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Normal service here in the Bangkok suburbs

Some more information is required to make an assessment. www.speedtest.net is a good start. What do you get on the Bangkok server and, say, the San Fransisco server?

What speed do you have? ISP provider?

I replied in this thread and it is relevant to your situation as well.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Tot-Super-Sl...07#entry2149807

Acers are crap build period.

A couple of friends have brought Acers around the same time I got my last 2 Sonys, on each occasion they have outlasted them...

I thought Acer were taking down awards left right n center?

I didn't say Sony was any better...

Awards are one thing and are awarded "left right n center", and many times they just create another award just to have it.

Just try an Acer right next to a Lenovo and you will immediately feel the difference.

Doing a little bit of research turns up these numbers

Month (Summary) : 2008-08-05

International Bandwidth : 30.071 Gbps

Domestics Bandwidth : 226.06 Gbps

Domain under .TH: 28652 Domains

โดเมนภาษาไทยภายใต้ .TH :7105 Domains

Internet User : 13.416 (Million) Users

That is ~0.0023 Mbps per user on average. Yes, that is 2.3 Kbps per user on average.

Yes, this is the reason why the speed sucks and they do everything they can to divert, blame and sooth everyone who has a complaint.

There is nothing they can do short of increasing the international bandwidth. However, since they all keep dropping the prices (as low as 590 baht for a 2 Mbps link), they keep shooting themselves in the foot.

ISP interconnection chart can be found here: http://internet.nectec.or.th/internetmap/v...etmap082008.gif

This is apparently the most recent one (August 2008).

Reading these numbers leads me to believe that True ISP would be the better choice based on total international bandwidth. However, the chart does not reveal the total number of Internet users for any ISP, rendering it nearly useless anyway.

One wonders how much a decent 1.866 Gbps link through one of the international bandwidth providers actually costs. Would 4,000 users each receiving 2 Mbps cover it (~4.2-to-1 ratio)? If so, at what price per month? 4000 users at 2500 baht per month is a nice round 10 million baht.

IF you want quality keyboards+touch pads AND non-reflective LCD screens the only choice is Lenovo. See the Lenovo G400. Good specs, around 18,000 baht. Thinkpads for better specs and higher price.

I always recommend my clients to think long and hard about the 3 things you ALWAYS use when in front of the computer and/or laptop. The 3 things? Keyboard, mouse and screen.

Acers are crap build period.

ASUS has some nice laptops, others are crap.

HP/Compaq. They go for "hip and cool" style, substance not so much.

Same for Sony, although they charge a "bit" more for.... well, nothing.

Dell, I have to little info to pass on an educated guess.

Looks like they are locking the per-thread bandwidth to 12 KB/s.

My TOT adsl link is horribly slow on everything, not even 32 kbps shoutcast radio plays without several hickups per minute.

BUT, bittorrent downloads are lightning fast. I get a full 2 mbps each and every time I want to download the latest.... linux ISO's.. yes ISO's

Filtering gone wrong.

Oh, and a suggestion to everyone use opendns.

edited due to missing words and messed up formatting

The OS is responsive, limited interface, the phone itself (hardware) feels like a quality build but the software is left lacking. I think the software was intentionally "neutered" to allow for a big step up to the Omnia i900.

They are already selling in Samsung shops (introductory price of 24,900) and by me (24,000, lead time, 8 business days).