hotandcool Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 When the wi-fi in your hotel room is down or else, what's the best place to go to with my laptop in your view? (possibly not too far from South Pattaya Road, end of Soi Buakhao, alternatively anywhere where I could use the laptop and grab a bite). Ta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmac Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 In the absence of any knowledgable response to date I would suggest you try one of the coffee shops close to Tukcom, Starbucks and S&P are both in the place and there are one or two more around. Sounds like the right area for you and with the amount of computer shops in Tukcom I would think it likely there must be some free Wi-fi available to be had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattayaParent Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Never found any. Jameson's is supposed to have wifi but it never works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotlost Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Last week I stayed at Eastony 7 on soi 7. I could pick up 8 open wifi. Two form the new Hilton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TropicalBerts Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Ours is pretty good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotandcool Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 Never found any. Blimey, that's depressing, did you try hard? Not even in McDonalds or KFCs? In the absence of any knowledgable response to date I would suggest you try one of the coffee shops close to Tukcom, Starbucks and S&P are both in the place and there are one or two more around. Sounds like the right area for you and with the amount of computer shops in Tukcom I would think it likely there must be some free Wi-fi available to be had. I meant precisely that area, Tukcom is at arm's lenght from where I'll be staying, but I wouldn't mind going a bit further so people feel free to share your thoughts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattayaParent Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Never found any. Blimey, that's depressing, did you try hard? Not even in McDonalds or KFCs? I have an iphone and I open it up wherever I go. None in KFC, none in RGP or Carrefour, I never go to McD so wouldn't know about there. Mike's Mexican has a good connection but you need to ask for the code. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibeachlovers Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Never tried it, but the food shop ground level next to the escalators in Avenues has wifi and seen people using computers there. Don't know the name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmax Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 starbucks beach rd ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorillagrower Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 (edited) Coffee club Royal Garden Plaza, Corner bar soi 6, sportsman soi 13 http://www.thaivisa....t-of-locations/ http://www.stickmanweekly.com/WiFi/PattayaFreeWirelessInternetWiFi.htm Edited January 22, 2011 by gorillagrower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotandcool Posted January 22, 2011 Author Share Posted January 22, 2011 Coffee club Royal Garden Plaza, Corner bar soi 6, sportsman soi 13 http://www.thaivisa....t-of-locations/ http://www.stickmanw...nternetWiFi.htm THANKS for the links, printed them out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moo9 Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 (edited) There are many offers for true 3g availble and you get a decent speed downtown. Unless you intend to download huge files it is a good alternative and you can sit where you like... Edited January 22, 2011 by moo9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigt3365 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 After reading an article, which I can't find now, where a guy sits at Starbucks in the US and get's people's login in info...even for Amazon, etc...I'm trying to avoid open wifi spots now. It's crazy how much info they can get from you if you are not careful... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qman Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 I have used free wifi at Pattaya Beer Garden at the end of Beach Road by the entrance to Walking Street in the past but have not used recently so best to check with them. Some coffee shops have but charge a fee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimmer Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 none sense post removed from view Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattayaParent Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Coffee club Royal Garden Plaza, Corner bar soi 6, sportsman soi 13 http://www.thaivisa....t-of-locations/ http://www.stickmanw...nternetWiFi.htm There's definitely none in Carrefour Food Court, I'm in there every Saturday and check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jale Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 After reading an article, which I can't find now, where a guy sits at Starbucks in the US and get's people's login in info...even for Amazon, etc...I'm trying to avoid open wifi spots now. It's crazy how much info they can get from you if you are not careful... As a minimum, use https whenever possible signing to your web services. Communication between you and them is encrypted. Even better, you can avoid the local "pick-up" problem by using a VPN -- some are free others are relatively low cost subscription. WIth these, everything you send and receive is encrypted between your computer and the VPN server. Nothing can be picked in the WiFi area nor the local LAN nor even the country you're in (if the server is overseas). