jaideeguy

I saw True's version of the aircard and the wifi hotspot [1,400thb] and both were locked to True of course.

Is it possible to get an unlocked version of the wifi hotspot, because the carriers often change their quality of service and it would be great to simply change the sim from True to DTAC if needed.

Good answer Rich.............saves getting another phone to add to the collection we've accumulated over the years.

I have heard that there is a Falang Dr practicing in CM, maybe at Sriphat? and I don't know his speciality, but would like to know his name, speciality and hospital he works at.

Can anyone help me??

Thanks in advance............

When my adsl TOT fails me [which is more and more often] I will tether my Samsung smart phone with DTAC as a backup for data. Slow, but does the trick.

The downside is that it ties up my main phone and I was wondering about buying one of the cheapo 3g phones that are available at 7-11 and everywhere for under 1,000thb. Will they be capable of tethering and have the same speed as my Samsung??

Thanks in advance.............

Maybe people are fed up with be treated like second class citizens and are moving to countries that want their economic input. Or its becoming to expensive and regulated , and of course all the visa crackdowns and nominee company crackdowns may be forcing people out, Thailand is still a great place but its losing its advantages one step at a time.

Agree with the above and many others. The 'flow' does seem to be going out more than in and I think for a variety of reasons.

Baby boomers aging and wanting to return to the homeland for medical, cultural, educational, family and financial reasons. LOS is not as cheap as it once was and that was a big draw, nor is LOS as Falang friendly. And baby boomers are also getting too old to fully appreciate the cheap sex business.

Plus I think that there are some of us that have simply overdosed on Thai culture and realize that they will never 'fit in' here except on a superficial level.

It would be interesting to see the actual numbers and I have looked all over the www and can't find any figures that I would trust.

I've seen some round and other shaped magnets in Mae Sai. Bought a few and fun to play with and strong magnetic field.

One very important consideration [in face maybe #] is that you failed to mention. HAVE YOUR SOURCE WATER CHECKED............especially for calcium. I didn't and have had constant problems with the calcium build up and balancing my water. One solution that I have found is to use rain water off your roof ......................when it is raining.

My last two monthly mail forwardings from the US have never arrived. Prior to these two, I'd received them EVERY month between the 10th-14th for years...

Very odd...

 

 

Same same..........still missing a package mailed just before the military took over.

What 'their' real agenda [all throughout history] has been to steal souls, mostly from the innocent, uneducated and naive folks that fall victim to their well rehearsed rap and their shiny trinkets that fooled the American Indians, Hawaiians, Filipinos and other cultures that have fallen victim to their sneaky tactics for the last few centuries.................they create monsters!!!!

Falang go home, let the people be and don't dare to knock on my door or I'll sic the devil on you.....................

Shoe size looks like size 8 or bigger to me = ruckin great big MF spider!

That was my impression at first too but looked closer and he is holding it above ground a bit giving a perspective of appearing larger than it is. Still a large one and does appear to be a tarantula of sorts.

Yes I see now. The wood appears to be used as some sort of tongs to lift it up. Interesting to see if it is the same species that bit (and eventually) killed that poor buggah in Phrae recently.

If you read a bit deeper into the story of the guy that allegedly died of a spider bite in Phrae recently, you will find he died from Gangrene or similar, because his family called in the witch doctor instead of taking him to hospital.

I thought that the guy was stung and later died by a spider in the black widow family, but brownish color and just as deadly and have heard that if left untreated the toxin can cause gangrene.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_widow_spider

Lots of areas...................renter's market with all CM real estate. I prefer the north and west [Doi Saket and San Kapheng] of CM because of minimal traffic.  Mae Rim and Hang Dong rds are nightmares with traffic.

Usually in a bubble prices (bid) are rising rapidly, credit is easy and there is a high rate of speculative turnover. That doesn't seem to be happening in CM now. There is however apparently considerable investment in projects that would seem to make little economic sense but IMO that is cash desperately looking for a laundry.

Not exactly the topic at hand but often forgotten are the many outstanding benefits of ownership (even in the FFF group!) outside of the purely economic aspects being discussed here.

