Stocky

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?

So what exactly happens when Everton are televised in The Premiership?

Will all eleven players be followed by blurred pixels???

It's been tried several times, most recently by Happy Air and before that Nok Air, the last company to make it work was Phuket Air, but their air safety record saw them shut down.

I hope they succeed.

We covered this in the Southern Thailand forum a while back.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/845843-hat-yai-phuket-flights/?p=9698783

Do you think the single gateway is in place already?

Nah, Thailand never moves that fast.

They don't think what the people who live there want either, the 2005 National Reconciliation Commission study of the southern conflict found that the majority of Thai Muslims within the southern states wished to remain Thai, they just wanted the government to recognise their Malay heritage and in particular recognition of the local language Yawi.

Ask 2 people on 2 days about something and you can well get a totally different answer

That seems to be the case for most things in Thailand. If you don't get the answer you want, go back another day and ask a different person, or try a different outlet/branch/service centre.

New Fiber Optic Service is subject to a 2 year contract, switching existing Fiber Optic package is subject to a 1 year contract.

It was 12 months switching from ADSL to Fiber Optic in Hat Yai, so it must be dependent on where you live.

Well if it's a promotion, yes, they'll want to lock you in for 12 months.

You're locked in to the package you sign up for for 12 months, after that if there's a better package available you can get the TOT service centre people to make the switch.

Yes, Tops Supermarket sell it.

If the option adopted was a rail and pipeline link across the isthmus the government would be perfectly correct in saying there was no "agreement between Thailand and China to dig the Kra Isthmus Canal".

It is, but Singapore wouldn't be happy.

There are two options, a canal to directly connect shipping between the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand and/or a rail and pipeline link so that oil & containers can be offloaded on one side and collected by a different vessel from the other.

There have been many suggested routes.

They have been talking about this for 300 years........

Indeed, since the time King Narai asked a French engineer to survey a route in 1677.

I don't see a 30/3 package offered for 1200 bht.

Is this an older package or am I missing something?

Yes, it's an older package.

We signed up for TOT Fiber 2u in February this year, the 30/3 Bht1,200 package, it came with free installation I just paid Bht2000 for the wireless modem. It's a lot better than the TOT adsl 13/1 connection we had previously. \

As far as the speeds with fiber, whilst it might get 30/3 connecting in Thailand the connections internationally can be highly variable, generally connections in Asia/Australasia are about 20Mbs, to the USA 15Mbs and to Europe about 10Mbs.

We don't have the TOT IPTV package but I do run two Android IPTV boxes, one is used mainly for Thai TV and that works fine, the other for UK TV and that works pretty well most of the time.

Improving this afternoon, we can actually see the sun for the first time in a week.

Sorry, I don't have a TVCUK Account, but I can access the website, I can access and download torrents from EZTV, KAT, Rarbg and Pirate Bay.

Curious I can access TVChaos, EZTV, KAT, Rarbg and Pirate Bay from my TOT account down here in Hat Yai.

That's a 40km drive to the resort from Trang, don't really know the town just driven through it so can't help with the bike hire. We've stayed at the Anantara Si Kao several times it's an excellent resort but pretty quiet this time of year. It's rainy season on the southern Andaman coast though it's been pretty dry this year, you'll also likely have some of the Indonesian haze.

There's not too much going on in the area around the resort, a few bungalow resorts, a handful of shops and places to eat all strung out along the coast road, but all very basic. The food at the Anantara is very good, though not especially cheap. Beyond a trip to the local aquarium and the botanical garden there's much to do except enjoy the view, a cold beer and a good book.

It's the parents and Obama's fault, the 8 year old girl should have had a gun.

You're supposed to have a pass, but on the occasions the airline didn't have any, I've found that presenting your business class boarding pass stub, together with an apology that the airline had no passes to hand out, is enough to get you through.

There used to be a sign for the planetarium, I tried to take the kids there once but it was closed.

It's not as bad as 1997, I remember driving around KL with my headlights on at midday.

But you might have thought nearly 20 years on we wouldn't still be having this problem.