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I would have to agree with elshaheen. Stay away from Wellcom phones. My wife bought one (A99) because she liked the way it looked. Two days later it had all kinds of problems. Windows didn't load up the phone kept searching for drivers. My wife downloaded the drivers from a thai site and they crashed the computer. Returned to the store and they said no refund and no warranty. My wife gave it to her niece and a week later the phone wouldn't charge up. My wife now has a Samsung GSII and I'm using a Droid RAZR. If want to buy a new phone, check the reviews on sites in the US or Europe.

Yes, there has been reports of relief-bags going mainly to known Red Shirts in some districts.

But what is more reliably established, and reported in length by Thai PBS yesterday, is that migration-workers in several districts up-north have been completely overlooked/purposefully ignored. They had interviews with a big group of workers from Burma/Myanmar etc.

As the North of BKK has been flooded for a while now which happens to be mainly red? I would suppose that is why most of the aid is going there.

Not quite the same as BKK might get flooded but hey lets give the aid to them instead?

As for the ignoring of the migrant workers that is just wrong but what else do you expect.

We in the sunny south are trying to have collections of goods, water, medicices etc to do what we can, guess what we were told?

We would rather you sent cash!

Amazing Thailand.

I live in Manorom, which is between Chainat and Nakhon Sawan. We had a red-shirt convoy show up about 3 weeks ago. They dropped off a small truck-load(old datsun pick-up) of water bottles and relief supplies. They stayed for two hours ranting from their truck speakers about how Abhisit started the floods and how the Democrats were using the floods to punish the poor farmers who didn't vote for them. Since then the only relief supplies we get is from the Army. And the Army is bringing supplies everyday.

Try veetle.com but you have to install their plugin

I had no problems accessing that sight on 3BB from Chainat.

You can find sheetrock screws at most hardware stores that deliver building materials. Most of the stores here don't understand the term sheetrock or drywall. Just ask for gypsum screws. I've seen two types of screws here. The sharp-pointed black screws and the self-tapping black screws(tips look like the end of drill-bit). Don't use the self-tapping screws, they will loosen after time.

I haven't been redirected on 3BB Premier, but the internet is extremely slow today. Too many connection timeouts.

I believe the servers are overloaded. Maybe everyone is checking news online or watching tv streams such as cnn.

Working fine in Chainat on 3BB

Does your friend have Yahoo Messenger ? If you both have it connect to him or her on it. You can do file transfers up to 2GB instantly without having to wait on emails.

My father had the same problem with the Immigration Office in Ayutthaya. He was upset that they would even tell him why. So my brother told him to go to the Immigration Office in Lopburi. And the people there fix the problem. He is here on a retirement visa and the people in Ayutthaya changed his papers to a tourist visa. The supervisor in Lopburi fixed the paperwork and stated that he would still have to pay the 20000 baht fine but he doesn't have to make a border run.

Same thing happened to me a few months ago. Had my shipping sent by Personal Export Services and the crates were handled by Mcneil's here in Bangkok they advised me to hire a shipping broker that works for their company. When they delivered the crates to my house many items were missing. Especially baby clothes for my 3 month old daughter. They would even steal from a baby.

Tried to find ncaa sports from the US this morning was redirected to w3.mict.go.th then my firefox 3.5 crashed. Restarted firefox and tried again and crashed again. I tried other websites, only seems to crash after being redirected to mict.

So, I'm sitting here in Chiang Mai with my 3Mbs MaxNet Premier ADSL and a few days ago I noticed media downloads were starting to slow down. Not just YouTube but all media downloads. Web browsing seems snappy enough and speed tests come out within acceptable speed limits. But it might take me 20 minutes to download a five minute YouTube video and I had to run overnight to download a 40 MB MP3 blog post. Now I'm starting to get all paranoid and wondering if this has to do with all the "This Site Closed by Royal Thai Police..." notices.

MaxNet swears they are not throttling bandwidth for any sites.

I say, "Pooh."

Anyone else having trouble?

They can swear all they want. I've been using Maxnet for 2 years now with the Premier 2Mbs ADSL. I had decent speeds until this year. Now downloads average 30Kps for small files and 10Kps for large files. Their Call Center is a joke. After waiting for 2 months for a service tech to check the phone lines. He said the phone lines were fine. He said the the problem is my CPU. He said my computer might be too slow for their router. Let see, I'm running a quad-core 2.6 Ghz with 4GB's of RAM. Maybe he's right.

He's doing a good job dealing with the red shirt terrorists.