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The easiest thing and cheapest thing to do if you want high speed (international also) is not to try and fool around with a fiber circuit,

these are useful if your going to host some site or service, with local traffic accessing it.

Most people are right here in assuming, you will get a fast speed in Thailand but the ISP will still throttle your bandwidth on international circuits, and at a ridiculous speed considering the money you will be paying for it.

The way to beat them at this is buy too cheap, DSL packages with two different companies, lets say 3BB and True. (not recommending either

as all ISPs here are lying jerkwads)

Should cost you about 600 - 800 baht for each, so totaling about 1,500 baht, then you hook them both up to a router with multi wan ports,

the Cisco RV016 is cheap, but I think the Cisco RV042 is more reliable. Just make sure you buy one where the router has the multiplexing over the two WAN links, I think someone was telling me once about one that won’t combine TCP links across the two ports, which I found hard to believe but anything is possible when it’s IT coming out of China.

I am pretty sure, that for international links, this setup will get you a speed around 150 - 175% faster than if you were to buy one of the more expensive

packages costing around 3,500 baht a month. I think the RV042 is about 5,000 baht, so the setup pays for itself in less than 3 months.

Don't get two packages from the same company, I tried this once and they throttled the bandwidth on both like it was only one connection (completely unethical) I even encrypted the traffic at two different layers, which fooled them for about 72 hours, and then they were back at it again. If the ISPs here are competent at doing anything it's promising a speed and then making sure you don't get it.

Everything with my wife also has been fine. I know one women though that we were involved in a business deal with concerning land, where they told her it was the foreign last name that was an issue.

But my wife said it this was just an excuse because of others issues they had with her that they didn't want to say outloud.

no it's working, I saw him out on Patong beach today, he was clearly explaining to Jet ski renter, that the Canadian

girls did not damage the ski and it was damaged beforehand.

I asked him where he was going, and he said up the road to take care of some tuk tuks drivers he heard we overcharging.

It was very inspirational to see his blue cape flapping in the wind, as he briskly made his exit yelling "up up and away",

there was almost a tear in my eye.

It is about time that foreign countries are going to pay Thai shareholders back with the same currency by excluding them too from holding majority stakes in their own companies abroad. What does Thailand fear? That they become competitive and that the elite can no longer rob the consumers blind?

Gotta agree with this. A major reason for them not wanting foreigners to own land in the resort and housing industry, is because foreign companies can and do build better quality developments, for cheaper prices.

The property development business in Thailand is extremely lucrative, letting to many foreign companies develop properties will ruin the margins for all the Thai owned developers that put up shotty built developments, and want there 250% return.

This explains also why first world countries are not restricting land ownership in retaliation, because they aren't worried that a foreign company will come in buy a bunch of land, and develop it better than the local outfits.

And yes, if they let foreigners buy land, they would be a huge land grab in Thailand, one of the main reasons why, no property tax,

so you aren't majorly penalized for sitting on premier high value pieces of land for long periods of time.

Can only mirror what other posters have said. The only people with the authority to take your passport are the police and immigration. The whole motorbike scam works on the principle that once they have your passport, the operators know you must pay their 'repair fee' to get it back and you have little other option.

Simple lesson - don't give up your passport to anyone

that's all very well for you to say that but you hand over your passport

everytime you register in a hotel to be photocopied? Maybe the hospital gave her the impression

they were just going to take a photocopy like they do in hotels.

If the poor girl wasn't feeling well there wouldn't have been much she could do

physically if they said they would keep its secure for her?

Totally agree, I don't know how bad she felt, but when I had food poisoning, I wouldn't have been

in the mood to have the hospital staff give me a signed contract, garuanteeing return of my passport.

Not sure, but I don't believe the hospital has the right to keep her passport, my advice to the girl

is to go down to the police station and file a theft complaint.

I actually would be very careful when filing a theft report. This can be construed as fraud if it is not a genuine theft!

No one other than Immigration or a bone fide Police official can remove your passport from your person, other than that photocopies will have to surfice.

You might want to ask someone about practical Thai law, there is a difference between enforced laws here, and not enforced laws.

One you are incorrect, under Thai law you need to have intent to commit fraud, and that was straight out of the mouth of a personal friend who is a judge, and two even if there was a law on the books that gave you grounds for accusing someone of fraud for holding your property, it wouldn't be enforcable laws at the current time.

And you backed up my point in the end anyways, hospital staff are not police or immigration officials, and so they have no

right to hold your passport.

Being Scottish, as I am!!!

I'm sorry for the situation she has found herself in however she's a rocket if she thinks we're falling for this small print patter. The length of coverage is clearly stated on any travel insurance document I have ever had. She has seen the cost difference between 90 days and full year and brassed her case.

Just a normal eejit chancer then, but hey we have loads of them.......in fact being a chancer is our national sport.

