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    Chiang Mai Airport - Mystery 0130 Flight

    in Chiang Mai

    Posted

    At least several times a week I hear a flight depart Chiang Mai International Airport (CNX) around 0130 (1:30 am). From the sound and 'look' of the aircraft it is an A330, possibly Thai or Korean Airlines.

    I'm unable to find a record of such a flight departing CNX online at this time.

    Does anyone know anything about this?

    Has Anyone Noticed A Slow Up with Internet connections today?

    in General Topics

    Posted

    FYI - latest update:

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    To: Service Desk FLAG Telecom

    Subject: Multiple fiber cuts on FNAL : CASE93043 / CASE 93094 - Update 1

    The Cable Ship Lodbrog arrived on the repair site at 0545 GMT today to repair the FNAL Segment E between Busan, Korea and Hong Kong initially.

    The Cable Lodbrog is the first cable ship on-site and has already established contact with our Cable Landing Station engineers in Busan and Hong Kong. Power safety control has been passed to the ship and they are commencing their preparations to begin the cable recovery and affect a repair. Their initial cutting run should be carried out in the next 24 hours. Our expectation is that this repair could take seven days if everything goes to plan, however that may be longer depending on sea state and sea bed conditions. With previous earthquake faults, we have experienced "slumping" where debris has slide down into the valleys on the sea bed and this hampers cable detection and recovery. We may also have multiple cable breaks, but initial indications is that damage could be confined to a 400 meter area.

    Ad-hoc restoration for those circuits ordered by customers using EAC capacity is now underway. We are also trying to improve quality of IP services out of Hong Kong and several options are being investigated as our current connectivity is restricted to four STM-1s to London. Hopefully in the next 24 hours we will have some improvement.

    Best Regards,

    ()

    Shift Leader

    +44 20 8282 1588

    +44 20 8282 1568 (Fax)

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    Has Anyone Noticed A Slow Up with Internet connections today?

    in General Topics

    Posted

    FYI:

    Subject: Multiple fiber cuts on FNAL : CASE93043 / CASE 93094 - Update 1

    Dear Customer,

    The Taiwanese earthquake has taken down both our Hong Kong to Korea

    (FWACS) and our Hong Kong to Taiwan (NACS) sub sea cables. Both cables are

    damaged in the same general location as the earthquake occurred and the

    later outage on NACS was probably caused by an aftershock. We now only

    have connectivity from Japan to Taiwan, and Korea to Japan on our FNAL

    network.

    Hong Kong is effectively isolated on the FLAG FNAL network eastwards and

    we are now escalating with ASN to try and bring forward the repairs as

    quickly as we can with the Cable Ship Lodbrog based at Keelung in Taiwan.

    ASN are trying to get a "special dispensation" permit which will allow

    them to depart in the next 12+ hours, however this will depend on the

    Taiwanese

    Authorities. The ASN priority for repair will be Hong Kong to Korea

    (FWACS) and then Hong Kong to Taiwan (NACS) sub sea cables.

    At this moment, restoration options are not available as both the legs of

    the ring out of Hongkong are affected.

    We would be updating you on the progress of the repair activity, as and

    when we have a significant event.

    This message has been sent from the FLAG Telecom GNOC. Telephone +44 ()

    Email: ()

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    Regards,

    ()

    SingTel Pulic IP

    Global Technical Assistance Centre-2 <GTAC 2>

    Corporate Customer Services & Operations <CCSO>

    Ipstar Credit Memo's

    in IT and Computers

    Posted

    Yes, you can move the iPSTAR gear on your own - but you need to know which Satellite your on, Thaicom-1a or Thaicom-2.

    You will need a compass and the directional information, easy to get - just figure out what direction your dish is pointing now OR check www.thaicom.net.

    Good Solicitor Needed In Chiang Mai

    in Chiang Mai

    Posted

    I recommend ICO...

    ICO Builing, 299 M. 2, T. Sanpanath, A. Sansai,

    Chiangmai 50210, Thailand

    Telephone: 0-5335-1414

    Fax: 0-5335-1413

    They are much cheaper than Sunbelt and seem to get things done a lot quicker (so i'm told). They are also based IN Chiang Mai and thus familiar with staff at most of the gov. offices here.

    Adsl In Chiang Mai

    in Chiang Mai

    Posted

    Yes - its unusual about the Pizza Shop - but it could be a company similar to the Pizza Company here in Thailand, www.pizza.co.th which takes online orders and uses RAS services to keep its branch offices connected and syncronized.

    5 mbit leased lines are available in Chiang Mai via Internet Thailand, but you'll pay through the nose for them and the QOS is extremely poor. The particular services are referred to as 'Corporate Node' and by default provide fractional T1's (DS0) OR 2 mbit links which you can build on.

    A number of hotels in Chiang Mai are using BLB (bandwidth load balancing) with multiple ISP's (e.g. a 512kbit TOT link, 512 kbit Ji-Net, 512 kbit KSC) with BGP4 in order to maintain 99.99% uptime for their hotel reservation system/s. Using multiple ISP's and telco backends (e.g. TOT, TT&T, ADC) is a good idea as its rare that all of the ISP's will be down at once and most of the ISP's use different International carriers aside from the mess that CAT/IIG have in Bangkok.

