Favourite Wi-fi Spots

[JuniorExPat]

This could be a somewhat self defeating thread if too many follow the recommendations but what the he11! I'm interested to know where are some good places to settle in for an hour or two with the laptop.

I've found Mad Dog has a pretty good connection and is quite a peaceful place to start the day with a good breakfast and a session on the email. When I say peaceful, I don't mean devoid of customers but the morning crowd seem to tend to keep themselves to themselves.

Tuskers has an excellent connection, I think they open at 16:00 and I sometimes get an hour or two of browsing done after collecting the children from school and before the hardcore (you know who you are!) arrive at the bar.

Huay Tung Tao has been mentioned before and I'm sure that is worth a shot - any others?

JxP.

[Maejo Man]

This could be a somewhat self defeating thread ..................................

You're not wrong there!

[JuniorExPat]

Thanks for the vote of confidence MM!

Time for me to get my coat . . . again.

JxP

[Maejo Man]

Thanks for the vote of confidence MM!

Time for me to get my coat . . . again.

Not the raincoat again!!!!

[Toolz]

I like places with secure connections. Peppermint on Ratchadamnoen soi 5 is a comfortable place where you can get some work done. Also Bai Porn on Sripoom soi 1. Charcoa has a v good (non secure) connection. Garden Cafe and Ratchadamnoen Kitchen near DTAC office have secure connections. Souvvanaphoum at top of Ratchamankha. Plenty of places down in the Suthep area, too many to mention. Actually I've made a map which I'll try and put up soon.

Edited September 12, 2007 by Toolz

[JuniorExPat]

I like places with secure connections. Peppermint on Ratchadamnoen soi 5 is a comfortable place where you can get some work done. Also Bai Porn on Sripoom soi 1. Charcoa has a v good (non secure) connection. Garden Cafe and Ratchadamnoen Kitchen near DTAC office have secure connections. Souvvanaphoum at top of Ratchamankha. Plenty of places down in the Suthep area, too many to mention. Actually I've made a map which I'll try and put up soon.

I look forward to the map. Thank you for your polite, considerate and considered response.

Maejo Man take notes!

JxP

[julesdick]

At Huay Tung Thoa, if you have a decent wifi card, you can still get wireless from 'Lakeside Coffee' whilst getting your feet massaged at the shaded open-air place next door.

[tigerbeer]

At Huay Tung Thoa, if you have a decent wifi card, you can still get wireless from 'Lakeside Coffee' whilst getting your feet massaged at the shaded open-air place next door.

hmm. next thing to do on the list. massage, beer and wi-fi at HTT.

[Maejo Man]

I look forward to the map. Thank you for your polite, considerate and considered response.

Maejo Man take notes!

I have my pen poised ready for the note taking

[JuniorExPat]

I look forward to the map. Thank you for your polite, considerate and considered response.

Maejo Man take notes!

I have my pen poised ready for the note taking

What's a sm@rt@rse like you doing in a nice place like this?

See you and tigerbeer at Huay Tung Tao in a race for bandwidth!

I haven't done any travelling since being WiFi able, is free WiFi another of the delights of living here? I understand that in some places you have to front up with credit card details, if so, how long do you think we have before that trend descends on our lovely part of the world?

JxP

[Maejo Man]

What's a sm@rt@rse like you doing in a nice place like this?

Normally having a beer with Tigerbeer on a friday night followed by copious amounts of horizontal folk dancing. What's your excuse?

[mcgriffith]

Normally having a beer with Tigerbeer on a friday night followed by copious amounts of horizontal folk dancing. What's your excuse?

Sounds nasty, MM. Does he fan you, and bathe you with rosewater, afterwards....?

[mcgriffith]

Oh, AND ON TOPIC, I get a great wifi connection at Mong Pearl coffee shop, Huay Kaew Rd., when my apt bldg LAN is down....

McG

[Ulysses G.]

.. but don't order the burgers!

[tigerbeer]

Normally having a beer with Tigerbeer on a friday night followed by copious amounts of horizontal folk dancing. What's your excuse?

Sounds nasty, MM. Does he fan you, and bathe you with rosewater, afterwards....?

[JuniorExPat]

Put your sparkling scimitar away young man!

JxP

[Donnyboy]

Normally having a beer with Tigerbeer on a friday night followed by copious amounts of horizontal folk dancing. What's your excuse?

Sounds nasty, MM. Does he fan you, and bathe you with rosewater, afterwards....?

this pic is probably closer to the topic TB.

[Donnyboy]

Normally having a beer with Tigerbeer on a friday night followed by copious amounts of horizontal folk dancing. What's your excuse?

Sounds nasty, MM. Does he fan you, and bathe you with rosewater, afterwards....?

Its amazing how many CM topics end up like this. Keep up the good work.

