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You don't know the mom&pop shop in my village The lady would not understand 1/2inch (niu krueng). Even after pointing to the designation on the pipe she insisted its "si hun". And that the pipe is by no way a 1/2 inch pipe but just a "symbolic"/trade name is another topic.

When I stay in Pattaya I mostly drive a rented scooter. Car parks at the hotel for few planned trips if any. Preferably early morning. Just read from another poster about the last weekend (4th May) with 2 hour gridlock on 2nd rd/central. How not to ride. Poor guy on a disability three wheeler.

Yes, xe.com. https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=EUR&To=THB Now at 39.587 As I use WISE for transfer I also look there, very close (39.5839).

EUR note rates from first round: Bangkok Bank 38.87 SCB 38.95 Krungsri 39.05 Kasikorn 38.89 That fits my experience. Kasikorn and BKB worst. Krungsri best. Foreign exchange rate 39.607 So quite a margin.

No. In major upcountry cities there are specialized changers which might offer a few satang more. What currency and amount are you thinking of? To profit from travelling to Bangkok/Pattaya or the like it should be no less than 50000 Euro cash equiv.

Exactly that. And for private/small deals there is no real time stuff involved. Only for real high amounts the branches are obliged to check back with the headquarter (as shown on fine print at Bangkok Bank). They usually do 3 or 4 rounds per day. First one is about 8:30h. Just looked at SCB and Bangkok Bank EUR rates. Assuming it's about bank notes! not electronic transfer. Difference is in the 0.05 Baht range better for SCB. Never paid any fee for money exchange in Thailand. Profit is always in the rate.

It is indeed exceptional that the download is (so much) worse than the upload. Maybe the network is overloaded in your area. You can only hope that True/DTAC is better. Some posters recommend "NT Thunder" which I don't much about. Just did another test here: 47 / 40. Quite normal.

Some nice examples in Thailand. 680 ml bottles of beer shrinking to 620 nowadays and less alcohol content. (allegedly a legal limit) Singha came out with an 0.5 l bottle (still on the shelfs?). 330 (333) ml cans of soft drink now 325. MAKRO manages the other way: 6 croissants instead of 4 but much higher price. Similar for some chocolate cake thing. Just seem an obviously "small" diet Pepsi can with 245 ml. All for your health For all examples you need a calc to find out what happened.

Wonderful world of non metrics Thailand is 90% metric. 90%: still using PSI and some other confusing stuff (water in 5 gallon containers) and water pipes in most confusing mix of inch and old Chinese measures ("hun").

X (twitter.com) complete in less than two seconds. Seems the cable (SEA-ME-WE 5) has not been repaired yet. Might take another two weeks. Look forward to first quarter 2025. SEA-ME-WE 6 has just landed in Marseille, 130 Tbps will be added ☺️ On the other hand I would still believe that a proper VPN (no free garbage) to Singapore could help. Can't count how many cable landings there are (more than 30 roughly).

Yes, clearly undertake on the left on a strip that is not meant for regular use. You can bet he quickly swerved lanes without checking this lane is empty. A popular hobby also on European motorways. 80, 90 (allowed max), 160... who cares. All these speeds onto a stationary vehicle with a two wheeler will kill. Darwin Award winner, condolences to the ones he left behind.

Is your girlfriend Thai? Did she read about GOMO (AIS network)? (registration only with Thai ID card). https://gomo.th/ 150 GB (unlimited speed, 3G, 4G, 5G) for 999 incl tax. usable for one year. If used up additional volume can be bought. I have purchased through the daughter. As I use mobile data only when "on the road" the 150 GB will likely be enough for the year.

Sure but look at the numbers in the OP. 120 kB in 5 minutes. That's about 3.2 kbit/s!! Way off any usual deviations and not even throttling can explain that. Restarting phone is an option, doing malware check etc.

Don't rush to change/port to True/DTAC (considering you have an unstable True fibre!). Be aware that DTAC is not an independent company anymore but taken over by True. (3BB taken over by AIS/AWN). Do you have dual SIM mobile and a slot available? If so just buy the cheapest True/DTAC SIM and test before doing any change.

The raw speed test to AIS done with OOKLA: https://www.speedtest.net/ (clever dicks telling that this is a fake test/not right: save your time to post) What numbers do you see? You have 10 Mbit/s unlimited (volume)? Is there any chance that you have been throttled (as described in the fine print) for excessive volume, using torrents or the like?

Very unlikely that the numbers posted have anything to do with cable cut. (and who knows the current status?) Just did speedtest from my 3BB fibre (Mbit/s): London, Vodafone 374/71 Frankfurt, D Telekom 204/84 I have an AIS network SIM (GOMO, only available through a Thai person). The raw speedtest to AIS usually gives something like seen below. (not central Bangkok though) Circled in red: connection type (4G+) and signal strength plus ping time. What do you see for your SIM?

Discussed frequently. X posters, x opinions. To me: they are obliged to check/copy passport for foreigners. Some take it easy some don't . Hotels that I stay even searching for the admitted until/extension stamp. I would never go on an remote/overnight trip without passport. More reasons for that.

I can print the copy button on my laser printer and get worse results than scan/print. If they desire so they can have. Don't forget that as far as I know you need to show the original document for every copy that you supply. You sign every copy as saying it's correct / unaltered. As if that is not enough... Paranoid harassment

Guess he "damaged" the rent scooter. Look here! Look here! Paid in full for a new one, no problem.

Yea that's what I mean with "copies at the office". 5 or 10 Baht/copy

13,14,15: regular Songkran days as usual 12: extra holiday be government decision 16: substitute day as usual by the rules.

I guess it has been discussed and stated a hundred times here: official public holidays 12 to 16. Effectively meaning that for three non-weekend days (12, 15 and 16) immigration offices and bank main branches are closed. Visa agencies etc. up to them. April 12 was announced in February as an extra holiday and indeed some confusion as calendars not been updated (e.g. at our immigration website).

? Wonder whether this would retire my laser printer/scanner? How exactly do they distinguish? Only accepting copies made at the office to earn a few Baht or what?

At the moment can't even tell what the situation with Kasikorn is. I don't move higher amounts there. I was never pointed to facial. Just that I was photographed on some visit in 2023.

No penalty up to one year after expiry. After one year: theory/multiple choice test. After three years: start from scratch like new license. No, three months ahead for the 5yr license. But in your case not useful.