davejonesbkk

I am looking at getting a new passport soon as I only have 1 page left in my current one, even though thats enough for my next two 90 day report stamps I would like to get a new one sorted out soon. The thing is I dont work here nor do I have a Thai drivers license so I have no idea how to prove to them that I live here, any suggestions?

I emailed Walen and they said you can only do a maximum number of 3 years studying Thai on an Ed visa but I can change to studying another language/course such as Chinese or Russian, I find this to be quite bizarre, how do the ministry of education conduct the 1 year interview tests when you want to extend?

Anyway, this got me thinking what courses are available and where for Ed visas? Is it only languages you can study? I know there are ones for Muay Thai at some places.

Yes I read that, most of those things in the list I dont have and/or cant get, only thing I can think of is some document from the school I go to. Someone I know just went through this when his passport and time left on his visa was very soon running out and they emailed him to say it had been rejected due to not having the right documents even though he sent a letter from his place of work and they only approved it after he spoke to them on the phone and basically said he his status in Thailand would be expired and he would be illegally overstaying soon due to them not issuing a new passport and they then approved it :/

This makes me a little worried!

Ok thanks.

I've been studying on a Thai course at a language school for a few years now, my current course and ED visa expires later this year, the school say I cant extend for another year but I see Walen have 1-10 years on their website so I guess its different for different schools? Can I change?

Does anyone know exactly which schools offer what years and how long in total one can be on ED visas for?

I only have one page left on my passport, its enough for the 90 day report stamp I need to do in April this year but I want to get the new one now and get this out of the way. There's still 4 years left on it so no worries about expiry dates.

I have been told it is now done via post and that they are quite strict about proof of residence documents, I do not have a Thai driving license nor do I work here and apparently Ive heard that others had utility bills rejected. What can I do?

Im currently studying on an ED visa so would docs from my place of study do?

Ive never really got into games on my iphone due to the touch screen controls but this new device looks like it could make them playable, just wondering if anyone has tried one of these and if they can be bought in Bkk?

http://www.mogaanywhere.com/ace/

Continuing on from this thread:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/699735-upgraded-true-internet-package-and-its-the-same-or-worse-than-before/#entry7352048

Im going to change back to 3BB, I was with them a couple of years ago and they were fine, now True is a joke here for last few months and Ive had enough, friends in same building as me say 3BB is fine though.

So how about these fibre optic packages?

http://www.3bb.co.th/3bb/product/details/2253

I assume only in certain areas, are they any good or is it just more smoke & mirrors and BS from the ISPs?

yeah its over now

I had the 700 baht 15mb (I know only in Thailand speeds) for just over 2 yrs (was on 3BB before) it was ok until a couple of months ago and then it went off for a day due to something or other and then when it came back on the speeds were never quite the same, I didnt really complain until the last few weeks when it started disconnecting regularly.

I ended up upgrading to the 20mb package for 1,200 baht a month as someone I knew before in the same building had it and said it was much faster than what he saw on my PC, of course they cam round 2 days later and installed a brand new modem+router and at first it seemed noticeably better, even some pings to UK/US slightly faster..... then that same evening (Sunday) it went to a crawl, rebooting the modem/router seemed to do the trick but now this morning I see that I dont even have full bars for the wifi signal (its 2m away from me <deleted>??) and some sites are very slow, just been pinging some overseas sites, US and UK ones getting normal pings of around 200-250 but just tried pinging Sanook.com and Truecorp.co.th and requests timed out, any suggestions on whats going on here?

I really cant be bothered to call them up again, think I might just change back to 3BB...

thanks for the advice, my HDTV doesnt have a USB port, yes I suppose I could buy another tv for not much more money but Id rather not. Ive never had one of these media players before anyway and getting a new toy excites me

I will check out the above devices, CinemaGo and WDTV look pretty good

my True connection went on and off a few times this morning and then was fine most of the day, so far so good....

Yes I was going say the same thing, it still has to hit one of the international gateways at some point

So I download a lot movies and usually watch them via my PS3 however some formats don't work and it can be annoying sometimes, what kind of media devices are available that I can attach to my tv and then plug a USB into with my movie files on? What's available and what are the prices etc?

Thanks

So last time there were riots a few weeks ago they occupied a CAT office and caused problems with some of the international gateways, my internet was only affected for a few hrs but I'm wondering what th chances of something more severe happening next week and if there are any backup options?

Ian added you.

shoot2kill4fun1 - cant find that?

Yeah loads of SG servers and pings around 50 even. Never seem to have as much player activity as what I see is going on in US ones and even on 40/40 player ones I never see anyone, I am getting a bit bored of the looting etc now and want to start messing with some noobs lol

You should check it out, there's still lots of work to done such as more zombies needed and they still glitch through stuff but overall a massive improvement on the mod and you can go into pretty much 90% of the buildings which is a huge game changer and many sections of the map changed plus about 20% bigger overall. I've played other mods such as Dayz Origins and yes they're fun but after playing the SA with all it's improvements I couldn't go back to the mods.

Tbh though I'm most interested in getting some people together for Arma 3 co-op games, there used to be a bunch of guys in SG who ran Arma 2 games on a private server from OMgeek.net but they haven't done any for a long time now. What's your steam username?

I was a big fan of the Dayz mod and been playing the standalone since it came out on steam last week. It's still pretty rough in places and lots of things missing (hardly any zombies right now) but still a big improvement on the mod. Anyone else here playing it?

I also play Arma 3 from time to time and I've been toying with the idea of getting a private server and would love to find some other serious players to do some real coop as playing it alone can be frustrating.

Lol I remember playing one of the very first Leisure suit Larry brothers on my dad's computer with my younger brother when we were about 10! If they run on an iPad I might give them a go

Just stumbled upon this on Kickstarter, pretty funny, cant see her getting $30k tho

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/331712380/hitler-is-neither-a-superhero-nor-a-mascot?ref=home_location

Anyone have any ideas or predictions of how is gonna play out from here then? Surely for PTP to come out strongly with such a statement so close after the Kings birthday they must know something or have some kind of game plan...

Whoa, so they don't issue this warning last night but they do tonight?? What's gonna happen??

Are you sure it's gun shots and not something else such as fire crackers?

Everything's stopped working for me now. I still seem to be connected but no websites will resolve at all :/

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