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    Retirement Extension Refused, CM today.

    in Chiang Mai

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    Retirement Extension refused at Chiang Mai
    This would have been my 12th extension for retirement, previously done without problem with the Embassy letter, income method. I have always done it myself, no agent. OK, the rules have changed but my income hasn’t. I use 3 pensions, 2 are paid in monthly to Bangkok Bank, about 28 to 29 thousand. The other pension, my occupational pension is paid into my Lloyds bank UK. I use this to pay some UK commitments like alimony from my 1st marriage, so I can’t bring it all direct to Thailand.
    Every month I draw by ATM on the last day of the month, when the pension is paid, 40,000 baht. This is done at Bangkok Bank, Chiang Mai and paid straight into my account with them. This then totals the 68,000 or so for my income statement. I retain the debit card slips, together with the Lloyds bank account showing it paid into Thailand.
    At Immigration, I presented all this paperwork, including the Income statement from Bangkok bank. Rejected, the money has to come direct into the bank account, not via an ATM, even though it is shown beyond all doubt it is from UK and is not recycled.
    Plan B, as a reserve backup, I have my emergency fund with Government Savings Bank, of 400,000 baht. I acquired the letter from them, it has been there for over a year. So, I presented this to Immigration, saying if they won’t accept the 40,000 baht monthly income, do the combination method. Complete news to me, I was told that this has been discontinued, it is 800,000 only for the bank account system.
    OK, move to plan C, extension by married to a Thai. I am now in the process of constructing all the additional paperwork that is required, including going back to the Amphur where we were married, to get a ‘Tor Ror 2’ verification of marriage, something again new to me.
    I post this as an advisory note to others.
    I had a similar exasperating experience in Aranyaprathet. Could have strangled the guy! I ended up going to a service in Pattaya. Expensive but damn well worth it. Will never set foot in Aran office again. Bloody never!

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    Which Satellite dish/company?

    in IT and Computers

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    We will finally be constructing a new house, not far from Sa Kaeo. I've never had satellite and am seeking recommendations. I don't watch sports, though if I were able to receive U.S. baseball I would. Otherwise, give me BBC, CNN, National Geographic, NASA, Fox News and PBS USA and I'd be happy.

     

    Just bought a new 4K 40" television if that makes a difference. Looking for high(est) resolution in those channels. Thanks in advance.

     

    Sent from my moto e5 plus using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app

     

     

    Taking this Raspberry Pi cluster to the U.S - any problems with security?

    in Thailand Travel Forum

    Posted · Edited by Lopburi99
    To correct grammar, clarify and add recent photo

    I've just recently completed the Pi cluster and case physically. All are running independently on my local area network. I am next going to determine what various cluster management software allows them to eventually do jointly. In the end I want my cluster to be heterogeneous in term of hardware and operating systems. In addition to the Raspberry Pii and ODROIDs, I also have several OrangePi, BeagleBone, LibreBoard, a Parallella 16-core server, an Intel NUC, an Intel Atom X8350, and Udoo X86 on the way all of which will be added to my cluster. Today I am going to begin investigating "Docker" and what it is capable to doing/managing. Docker is a platform for distributed applications and is an IT industry hot spot these days. Highly non-trivial to learn, understand and use but well worth the time investment (for me anyway). Lots to do to make use of my unlimited free time here in LOS.

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    Taking this Raspberry Pi cluster to the U.S - any problems with security?

    in Thailand Travel Forum

    Posted · Edited by Lopburi99
    edited to correct grammar and clarify

    Greetings to all!

     

    I will be taking my Raspberry Pi and ODROID clusters to the U.S. and back this summer. A friend asked me if I might have any problems transporting them in checked storage? The thought never occurred to me, but being so highly electronic looking -- maybe security will hesitate? I could disassemble them and pack in a box suitable for electronic boards and the like, but I'd rather enclose them in thick foam in my large luggage case and take it mostly as is. What do you think?

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    Anybody doing port forwarding on Huawei router? Sure could use some help!

    in IT and Computers

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    On 12/7/2016 at 7:01 PM, maxpower said:

     

    Where on your network is this Skype port hogging taking place. Is your router bombarded with incoming port 80 requests and thrown in the towel.

     

    Not clear where the Skype interference is coming from. There are a several Skype users, and I  don't know if everybody has turned off use of 80, 443. Doesn't matter now, I've found a good solution (see my next post).

    Anybody doing port forwarding on Huawei router? Sure could use some help!

    in IT and Computers

    Posted · Edited by Lopburi99

    Mystery identified and semi-solved! Skype was the culprit! It sometimes may use ports 80 and 443, and we have several people who have Skype configured.

     

    The solution was to use a port number different than 80 (I chose 8099) in my server configuration and fill out the forwarding rule accordingly. Sure enough, the port checker finally returned "OPEN". The only thing keeping the solution from being perfect is the port number needs to be added for the browser, e.g. MySite:8099. I believe no commercial DNS servers pass on port numbers. So I will need to contact those using Skype on my system and getting into the configuration file to uncheck the "use port 80 or 443 if needed" box. Then I can have GoDaddy's DNS servers will send clients straight into (reset value) of port 99 for smooth web operations right to my server.

    Anybody doing port forwarding on Huawei router? Sure could use some help!

    in IT and Computers

    Posted · Edited by Lopburi99
    To correct typo

    Damn, I think I've discovered the problem. My friend (with whom I share our/his 3BB service) uses Skype regularly and I just read Skype uses port 80 by default! So now I need to figure out how to change Skype's settings to use a different port. Should be easy enough to do. But first I need to try to convince my friend I won't screw up his use of Skype...<sigh>

     

    Note: In my previous comment, "nothing usual" should be "nothing unusual")

    Anybody doing port forwarding on Huawei router? Sure could use some help!

    in IT and Computers

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    38 minutes ago, RichCor said:

    You can't close it, as it's a server daemon process always running on your router.

    While you might also have problems forwarding ports 21, 22, 23 and 80 (as the router OS reserves these for itself), all the other ports should be available for forwarding.

     

    But port 80 is the common HTTP port. So this router cannot be used with a HTTP server? What good is forwarding a different port if DNS servers are using port 80? This is making less and less sense. I must be missing something fundamental.

    Anybody doing port forwarding on Huawei router? Sure could use some help!

    in IT and Computers

    Posted · Edited by Lopburi99

    5 hours ago, Crossy said:

    Try here for step-by-step guides:-

    https://portforward.com/huawei/

     

     

    Great, this looks exactly like what I need! I had a couple of minutes to try it before leaving for a couple hours but I must have done something wrong. The port tester said port 80 was in use and to close program using it (nothing using it that I am aware of). Can't wait to try it again tonight. Thanks Crossy!

     

    (RichCor, checked and my IP is public)

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