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Sandy: " I am not a hooker!"

Jack:    "Now I know I can't afford you"

try looking into the dlink 4g router - no need for usb air card just plug sim into router.  Gives you 4 eth ports and wifi.

No stress - have had no skin in this as we started the move back in 2016 before this.  Simple if that was not the case - TX 65k a month and send back the excess once a year - whole things save cost of letter and trip to CM anyway zero sum game.

1 hour ago, steve187 said:

where have you been for the last year or so tm30's are required at many local immigration offices, with fines of 800/1600 baht for non submissions, of you haven't left the country for a while, then maybe your local office doesn't enforce the tm30

Well we made a trip just before before Sept. and returned then did a renewal of the visa Oct - no one said a word.  Must be less then a year that it has changed to this.

25 minutes ago, bilbofarang said:

Can someone here please explain the THB800 per day fine?? For the thai-wife, people here seem to be evading the essential question.

 

"Immigration told me THAI-WIFE MUST PAY THB800/DAY when Late"

Anybody know about this??  

 

The immigration lady made it sound like the THB800 per DAY fine on the 'mia-farang' was something 'new'.

I Thought the place your staying was covered by the entry document, but she acts like your wife must report your having arrived and living at your address i.e. TM30 I think it is. Not the same as a 90 day report at all.  Seems strange to me.  Never reported our address beyond the entry document and during visa renewal - it would seem if it never changed between renewals or after you entered it would not require reporting again and again.

20 minutes ago, Tanoshi said:

Don't forget to apply for a re-entry permit!

A few years ago I was outside the 30 days and concerned - I asked for re-entry at the same time with info about travel plans on the application for re-entry and had email tickets with me - they didn't ask for them.  They just did both visa and re-entry at the same time and said have a nice trip.

On 5/17/2017 at 7:01 PM, the guest said:

The biggest challenge I have found in Thailand, is finding a 'traditional' massage service, without all the toppings!

There are a number around here - most are run as therapeutic or medical style shops with uniformed staff and have government seals.  Wife enjoys them and cost is not bad.  You don't find them in tourist traps - ask at your local hospital as some hospitals if you have a reg. card with them offer discounts.  I normally only go for the foot message now  and again - Don't care that much for the whole body thing.

Best to go into a larger dtac store like in a central mall and take a ticket for the Q to speak with someone in English.  I have worked with dtac for years and when using that type store the result has always been great.  If not mistaken the last time I started a post pay account I just used my drivers lic. and they deduct the funds from the phone each month - you can add money at any other smaller outlet up to 24 hours before the due time or even triple it and it just rides month to month.  With the app on the phone you can track everything.  The smaller outlets are more like a kiosk operation.

I had issues all morning with 3bb with most everything but it got better and was down to only imap.googlemail in thunderbird not working,  but it was fine in dtac if I hotspotted for it on my phone - after a short loss of internet completely on 3bb router a while ago - everything is now restored - fingers crossed - it seems to be a short term and random area problem.

19 minutes ago, Crash999 said:

If you don't complain then the fine usually goes the opposite way- 500 then 200 finally 100. 

This is true  -  wife no seat belt when I rolled into a road block - they write 400baht ticket and hold my license - I drive straight to the cop shop to pay - they had to call him in on the radio to bring in my License.  Because I said I was wrong and wanted to pay right away they lowered it to 100baht and gave me a receipt too.

It is a common problem for us that our pump WP305 runs constant and gets warm when we have low power - we live in the sticks a bit and happens often during the rain.  During brown outs we have to turn the pump off.  It won't build enough pressure to kick off.  Check and see if your getting proper voltage at the pump.  Other then that it may sometimes kick in and out to often went the air runs low in the tank - it has no bladder and have to allow air back in about every three months by draining pump down and re starting it.  It is not an uncommon for the tank to saturate if the water source is above the pump such as a tank.   With low voltage it can get rather warm I would say hot and you can smell it in the pump house, but tough as nails it cools off and works fine again when the power is back. 

Most any of the new cards 500 > series or the AMD type should be plug and play.  I have some older cards that have lost support in the 200 < series but even they can be made to work by downloading the older support package from repo.   You should not really have any problem installing a new card at all.  Worse case you might have to tell it to look at hardware during boot one time first time - the forum should have an instruction on that - never had to do it yet in mint 18 KDE5.  Someone on Mint forum should know the out of box range of cards supported for your desktop environ of choice.

Some 3bb routers are;

USER:           admin

Password:   (last four number and/or letters of MAC address) listed on the back of the router - that can be changed and should also.

Should be paper work that came with router and your copy of the install paper work listing all this stuff or take it into a 3bb office they can plug it in and change both login and wifi pass for you, just tell them what you want them to be.  When you plug it back in at home they will work.  Write it down both the old defaults and the new ones - a reset or uploaded change from 3bb may change them back and lock you out otherwise.

I see you said wifi 3bb if you mean you don't even have a router just using 3bb public wifi with a phone I don't know - didn't think about that untill after I posted.

Not so bad - that income requirement is easy enough - I never deposit money in Thai banks anyway and never will - to hard to get back out of the country and all that reporting crap to the US. 

The catch that many will have a bigger problem with is the health insurance requirement - I got that covered to.  90 day report is not a problem anyway.

Not having to go to the consulate once a year is the greatest thing ever - well worth it.  10,000 up front is a deal if I don't have to drive 800km round trip and pay 2700baht for a stupid document ever year (as if it ever changes other then cola increases) - less then what it cost me now for sure.  It is all good - it will thin the herd in places like Pattaya and Bangkok  - no loss.

