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Nice .. do you really benefit from two subs? I have a Polk 5.1 system, i have the capability to add a second sub but not the floorspace, just wondering if I am missing out. Do you have neighbours btw?

Have you tried contacting the ISP? They might be able to help. If you want to ditch your router and want a cleaner solution, you could use a Huawei EG8010 ONT. You can find them on lazada. There is a guide here on how to put them into bridge mode. I am on 3BB which has been bought out by AIS. I use the Huawei ONT which I get from the ISP, it’s rock solid, apart from when I move house and then everything goes to crap - there is a guy at the 3BB office who actually does understand and he helps me out, there is a bit of config on the isp server afaik. You could try contacting someone on the ISP team and explain that your want to use the SPF port on your own router. I was a structured cable engineer, it’s not really my dept. but there would be a cab in a data center that would contain the kit for the ISP. You wouldn’t have a bank of cheap wifi routers in bridge mode hanging off the back of the shelf. What do they do in Thailand? Try speaking to anyone at the ISP about enterprise solutions and no one can speak to you. Good luck, just out of interest, what are you using a unifi or fortinet router?

Smart TVs are generally underpowered, our Samsung would never run the AIS play app, always stalling and buffering - I changed over to an android TV box and all the issues went away - If you use an iPhone, then consider an apple TV, it’s a pretty slick experience.

Yes, this is the way - I was busy at the time building, so I had other things to think about. Some may not think it’s just being “ridden” but during my time here I have had a couple of visits from the police who didn’t bother to do any homework. One Sunday evening we heard the gate of our town house being shook and pulled, the wife and I poked our heads up off the sofa to find a couple of police trying to get in - apparently there had been a report of domestic violence, somewhere, not in my house. It was comical, but I wouldn’t be happy if I found my old bike had been used to transport yabba and for the front door to come off its hinges at 5:00 am or something similar.

Yes, this is not necessary in all DLT offices. I have both bought bikes and sold bikes in various offices and the seller was never required to provide a certificate of residence, just copies of the passport and valid visa stamp, however, a certificate of residence was always necessary to register a bike in your name. This isn’t the case for all offices, for example, in Udon Thani, I gather it is necessary. This wasn’t the question, but you would think the buyer would have noticed that the extension expired in 2022 and he was to change the name before that, what would have happened if we had left the country? Or hadn’t just moved around the corner.

thanks, yeah .. I gave the full story as a warning. If i had to do this again I would take the buyer to the dlt and get it out of my name. I think 3 years is pushing it to return and start demanding photocopies at 8:00 am. Im sure there is a time limit which I could have quoted to him.

I think you are incorrect here. How about hen riding, was involved in an accident, and the police came knocking at my door.

I stopped riding over Covid and in Oct 2022, I sold my bikes, a versys and a CBR. A policeman wheeler dealer type from Udon snapped up both, I followed his instructions, I signed some transfer documents and gave him copies of all the relevant pages of my passport, as requested. Never even saw the guy, just his minions. I got them to sign a receipt and my home made declaration that the bike was no longer mine. Fast forward to February 2025 - we have built a house in the same village and have moved, this morning, one of the same minions shows up at my new house, didn’t call, just appeared - he drove down yesterday and couldn’t find us. The police guy had just sold the Versys and couldn’t transfer the bike. He took all the papers to the DLT, apparently I had signed something wrong and also understandably, my visa stamp is for 2022. The minion didn’t have a clue what he was asking about, couldn’t read English, I had to explain why it was knocked back by the DLT. I presume this is general practice amongst second hand dealers, to not transfer the bike to their name, but to sell the bike and paperwork and let the new owner do that. How long does (read, did) he legally have to transfer the bike? I was a little annoyed to have my morning coffee interrupted by some idiot who just gave me two blank forms - Im a little concerned as the bike has had my name on it for 3 years, who knows what it has been used for? Also, How long am I liable to provide documents? sure I can oblige all I can. My passport is being renewed in the UK, I didn’t take a copy of my current visa stamp before sending, I couldn’t help him with a copy of my visa stamp - but I’m not going to bend over backwards for the guy, I sold the bike 3 years ago! The police guy has been riding it and now sold on. Anyone?