    Adsl In Chiang Mai

    in Chiang Mai

    Posted

    Its not unusual for corporates to have 5-10+ mbit connections, the #1 speed listed:

    - 203.177.73.182 5329 K/s 07:47:56

    Comes from:

    | 16 | | 203.177.73.182 | - | ?(Philippines) | +08:00 | 251 | Roma Mia Pizza

    Some lucky Pizza Shop in the Phillipines :o

    Adsl In Chiang Mai

    in Chiang Mai

    Posted

    A couple other things...

    (1) Up-to-date information on ADSL options and promotions in Thailand can be found at www.adslthailand.com.

    (2) For those of you using Hi-Net, you can use VCI/33 or VCI/66. TT&T is currently supporting Hi-Net connections on both Virtual Channel Identifiers to their ATM backbone. I have been told that VCI/33 use will be disabled in the next two weeks.

    (3) I hear a lot of people recommend and use the McAfee bandwidth test but I'd also like to recommend:

    >> http://www.beelinebandwidthtest.com

    >> http://www.md3v.com/premeter.php

    Both of the above testers are far simpler than McAfee's and generally give more realistic results.

    m.

    Adsl In Chiang Mai

    in Chiang Mai

    Posted

    Hi,

    For the usual day-to-day Internet browsing and downloading I have a Hi-Net account which I generally get 560 kbit/sec (70 kbyte/sec) off. Its cheap at only 1,069 baht a month including VAT.

    For work, testing etc. I use CSLoxInfo's ECO-TTT 256/128 kbit page which costs 1,610.00 baht a month including VAT. It does NOT provide a static IP address but it does provide a legitmate public routed IP unlike Hi-Net (T-Speed).

    Hi-Net is certainly faster but not as stable as ECO-TTT and Hi-Net has a number of restrictions in place including:

    - Private IP assignments in the 172.16.0.0 space.

    - Block IPSec/L2TP based VPN's

    - Block SIP, H.323 and other VoIP Internet phone protocols

    - Force users through their Application and Content Networking System Software (e.g. http://202.47.247.146)

    - Due to the private IP assignments ICMP traffic is blocked/filtered.

    Hi-Net's infrastructure is A grade and is comprised of high-end Cisco equitpment and for those of us in Chiang Mai, we end up on an OC3 (155 mbit optical carrier) direct to Bangkok. This, plus the forced cache and restrictions on protocols used helps keep the system fairly unsaturated. I have noticed down time in the last couple days BUT I've been advised that major upgrades are being done on several major DSLAM's in and around Chiang Mai.

    ECO-TTT links directly into the CSLoxInfo backbone via the local CNX infrastructure (and with this come the usual bottlenecks) BUT there are currently no restrictions on protocol use and no forced proxy.

    Lastly, the ECO-TTT user ratio is 10:1 where as the Hi-Net ratio is 50:1. If you take some time to calculate this out:

    >> ECO-TTT = 256 kbit (32 kbyte), 10:1 = 25.6 kbit (3.2 kbyte) guaranteed to a user.

    >> Hi-Net = 2048 kbit (256 kbyte), 50:1 = 40.96 kbit (5.12 kbyte) guaranteed to a user.

    Of course, these calculations are EXTREMELY flexable as its very unlikely that all 10:1 or 50:1 users will be on at a given time and/or that they will ALL be saturating the link.

    I am quite impressed with TT&T (who support both the ECO-TTT and Hi-Net systems). Their technical support is great and their infrastructure impressive.

    TOT, on the other hand, have a (dare I say) terrible technical support and no one at their Airport Plaza or Kad Suan Kaew office seems to have any idea whats happening with anything.

    Hope this info is helpful...

    m.

    Thai Broadband Looks Set For Massive Growth

    in IT and Computers

    Posted

    Hi,

    From my experience - stick with TT&T based services.

    The ECO-TTT 256/128 kbit package, joint TT&T+CSLoxInfo service is reliable and costs 1,610 baht a month, inc. VAT. The user-to-vlink ratio is 10:1.

    The Hi-Net 2048/800 kbit package, joint TT&T+CAT service is fast (but not as reliable) and costs 1068.93 baht a month, inc. VAT. The user-to-vlink ratio is 50:1.

    I use Hi-Net as my primary and ECO-TTT as a backup.

    Also, as a technical note - Hi-Net does not provide a public IP address.

    1-year visa extention, married to thai status

    in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits

    Posted

    Thanks for your resposnes. Greatly appreciated++

    Using this type O non-immigrant visa am I then able to get a work permit from a company in Thailand (e.g. I'm hired by a company and they give me the permit to stay)?

    This looks like a positive solution as my wife has already changed her last name to mine, we have a joint bank account, property and other assets.

    Based on http://www.thaivisa.com/300.0.html, am I correct in understanding that I could not apply for residency if I go with the type O, if so - what are my options?

    Thanks for your help.

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