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Opera was sold to the Chinese, some of the Opera team have gone on to develop a new browser Vivaldi, which is much like the old Opera Browser but better.

https://vivaldi.com/

Cross platform, runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, but no Android version yet.

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7 minutes ago, PerkinsCuthbert said:

Go amateur if you must watch football.

So that's Leeds United then.

34 minutes ago, Jip99 said:

I followed Forest for 30 years from East Anglia

Not much or a surprise really - not a lot of choice out there, might just as well support Ajax or Feyenoord.

1 hour ago, Jip99 said:

I have been a life-long Forest fan - and will remain so.

I'm assuming you're originally from the Nottingham area, in which case you've only really two options Leicester or Wolves. As a Villa fan of long suffering I'm happy to cheer on Wolves in the EPL or any Midlands side really (except Birmingham City).

Though the days when you supported your local teams seems long gone, it's now fashionable to just pick whoever's winning; loyalty is just old fashioned. 

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Problem is like many things in Thailand, operations are poorly managed and they skimp on maintenance.

Hat Yai has an incinerator out near the airport, it handles some  300 tonnes of rubbish per day and produces around 5MW or electricity. It's a joint venture between the local PEA and a private company. There have been several complaints by those living near the facility, and recently it was shut down because it was found to be emitting high levels of dioxin amongst other things. The issue was with poor management of the incinerator and not burning at a high enough temperature, a particular problem when the waste going in is wet. They seem to have fixed the problem and have been allowed to operate again.

Given the amount of waste modern cities produce and the options of burying or burning for energy, burning for energy seems preferable. That said I wouldn't want to be living too close to one. The Hat Yai incinerator was stuck out by the airport because not many people lived there. However, since the 2010 flood, a lot of new housing has gone up near the airport, and the incinerator, because it's high ground. Highlights another issue Thailand has, that's a lack of proper zoning, residential, industrial etc.

16 hours ago, Speedo1968 said:

Will ask if she can install LINE on her phone

If she has problems with Skype using WiFi on her Sky package she may well find Line will encounter similar issues if Sky has some sort of fatwa against VOIP.  

58 minutes ago, janclaes47 said:

This is T95z Plus

Overheating is one of the reasons I switched from android box to a mini-PC with a fan.

1 hour ago, Speedo1968 said:

First we couldn't even connect, then it was very expensive her end ( no free connection ) using her Sky package. 

In that case just subscribe either to a Skype package as suggested previously, or just use Skype-Out and buy some credits; cost of a call to landline or mobile in the UK from Thailand is 2.3¢ per minute.

If you have Skype why doesn't your daughter install Skype on her smartphone? Skype to Skype is free regardless the platform assuming both parties are using an Internet connection. Ditto Line.

My only caveat with Linux in the office, is that you check carefully on compatibility before purchasing printers and scanners, most these days will work plug n play with Linux, but not all.

9 hours ago, yrag said:

Huawei, , Lenovo, are Chinese......

Well spotted, but not sure what your point is, everything's made in China!

https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

There are four landing points in Thailand, Songkhla, Satun, Rayong and Sri Racha.

4 hours ago, superal said:

It is a mystery to me when getting the same package from TOT as myself you have a vastly superior service .

I think it's just down to location. Songkhla and Satun are landing points for the submarine cables that connect Thailand to the outside world, consequently there is a substantial data pipeline from the south, up the peninsular, linking Bangkok; Hat Yai sits on that main backbone.  

I use 'Any Video Converter' and liked the free version so much I bought an 'Ultimate' licence.

 https://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

10 hours ago, superal said:

Those speeds are impressive and I am envious . I do not understand how it is your test results are so high . Maybe because there are very few users in your area ? Do you get any buffering if watching live sports etc ?

My test this morning 

  TOT local    89/24    testmy.net Singapore 57 / 12     London  13  / 1.1  . ( slightly better than normal ) . I noticed that your tests were carried out mid morning , do you get similar results at the busy times e.g. early evening ?

I live in Hat Yai city so plenty of users here. Results are pretty good throughout the day, and seldom have buffering issues.  Below are the Singapore and London results from this evening.

Singapore server.

London server.

Note the clock on my desktop is set to UK time so 12:20 is 18:20 Thailand.

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Wife bought a Huawei MediaPad T2 last year, from Lazada for Bht4,490, has been very happy with it. That and my experiences with Huawei smartphones and portable wifi would make me favour Huawei.

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I have a 'Forth XG Serie' fiber modem supplied by TOT, I replaced the under-performing ZyXEL wireless router that TOT supplied with my own Linksys WRT320N wireless router. I subscribe to PureVPN and use the desktop app for Windows and manual configuration for Linux. The VPN isn't configured on the router. PureVPN are a little hit or miss at times, connecting to the UK for TV content has been increasingly patchy as the BBC play spot the VPN node. Consequently last year I've opted to pay for a VPS in the UK. My PureVPN subscription renews in October and I may well switch to a different provider, I was with NordVPN previously and may go back to them, or pay a little more for ExpressVPN.

The problem with all Thai ISPs is the quality of connection and/or standard of customer service varies radically across the country. Many rural areas just suffer from poor infrastructure, whilst urban areas can have good infrastructure but be oversubscribed, add to that the staff locally are either under-qualified or overworked. Luckily Hat Yai has good infrastructure, qualified staff and the population isn't overtaxing the network or the engineers.

I can't say I've noticed any throttling by TOT to overseas connections.  Just running some test you can see I get good results without a VPN. Adding the VPN or VPS to my connection invariably degrades my connection speed.

Local speed using the TOT website

TestMy.net speed test to London server

TestMy.net speed test to Singapore server

On 7/26/2018 at 10:34 PM, tomas557 said:

TOT is the worst ISP in Thailand, maybe even in South east Asia lol.

Depends where you live.

Living in Hat Yai I'm perfectly happy with TOT, been with them for over 13 years, from dial-up, through ADSL to fiber. Currently we have the 100/50 package for Bht700 per month. Via LAN to the router I get better than the package speeds locally, connected with a VPN to Singapore I get 80/40, and to the UK 60/30. Through the powerline network up to the 4th floor, locally I get 80/45, with VPN to Singapore it's 60/30, and VPS in the UK it's 45/25.

As for Android boxes being illegal, mini-PCs with either Windows or Linux OS running Kodi aren't illegal. I just switched my two year old H96-Pro Android box for an Asus VivoMini VM45.

On 8/10/2018 at 6:56 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

some people will try Linux but get frustrated after a while

There's very little to get frustrated about if all you're wanting to do is browse the Internet, read your mail, Skype, and do a little word processing or build a spreadsheet.  Linux Mint is very easy to install and manage. With the latest version 19 you can set it to update automatically so there's  little to do.  As I said my 8 year old granddaughter is comfortable using it, as is the wife, better yet, they can't break it.

cCloud usually has an intermittent working link for CNBC US Edition.

6 hours ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

...for letting their people...

It's largely not 'their' people, it's big Malaysian agribusiness.

Well we had plenty of rain this afternoon in Hat Yai, so the air is clean this evening.