Hi,

Is it possible to have a decent enough Internet package to allow me to get a clear line for using Voip in Isaan? Location is flexible but prefer to be in either central Udon Thani or Roi Et.

I would ideally like to have an app that worked in conjunction with my I phone and Uk mobile number or if that's not possible a system that gave me a uk landline number utilising Voip on my laptop and therefore keeping call costs down for dialling Uk landlines and mobiles.

I also need a way for people to call me on a virtual uk number or my uk mobile number through a Voip type system. Any recommendations/advice would be much appreciated. Suffering from information overload looking online! Thank You.

If you have access to ADSL internet, yes you can get a clear voice (not skype quality) in anywhere in Thailand (except perhaps Chiang Mai).

You can buy a voip ata adapter like LinkSYS SPA2102 or something cheap and use of a fixed phone (wireless home phones maybe?) you can have a working UK number in your home (but beware of timezone differences, warn your friends)

If you want to keep your UK number portable, you can use 3CX on iPhone / Android that can run on background and accept incoming voip calls whenever you are on Wifi or 3G.

3G is pretty much everywhere if you use CAT / TrueMove-H network.

Murattremix,

Thanks so much for taking the time to explain and point me in the right direction. Sounds very promising! Much appreciated.

Murut,

That was great advice! Those products are spot on for my requirements. Delighted, 1st time I've posted on a forum and someone provides me with top draw info and saves me hours worth of searching for products online :-)

Thanks again.

If you want to be able to receive voip calls, make sure you provide a static ip to your voip ATA adapter (linksys for example) from your modem such as 192.168.1.50 (if your modem is reachable via 192.168.1.1 of course) and then set up port forwarding for ports 5060 and 5061 (or 5065) for this ip.

This will ensure incoming connections redirected to voip device for receiving incoming calls. Otherwise, you can call out but they can't call you.

If you have access to ADSL internet, yes you can get a clear voice (not skype quality) in anywhere in Thailand (except perhaps Chiang Mai).

Why not Chiang Mai? The reason I ask is that I'm getting horrible results with Skype on a wifi connection in Chiang Mai. I thought it might be the wifi connection but are you saying that Chiang Mai just has bad internet?

If you have access to ADSL internet, yes you can get a clear voice (not skype quality) in anywhere in Thailand (except perhaps Chiang Mai).

Why not Chiang Mai? The reason I ask is that I'm getting horrible results with Skype on a wifi connection in Chiang Mai. I thought it might be the wifi connection but are you saying that Chiang Mai just has bad internet?

Chiang Mai has too many farangs, not enough domestic internet link to Bangkok. When so many farangs use internet at the same time, routers in domestic links are oversaturated. It causes packet loss, high ping times etc. It is not about Thailand internet connections to USA or Europe, it is caused by less than 10Gbit (my estimate, not a fact!) CM - BKK connection causes it.

For example, my internet works perfectly fine in Buriram (TOT ADSL, True 3G) aswell as in Bangkok (TOT, True Ultra, True 3G, Dtac 3G). But I had problems in Chiang Mai last year.

Just do a "tracert somewebsitesyoulike.com" in Command line to see weak link in your connection.

You can also test it against websites in your home country (eg. tracert ovh.fr / tracert netdirekt.de / tracert leaseweb.com (holland) etc)