This is probably not news to a lot of people, but if it helps anyone out there (i.e. Someone like myself) then all well and good.

For the past 4 years, I have been unable to get internet access at home - reason being, we have no telephone lines in our village (It is a Tam Boen as well, not a Moo Bah!)

The other villages that make up the Tam Boen all have telephones and have had these for many years...something is wrong here eh?

Anyway, the only way I could get the net until recently was to drive to the next large town (15Km) or try and borrow a connection from friends in the next village- pain in the ass or what, just to catch up on an e mail - the ammount of times all my messages have been cleared from Hotmail for not logging in enough well.... another pain in the ass.

I even had thoughts about the satellite internet connection, but luckily never bothered.

What I did find out, by buying an up to date mobile phone, and calling AIS, putting 535baht on a prepaid card,(I use the mobile as a MODEM via USB connection) I now have internet almost constantly (535 Baht gets me 15000 minutes per month), this, is around 2 Baht per hour, no 3 baht connection charges, nothing else to p

y, no internet service card to buy nothing. The speed at the moment is almost as good as a telephone line, and if t

e EDGE technology arrives, it should be even quicker. Hold my breath for 3G.

I never even thought of trying this, as at first I thought the cost on a mobile would be ridiculous, so I never bothered, it was only when a Thai friend told me one of her friends uses a mobile via bluetooth to connect to the internet that I actually started looking.

Whilst it is by no means ADSL, it is a perfectly good service, I have never had a connectionb dropped in two months of use, unlike the land lines which dropped very frequently.

The other benefit is, you get e mail and internet on the road with the mobile phone too, which is quite good!

So if you know any unfortunate person that is like myself and a bit behind on the technological advances, let them know, you can get the web anywhere and it needn't cost an arm and a leg.

This is probably not news to a lot of people, but if it helps anyone out there (i.e. Someone like myself) then all well and good.

For the past 4 years, I have been unable to get internet access at home - reason being, we have no telephone lines in our village (It is a Tam Boen as well, not a Moo Bah!)

The other villages that make up the Tam Boen all have telephones and have had these for many years...something is wrong here eh?

Anyway, the only way I could get the net until recently was to drive to the next large town (15Km) or try and borrow a connection from friends in the next village- pain in the ass or what, just to catch up on an e mail - the ammount of times all my messages have been cleared from Hotmail for not logging in enough well.... another pain in the ass.

I even had thoughts about the satellite internet connection, but luckily never bothered.

What I did find out, by buying an up to date mobile phone, and calling AIS, putting 535baht on a prepaid card,(I use the mobile as a MODEM via USB connection) I now have internet almost constantly (535 Baht gets me 15000 minutes per month), this, is around 2 Baht per hour, no 3 baht connection charges, nothing else to p

y, no internet service card to buy nothing. The speed at the moment is almost as good as a telephone line, and if t

e EDGE technology arrives, it should be even quicker. Hold my breath for 3G.

I never even thought of trying this, as at first I thought the cost on a mobile would be ridiculous, so I never bothered, it was only when a Thai friend told me one of her friends uses a mobile via bluetooth to connect to the internet that I actually started looking.

Whilst it is by no means ADSL, it is a perfectly good service, I have never had a connectionb dropped in two months of use, unlike the land lines which dropped very frequently.

The other benefit is, you get e mail and internet on the road with the mobile phone too, which is quite good!

So if you know any unfortunate person that is like myself and a bit behind on the technological advances, let them know, you can get the web anywhere and it needn't cost an arm and a leg.

I think there is some sort of sattelite internet service available from Loxinfo, but you may be to far out in the 'boonies" for it.

Been doing this for years. Shame you didn't/couldn't check the "Internet, Computers, Communication" forum on Thaivisa.com. But as they say, all's well that ends well.