Gary A Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 I have connected with both AIS & DTAC using an EDGE mobile but I cannot get 'international' web sites. I get Google Thailand for example, but not US & UK newspaper sites (I use IE7 & firefox - same). Any ideas - have I got to change a browser setting or is this it? I have no idea what your problem is but both AIS and Dtac are better than my previous Shitstar (Ipstar) satellite Internet service was. Either connects to wherever I want to connect to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwunk89 Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 thanks for all this info people . . great stuff. after reading it through a few times, i think i have it all down. one question: why is it important to have an edge phone (nokia/edge seems to be preferred) - will non edge phones work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_boo Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 thanks for all this info people . . great stuff. after reading it through a few times, i think i have it all down. one question: why is it important to have an edge phone (nokia/edge seems to be preferred) - will non edge phones work? Non-EDGE phones will work, but you'll be limited to GPRS speeds (which admitedly will also happen if there's a problem with EDGE in the area you're at). If you're willing to go from ~144 kbit/s on EDGE down to ~60 kbit/s on GPRS (if you're lucky!), than don't worry about buying an EDGE capable phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwunk89 Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 thanks for all this info people . . great stuff. after reading it through a few times, i think i have it all down. one question: why is it important to have an edge phone (nokia/edge seems to be preferred) - will non edge phones work? Non-EDGE phones will work, but you'll be limited to GPRS speeds (which admitedly will also happen if there's a problem with EDGE in the area you're at). If you're willing to go from ~144 kbit/s on EDGE down to ~60 kbit/s on GPRS (if you're lucky!), than don't worry about buying an EDGE capable phone. thanks dave_boo. anyone know the coverage range for hutch? looks like central thailand and the eastern seaboard mainly . . does it work down in samui/phangnang/koh tao? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longball53098 Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 From the Hutch MBI website here is the coverage http://www.hutch.co.th/networkcoverage/website/map_eng.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwunk89 Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 From the Hutch MBI website here is the coveragehttp://www.hutch.co.th/networkcoverage/website/map_eng.htm thanks longball! looks like the samui area is out of hutch range . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selftaopath Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 Dialed customer service (1678, followed by 7 for English operator), asked the lovely lady for a 1 week unlimited GPRS package.Received an SMS with the new, 249 Baht lower credit, followed 10 seconds later with an SMS stating that he has now 1 week of unlimited GPRS. It actually takes off 266 baht including VAT and 3 baht for the call to customer service. AIS one month unlimitied is 999 baht + VAT so it works out about the same but DTAC is vastly superior. Thank you all for sharing your knowledge. We're about to relocate to Nong Sung/Chiaphum district. Is dtac better even in Isaan? Being w/out internet is unthinkable now. :-) How things change eh? Thanks, Keoki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikster Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 From the Hutch MBI website here is the coveragehttp://www.hutch.co.th/networkcoverage/website/map_eng.htm thanks longball! looks like the samui area is out of hutch range . . Samui is covered by CAT CDMA, which is much better than Hutch. They'll merge eventually - CAT runs the Hutch network and actually already bought them out - but given the speed with which these companies operate it could take years. So until then some areas are covered by Hutch, others by CAT, CAT us using CDMA-EV-DO everywhere so it's way faster. I have heard Hutch is switching to EV-DO but not sure on the status. I am sure they've upgraded all the stations already so why wouldn't they.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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