Nine Years On , It Has Happened

[ozzydom]

After nine years of pestering,cajoling,repeated applications to TOT we now have a phone line and ADSL.

Last Thursday TOT rang to say they would hook us up the next day.

Friday arvo , around the corner in our village Soi comes a gang of guys rolling out cable and hanging it on the power poles,got to our house and tied the cable in a knot to our pole and up to the house,banged a nail in the wall and tied off to it.

They then poked the connector box in a side window ,handed me a WIFI modem and said "back Monday to connect"50 baht please"

Monday ,nobody arrives so in the late afternoon,I plug everything in and switch on. Hip Hoo Bloody Hurrah ,I am on line.

About 6pm the guy arrives ,looks at the screen and says "All ok bye bye"

Monthly cost is 417.32 baht for 3Mbps but the office said that as we are the end of the line(about 6km from source)to only expect about 1 Mbps.

It is certainly slower than Udon but infinitely faster than my old dongle,(2-5 seconds to connect to most sites).

Life down on the farm has taken a large step forward.

[oldsailor35]

Whew! bet thats a relief ! but you should have done the right thing and waited another 7 yrs for them to connect.

Edited July 5, 2013 by oldsailor35

[ozzydom]

Whew! bet thats a relief ! but you should have done the right thing and waited another 7 yrs for them to connect.

Jeez mate,I would be 81 in 7 years,the way the body parts are degenerating I doubt I will be able to see the keyboard .

[billd766]

I have been waiting 8 years up here near Mae Wong for a phone line.

However in December 2011 TOT put in a wireless link and my mate next door went on line.

I followed in January 2012 and it is OK for more than 90% of the time but is still interuppted by power outs and it went down for 5 days in May as a lightning strike took out the receiver head around 6 pm on a Friday night and nobody looked at it over the weekend, only 5 users and 3 of them are farang.

[bergen]

I have been waiting 8 years up here near Mae Wong for a phone line.

However in December 2011 TOT put in a wireless link and my mate next door went on line.

I followed in January 2012 and it is OK for more than 90% of the time but is still interuppted by power outs and it went down for 5 days in May as a lightning strike took out the receiver head around 6 pm on a Friday night and nobody looked at it over the weekend, only 5 users and 3 of them are farang.

You lucky guys! I've been waiting 9 years with lots of promises, but still no light in the tunnel

[fotog]

Gratulations everyone; welcome to the 20th Century!

[mjef]

OMG were are you guys living exactly? These numbers are really scary 5-8-9 years! I can't survive a week without internet! I live with internet, work with internet, study with internet...

I'll be moving there in 2 months. Maybe BKK maybe Phuket. Considering my situation, which places would you suggest me keep away from?

Btw, why did you choose to live in a village?!

[vijer]

Oh I hope TOT is better where you live then where we live. We had TOT for about 4 months and it disconnected about every 5 minutes. Finally 3BB came to our community and the service is much better. Still ADSL but at least it stays on. I don't understand why Thailand hasn't put in real cable.

[mjef]

Oh I hope TOT is better where you live then where we live. We had TOT for about 4 months and it disconnected about every 5 minutes. Finally 3BB came to our community and the service is much better. Still ADSL but at least it stays on. I don't understand why Thailand hasn't put in real cable.

I heard from one of my Thai friends that CTH which is selling cable tv service now is going to offer 50mbps internet on cable at a very low price soon. I hope that's true!

[Garry]

You connected your ADSL line without a work permit.!?

Edited July 5, 2013 by Garry

[realenglish1]

What is ADSL What is the Internet I don't have a lot of time to read the papers much since I am always busy on the Farm I was thinking of installing a telephone but

there is a phone but down the road in the village

Oh I did see some TV the other day wow what an invention Maybe time to trade in the radio

Have to think about it a bit though

[winstonc]

Gratulations everyone; welcome to the 20th Century!

21st i think youl find sir,,,,,,,

[Espen]

Congratulations

[vento]

I'll be moving there in 2 months. Maybe BKK maybe Phuket. Considering my situation, which places would you suggest me keep away from?

If Internet is that important for you and nothing Else matters. You Will be fine both places

[mjef]

I'll be moving there in 2 months. Maybe BKK maybe Phuket. Considering my situation, which places would you suggest me keep away from?

If Internet is that important for you and nothing Else matters. You Will be fine both places

So both cities are fully covered, right?

[bkk_mike]

Gratulations everyone; welcome to the 20th Century!

21st i think youl find sir,,,,,,,

I don't know where you're from, but I know I got my first ADSL line back in the 20th century, so I think you'll find it was intentional.

Personally, I'm thinking if they ran new cable all the way to your farmhouse, you should have checked how much more it would have been for fibre.

[vento]

I'll be moving there in 2 months. Maybe BKK maybe Phuket. Considering my situation, which places would you suggest me keep away from?

If Internet is that important for you and nothing Else matters. You Will be fine both places

So both cities are fully covered, right?

More or less

Speed and network latency is another thing though. Dont expect western standards, but its not unusable

[mjef]

I'll be moving there in 2 months. Maybe BKK maybe Phuket. Considering my situation, which places would you suggest me keep away from?

