not too long ago an Aussie friend of me put his money pouch in his checked luggage at Brisbane bound for BKK. Don't ask me why he did that, he couldn't even explain it to me. Now fate had it that his bag was taken home at BKK by a Thai who had a similar bag and thus left his own bag behind. My friend contacted the airline immediately, of course, and the next day everybody got reassigned his own bag after going to the airport airline office. The Thai had not opened the bag. But my friend spent some very worrying hours!

Try to track down a cheap photographers vest.

I carried 10kgs in the 22 pockets from BNE to BKK.

I could barely stand up.

Excellent idea! I'm flying next month back to the EU with a miserable 5 kg carry-on allowance. Turkish Airlines. But where to find a cheap photographer's vest my big farang size?

Rottweilers savage postman as he delivers Christmas cards

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1100716/Rottweilers-savage-postman-delivers-Christmas-cards.html

A postman's arm was nearly torn off by two Rottweilers as he made Christmas deliveries to a millionaire businessman's mansion.

Family's 2 Pit Bulls Kill Rubidoux Man

Updated 5:19 PM PST, Fri, Dec 19, 2008

RUBIDOUX, Calif. -- A Rubidoux man was attacked and killed Friday by his family's two pit bulls, a sheriff's sergeant said.A Rubidoux man is attacked and killed by his family's two pit bulls. The attack was reported at 12:10 p.m., according to sheriff's Sgt. Dennis Gutierrez.

"It appears at this time it is a very tragic accident," Gutierrez said. "Of course this family is very distraught, right before the holidays."

About noon, the grandfather of the house, located at 5787 Kenwood Place, stepped outside to smoke a cigarette. The animals attacked the man unprovoked.

One relative was home at the time of the attack and was unable to stop the dogs. The man died inside the home before paramedics could render any aid.

The dogs were captured and will be euthanized, Gutierrez said.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Fa...bidoux-Man.html

Family's 2 Pit Bulls Kill Rubidoux Man

Updated 5:19 PM PST, Fri, Dec 19, 2008

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"It appears at this time it is a very tragic accident," Gutierrez said. "Of course this family is very distraught, right before the holidays."

About noon, the grandfather of the house, located at 5787 Kenwood Place, stepped outside to smoke a cigarette. The animals attacked the man unprovoked.

One relative was home at the time of the attack and was unable to stop the dogs. The man died inside the home before paramedics could render any aid.

The dogs were captured and will be euthanized, Gutierrez said.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Fa...bidoux-Man.html

OK!

I retired in Thailand 20 years ago. Very happy living here. Alternate between Bangkok and Pattaya. One-year retirement visa. Speak and read some Thai (a must, really). Living costs way down from the EU. Always found officialdom and Thais friendly and helpful. When I get bored I look at a world map and try to figure out another retirement abode. Malaysia, magnificent beaches but Muslim strict (I'm single and enjoy nightlife!). Brazil, exciting but too dangerous. Cambodia and the Philippines, downmarket and not very safe. A year ago or so an article in the UK Telegraph about life as an expat retiree in Ecuador got me fired up to the point of checking flights to Quito and long-stay visa requirements. Cheap housing, beautiful beaches and mountains, attractive Indio-Spanish culture. I speak some Spanish, have spent a few short pleasant vacations in Latin America and would like to go back there. I think that as an European I'd fit better in that region of the world than in Asia where I've now been for almost 40 years but still am a permanent "Farang".

But I'm getting old, too old and tired to pull stakes and I guess I'll stay here in Siam until the end! Not paradise but quite a good place nevertheless!

And with 800,000 in the bank one-year retirement visa renewals take less than five minutes to be reapproved every year. A plus, indeed!

Discrimination - Pit Bull Owners Face it Daily

November 6th, 2008

Discrimination is a real problem within the Pit Bull community.

People often over look the details of discrimination. There are Pit Bull owners that walk their dogs before the sun rises or extremely late at night because they are afraid of discrimination. They are afraid of people who spit, throw coke cans at them, poor hot coffee on them and well, I think you get the point.

Never before in the history of dog ownership have a group of people been so widely discriminated against than Pit Bull owners.

Laws that are put into place to target Pit Bulls are, in my opinion, directly used to discriminate against the owners of Pit Bulls or Pit Bull type dogs.

The Humane Society of the United States as publicly stated on many occasions that Pit Bulls are "the dogs of choice for drug dealers, gang members, and anyone else who is looking for a dog to be a status symbol."

We've had four dogs in succession through years of the family growing up, a Boxer,a Golden Retriever, then a Black /White English Setter,and finally a white/orange English Setter bitch. We know just a bit about training dogs and love them all.

Recent cases of poisoning seem to emanate from Muslim Villages so a lot of dogs here are wary and often downright scared of Thais .Besides the fact that they get kicked a lot, you see this cringe attitude on the beach when a dog sees a Thai approach.

What is wonderful can be the relationship between man and dog, and the love that they give you.

When walking our last Setter through woods in Surrey every morning I often bled from snags on brambles; gemma would lick the blood away and her salive immediately stopped the bleeding. Muslims might regard this as unclean, but don't realise the curative effects of the dogs mouth.

