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...one of Thailand’s most beautiful beaches

That's a bit of a stretch!

His number was up.

All good this morning from Hat Yai

From TOT Fibre 30/3 connecting from Hat Yai

This should be posted in the Krabi section which covers Khao Lak.

The reason global oil prices are around $50 is precisely because the Saudi's are busy flooding the market in an attempt to kill off production from North American oil shale. They and OPEC could put the price back above $100 just by announcing cuts in production. This IMF report is La-La Land.

Moroccan, so maybe she was just revelling in not having to wear her hijab.

I didn't need to get my passport translated either.

Why not try in Chiang Mai, they must be more familiar with dealing with foreigners.

Lazada in my experience usually delivers faster than the predicted date, but it depends if it's being shipped by them, by another supplier in Thailand or is shipping from abroad.

That said, for all my IT purchases I use InvadeIT, I've used them the last six years and they've yet to disappoint.

I like Rajas fashion. just off the Nana BTS.

I have had a couple of suits made there and a heap of shirts. I have had Rajas recommended to me by a lot of different people.

Ditto, I had a suit made at Raja's Fashion last year together with some shirts, good quality, well made, excellent service.

I just came to this forum to start a new thread, but after reading this might as well just post it here since it seems like you all are having a problem with TOT! I will be calling them tomorrow, because I refuse to pay a full months internet that has been unusable for the last month or so.

My TOT speeds have been up and down like a whore's drawers since the end of September.

Exactly same... since there was the "broken undersea cable" in the news or something, the international speeds have been terrible which makes the internet pretty much unusable. Out of all the sites, Facebook seems to be the worst (doesn't load anything and impossible to watch videos). It's really becoming a problem, because I need the internet every single day for studying and working at home. Might have to move to another condo, as TOT is the only one we are able to get to this building apparently.

Anyone know of any updates with the undersea cable that was broken?

My understanding was that it was the fibre-optic exchange server in Songkhla, the one that connects with the various submarine cables, that had the problem at the end of September. Judging by my International connection speeds yesterday they're still having problems.

There are five undersea cables that land at Songkhla so it's not a good place to have a problem.

My TOT speeds have been up and down like a whore's drawers since the end of September.

Yes a little better, I can vaguely make out the Napalai Place condo block some 3km away.

* pause internet rage*

All this article says is: CAT is building an international gateway.

So what? They're already operating one (or a few). They need to build more international bandwidth. That, people, is a good thing. I am not seeing anything about establishing a monopoly, or preventing others from investing in their own international gateways.

* unpause *

keep on raging, guys *

Indeed, all they are saying is that they intend expanding their existing IIG as the current capacity will be exceeded within 5 years at current growth rates. The article in the other national English daily is far clearer.

Visibility in Hat Yai is down to a little less than a kilometre today. On a clear day from my window I can see Kho Hong about 7km away, yesterday I couldn't see the city centre, today I can barely see the D-Condo block which is about 700m away.

We've haze in Hat Yai too today.

I see it's being reported the new chairman of CAT is going to be General Thaweep Netrniyom who's currently secretary-general of the Office of the National Security Council.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/NSC-chief-tipped-to-be-new-CAT-chairman-30271124.html

More than one way to skin a cat.

^ Well they do also have graphs of 30 day, 3 & 6 months, 1, 2, 5 & 10 years.

We dumped True Vision just over a year ago, don't miss them at all. We had issues with the quality of reception, it seemed that if a dog peed in the soi the signal would drop out, plus being cut off several times for non-payment when the bill had in fact been paid.

True's been replaced with an IPTV Android box that give me most of what I want, together with downloads watched from a USB stick.

As said above there is no fix, just a simple calculation.

((USD Gold Price x 0.4823) x Bht/USD exchange rate) x 0.965 = Price in Baht for 1 Baht weight (96.5% purity)

Historical prices can be found here

http://www.goldpricethai.com/archive

Much improved today, fingers crossed it stays that way.

Yes, things have improved.

TOT is <deleted>, plain and simple. worst ISP i haver used in thailand., though compared to the philipines its excellent.

I'd have to disagree, it depends where in Thailand you live. I've been with TOT in Hat Yai for twelve years now; from dial-up through adsl to fiber optic. Overall I've been happy enough with what I've paid for. Like all ISPs they have their ups and downs, but I wouldn't call them <deleted>.

TOT has been slower than normal from Hat Yai the last couple of days, links to Singapore are routing via Europe, and via Europe and the US to Australia. Is there an issue with the Asia Pacific Cable or have TOT not paid their bills?