Yeah everyone loves pizza, but did anyone tell you that Thai people like Thai food? 🙂 The biggest problems with pizza restaurants, and actually we have a wood fired place in a little village down the road from me. The ingredients are expensive, to run the ovens is expensive - as westerners, we don’t want to work our lives to come here and work 7 days a week. So “we” start a business, carry on with publicizing the business, get on everyone’s nerves on Facebook with the constant posts, very few people buy pizzas, it’s costly to heat the ovens up or buy the wood for little return, we start ploughing more money into the business, we get disillusioned and start taking holidays in bkk or Ko Chang and close the restaurant, next people visit during those times, and it’s closed. They vow never to return because you are unreliable, next thing, ovens are for sale on bkk bought and sold fb group. If you want something for your wife, then find something with low startup and overheads. This is where I have total respect for my wife, she has a trestle table, a tent and some fabric - she gets up at 4.00 am and sets up a market stall, stands in the morning heat until 10:00 - 1:00 time, breaks it all down, throws heavy crates of clothes on the truck and comes home. Most wives will be angered you suggest this to them, they want to control staff in an aircon instagram cafe. If you want to do something here, think about how you can utilize Thai people to do it. Some ideas work, specialist and niche concepts are good, but need work. But doing something that everyone else does, you might as well put your money in the bank and live off the interest.

What do you do in Texas? It seems, although not doesnt always follow - use your existing skills - Butchers and bakers do well here. You dont need to make big money every day, just enough. Whatever you do, like others, little startup cost, no rent, is the best. Again, clothes, my wife sells something that local people can't get hold of, she sells at local markets, maybe two or three times a week, the goods are imported second hand, her rent for the pitch is about 40-100B per market, and the profit is 250%. For fun, I also grow hydroponic vegetables, it's ok in the cold season - trouble is that everyone copies each other here, but luckily they dont continue past one season. You say Issan. its a very varied place, you have big cities, small provincial capital towns, even in a rural district you might have a rich village that is inhabited by the families of local government office workers, the next village might be filled with older people with little disposable income - there are some areas that are really poor, no infrastructure and and another area, maybe has a big river, for example, these can be very rich areas due to natural resources. I wish you all the best. Dont think about investing in a coffee shop.

Patron saint of Scottish golfers.

You can still run locally and use your GH or Alexa - I don't use HA but homebridge, I pay a small monthly subscription for a skill that allows me to integrate my existing voice assistants in the apple ecosphere. The skill is maintained by a long standing HB developer, no data is harvested. I can use it to control lights, but rarely do, I can do fun stuff like nag the wife for a coffee in the morning when she opens the fridge and get alerts when someone presses the doorbell amongst others. Basically it uses a cheap Alexa in the same role as an overpriced homepod. I know HA has their own voice assistant, but I would be really surprised if you cant integrate your existing devices into HA. I do pay for a deezer subscription, because It allows me to download the FLAC files and store them locally. Music can be played via a Navidrome server, streamed to your in home devices or car - I don't trust the music streaming services.

Don't vloggers prefer those osmo pocket things these days? Small and have a gimble function, Dont you already have a vlogging camera? On your phone? I have an zhiyun smooth gimble for my iPhone 2000B, you can add a wifi mic for 600B, not sure of the quality, a wired mic is even cheaper. A cheap LED panel. You dont mention what you intend, maybe a YouTube channel - knowing the success rate, I would spend as little as possible to test the water.

@Mutt Daeng I remember you posting a few months back. I also use PIA VPN, I think it’s one of the most stable companies - I also received the $49 renewal notice, I had intended to renew, I didn’t enter my new debit card number and just let it slip (it expired in the early hours of today) - I then received an automated email for an offer of $39 promo. To which I accepted. lol .. I have been a PIA customer for a fair few years, last year I just asked for a coupon as a regular customer, “can’t, but you can apply as a new customer and get a discount” .. I couldn’t work out the difference (apart from the $10, that is)

Where are you? Or where are you delivering to? Maybe I have a number. My wife gets bales of clothing from the Cambodian border, there are haulage services in most cities, you just need to know where to look. It’s small change, i think she pays 150B, way cheaper than any other courier or post office, you wouldn’t want to send anything delicate, but clothes it’s fine. Usually it gets delivered to the house by pickup, the guys are good at moving the bales, I would say they weigh 30-40kg. Other times big lorries deliver manned by a couple of migrant workers, sometimes the sender messes up and we have had to go pickup from a depot or side of the road.

He’s being sarcastic. I don’t know what the mother is worrying about, that’s a nice shiny adv150/350 I am sure as they could afford a new bike like that, the kid had full class 1 bike insurance. Leave it to the investigators to pursue. That’s also /s. Maybe it’s time for Thais to realise that insurance, consideration for other road users and rider training isn’t something that applies to other people.

