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Many thanks for taking the time. My MIL's phone does not have a modem so will I have to buy a dongle?

Thanks

Hi

Just from my exp when we lived rural Sa Kaeo province

Used AIS 12-call aircard

We had weak and variable signal strength - from my own exp 1 bar on the cellphone would not be enough for a connection, where we were 12-call was bst option, no signal at all for TrueMove, don't know re DTAC

But if you can get a signal, it's basically dial-up speed or worse, OK for text, extremely slow for big photos, useless for YouTube or Skype etc

We've moved and I used it here till our cable was connected - even with five/full strength and a transmitter within close range it is still far inferior to a wired connection

This is the link for the various AIS rates for data http://www.ais.co.th...on_special.html

For example, top up the sim card with enough credit, then *138*33# and 'call', your account will be deducted 100 baht and you have 20hrs usage - they send a confirming SMS.

I continue to use this on my cellphone for when I'm travelling and leave the laptop behind.

I guess the thing for you is . . . you won't know until you try.

Hi Guys

Advice for a tachnophobe please (may be already covered in other forums bit I can't find it)

Mother-in-law lives way in the back of beyond - 1 bar on mobile phone with 1-2-call and 2 with DTAC.

Giving her a laptop during our next visit and want to be able to connect her to the internet for emails, photo transfer etc (so she can see the grand-kids growing up). Nothing needing a quick transfer speed.

She has an old mobile phone with 1-2-call - totally unsuitable as a modem but she likes it !! (she is 80 years old)

Have heard that I can buy a modem and SIM card for the laptop for around 1,200 baht?

Then we can pay around 200 baht per month for her to have 30 hours usage?

Can anyone with a better knowledge than mine point me in the right direction.

BTW - she is in Si Thep, Lop Buri province.

Many thanks in anticipation and apologies if I've duplicated.

Smogs

thailand, will they ever understand ???

make it legal... earn tax and profit on it ... open some casino's ...

is it worse than forced prostitution / phedofiles / drug dealers / gangs ???

Not to mention the fact that each week, thousands of middle and upper class Thais gamble millions of baht at the two Royal horse racing grounds in Bangkok (and I belive in Chang Mai).

As always in the land of the people with two-faces, there is one rule for the haves and one for the have-nots, perpetuated by an elite class of Police, Army and bureaucrats. No wonder there is dissent !

My first post - but had to comment. The Thai Prime Minister was on BBC NEWS 24 yesterday and clearly stated that none of the events of this and last year had directly affected the tourist industry (like closing the airport, arresting tourists with arbitary offences and large fines, red-shirts here, yellow shirts there etc etc). What hope is there when a seemingly intelligent, educated man says this? Free Tourist visas? P****Ing in the wind yet again I'm afraid. Until these people learn to accept that they bear most of the responsibility for the fiasco that is now the Thai tourism industry, and not blame external influences completely for their own inadequacies, then there will be no improvement. I tis saddening to say many of my pals losing their shirts on bars and restaurants that should have a perfectly secure future, even in times of global downturns. The tourist industries of Phillippines, Malaysia, Vietnam and Cambodia are also seeing a downturn, but not of the magnitude of here. Downtown Pattaya is a ghost town and getting worse. And the local mayor believes that going no a promtional tour to Mumbai will help matters - God help us all !

I really don't see the point of this.

Do they seriously think that by issuing free tourist visas it is going to increase the number of tourists coming to Thailand?

Firstly, how would any potential tourists even know that the visa was free until they went to apply for one. It's not as though the news of this wonderful freebie is going to be plastered all over the press, radio and TV.

And secondly, once they goe to apply for said visa, they have probably already booked their holiday or their flight, so the fact that it is free will no no way influence their decision to come here.

If this is the best idea they can come with to boost tourism, then they are in for a lean time in the coming months.

'PONG', you're missing the 'PING' !

You sign off with:

"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace."

— Buddha

Better start practising what you're preaching . . . . or, from now on be known as Moby-DICK.

Perhaps look at this free-visa-effort as something POSITIVE; and maybe it infers that the Thai Government is beginning to wake-up a bit to the needs of the country ?? Give them a chance; obviously your keepers gave you (more than) one ?!?

JGK/Pattaya

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