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[liberiosyah]

Dear All ,

I need an advice from anyone that experience or not in setting up an internet afe in Bangkok....

I am planning to set up an internet cafe in bangkok...Well i am planning to install about 15 unit of pc in my cafe..but now i do not know what kind of Plan to get ??

there are 3 plans alltogether from TRUE....

Home Pack (For one computer only)

SME&SOHO Pack, (For 1-4 computers)

and BIz Pack.... (BIZ Pack)

All these three have different price it says that differene plan diferrent differen price.....

Well offcource home pack is more cheacper but it says only for 1 PC ....

My question is that can i used the cheapper 512kbps from Home pack to conection all the pc from LAN for my bussiness??

I need this advice before i go out choosing plans .....Thank You

Regards to all

JOE

[Crushdepth]

That would be against the terms of the home plan, so if they turn up to install it at your shop and see its obviously a business they won't be happy. However, I think a lot of people are doing it - some people are getting their home hooked up and then running a cable downstairs to their shop etc. It may not be fast enough to run 15 PCs though !

[Mr_Happy]

They will notice 15 computers on a home connection...

[Crushdepth]

If your PCs sit on a LAN behind a router I'm not sure.

They could probably get suspicious about the amount of bandwidth you are sucking though. They reserve the right to disconnect you if you transfer more than a certain amount in 24 hours or something.

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[stumonster]

If your PCs sit on a LAN behind a router I'm not sure.

They could probably get suspicious about the amount of bandwidth you are sucking though. They reserve the right to disconnect you if you transfer more than a certain amount in 24 hours or something.

how sneaky do you want to be....if you lived close by you could just have one comp there and a wireless link to your cafe....

[Firefoxx]

Using a home package for connecting to a lan is against the terms of use. However, you most likely won't get in trouble if you do. So far I haven't heard of anyone getting caught. Since True gives a self-installation package, you don't need techs to come to your home (in the old days, you used to). There is no feasible way to detect the use of a lan, and I doubt that True would go through the trouble to just catch you saving a buck.

Bandwidth usage is not a good indicator of how many people you have connected. I probably can use up more bandwidth than a whole mid-size company. I've seen several heavy users brag about how many tens of gigs they download per month, and none have been contacted by true. The contract terms on bandwidth usage state something about so and so megs/hour for so and so bandwidth, and it's also averaged for the whole month, not day by day. I've yet to see it enforced.

One thing: True's ADSL service is horrible right now, with lousy speeds during work hours. Doesn't matter if you're using home or biz package either, it's consistantly bad.