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I am up and running on CTH.

I went to Power-sat on Hang Dong Road, about 200 metres past Makro going towards Hang Dong.

I called at the shop yesterday, and they installed the system today. 4,259 baht total, but I did have to pay 200 baht petrol money because I am a good distance from the shop (near Chomthong).

Many thanks to all who commented on this thread, and a special thank you to bangkok blue for all his efforts to enable us to watch our favourite teams.

I agree, those numbers look OK. What is the sync rate and (if shown) maximum attainable rate?

The sync rate should be 10-20% higher than your package speed.

I can't see sync rate or maximum attainable rate in the router stats. It does state Upstream 1278kbps and Downstream 17919kbps. I assume that's my maximum attainable rates.

I have a problem with 3BB. It's a new installation last week, and I get a new IP address allocated every few minutes. This doesn't seem to affect anything, downloads, Skype, Youtube, etc. But I am getting warning messages from GMail about "unusual activity" on my E-Mail account.

The new IP address allocations are not random, indicating cable problems, sometimes they are every hour, even down to the second, sometimes the interval is a multiple of 5 minutes, such as this morning:

[15/06/2013 11:26:43] 223.205.149.11
[15/06/2013 11:46:41] 180.183.203.27
[15/06/2013 12:01:41] 223.205.106.205
[15/06/2013 12:06:42] 223.205.149.11
[15/06/2013 12:11:41] 180.183.203.27
[15/06/2013 12:36:45] 223.206.14.5
[15/06/2013 12:41:42] 180.183.203.27
[15/06/2013 12:51:41] 223.205.106.205
[15/06/2013 12:56:43] 223.206.14.5
[15/06/2013 13:01:41] 180.183.203.27
[15/06/2013 13:21:41] 223.206.14.5
[15/06/2013 13:26:43] 180.183.203.27

The ISP addresses are just being re-issued, not new ones being issued.

My router shows the following:

Attenuation Down Stream 7
Attenuation Up Stream 5
SNR Margin Down Stream 32.9
SNR Margin Up Stream 37.3

They look ok to me.

It's not just me, my friend (on a different DSLAM) has exactly the same problem, and frequently we rotate the same IP addresses between us.

Any ideas?

It's on Thai Channel 7 at 2am

Thanks for the info. At the moment, on TOT, I download at about 700kB/s. Speed is not a big factor for me as most of my downloads are overnight, but when I was on the normal 3BB service a few years ago, it was impossible to use torrents, and I had to switch to Premier, hence my question.

I wonder why they offer a Premier service. I realise that you get less users sharing the line, but for 5Mb it's very expensive.

I used to be on 3BB Premier until they withdrew the service from this area, and I was forced to switch to TOT Air OS system, the only alternative.

Now the TOT system has deteriorated and I have discovered that 3BB is now available again.

Can anybody tell me if it's possible to run torrents on the 3BB 10Mb, 13Mb package, or the Premier package?

There is no viable alternative to TOT or 3BB here.

Thanks.

It's on Thai Channel 7

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talkSPORT Live is providing online audio commentary on the matches at Stoke, Man U, Brentford, Leeds, and Oldham.

It is available worldwide except for Europe.

It's a lot of use to me if CTH broadcast all 380 matches live, if I can't get CTH. I can't even get the internet by telephone line here, and it was not that long ago that the telephone was made available. My guess is that TrueVisions will broadcast some live matches, if only to ensure that some subscribers stay loyal, but they'll probably have to pay nearly as much as they paid for the last 3 years exclusive rights, and they will lose a lot of advertising.

We just have to be patient and see what's agreed.

If True Visions were to enter a deal and show some Premier League matches exclusively live, then some current subscribers may be tempted to continue their subscriptions. If they don't show any matches live, then I have no reason to continue subscribing after May. If all we get is Champions League coverage, then it's not worth it.

I heard a rumour earlier in the year that True would fill the void, if necessary, by getting the rights for Chinese and Japanese League football. Now there's a way to stop people cancelling (not).

I see Cable Thai Holding as a company that has bought the TV rights in order to sell some of them on to other companies such as True Visions and GMM. We will probably have to keep True Visions in order to watch the matches they get from the deal, as well as buying boxes and subscriptions from the other companies so we can watch the matches they get from the deal. It will be a case of messing around with cables and switches before each match.

As usual, the viewer has to pay.

From the Nation today 13.17

Cable Thai Holding has beat True Visions and won the right to broadcast English Premiere League football matches, Manager Online and Siam Sports reported on their web sites.

