Internet Access In Lahan Sai (Buriram)

[babbo]

Gents,

The village I live in currently only has comms serviced by an AIS cell installation, however I have requirements for something with more grunt than GPRS Edge..... I also have a handful of people in the village (including local school) that are willing to put their hands up to be part of the solution. We have all called to harrass TOT for some kind of solution for the past few months though it seems that TOT are either unwilling, incapable or just downright uninterested in the prospect of rolling some form of internet service into the village. I note that some time over the past few months, some fibre has appeared along the roadside sharing the powerlines, and has 'CAT' tags a plenty along the way. Whether or not that will be of some use I really don't know.

Coming from a technology background, and being ~20km as the crow flies from Lahan Sai, I am investigating the prospects of long-lining it myself with some radio equipment. I could possibly design in connectivity for other villages along the way, and others in close proximity. My question to you all is, if you live in or near Lahan Sai, what form of cabaled internet connectivity do you have? ADSL? Fibre?

I can't really go the satellite route, as the application I want to use it for is latency dependant.

Cheers

[lomatopo]

There have been a number of threads on some P2P wireless solutions which may offer cost-effective access.

TOT Wi NET

AIS AIrNET

https://www.google.com/search?q=wi+net+site%3Athaivisa.com&oq=wi+net+site%3Athaivisa.com&aqs=chrome.0.57.5379&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/575870-t-o-t-wi-fi-internet-anyone-using-it/

http://www.overclockzone.com/forums/showthread.php/1197169-TOT-WiFi-Wi-Net-%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%83%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A1%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%81-TOT/page17

https://www.google.com/search?q=wi+net+site%3Athaivisa.com&oq=wi+net+site%3Athaivisa.com&aqs=chrome.0.57.5379&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=ais+airnet+site:thaivisa.com&oq=ais+airnet+site:thaivisa.com&gs_l=serp.3...3641.5404.0.5633.10.9.0.0.0.0.116.116.0j1.1.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.4.psy-ab.uVAzr0ocv2A&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42965579,d.bmk&fp=65d5127db86895ca&biw=1920&bih=979

http://www.ais.co.th/airnet/th/

In general I recommend chatting with neighbors as they generally know what is available, or have a Thai friend ask around; ring TOT, CAT, AIS, 3BB. If you are near an Amphur or main-ish road DSL may be an option. Does anyone nearby have a fixed telephone line? Not sure what the CAT fiber is but it could be internal back-haul rather than for some PONs for residences/consumers?

[babbo]

Thanks mate; I've had the neighbours do the ring around but no dice as yet. Interesting info there about the AIS Airnet - I will have to do some more research on that.

You could be right re the CAT cable too; it terminates into the AIS based cell comms 'room'. I don't know how reliable it would be anyway given that a few km down the road it has falled from the makeshift bamboo poles into someones rai of rice :-)

As for phonelines there are none here, we are pretty far away from everything except Cambodia!