Agree with the satisfaction factor of owning, designing and building your house [home] the way you want it and not living in a factory cookie cutter gated moo baan that some developer designed for mass appeal with all the same same houses so close together, but in buying the land, designing and building your own dream house, you limit your sell-ability to a much smaller group that has the same taste as you. I think that less than 1 % of buyers would live where and how I live. That's great until you may want to sell some day in the future, which I am finding out now.

bump.........

Planning a return to the US with family and we'll have 1 or 2 pallets filled with personal items...............clothing, electronic/computer items, books, cooking utensils, bedding and a lot of odds and ends that add up over a decade here.

What is the safest, fastest, cheapest method of shipping?

I was thinking of using those cheap big plastic boxes/bins with lids and strapping and plastic wrapping them on a pallet about a meter high.

Are there shipping companies that do this service and any recommendations of companies would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.................

Just discovered this devise and it seems like exactly what I need in traveling back and forth between 3g here and 4g in the civilized world for my notebook etc.

Wondering if there is any one model that can do both?? battery operated of course. And also wonder if they perform better than the standard aircard/dongle??

Please inform me in 'dummie' terms...........

thanks in advance.

Looks like a cool gadget and it says that it's an amplifier as well and they even have 4 and 8 port models too and priced so low. Did you find that model here, or on Amazon??

My house has been on the market for a while and I've had it with local Thai real estate agents that mostly don't understand the buyer's or the seller's needs. They mostly just bring what I call 'real estate tourists' that don't really have any interest in buying, but want a free tour of CM and a look inside other people's privacy because they've seen all the wats in town and have a few hours to get a free tour. I blame it mostly on the uninformed agents and unprofessional attitudes of the agencies.

Any recommendations for an agency that actually listens and understands their profession??

If the signal goes through a splitter/switch/hub and to 2 TVs, is there any signal loss??

Once they see your property is on an abandoned moobaan project, I can't imagine any force on this earth would persuade them to buy.

This a big problem for early builders on those first plots.

All the utils will be going to hell, roads cracked and overgrown, water and electricity unreliable.

I've lived in a similar house, 1 of 5 built on a moobaan planned for 200.

Am I wrong, have they built on more than 3 plots where you live?

Yeah, it is an abandoned moobaan and that is the reason that I bought it in the first place, as I had lived in a few 'successful' moobaans with still crumbling infrastructure, no or little maintenance and lots of crime.

There were almost daily robberies even with a 3 meter wall around it and 5 guards to keep you in [or them out?] and our small community here in this moobaan has true community spirit with neighbors looking out for each other and [knock on wood] we haven't had a break in or intrusion in 10 years.

The few neighbors we have are respectful of each other's space and privacy, but not close enough to hear their toilet flush or their TV on. Some people like that kind of lifestyle, some want to be surrounded by people for the illusion of security, but at the sacrifice of their privacy.

Water is clean reliable well water, electricity is as good as you can expect here even in more crowded developments and we do get the occasional outage that is usually repaired in a half hr of calling the office. Internet is as fast as most, but slowed a bit by the filtering of the military for now.

You are wrong as there are 10 households in our moobaan that are inhabited with good reliable neighbors.

You seem like you know me and where I am, but don't know the details of our little community that is a one of a kind peaceful location that has served us well for 10 years and will be impossible to find a similar setting without driving an hour or more from the city............do you know me?? PM if you do...............

I see the problem as the total lack of professionalism with the RE industry and lack of training and requirements to sell real estate. I [or anyone] can call themselves a RE agent here where there are no RE courses, certification, escrow or any other requirements to be a RE agent and make 3% for simply being in the middle of a deal, something a tuktuk driver can [and does] do.............no separate representation of the buyer or the seller.............just a middle man . I've sold property here myself, using my Thai wife's name to close the deal and gave her the commission for fun money.

A little training would probably go a long way for the agents to actually screen the prospective buyers to see if they are sincere and qualified to buy or are simply 'time wasters', but it's not Thai style to do things the simple, ethical and practical way...............just throw your hook in the water and hope a fish will bite it even if there is no bait on the hook.

One agent that has brought a lot of 'lookeyloos' by simply doesn't listen to me and probably doesn't listen to the clients as well, as I've instructed hi to make sure that the client is informed properly but.............. TIT!!