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I'll take a trial with another seedbox provider

Try one of Whatbox's Leaseweb slots. They have a good rep.

Better still, dedicated from OVH or Leaseweb.

May I ask, what is a seedbox?

A slot on a datacenter server with a very fast connection used to seed torrents to private trackers.

Your problem more likely lies with a combination of Feral's provider, Cogent's, shitty peering and peak time congestion in your area than True doing any throttling of FTP.

Poor FTP speeds with Feral have been a well documented issue the previous few months.

I have used True with seedboxes and dedicated servers for years and have never experienced any throttling of FTP. I get pretty much full speed from my OVH dedi in France to True in BKK. There can be a small drop off at peak times (around 5pm - 10pm), but nothing that significant.

You could try changing ports, but you'll need root on the server for that.

An iPhone can only be unlocked by the carrier

Wrong.

if done improperly, can turn your iPhone into a brick.

Extremely unlikely.

I believe the hackers at the store have a way to unlock via hardware or a combination of hardware/software, but they have to do a bit of surgery on your phone.

Maybe some kind of Gevey Sim type device? Personally I would just suck it up and go with the factory unlock, that way you don't have to worry about potential damage to your phone, or the thing failing, inevitably at the most inconvenient moment.

There's not really much of a market here for iphone unlocking any more. Most people now buy them from Thai providers and they are obviously factory unlocked out of the box. It's not like back in the day when a lot of the iphone 3s and 3gs were imported from countries where the phone was locked to the provider.

Your phone is jailbroken but locked to your provider. There's no software unlock for your baseband, so forget about MBK. You'll need a 'factory unlock' from your provider or one of the (reputable) 3rd party providers floating around on the internet, e.g. http://www.fonefunshop.co.uk/iphone/index.htm

MacBook Air.

Retina MBP. You know it makes sense.

This.

Largest SSD available now is 256 gb.

What?

Hi . I am just about to buy a apple macbook pro cost here £2399 then i am flying to Thailand for 3 months . would i be better to buy it in Thailand many thanks Martin

You're definitely going to be better off here. I bought a 15" rMBP from the Apple Store here recently. The same model in the UK store is £600 more!

Use a VPN. That way your country stays static. Good practice to use a VPN on a public network anyway.

Edit: Just noticed you're using public computers, not your own device on a public network.

You won't have to pay any import tax.

Same here in BKK (True ADSL). No problem with a VPN.

This thing is a real pain to shift completey. I had to take it off my old man's computer last year. It took a combination of Malwarebytes, Spybot, Hitman Pro and Adw Cleaner to get rid of all of it.

Thread already running here: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/678728-ipad-air/

Why don't you rip to FLAC if quality is your concern? By the way, 320 CBR is a waste of disk space - use the VBR V0 setting in LAME if you want the highest quality MP3.

^Nice one. Thanks again for that.

Pib - apologies for somewhat derailing the thread. I'll start a new one if I need to know anything else about this prospective purchase.

^Wow, excellent. Thanks for that, but aren't they going to require some kind of proof of being a student or something?

^Thanks for the advice. All very helpful. I will be carting it around occasionally, so the iMac is a no go really.

Why not the Macbook Air 13"? Save yourself a bunch of weight. Very good resolution, unless Retina is critical?

Yeah, I want the Retina screen. Also, a 13" is too small for me. I won't be moving it around that much anyway, it's more of a desktop replacement.

I do have my concerns about the MBP though, primarily that everything is now glued to the motherboard making repairs difficult and pretty much impossible to upgrade the RAM or the SSD. Also, no dedicated graphics card in the new model.

I have to agree about Compaq/HP. My experience of both has been absolutely terrible (admittedly this was about 8 years ago).

I've had a great experience with Vaios. My last 2 laptops (the first was a mid-range, the second a high end model) have been running for 7 and 4 years respectively without a single hardware issue and both of them have been hammered.

I'm looking to buy a new machine, but I can't find anything I really like in the new Vaio ranges which now seem kind of all over the place and incoherent, so I'll probably go for a Macbook Pro.

My experience of 365 has been excellent. Software works well on the laptop, never had any buffering issues. Streams also play well on iPad and iPhone (there's no app, it runs inside the browser). My connection is True ADSL 13/1.5 in BKK.

Customer service is great and they are a friendly bunch. Fast response time.

I would say go for it definitely (I think they've got some promotion at the moment - 6 months for 2,000 baht, but I'm pretty sure it ends today, so you might want to hurry if you decide to sign up).

... got some links to examples of readily available seedboxes?

https://www.feralhosting.com/pricing

https://whatbox.ca/plans

It's not just you. I've been having problems the last couple of days (BKK - Thonburi). Connection is very unstable. Maybe it's all the rain.

Weird. What kind of devices are you trying to play the music on? Do you have a phone or an ipod or something you can try to use to eliminate the possibility of the player(s) being at fault? Also, compare the files sizes on the USB to the originals on the computer and make sure they're exactly the same.

Try a private tracker. If you're in Thailand you might want to try somewhere like bitded. Not sure if sign-ups are open, but you can try.