I agree with Amanda;

Even the most fierce animals can be docile as lambs if properly cared for,loved,and well trained. They do not have a natural tendency to be aggressive unless mistreated ,starved,or abused .

But, even the most gentle dog can lose it's temper if poked in the eye by a child or having it's fur pulled too hard; so it's wise to keep a close eye on children when playing with animals; a child can be unknowingly rough and unkind and sometimes cruel,

until they are also trained !

It is probably more often the fault of the child if a dog snaps at it.

On September 4, 2008, Luna McDaniel, 83, of Ville Platte, Louisiana, died as a result of being mauled by 3 pit bulls on August 24, 2008.

On September 12, 2008, Cenedi Kia Carey, a 4-month-old girl, was fatally mauled by her family's two pit bulls in their North Las Vegas home. The child was in a stroller and being watched by her grandmother. The dogs were in the back yard. They got through a screen dog to attack the girl and then, when the grandmother pulled the injured baby away, the dogs attacked again and finished the child off.

On September 29, 2008, Katya Teresa Todesco, a 5-year-old girl residing in Simi Valley, California, died from a pit bull attack which occurred on September 23, 2008. The dog was in a neighbor's back yard.

Henry Piotrowski, 90 years old, of Staten Island, New York, was mauled by two pit bulls on July 1, 2008, and died on August 17, 2008. One of his legs had to be amputated, and he had been in the hospital since the attack

On July 22, 2008, Tony Evans Jr., a 3-year-old boy from Jackson, Mississippi, was playing with friends across the street from his home. The house had a carport where a pit bull was chained. The dog dragged the boy into its doghouse and killed him.

On November 12, 2007, 21-year-old Jennifer Lowe of Knox County, Tennessee, died after she was mauled by pit bulls at the residence of a friend.

On May 13th, Celestino Rangel, a 90-year-old man in San Antonio, Texas, was killed by two pit bulls that had broken into his home and attacked him.

On May 17th, in Memphis, Tennessee, 59-year-old James Chapple, Jr., whose brutal injuries and hospital-bed testimony helped to repeal the "one bite rule" in that state, died from complications of those injuries, which were incurred earlier in the year and were also inflicted by pit bulls.

Also on May 26, 71-year-old Carshena Benjamin of Collier County, Florida, was killed by pit bulls.

On November 4, one-year-old Allen L. Young died after he was mauled at home by his dad's four pit bulls, which took the boy from his bed at night.

On July 27th, 71-year-old Ms. Jimmie May McConnell was in her yard in Kansas City, Kan., when a pit bull jumped over her fence and killed her.

Earlier in the month, 3-year-old Mariah Puga of Hargill, Texas, was killed by her parents pit bulls.

etc, etc, ... ad nauseam (with thanks to pgrin)

One can only imagine the suffering these naturally peaceful doggies must have endured at the hands of those nasty toddlers and sadistic seniors to snap out of their gentle disposition and mete out a well-deserved revenge on their evil tormentors.

And, certainly, there must be a great many instances too of irritating toddlers and aggravating granmas mauled to death by exasperated Irish setters but they don't seem to be reported.

Yes. I am here in Bakersfield with my GP's for Turkey Day. Then I am off to Phuket. My DOGS are with my family in Phuket.

They really are harmless, and I go to KATA Beach. I rarely bring both of my DOGS at the same time because they will chase down Soi Dogs when they are together, but alone, they just hang around me.

We run from North to south and back, and then swim and play. We try to go early in the AM to avoid the T.G.'s.

I don't bring them after 10:00am because people automatically associate them to maulers or killers.

And to the user that said he wouldn't poop his pants? I would give you 1000 dollars if you would walk into my yard, and not do so, sir.

I am sure you are a brave man, but .........

~A~

People associate them with maulers or killers because they have a tendency to be maulers or killers. No problem with you having them locked up in your house.

Many people don't trust animals like this, so they should be kept off the beach. It sounds like you are being sensible keeping them off the busy beach, so fair play.

Me, I just love to read news stories about those they-were-always-so-gentle pits and rots suddenly mauling to death kids of their owner's family. Not nice for me to admit to this schadenfreude, I know!

If there is a coup will YouTube be censored again?

Sorry, that's my main concern! That and the airport opened by next March when I go back to the old country!

I dont suppose there is any point reporting this to the tourist police?

Pick-pocketing ladyboys have been around at this corner for at least ten years (when I passed there for the first time). Seems with tourists being more aware and careful these days (?), they have turned to other tricks, employing little kids, who one will not push away that easily..

I may sound stupid but what does LOS mean??

How much is Cider/Singa?

Land Of Smiles

Varies wildly!

I cynically had hoped for a (McCain)/Palin presidency. How much fun that would have been!

TOT in Pattaya. Signed for 1MPS, getting about 1.75MPS these days (checked speed with the TVF speed test) but streaming is atrociously slow. Never mind TV/YouTube, even some Internet radio stations buffer continuously. A TT&T guy told me once that TOT's international Internet connection bandwidth is narrow.

Panthip Dentistry, on Patpong Road (the sign is hard to locate). I've been going there for the past 30 years or so. Many farangs go there. Friendly, moderate prices. It's a lady dentist.