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backfromouterspace Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Coffee club Royal Garden Plaza, Corner bar soi 6, sportsman soi 13 http://www.thaivisa....t-of-locations/ http://www.stickmanw...nternetWiFi.htm There's definitely none in Carrefour Food Court, I'm in there every Saturday and check. Bit of a sad way to spend your weekends, try to get out more. Or perhaps find another hobby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotandcool Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 As a minimum, use https whenever possible signing to your web services. Communication between you and them is encrypted. Can you elaborate more on this? How does it work? Bit of a sad way to spend your weekends, try to get out more. Or perhaps find another hobby. To be fair, he doesn't say he goes there on purpose to check, for what you know he could be visiting his girlfried or have a business there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilf Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 There are many offers for true 3g availble and you get a decent speed downtown. Unless you intend to download huge files it is a good alternative and you can sit where you like... downtown where---------------there is NO 3g in pattaya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilf Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 shenanigans in jontiem. aircon / carpark and food---------------not all is high price and discount card if you ask good wi fi in large area with quite a few sockets for power. good manager not their as often as before so staff getting lazy and insolent as you would expect but on the whole ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avidflyer Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 The Amari's Tarvern By The Sea (the old Henry J Beans) at the north end of Beach Road has free WiFi indoors and out and upstairs on the poarch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattayaParent Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Coffee club Royal Garden Plaza, Corner bar soi 6, sportsman soi 13 http://www.thaivisa....t-of-locations/ http://www.stickmanw...nternetWiFi.htm There's definitely none in Carrefour Food Court, I'm in there every Saturday and check. Bit of a sad way to spend your weekends, try to get out more. Or perhaps find another hobby. An hour on a Saturday morning while the missus is shopping and the kid is in the playport does not take up a whole weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jale Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 As a minimum, use https whenever possible signing to your web services. Communication between you and them is encrypted. Can you elaborate more on this? How does it work? ... Many login pages are available both under their standard http://.... url address and https://..... which is the secure way to exchange info with a server as it it encoded/decoded before/after transmission. It means that the data is unreadable while on its way. Google, yahoo, and many others give you that choice. If you see http://.... in the browser address bar while you're about to login, add an s after the http (to get https://....) and if the server allows it, you end up with an encrypted transmission. Better yet, if you use Firefox, download the add-on called HTTPS-Everywhere. This will make it automatic to choose https when possible. It's available at https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiu-Jitsu Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 There are many offers for true 3g availble and you get a decent speed downtown. Unless you intend to download huge files it is a good alternative and you can sit where you like... downtown where---------------there is NO 3g in pattaya Oh no...not again. Another one making a definitive statement whilst actually having no idea... Can it be that difficult to use Google? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilf Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 There are many offers for true 3g availble and you get a decent speed downtown. Unless you intend to download huge files it is a good alternative and you can sit where you like... downtown where---------------there is NO 3g in pattaya Oh no...not again. Another one making a definitive statement whilst actually having no idea... Can it be that difficult to use Google? there is NO 3g in pattaya whatever google search you do shows this and talks about lots of planned launches show me a 3g phone that shows a 3g service in pattaya and i will give 500 baht to a charity of your choice !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimmer Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 There is an interesting press cutting here dated 07 December 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotandcool Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 As a minimum, use https whenever possible signing to your web services. Communication between you and them is encrypted. Can you elaborate more on this? How does it work? ... Many login pages are available both under their standard http://.... url address and https://..... which is the secure way to exchange info with a server as it it encoded/decoded before/after transmission. It means that the data is unreadable while on its way. Google, yahoo, and many others give you that choice. If you see http://.... in the browser address bar while you're about to login, add an s after the http (to get https://....) and if the server allows it, you end up with an encrypted transmission. Better yet, if you use Firefox, download the add-on called HTTPS-Everywhere. This will make it automatic to choose https when possible. It's available at https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere. I didn't know about this, thank you for the tip and the explanation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilf Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 There is an interesting press cutting here dated 07 December 2010 yes but we still dont have it and who knows if they tested or not in any event the use of the existing 2g or edge to try to " push " it through as they say is not really a satisfactory way to do it a bit like trying to run a gas boiler on too small a gas feed pipe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raro Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 There is an interesting press cutting here dated 07 December 2010 yes but we still dont have it and who knows if they tested or not in any event the use of the existing 2g or edge to try to " push " it through as they say is not really a satisfactory way to do it a bit like trying to run a gas boiler on too small a gas feed pipe this works fine as long as not too many people use it. Then the bandwidth will go down. 3g at the designated 2.1 GHz frequency does not exist in Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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