Another Weary Rant

[JusMe]

Spent just over six months back in Canada, and my internet didn't drop once over that time.

Arrived back here in LOS less than two weeks ago. Took only nine days, and out it went.

Saturday evening, about 6:00 p.m. internet went down. As the phone's on the same line, I'm able to phone out, but strangely, cannot receive calls at all. (Checked with my cell)

Many many calls to TOT English helpline - when we could understand each other, they were passing the information along to the technicians. Oh yeah - this is really the Asian hub of technology.

After my second (third?) call this morning, someone told me to disconnect the phone completely and have the jack direct from the wall into the modem.

I have no idea why, but now I've got internet. No phone at all, but internet is running, seems a bit slow, but at least it's connected.

Don't we all just love TOT? Out where I am, the choice is the same as for the crooked card game - only one in town!

[chiang mai]

There there, if things here are not the same as they are back home your course is clear!

[impulse]

At the exact second that your internet went down, there were 865 ugly foreign guys getting laid in LOS, guys that have zero chance of getting any back in Canada.

You could have been number 866, but no, you were too busy putzing around on the interweb.

Gotta kind of wonder about guys who come here for fast internet.

Ya gotta take the bad with the good.

[Torrens54]

Were your previous 991 posts to this forum just as exciting? Perhaps you should go back to Canada and instead, send over that Real Funster,

the Mayor of Toronto....I think that was the place.....you know the big Fat Slobish looking Drunk/Coke smok'n fellow. He'd have a Ball here.

[kkerry]

Every connected phone in the house does have a line splitter I hope...

[Tywais]

Every connected phone in the house does have a line splitter I hope...

There should be an ADSL splitter in the system which has the microfilter to separate the low freq audio for the phone and high frequency for the ADSL signal.

[wayned]

By doing what they told you to do is that they isolated the ADSL splitter as Tywais stated above. Mine failed in the same way and it turned out to be a "tits up" ADSL splitter. They did the same thing and it worked so they cleaned all of the contacts and put the old one back in and had the same problem. Put a new splitter in and everything worked.

[Suradit69]

By doing what they told you to do is that they isolated the ADSL splitter as Tywais stated above. Mine failed in the same way and it turned out to be a "tits up" ADSL splitter. They did the same thing and it worked so they cleaned all of the contacts and put the old one back in and had the same problem. Put a new splitter in and everything worked.

"By doing what they told you to do ..."

Yes, but in Canada a nanny would have been sent to his house to do it for him.

[rebbu]

By doing what they told you to do is that they isolated the ADSL splitter as Tywais stated above. Mine failed in the same way and it turned out to be a "tits up" ADSL splitter. They did the same thing and it worked so they cleaned all of the contacts and put the old one back in and had the same problem. Put a new splitter in and everything worked.

"By doing what they told you to do ..."

Yes, but in Canada a nanny would have been sent to his house to do it for him.

Or a mayor of a large city would have came and smoked some crack to while away the hours.

[DrTuner]

ADSL splitter ? How endearingly pre mobile. I vaguely remember the phone thingies where you actually had to pick up... no what was, ah yes a receiver. What was that, 1900's ?

Tot has been, is, and will always be crap. Not sure if it's a government company, but sure looks like it. Get a mobile 3G backup.

[davejones]

Solution to problem - stay in Canada. Do you really expect a developing country to have the same standards as a country like Canada? Another solution - pay more and get a better level of service.

[davejones]

So you expect Thai people to speak English to accommodate your needs? Do Canadian ISP support speak Thai so that they can take care of their Thai customers? LOL. Learn to speak Thai.

Another weary rant? It's a regular thing with you is it?

[Fookhaht]

People who rant don't want to hear answers/solutions. They just wanna be heard, and get it out of their system. Let 'im be.

[cacruden]

First - every website you are connecting to in Canada is basically domestic (Canada & US). If you connect to a domestic website here, you would be amazed at how good the connection is. If you want a domestic connection - you should move back to Canada. You would also be amazed at how good a local Skype call is.

I have an internet connection here, and use around 1TB of data a month. In Canada... the typical package is CAPPED at 60GB, so yes you have a fantastic local connection - but if you use it you max out your monthly allocation in a matter of minutes at most.

If you have both phone and internet plugged into the same lines - you need ADSL line filters.... They can be sold as "extension/splitters" or in as panels which you replace the one in the wall with. It is always best just to have two separate cabling inside your place (which I have in my condo), although I just use them for two ADSL lines.

[JusMe]

So you expect Thai people to speak English to accommodate your needs? Do Canadian ISP support speak Thai so that they can take care of their Thai customers? LOL. Learn to speak Thai.

Another weary rant? It's a regular thing with you is it?

Expect Thai people to speak English? Only when it's offered, such as TOT's English Help Line. Now why would that be such a surprise to "accommodate my needs"?

Canadian ISP doesn't recommend a special phone line to call if one wants Thai. TOT does. What a surprise that I might expect Thai people on that line to speak English!

Regular? No, I usually ignore posts from individuals whose IQ is lower than their age.

And I don't think British, Australian, or New Zealand web sites would be considered domestic in either Thailand or Canada. I connect to them in both places, as well as Thai web sites from Canada. Amazing how well connected they can be.

[DrTuner]

English in Thailand doesn't really mean English. It means hiring some one who a complete non-English speaker thinks can speak English. I bumped to a LinkedIn profile recently, where English was stated as "full professional proficiency". The rest of the profile was nearly incomprehensible. TiT.

[loeuftok]

there are jobs in which being able to mumble oh yeah, oh my god, harder, yeah, more, more... is full proffessional proficiency.

that profile was may be right