This may be worth watching, just watching e01 - I feel I have been watching too many “guys-in-black-suits” series recently.

I think Thailand should enter into the 21st century, they are a country where a proportion of their money comes from tourists and expats. The university’s and schools are filled with kids that speak a variety of different languages, yet nothing changes. I don't know about anyone else’s experience and it’s not really necessary to me as I can conduct myself in Thai, but every year I process my visa and the only thing the immigration officer says is “sen .. here .. here”. Why are there not competent foreign language speakers working in key positions, at very least there should be a phone line where there is a Russian speaking Thai, for example. Why is there not a government department, staffed by uni graduates who are proficient in other languages who can create and maintain websites, create coherent forms that both Thai and westerners can understand. How many times do you complete a form with the assistance of your wife and the clerk takes it and says “no, no, no” and rewrites it. Even Thai people don’t have a clue what info needs to go where. Like you say, how can retirees from European countries all be expected to speak English to complete critical financial forms, what about if that applicant ended up over paying 100s of USD because of his inability and the inability of the Thai government to communicate with him? This isn’t a rant that Thai government department should all speak English, it’s why don’t they use their human resources available to them and improve their services? Instead it’s the usual inherent laziness and nepotism.

@Mutt Daeng @Will27 All 10 episodes of the agency s01 are available. “Martian is a covert CIA agent ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart; hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.” features Richard Geere, produced by George Clooney - some great locations and colours, if you know around the barbican and St. Paul’s. A worthy binge.

Wow! That is interesting. I have never heard from any other teacher that they have needed to show a tax receipt, but it does show that payment of tax could easily be demanded at visa application. When you are a teacher, the schools and the directors are known to the immigration bosses, some schools send an assistant to make sure there are no hitches when applying for an extension, it seems there is a certain amount of leeway. Anyway, let's all wait and see. I will use an agent to process my next visa, so I presume I will have a years grace to assess the situation.

I posted a similar question when we were building - our troublesome neighbor pointed a camera at our site, for some reason - I just built a garage infront of his camera. I never really got any real answers then. You should check out the Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (2019) (the “PDPA”) - it seems even the police say "the installation of CCTV will not require a warning sign if it is intended to prevent crime and boost security" - so I think you might be out of luck. If it were me, I would speak to my local tessaban, who would send out an official who would give me the official line and maybe speak to the neighbor, perhaps he doesn't realize. If the official says there is nothing that could be done, you might be quite within your right to put up a camera on your land looking into his window or over his property (even a dummy camera) but it seems a bit antagonistic, how about a solar floodlight pointing level with his camera. Perhaps he just doesnt realize what he's doing. You can just put up a wall, some trees or even a sheet of plywood on the wall, blocking the cameras field of view. You could use a laser, but in practice, it's quite difficult to keep it trained upon a camera sensor. Thais dont seem to be too clued up on CCTV, they often just use mains powered wifi cameras, in which case it would be easy to use a deauth attack to continually take the camera offline. If you search YouTube, it won't be long before you come up with a cheap method to solve your problem.

And I have three accounts, one is an account that is used to keep 400K in for the purpose of visa. The money is never used for any other purpose, it just sits there. I dont know what I will do in the future, it appears that Kasikorn are not interested in a TIN for the purpose of reporting to the TRD, but for overseas reporting. I get the impression when posters have returned the forms and informed the teller that they have no need for a TIN as their pension is taxed in their home country, they have been met with a smile and the paperwork accepted. Am I correct?

My local immigration asked for a tax receipt when renewing extensions to teachers, the first year of enforcement they asked, some schools are supposed to file your tax that they deduct but never produce a receipt or TIN, the school I worked at, you were supposed to file your own, but no one ever did - when applicants didn't have the receipts, it was a "mai bpen rai, next year na" - the following year, they had given up asking for them. The immigration department are just RTP, they have no interest in enforcing all laws, only ones that they can profit from - maybe we will see an increase in visa applicants using agents if it is enforced.

The Night Agent - a Netflix series, S02 seems to have just started, did anyone catch S01? Worth a watch? There was another 24 hours in police .. last Monday, again, not really interesting.

Fifine, also make some mics that may suit. I spent a few days watching YouTube videos and deciding upon mine based upon budget, but you may find that a fifine mic in your price range may be a better bet. You might even be better with a USB mic, straight into your laptop, and using a software mixer - then polishing the recording with audacity