The reduction in paper work for immigration and number of trees saved from the copy paper makers will be  - as Donald says 'Huuuuge'

We still have to see if it all really happens like this - amendments by the 'they didn't ask me first loss of face group' are still pending.

If you can use usb connection to the PC and backed up the files to the PC you should be able to upload the same way to iphone - if it is a special cable problem then install wifi transfer in the samsung and connect to it using a local ip address it will provide and drag the files into Iphone over wifi.  I use wifi transfer between the laptop, desktop and samsung via wifi - I would hope the iphone should be able to connect via wifi - the samsung would become a mini server while in wifi transfer mode.  Wifi transfer is not seen outside your local network and uses local ip addresses.

18 hours ago, trogers said:

I would refute his claim. I have with me the cause of Hillary's defeat. A Swiss cow bell.

If that is the case then - we need more cow bell.

Come on Man!  Trump didn't win Hillary lost - why? because an amount of her support stayed home - even Colin Keappernick didn't vote and admitted it.  They have no one to blame but Hillary and themselves - enough is enough.

Trump was the DNC and Media choice and you can see by the result not the choice of the GOP - they even crossed over in the primary and voted for him (the record primary number while others were down) this was so Hillary could have someone even she could beat - it gave the Burn a chance but the super delegates as rigged had her back from day one  - once Trump was in they turned on him - proof they even held back that tape which they had and could have run in the primary season - but no they didn't did they.

She was on cruse control and let others do the lifting for her - she turned people off - it is her fault and the DNC that picked Trump that he even ran - now you get what you asked for - what did you think would happen while hitching your wagon to an old hag with so much baggage - you got what you deserve. 

Protest at the DNC and drain that swamp - that is were where your problem is - tell them they are fired.  Get a new plan Sam and stop whining about it..

Many users on 3BB cannot change the DNS - You can set it in the PC or even in the router but it is redirected via back port in the router and that is locked out - you will find you are also double NAT'ed.

If you go to https://ipleaks.net/  you can see the real DNS in use and your public IP - it may change for some but not many.  Mine is controlled by 3BB only unless I use a VPN which is rare..

For seven months never an issue, but yesterday I had loss of internet every 30 minutes which sometimes recovered other times I had to restart the router.  Today seems to be back to normal.  During the outages when it returned I would be assigned to open DNS six servers in US and then after another outage it was back to a single 3BB DNS server - then it failed and returned to open DNS - I think they were having DNS server issues. 

Today it is working fine and I am restricted to the normal 3BB dns server which has been like I said working fine for the whole 7 months I have had 3BB up until yesterday,  but I have always been double nat'ed and stuck with 3BB dns server.  The router is set for google dns and so is the PC's but never has it ever seen a google DNS server. This is not an issue to me as long as I get internet and they have done that so far at speed as good as most. 

PS for the first time ever I see a new IP for the DNS server is ip6 not the normal 4 so they must have been doing server stuff the other day.

  I have an E8400 dual core running 4gb of DDR1100 at 2.8ghz stock and it won't run win10 no matter what size the HD or ram is,  the cpu is not supported.  If you can fire it up then run it past the web site at windows that will tell you if you can run win10 on that PC.  It may be the mother board is to out of date also.    I would not be making guess work out of it - they have a diagnostic which will tell you- google it.  It ruled mine out without hardware solution as supported cpu's won't fix that mother board.  Linux box now - runs mint fine.

Yes they can fix it no problem - if they have to they can clone the old sim to a new one and provide a nino or just punch out the current sim - they may want to clone it to ensure you have a sim that is 4g able even if your phone is not yet.  Free.

You can't make anything good from corn flour like they make it here (it just corn starch) - make corn meal  - I have been looking for it forever here - some cornflour (starch) can be used to turn general flour into cake flour by adding some corn flour (starch), but you can't make any kind of real corn bread from any product available here - I would eat corn bread everyday if I could find corn meal.  Learn to mill it into something other then one useless product for export.  You can't make money exporting corn product to the US - the amount of corn grown there is already high - why should I have to send off for corn meal if I live in Thailand and my house (and I am not kidding) is surrounded by corn fields.

Is the game still up on cable or did they cut the game right during the game just on the Sat. System.    Will the other games be on tonight or also they decided to cut them at the last minute?  yes, no, maybe.

OK OK it is back

If you want faster running tests of distributions install virtualbox and install the OS as a .vdi (virtual hard drive) file and it will run almost at full speed.  You also don't have to burn a disk or install to a flash drive - it will install to a virtual drive which is just a file (does not change your HD) and installs directly from the downloaded ISO file as it also has a virtual CD drive to install from (no media needed) to install.  Helps if you have 8gb of ram as you can assign 4 to the virtual PC and keep 4 for the host, but have run most linux with just a split of 4gb also.  If you don't like the distro, then just delete the virtual machine and try another.  In many cases depending on what your using it (linux) for - there is no reason to run it other then in virtualbox anyway as it will be more then fast enough for general internet use no matter which browser or p2p etc you use.

5 hours ago, Detectorist said:

There are only 76 provinces in Thailand.

Los Angeles is 77

17 minutes ago, AgMech Cowboy said:

Publicity stunt! Who keeps millions of euro jewelry at a hotel?

Someone with insurance and a lawyer.