[Toolz]

I like places with secure connections...

I look forward to the map. Thank you for your polite, considerate and considered response.

Here's a map, works with Google Maps. Good cos it shows street names (in Thai only). It concentrates on Suthep, Old City and Chang Khlan. It'll only work for about 24 hours, before then I'll have put it somewhere more permanent, with .kmz for you Google earthers.

[Toolz]

Forgot the link!

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/display/11897...154.83.142.html

[JuniorExPat]

Wow!

JxP

[tigerbeer]

Forgot the link!

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/display/11897...154.83.142.html

how do they do that? i mean how does google map know where the spots are? is it automatically detected or manually done in google map?

amazing!

[Toolz]

I drove around with my laptop, connected to a GPS unit, with NetStumber running. That found the wifi signals and triangulated them quite well based on signal strength as I passed by to give estimated locations. (They're often off by quite a bit though, often right on the opposite side of the moat - and some completely strange ones like PiratesCove, HolidayInn, being put on different steets entirely - possibly cheap APs with identical MAC addresses.)

I merged the data from all my trips, outputed a summary, then uploaded that to gpsvisualizer.com

Quite simple really!

[meadish_sweetball]

That shape is uncannily like a snail. Is it trying to tell us something about the bandwidth?

[Toolz]

A few notes:

Previously mentioned Mong Pearl is on there as 'Homenetwork'. Linksys down near Dung2Wan is Cafe de Siam. That 'rdn' near police station at bottom of Ratchdamnoen is an A/C coffee/cake shop (don't recommend it). Police stations tend to be wifi'd up (Immigration is too). The Wat on Singharat Rd has a connection - actually a pretty nice place to do some surfing.

Tuskers, Miguel's appear as 'linksys' - come on guys, it's trivial to config an AP! How about it?!

Legalese: I'm not endorsing the practice of leeching off any old AP. If the network is open then it's likely the owner doesn't care but ... Oh, erm, that 'Nb5wireless' near Thapae gate is a powerful bugger - it can be snagged from tons of places, even from across the moat.

Secure connections are marked red. But they're all labelled 'WEP'. The program doesn't note whether it's WEP/WPA, just marks them WEP.

[mcgriffith]

Toolz, I just have one comment-

YOU DA MAN.....!

What a marvelous, almost over the top effort, to answer a poster's simple question.

I bow down to greatness.....

McG

[calibanjr.]

Toolz, I just have one comment-

YOU DA MAN.....!

What a marvelous, almost over the top effort, to answer a poster's simple question.

I bow down to greatness.....

McG

TRUE DAT!

I'm impressed.

Edited September 14, 2007 by calibanjr.

[Cyberstar]

I drove around with my laptop, connected to a GPS unit, with NetStumber running. That found the wifi signals and triangulated them quite well based on signal strength as I passed by to give estimated locations.

It seems you have done a pretty thorough piece of work for sure - putting every wifi access point on the map, including private ones. The "triangulated them quite well" is a bit too much of a false commercial assuming you actually did drive around the streets. Some equipment, rendering an accesspoint two meters to your left as located 20 meters to your right isn't worth much, I'd say.

[tigerbeer]

Legalese: I'm not endorsing the practice of leeching off any old AP. If the network is open then it's likely the owner doesn't care but ... Oh, erm, that 'Nb5wireless' near Thapae gate is a powerful bugger - it can be snagged from tons of places, even from across the moat.

yes ! .. or dont wanna set any passwords for their customers. but exposing themselves to possible problems?

[Toolz]

I drove around with my laptop, connected to a GPS unit, with NetStumber running. That found the wifi signals and triangulated them quite well based on signal strength as I passed by to give estimated locations.

It seems you have done a pretty thorough piece of work for sure - putting every wifi access point on the map, including private ones. The "triangulated them quite well" is a bit too much of a false commercial assuming you actually did drive around the streets. Some equipment, rendering an accesspoint two meters to your left as located 20 meters to your right isn't worth much, I'd say.

Seems you fancy yourself as a bit of a geek, judging by: a) that cynical air, the fact I had to read three times before i figured what point you're trying to make.

Re "20 meters to your right": I did make clear above that some were wildly off. But 20 metres is quite good really isn't it? Even when a place is shown as being on the opposite side of the street it will still likely appear at the correct point along the street. So still somewhat *helpful*. I suspect the 'wayward' ones are those places where there's a fairly weak AP sitting deep inside a 4m wide shop house. You can visualize how the signals emerging onto the street might fool the algorithm.

Anyway just give it a try if you find it interesting, I was generally impressed. In some cases I was especially impressed.

Re "two meters to your left": Come on! I passed very very few APs that were anything like two metres to my left.

Just to make clear it's the software doing the triangulation, not the 'equipment'.