Manager Online said CTH would hold a press conference at 3 pm to announce the details of the bidding.

The two web sites reported that CTH won the broadcast right for three seasons from 2013.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/CTH-wins-English-Premiere-League-broadcast-right-r-30194390.html

It seems that Truevisions is in talks to share the coverage of Premier League matches according to this report a few days ago.

"TrueVisions, the country's leading cable TV provider, outlined two options for bidding for the three-year rights to broadcast the English Premier League football - a solo bid or partnering with GMM Grammy.

Suphachai Chearavanont, TrueVisions's chief executive, admitted his company's executives are in talks with GMM chairman Paiboon Damrongchaitham for a possible partnership sharing content. But a bid for the Premier League rights has not been discussed.

Mr Suphachai said TrueVisions is open to a partner if GMM offers attractive conditions and incentives."

This is a statement from Truevisions Vice President of programming earlier in the year.

TrueVisions also still holds the broadcasting rights of the English Premier League until the end of next season, said Attapol Na Bang Chang, TrueVisions vice president for programming.

The company has lost the broadcasting rights of Spain's La Liga and Germany's Bundesliga, amid reports that several groups are interested in buying the EPL broadcasting rights.

Attapol said he did not know when bidding for the EPL broadcasting rights will take place. But he believed that even if his company lost the EPL, this would not affect the number of its subscribers.

Citing Singapore as an example, he said after Starhub lost the EPL broadcasting rights, it has since enjoyed an increase in the number of subscribers and got more income because it has offered viewers other sports programmes.

Well, Channel 7 seem to be keeping to their statement to cover the FA Cup from the first round. Their schedule includes a Tape Copy of the FA Cup 2012/13 at 3 am on Sunday morning.

Yes, working fine now.

I'm getting all red arrows, and a message saying 503 Internal Server Error when I try to access the site.

TOT Chiang Mai.

Is it just me ?

I have the same problem. It started about 3 weeks ago and only happens between about 8pm and 2 am. There is no obstruction, and the night sky is clear. I can see the stars very clearly. I phoned TrueVisions and they said that it's due to heavy rain, but we haven't had any rain for weeks. After a lot of discussion, 2 experts arrived, inspected the dish and cable and proclaimed that it was a fauty receiver, which they replaced. That was 5 days ago, and it made no difference whatsoever.

The strange thing is that it seems to be the foreign stations that are most affected. The Thai TV stations are fine and some international stations such as ESPN and BBC World are also uneffected, but the sports channels suffer the most. However, it's also not the same channels each night that are affected.

Channel 7 has secured the broadcast rights to the English FA Cup for six seasons starting this year, the station announced yesterday.

"We hold the exlusive right to show the English FA Cup in Thailand from this year to 2018," Channel 7 managing director Saran Virutamavongsa said.

Matches will be shown live on every platform _ Channel 7 terrestrial TV, Media Boom satellite TV and Bugaboo.tv internet TV and mobile phone.

About 15 big matches will be broadcast live on Channel 7 per season. Its broadcast partners include AP Honda and Unilever.

"It's free for everybody from the first round to the final," added Palakorn Somsuwan, Channel 7 assistant managing director.

Saran said the station gave importance to sports and had prepared about one billion baht to buy several sports programmes.

With 6 rounds, the Semi-Finals and the Final, that's about 2 live matches per round, whereas TrueVisions was showing 3 or 4 matches per night, and we will have to put up with adverts during the matches, no doubt.

Well, the first round starts on Friday. I wonder how many matches Channel 7 will be showing this weekend.

It's on Channel 7

This is what Truevisions say about their CL coverage on their website

"In this season of UEFA Champions League, TrueVisions subscribers can watch up to 136 matches throughout the season, and 57 matches in HD, according to the package. Non-subscribers nationwide can also watch 23 matches and one rerun, 24 matches in total, on Modern 9 TV."

I assume that "Modern 9 TV" is the latest name for Thai TV Channel 9, and I don't see anywhere where they give an indication of what package you need for the matches.

My TOT WiFi router username and password are both "ubnt" (without the quotes) .

I have had a disconnection problem with the router for several months. If it is on for a long time, every 26-28 hours I will lose the internet. Then it is simply a case of switching off the power to the router and switching it straight back on. It then re-connects and is fine for the next 26-28 hours. I make a point of remembering to do this once a day to ensure I don't lose the connection at a critical time. I have heard of other users having similar problems. The way I know if this has happened rather than a normal disconnection, is that I'm unable to get into the router using the username and password. So if this happens to you, try the above before calling TOT.