I've always had to fill in a form and sign it for insurance cover. It always asks for the dates of your travel and you are quoted based on the length of your stay

It's called buying a year long or multi year long travel insurance policy, and no you don't have to fill in the dates of travel, and it is a stardard rate.

And yes it is pretty standard across most companies to only allow coverage for the first 90 days of the trip, but as long as you return to

the home country for even 1 day, you can leave the next day and get a whole nother 90 days of coverage.

It is a reasonable policy, because it is suppose to be for travel, and if you are out of the country for 7 - 8 months on a row that really isn't travel insurance, that is just normal insurance.

Can only mirror what other posters have said. The only people with the authority to take your passport are the police and immigration. The whole motorbike scam works on the principle that once they have your passport, the operators know you must pay their 'repair fee' to get it back and you have little other option.

Simple lesson - don't give up your passport to anyone

that's all very well for you to say that but you hand over your passport

everytime you register in a hotel to be photocopied? Maybe the hospital gave her the impression

they were just going to take a photocopy like they do in hotels.

If the poor girl wasn't feeling well there wouldn't have been much she could do

physically if they said they would keep its secure for her?

Totally agree, I don't know how bad she felt, but when I had food poisoning, I wouldn't have been

in the mood to have the hospital staff give me a signed contract, garuanteeing return of my passport.

Not sure, but I don't believe the hospital has the right to keep her passport, my advice to the girl

is to go down to the police station and file a theft complaint.

Look at the voting 22 v 65 at the moment - and then please provide just one good reason having domestic in one airport and international in another - beside the personal preferences.

How about the best reason of them all? To reduce congestion at Suvarnabhumi.

Hopefully enough traffic is moved to Don Mueang so that the arriving airplanes can park at the jetways and we don't have to ride those silly busses to the terminal anymore.

I mean come on. You guys complain every single day about how terrible "swampy" is and then when the cabinet votes to move traffic over to DM you guys have an even bigger hissy fit. There's no pleasing you guys at all. Unbelievable.

Everyone knows suvarnabhumi is over congested because of incompetence of airport management.

Not because of the size of the airport.

Build another runway and hire people to work at all the empty desks and suvarnBhumi could handle

another 15 million more with no problem at all.

Best example was immigration, complaints were bad for weeks, then they finally put more officers on duty.

Problem solved!

The reason they have announced this 3 or 4 times but never did it is because they know it's going to

Be an utter mess. So to finally pull the trigger they have to figure out how to use the mess it will create as a political tool.

If Thai politicians weren't such pitiful clowns they would do what most of us would do, and hire a professional and foreign consulting company to do a feasibility study on the proposed changes and an implementation process. But when has doing something efficiently or correctly been a priority here.

So since most Thai politicians need to look up what feasibility means on google, expect a haphazard move that looks

Iike it was sketched by two drunks on a napkin

What a farse 15 international airports and then Central World, it's like at SAT question, where your suppose to pick out the one that doesn't belong.

What a fricken losser, obviously they manipulated the numbers by having people that work for Central World do mass checkins,

talk about wasting your time for a stupid rating.

I bet they are the only one in the top 20 to manipulate their numbers, and probably the only one to achknowledge there standings as well.

I have had about 6000 baht of gift certificates in my drawer for about 3 years now, there is nothing I want in Central even if it is free,

low quality overpriced crap...........................spending only 5 or 6 baht almost pays for your ticket to HK or singapore, where they actually have a selection of quality stuff.

Gotta applaude the newest addition to the pack, GAP, everyone in the US bought it because it was cheap, now they take a shirt that was made in Thailand, and sells in the US for $12, and sell it over here for $55.

And of course the ignorant brats of government officials will pick up 10 of them, because they will look cool and American, and well of course

there's never a shortage of funds for overpriced GAP shirts, as daddy is already working on another rice subsidy scheme to benefit all the farmers.

Amazing Thailand!!!!!!

I like to chat on the phone while, watching die hard 4, while reading the Bangkok post on my iPad in traffic. I like the Red lights because it gives me a chance to eat breakfast which I can't do while doing all that.

Can't wait for 5 years from now, traffic should be bad enough, just at the time technology will be coming out giving me the ability to enjoy Avatar in 3D while cruising down the highway.

What laws? There are no laws here? There is only what you can and can not get away with

I believe there are around 3000+ homicides in Thailand per year.

So if there were only 3 over a 2 day span then that's like a 70% drop at least off the average.

Of course there were other homicides during these days, the article was just mentioning ones that had a songkran twist to them.

So for all those bah humbug grumps out there blah blazings about how out of control you think the holiday has become, and using these crimes as a reference.

If they canceled sonkran there would still be the homicides, they would just be the usual run of the mill boring ones, that don't get there own article.

