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If I buy a new mobile phone with as many Thai 3G radio frequencies as I can , and just put in my normal old Dtac SIM card ive had since 2006 , is there any way when I am traveling that I can see on the phone if I am in a 3G reception area ?

If you have activated data packet (GPRS/Edge/3G) on your DTAC sim (usually have to call them to turn on unless an internet sim) the device will connect if service is available. But many Android devices sold outside of Thailand don't have the APN settings for the Thai carriers built in so you will need to add DTAC's settings manually, most likely. If the APN settings are in the phone and the phone logs into the system for packet data, the indicator will show and will have an "E" for Edge, "G" for GPRS (only in remote areas now), and either "3G" or "H" for 3G.

Below are all the settings for the four Thai GSM carriers.

Thai APN settings for Android

AIS

"AIS GPRS Internet"

mcc="520"

mnc="01"

apn="internet"

type=""

"AIS MMS"

mcc="520"

mnc="01"

apn="multimedia"

mmsproxy="203.170.229.34"

mmsport="8080"

mmsc="http://mms.mobilelife.co.th"

type="mms"

DTAC

"DTAC GPRS WEB"

mcc="520"

mnc="18"

apn="www.dtac.co.th"

type=""

"DTAC MMS"

mcc="520"

mnc="18"

apn="mms"

mmsproxy="203.155.200.133"

mmsport="8080"

mmsc="http://mms.dtac.co.th:8002"

type="mms"

TrueMove

"True GPRS Inet"

mcc="520"

mnc="99"

user="true"

password="true"

apn="internet"

type=""

"True GPRS MMS"

mcc="520"

mnc="99"

user="true"

password="true"

apn="mms"

mmsproxy="10.4.7.39"

mmsport="8080"

mmsc="http://mms.trueworld.net:8002"

type="mms"

TOT3G

"TOT3G internet"

mcc="520"

mnc="15"

apn="internet"

type=""

"TOT3G mms"

mcc="520"

mnc="15"

apn="mms"

mmsproxy="10.218.24.83"

mmsport="8080"

mmsc="http://mmsc.tot3g.net:8002"

type="mms"

THANKYOU so much.... I've been locked out of the internet on my htc phone since I arrived in LOS !!!!!

Hi.....is it possible to get good quality (refrigerated) Organic Flax Seed Oil somewhere in Pattaya ?? (or Bangkok, I guess, if it comes to that)??.

Thanks a lot !

Thanks a lot, Guys !

Hi, I've read some of the threads re iphone, but couldn't see an answer to my question.

Will my email (google) access function?

Will my internet access function?

Will Bloomberg and similar news services work?

(All assming I'm near a wifi spot... 3G is not 'here' yet as I understand it)

What kind of sim and scaratch card do i need to get from 7/11? (I've got a standard 1-2-Call sim at the moment.

Thanks a lot !!

I just came to find the answer to the same question!! The pinned info's not very informative.

Any advice please?

I'm going to be staying in Chiang Mai for a couple of months. A member of the family will lend me their car but I doubt that they have the kind of insurance I'd be comfortable with.

Can I either get 1st class insurance to cover myself and a friend who'll share the driving with me to cover the car and anything/anyone that might suffer accidental damage while we're driving (intend to do some touring for a week or two)?, or

Can I upgrade my wife's brother's car insurance so that we're covered?

The alternative I guess is to hire a car from Avis for the touring and take our chances locally.

also what are the ball park costs (I've no idea). We're both rating-one-for-life drivers here in Australia - old blokes, haven't had an accident in more than 10 years.

Thanks a lot....

good poll.... just need to adjust results by nationality profile of TVisa now... please post... will be interesting to see the adjusted view...

Hi, Customs seem to be getting more and more stupid/paranoid/nit-picking etc.

Family of my Mate's thai wife have given me a bunch of Meds to take back for her... all legitimate stuff ... but I think I read somewhere about restrictions... and after getting a full search last year.... I just want to be on the safe-side of things.

Here's what I've been asked to take....

5 packs X 10 Bisolvon (anti -phlegm / mucus)

Tylenol 1 pack x 500

Actifed 10 X 12 Tablets

Cettec 10 X 10 anti - rhinitis

Amoxycillin 6 X 10 anti-biotics

Maybe it is just prescription drugs that are 'banned' ie amoxycillin, but I am not sure...

Anybody know what is OK and what is not OK???

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Is Suan Lum still operating ???!!!

Can anyone recommend a reliable jeweller who does good work at a fair price in BKK, please?

I tried the BKK forum first and got nil replies... is there a recent thread that I missed?

Thanks...

Any suggestions, current 'intell' appreciated. I arrive in a week and want to get away for a while before getting down to some more serious business.

Is the East or West side of the Gulf of T better for weather, sea cleanliness around now... or no difference?

Ko Kood or Ko Mak better? I don't know the area at all... main reason to visit!!

Thanks!

A couple of years ago a friend organised to go to Laos (LPbang)... none of the Thai's had passports just ID cards.... no problem! (they did use someone in Nong Kai to organise travel docs and a car).

Is the same possible for travel to Cambodia??? Anyone been there done that recently with ID Cards???

(Scanning past posts it looks like passports are required for Thai's... but not 100% certain. Cross border shopping for markets seems ok with an ID Card)

"If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst."

-- Thomas Hardy

Petroleum geologists have known for 50 years that global oil production would "peak" and begin its inevitable decline within a decade of the year 2000. Moreover, no renewable energy systems have the potential to generate more than a fraction of the power now being generated by fossil fuels.

