3bb Broadband Changes

[virtualtraveller]

Usual frustration with inconsistent broadband in Thailand. Recently Maxnet rebranded themselves as 3BB (same old incompetent service, lots of new billboards), if you want to know why all of a sudden your emails don't go off from Outlook, it's because they have once again changed the smtp setting. This is the second time these monkey's have had to abandon their brand (formerly TT&T), because it presumably has such a negative image, each time they do so it appear they change the server web address but forget to tell everyone.

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, I HEREBY ANNOUNCE, ON BEHALF OF 3BB (WHO DON' T SEEM TO BOTHERED TO PUBLISH IT THEMSELVES) THE NEW SMTP IS;

smtp.3bb.in.th

You can ditch tttmaxnet.com. Even the technician didn't know, he thought it was 3BB.in.th which didn't work either.

Usually in most other countries none of this would be an issue because ISPs generally accept your own mail server's smtp (e.g. smtp.yourdomain.com), but for some reason (possibly firewall spyware) you have to use theirs, which keeps changing without notice.

It also means that when using wifi in an internet cafe the smtp might be different due to different ISP and so you need to have them all set up in your outlook/express, they are

smtp.totisp.com or smtp-adsl.totonline.net

smtp.trueinternet.co.th or mail.trueinternet.co.th

mail.cathinet.com

These of course could also change, and it's really difficult finding the solution on their site (3bb don't even have an English language site yet!).

I use two ISPs simultaneously, since none are reliable to run an internet business with 90% up time.

[johng]

smtp.tttmaxnet.com still works for me.

though I think they are routing to smtp-out02.3bb.in.th

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Edited December 29, 2009 by johng