If Internet is that important for you and nothing Else matters. You Will be fine both places

So both cities are fully covered, right?

More or less

Speed and network latency is another thing though. Dont expect western standards, but its not unusable

I don't come from a western country, so I won't expect western standard. For me even a reliable and stable 1 mbps connection is enough. But I can't afford regular disconnects and interrupts! That's why I have to stay away from a wireless connection and stick with a wired one.

[jbrain]

Congratulations with your adsl OP,however since I see it is from TOT I will have to wish you good luck as well.

[vento]

I'll be moving there in 2 months. Maybe BKK maybe Phuket. Considering my situation, which places would you suggest me keep away from?

If Internet is that important for you and nothing Else matters. You Will be fine both places

So both cities are fully covered, right?

More or less

Speed and network latency is another thing though. Dont expect western standards, but its not unusable

I don't come from a western country, so I won't expect western standard. For me even a reliable and stable 1 mbps connection is enough. But I can't afford regular disconnects and interrupts! That's why I have to stay away from a wireless connection and stick with a wired one.

Stability has nothing to do with fixed Lines vs wireless

But you could combine it.

Anyway look at true's HomePage for Info About This

[mjef]

Stability has nothing to do with fixed Lines vs wireless

Actually it has, because of additional parameters like signal quality, weather conditions, router problems, ...

Trust me, I'm an engineer

Anyway, thanks for the advice about True.

[fotog]

Gratulations everyone; welcome to the 20th Century!

21st i think youl find sir,,,,,,,

Oops internet hiccuped (again) and caused a duplicate post.

Edited July 5, 2013 by fotog

[fotog]

Gratulations everyone; welcome to the 20th Century!

21st i think youl find sir,,,,,,,

No; it may be the 21st in other countries but when it comes to some things like customer service,internet, sanitation and education I really did mean to say: 'Welcome to the 20th century'...just amazes me to see the garbage truck crew tearing open each and every bag of trash and sifting through it. Don't want to get off topic here that is why I put the smiley face on the first post. Shucks; I heard they might even get 3G someday.

[bluecheesefan]

I was having problems with streaming and keeping a good connection on my 2mb TOT/True line when I discovered this gem of a website. I apologize if you know about this already given your background, but this tweak helped a lot with my WIN7 computer. Before I made the changes I was dropping packets left and right and now a pingtest.net check gives me 0% dropped packets. I still get variable broadband speeds, but at least streaming has improved dramatically.

http://www.speedguide.net/articles/windows-7-vista-2008-tweaks-2574

[BuriramRes]

I have been waiting 8 years up here near Mae Wong for a phone line.

However in December 2011 TOT put in a wireless link and my mate next door went on line.

I followed in January 2012 and it is OK for more than 90% of the time but is still interuppted by power outs and it went down for 5 days in May as a lightning strike took out the receiver head around 6 pm on a Friday night and nobody looked at it over the weekend, only 5 users and 3 of them are farang.

Make sure you keep the receipt of your connection. The wifi connector only has a 1 year warranty. After that it will cost you 4,000baht for a replacement.

[vento]

stability has nothing to do with fixed Lines vs wireless

Actually it has, because of additional parameters like signal quality, weather conditions, router problems, ...

Trust me, I'm an engineer

Anyway, thanks for the advice about True.

Anyway, thanks for the advice about True.

Let's just hope that when you get an outage on your fixed line and you call customer service that they will choose to prioritize your support ticket instead of the local wireless which gives them hundreds of complains from mobile users including the local police officer.

In real world 1+1 not always equals to 10

Just get a wireless as backup, not very expensive

[vijer]

I was having problems with streaming and keeping a good connection on my 2mb TOT/True line when I discovered this gem of a website. I apologize if you know about this already given your background, but this tweak helped a lot with my WIN7 computer. Before I made the changes I was dropping packets left and right and now a pingtest.net check gives me 0% dropped packets. I still get variable broadband speeds, but at least streaming has improved dramatically.

http://www.speedguide.net/articles/windows-7-vista-2008-tweaks-2574

Wow! No Shiet, I just tried the settings from this page and it is like I have a new computer! Thanks for the tip I never would have thought to search for network tuning and instead just assumed the poor internet speed was due to the ADSL connection.

[deesquared]

Ozzydom, where abouts are you located?

[jobsworth]

what - only 50 THB to connect the external to the internal?

my bunch in Pattaya wanted 1000 THB to do that

and the cable was the other side of the soi.

did it myself in the end.

not quite legal and they made problems later but it worked great

i don't see that being down the end of a cable could affect signal speed - signal strength maybe.

good luck with your new internet connection.

[personchester]

Oh I hope TOT is better where you live then where we live. We had TOT for about 4 months and it disconnected about every 5 minutes. Finally 3BB came to our community and the service is much better. Still ADSL but at least it stays on. I don't understand why Thailand hasn't put in real cable.

I heard from one of my Thai friends that CTH which is selling cable tv service now is going to offer 50mbps internet on cable at a very low price soon. I hope that's true!

When & where to CTH start selling their service and begin there TV cable installation, I know several people particular farangs

who did contact CTH by phone in order to get installation matters moving, but CTH responds was > we don't know yet <.

What is known about it now ? ...