In short, the transition to declining energy availability signals a transition in civilization as we know it.

To put this in context, you must remember that estimates of the long-term carrying capacity of Earth with relatively optimistic assumptions about consumption, technologies, and equity (A x T), are in the vicinity of two billion people. Today's population cannot be sustained on the 'interest' generated by natural ecosystems, but is consuming its vast supply of natural capital -- especially deep, rich agricultural soils, 'fossil' groundwater, and biodiversity -- accumulated over centuries to eons. In some places soils, which are generated on a time scale of centimeters per century are disappearing at rates of centimeters per year. Some aquifers are being depleted at dozens of times their recharge rates, and we have embarked on the greatest extinction episode in 65 million years. -- Paul Ehrlich (Sept. 25, 1998)

2/3rds of the current world poulation will disappear over the next 50 years or so... started already. This is science not a belief... read the facts - here - http://dieoff.org/

Because the Bible tells me moral decay, economic crisis, wars, and natural disasters will occur in the last days. I believe that this is true.

Is this a troll?? If not... you're already dead mate!! ... in the sense that you've chosen to incapacitate your organ for independent, intelligent thought. Thus any discussion with you is a waste of time.

I wish I could delude myself like most of the 'think positive thinking'/ 'she'll be right mate' respondents to this thread.... I was involved with a range of scientists looking at this issue a few years back... their eventual 'concensus' prediction was 'war, famine and pestilence' - loss of 50-70% of world population over 50 years starting as soon as the oil supply/demand balance gets too much out of kilter... I think we're half way there already.

Anyone know the percentage of retail price of bread made up by the oil inputs?? Around about 70% - much of it the fertiliser component. No doubt someone's going to tell us there's a new technolgy just around the corner for turning hot air into fertiliser! Endless supply near here.

The answers real simple... our lifestyle has gotta change... what's so hard about that?

Mr Sheen (Silicone furniture spray polish) goodl for lots of labels inc. labels on books.

[What am i supposed to do about this situation? On the one hand she is the perfect wife , but on the other just a whore in sheeps clothing . By the way , she has never been a money grabber .

Well Dumball... I'm glad to see you're thinking about it and getting over the 'precious' stage (rut) that so many of the previous respondents are in... If she's still the perfect wife... then I'd forgive her and hope she stays with me for the last couple of years I've still got.

History is important. 'Everyone' these days thinks that our falang type christmas extravaganza is very special... but it was only invented (manufactured, reengineered) in the last 70-80 years. Same with the modern version of Romantic Love.... invented around 200 years ago (according to the literature). In the west marriage was an economic / survival joint venture before that... man's role the heavy work... woman did the preserving of fruit and veg to get the family through winter.

Thailand is just a hundred years out of synch in some parts (ie Isaan a bit behind BKK which is a bit behind, say, London). Personally, I think the old ways make life a bit more meaningful somehow... the romantic love of the new millenium seems to have a built-in (but random) use-by date. No-one's serious about anything much in the west these days (except themselves, of course).

That's my twopenneth!!

My gf lives out in the sticks a bit. I figure that getting her a post office box, private bag or using post restante could be safer....

but do they have such things in Thailand?

Please advise - also the Thai script and transliteration so I can communicate (perhaps) what I want.

Any advice appreciated.

Can anyone recommend a reliable jeweller who does good work at a fair price in BKK, please?

Thanks...

Generally speaking... I find the loos in LOS are as clean or cleaner than in Australia... and I don't frequent places that are better than 3-star 'cos I find so many to be soul-less. Obviously, I need glasses or I'm just lucky.

As for the soap I never use it unless from a liquid soap dispenser... I prefer to rely on my own hygiene rather than the last guy who used the soap before - yuk - lather his left over bugs on my hands??? It makes me shudder to think about using soap that's beeen lying around a lav for weeks;-(

Thanks for those suggestions !

I just realised (looking at them - BBC and SbyS) another challenge - her speaking ability is way ahead of her reading ability in English -

so something that's in Thai and English (like I need (for learning Thai) but 'the other way around') would be best perhaps....

Hi Guys,

My GF speaks quite good beginners english... taught herself with cheap books from 7/11 and talking to customers in restaurant etc.

I plan to spend some time helping her improve and wondering what books /cd's are recommended. Some of the ones she has have dreadful archaic english expressions straight from dickens and no grammar etc. I'd like to get her started on a course that we can follow through over the next year or so... possibly supplementing with english tuition while I'm away... but that will be tricky in Chiang rai.

Any advice appreciated!

Yes.... I enjoyed the read.... some interesting stories, a bit of this and a bit of that... good bedtime book for me. lent it to my mate... he's enjoying it too.

The story I enjoyed most was when Andrew got scammed for a new HT Coil for his car in Nigeria ('cos it happened to me in Lagos - maybe 5 years after Andrew got 'done'... and I was sure it was a scam at the time but none of the other expats had had it happen to them)

Hi All,

I'll be visiting CR with my GF in a couple of months and wondered if anyone knows of a reliable and good jeweller who can make a ring for her using a stone (s) I already bought?

[A mate of mine had a ring made (for himself in CM) by a jewellry maker there... they did a reasonably good job at a fairish price. But I don't really want to go to CM twice just for that ie order and then collect]

Any advice appreciated.... BKK also an option but I guess more expensive.

Thanks....