I am not sure who is more pathetic, Deputy Public Health Minister Dr Surawit Khonsomboon's policy or a English Newspaper who fired all the native English speaking proofreaders, slight difference Mr Nation you clown between $million and $billion. Amazing incompetence.

This is all they need. http://bit.ly/Id2rbc

Definitely the newspaper ".....about 400,000 girls over the age of 12 would be vaccinated against cervical cancer"

The vaccination prevents HPV infection, not cervical cancer, and of course there are other factors that contribute to cervical cancer than just HPV.

Sad isn't it.

Well produced by rediculous considering the level of performance.

Instead of managing the department "through good governance" which basically means nothing,

trying managing the department with common sense

Step 1 - Put people in empty desks at immigration during peak times

Step 2 - See if this fixes the problem, if not add more people

Step 3 - Take some pride in a job well done

Finally a hub claim that is legitamite, and he doesn't want to claim it.

If Kittiratt is proposing it there is little doubt that it will probably lead to disaster.

For anyone that has heard him speak in public, its obvious that he is not

qualified for the position he holds, he's bairly qualified to balance a check book.

Even if he was qualified, it's obvious he is only interested in "len gaan muang", and

serving the public is about the last thing on his mind

Hey, why don't you talk to the Disney Corp first.

Classic Thai politician mentality, of course Disney will sign on if we throw enough money at them.

Thats why I like it here, because the people in charge are really just that intelligent.

How often do you see a article about a Thai killing another Thai. No often yet Thailand rates high up on the list of countries for murder. It just isn't that big a thing for a Thai to kill a Thai here. Where as for a Thai to kill a farong it is a big thing.

Every single day................................just not in English speaking newspaper.

It is not a "big thing" for a Thai to kill a foreigner, it is a "big thing" on Thai visa though.

Don't know why there are so many posts claiming violence going up in Thailand. I assume because there

are more and more foreigners here that can't read the thai papers or understand what they are saying on the news.

I haven't seen anything to prove that violence is increasing in Thailand, it might be increasing with victoms being

foreign tourists, but that is not to say the percentage per capita is increasing.

Of course the more foreign tourists you have, the more crimes on a per head basis will occur with them being

victoms of a crime. But again that is not an actual increase in crime.

I think a lot of foreigners are clueless when it comes to crime in Thailand, the Bangkok Post is not an english

translation of Thai rath or the Daily. They are completely different, and there are probably more violent crimes

reported in a day in Thai rath, then there are reported in the Bangkok post all year.

Biggest scam in Phuket is your tax dollars paying the police's salaries...................will that be on the TAT website.

Want to clean up the tuk tuk mafia, I could do it in an evening if I was the police chief there.

Deal with sex tourists? There are an estimated 2 millions prostitutes in Thailand, 95 percent of them catering to thai people.So sextourism is not an issue, statistically.It's like saying eradicate eating spaghetti among tourists visiting Italy!!!!...Furthermore what's wrong with sex tourism?Without it tourism arrival would plunge - I estimate- around 80 percent.

why dont they just make gambling legal? Like any normal country?

They should first deal with the sex tourists. That's insane

I fully agree that prostitutes cater for the local market first. But you can't deny the prevalence of sex venues for farangs in Bangkok.

And by the way, if you say that 5% of the prostitutes cater for farang (i.e. 100,000 prostitutes based on your calculation), I hardly see how it can concern 80% of the tourists coming to Thailand.

Do some math, 100,000 people, working only 70% of the days of the year, is 255 days.

255 days * 100,000 = 25,500,000 customers they accomidate........................don't need a nonsense government stat to tell me that there aren't 25 million tourists to Thailand a year

Welcome to reality of life,may be she should ask other nationals in Thailand how THAI immigration is treating them.

Beautiful couldn't have said it better myself.

The reason why she is confused about these things called "laws" is because her country does have any.

I think you should look at the US constitution, I would dare anyone to find a law that has better protected it's citizens against dictatorships and tyranny than the 1st amendment.

For all the bad things that can be said about the US, I think most people can agree (although I am sure not everyone here) that

there are few countries in the world where your freedom of speech is better protected.

But if you look at the Scheneck vs. the United States in 1919 it is clear that citizens are not protected by the 1st amendment, if they were

to say something that provided no useful purpose and was merely dangerous or false.

Is that the case here? I doubt it? There are a lot of people in positions of power in Thailand, that realise the more free people are to discuss certain subjects, the less power they will have.

Someone also commited about sending Tweets to terrorists.

Anyone is free to distributing plans for doing something illegal, but conspiring to commit a crime is usually illegal in most countries.

Sending Twitter messages to know terrorists to plan something illegal would not be a question of free speech, but rather

a stupid way to distribute your admission of guilt to the masses.