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Also had spotty coverage around London to. One day my internet quit working, went to the virgin shop and Believe it or not the staff at Virgin even told me Virgin network constantly has issues.

Well as I just came from the UK last month I can tell you don't use Virgin, while they were easy to setup, didn't check me coverage was poor in many areas around Scotland, more than a few times my data connection went to 2G / Edge internet which isn't 3G. When my internet did work I only got 3G internet speeds a lot

My 3BB internet is constantly cutting out today. It works for a few minutes then cuts out. Just wonder if anyone else is having problems with other internet providers.

Not sure if the Internet issues maybe due to the heavy rain we have had the last 2 days.

Different posters on here have mentioned about the impact of tourism. Well history has a perfect example to show of what tourism would easily look like after a major incident in thailand. This is from the bali 2002 incident

Following the first incident on 12 October 2002, after which many countries issued warnings to citizens planning to travel to Bali, the number of foreign tourists visiting the island declined by 57 per cent. Two weeks after the incident, average hotel occupancies stood at 18 per cent; in previous years, the average occupancy rate for October was 70 per cent. In a short time, approximately 2.7 million tourism workers were unemployed.

These paragraphs down here are worth reading and you'll see why

By early 2005, the future of Bali’s tourism industry was beginning to look promising again. But then, on 1 October, another similiar incident struck. The second attack had a different style of execution than the first, but the motives and targets were similar. In many respects, then, the second incident was simply a repeat of the first, so a certain level of preparedness would be expected. Not so.

The reasons for this organisational incapacity to learn are complex. Firstly, a head-in-the-sand mentality endures in government departments ) , as a former high-level bureaucrat intimated when he excused his bureaucracy’s poor preparedness for the second incident in this way: ‘We have to think positive. To think about a recovery program would imply that we want the same tragedy to strike again.’ Echoing this sentiment, another bureaucrat said: ‘We come back to our habits… We believed that there wouldn’t be another attack.’

note all of this was before facebook, twitter, etc social media and rise of smartphones. i dont need to really explain how much social media and smartphones would magnify the impact

For anyone who has seen the news there has been very short coverage of the news

I would not be thinking about tourism right now. I'm more thinking about avoiding areas where lots of people come together

was trying to upload a video to show you guys from channel news asia but got this error from thaivisa

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My friend from hong kong contacted me to ask what happened as the car bomb made news in hong kong this morning, also on channel news asia on live tv there had a short 30 sec video saying a car bomb went off in koh samui, pickup was stolen from yala,

was watching thai news just now a car bomb went off at the same time at suratthani, thai tv is reporting this

Just got a phone call from friends saying something had happened there to and asking where I was. Will update when no more information

update.... I got ubuntu to install it turns on there was some hard drive blocks not allowing me to install ubuntu, I had to use some software i forgot the name to address the issue with the hard drive blocks. once the software readdressed my hard drive blocks I suddenly had no problem installing ubuntu

Where on samui can I buy some equipment that will either repel or deter dogs from coming on the property. I know it would be easier to buy up a gate and put it up but where i'm that can't be done. preferable I want an electronic device that I can plug in.

Look forward to your answers.

I was not sure where to post this question at on thaivisa if need to move to another forum kindly do so.

I forgot to add the photos so here they are attached

For anyone looking for specific areas on how thailand does on many areas you can check out the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report, just for thailand I put out just a few details so you get a basic idea of the report it shows from 2013 to 2014

-Exports as a percentage of GDP - Thailand is 74.2%
- Agricultural Policy Costs - where 1 = Excessively burdensome for the economy and 7 = balances well the interests of taxpayers, consumers and products thailand got a 3.1
- Quality of Education System 1 = not well at all / 7= extremely well - Thailand got a 3.4
- Quality of Electric Supply - 1 = not reliable and 7 = extremely reliable - thailand got a 5.1
Areas where thailand got a rank of over a 100 meaning rank out of 144 countries - which 1 being really good and 144 being at the bottom

Public Trust in Politicans - 129
Business costs of Terrorism - 121
Wastefulness of Government Spending - 115
Reliability of Police Services - 113
Diversion of Public Funds - 108

Attached are some photos you can see from the report. If anyone is interested in reading the full report here is the link
http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GlobalCompetitivenessReport_2014-15.pdf

Thailand can be found on pages 376 and 377, further down in the report then it compares a longer list of areas on countries vs other countries in terms of scale and rank

I would note a few things countries including Venezuela, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Myanmar are included as well. Also thailand did good and bad in many areas, however I would note this report is over 500 pages long and is very extensive throughout many areas it covers

Right now I use true for my cable at home, and I pay 2,000 baht a month just for cable tv however I would like to switch to IPTV if I can find a reliable iptv provider my only questions are Who are the reliable providers, I know 3BB and TOT have IPTV, however 3BB does not seem to have enough english content and from other poster TOT iPTV does seem to good either. I would like to know if any of you have issues a lot using IPTV regarding

1. Latency issues
2. slow connection speeds due to high amount of users online at peak times combined with long buffering times
3. Issues of the IPTV provider being open now and closed within a few months

4. Getting outdated software on the IPTV

Also I can assume all this IPTV hardware boxes all run android, or at least it outdated version of android like version 2.2

Look forward to your replies along with information regarding providers and pricing.

Have to agree with other posters that I to was very disappointed with Central as well. As for central I understand many of the shops are not happy about there being walking street at Central 2 days a week, along with no generator when electric goes out. Worse place to be at especially if a monsoon comes or very heavy rain. Parts of walk ways and roofing already damaged.

As for the wharf pricing is way more cheaper than central. I know as they contacted my friend and seen the rates.really hope the wharf brings some better shops or something more better than central