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I want a TOT ADSL line in my condo (renting), how to proceed?

koeko

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Not too difficult. First, go to your condo office tell them your wish. You will be charged a one time setup fee (5,000 or 1000 baht). Get a contact number for your condo office. Then go to a TOT office (Pattaya Klang/3rd Rd) and select your plan and get your modem/router (about 1000 baht). Before going, visit their website and select the speed and plan that meets your needs.

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Sorry to go off topic, but i would strongly recommend you avoid ADSL aa its ancient and unreliable.

If your condo runs Sophon Cable, go to Sophon Internet and get yourself a cable-faster, more stable and reliable.

They could most likely run it from the Sophon cable (tv) so even cheaper installation

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TOT is unbelievably bad. They only have two internet repair technicians and one van to cover the whole of Pattaya/jomtien, and they have a backlog of hundreds of jobs. I know this because I spoke to the two guys myself. I can't recommend any other providers from personal experience but my wife is currently looking for an alternative provider for her business.

I'm currently using a Truemove SIM card, but even that's not very consistent.

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Thanks I'll ask the office tomorrow.

@lemoncake the reason I want TOT is that they don't seem to censor some websites... while on the other side 3BB displays a warning with a picture of the King instead of showing the actual website I intended to visit. Can you confirm that "Sophon Cable" doesn't apply censorship? If yes then it could be an option!

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TOT is unbelievably bad. They only have two internet repair technicians and one van to cover the whole of Pattaya/jomtien, and they have a backlog of hundreds of jobs. I know this because I spoke to the two guys myself. I can't recommend any other providers from personal experience but my wife is currently looking for an alternative provider for her business.

I'm currently using a Truemove SIM card, but even that's not very consistent.

I am happy to vouch for Sophon Cable Internet, Been with them for around 3-4 years and nothing but praise

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Thanks I'll ask the office tomorrow.

@lemoncake the reason I want TOT is that they don't seem to censor some websites... while on the other side 3BB displays a warning with a picture of the King instead of showing the actual website I intended to visit. Can you confirm that "Sophon Cable" doesn't apply censorship? If yes then it could be an option!

Sophon rents their lines from CAT, so whatever CAT censors is what you get.

So far, the only sites i have seen censored/blocked are porn sites and its done by MICT

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Thanks I'll ask the office tomorrow.

@lemoncake the reason I want TOT is that they don't seem to censor some websites... while on the other side 3BB displays a warning with a picture of the King instead of showing the actual website I intended to visit. Can you confirm that "Sophon Cable" doesn't apply censorship? If yes then it could be an option!

Sophon rents their lines from CAT, so whatever CAT censors is what you get.

So far, the only sites i have seen censored/blocked are porn sites and its done by MICT

Ok so it's a no-go for me. I can access all porn sites using TOT WiFi Hotspot. Can't do the same using the 3BB from a hotel where it shows the "MICT" warning you're mentioning. This also goes for some Wikipedia pages and some YouTube videos.

So TOT is my only option at the moment. wai2.gif

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Thanks I'll ask the office tomorrow.

@lemoncake the reason I want TOT is that they don't seem to censor some websites... while on the other side 3BB displays a warning with a picture of the King instead of showing the actual website I intended to visit. Can you confirm that "Sophon Cable" doesn't apply censorship? If yes then it could be an option!

Sophon rents their lines from CAT, so whatever CAT censors is what you get.

So far, the only sites i have seen censored/blocked are porn sites and its done by MICT

Ok so it's a no-go for me. I can access all porn sites using TOT WiFi Hotspot. Can't do the same using the 3BB from a hotel where it shows the "MICT" warning you're mentioning. This also goes for some Wikipedia pages and some YouTube videos.

So TOT is my only option at the moment. wai2.gif

That does not really make sense. If its blocked by MICT, it would be blocked on all networks

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Hey Lemoncake,

I have ADSL from 3BB and it works great. Been using them for more than 6 years now. Better than anything TOT has. As for Sophon, I have friends that say it is good.

I run 2-3 computers from an ADSL wireless router that works very well.

Myabe for you ADSL is old, but for me it wokrs better than anything I have used in this country.

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Thanks I'll ask the office tomorrow.

@lemoncake the reason I want TOT is that they don't seem to censor some websites... while on the other side 3BB displays a warning with a picture of the King instead of showing the actual website I intended to visit. Can you confirm that "Sophon Cable" doesn't apply censorship? If yes then it could be an option!

Sophon rents their lines from CAT, so whatever CAT censors is what you get.

So far, the only sites i have seen censored/blocked are porn sites and its done by MICT

Ok so it's a no-go for me. I can access all porn sites using TOT WiFi Hotspot. Can't do the same using the 3BB from a hotel where it shows the "MICT" warning you're mentioning. This also goes for some Wikipedia pages and some YouTube videos.

So TOT is my only option at the moment. wai2.gif

lmao. You live in Pattaya and you base your ISP on accessing porn sites? Sorry but that is too funny.

As for the Sophon suggestion I will call them tomorrow. My condo uses a router in front of the building and I stay on the back so my internet really sucks !! I think it is 3BB. Our cable is sophon however.

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Thanks I'll ask the office tomorrow.

@lemoncake the reason I want TOT is that they don't seem to censor some websites... while on the other side 3BB displays a warning with a picture of the King instead of showing the actual website I intended to visit. Can you confirm that "Sophon Cable" doesn't apply censorship? If yes then it could be an option!

Sophon rents their lines from CAT, so whatever CAT censors is what you get.

So far, the only sites i have seen censored/blocked are porn sites and its done by MICT

Ok so it's a no-go for me. I can access all porn sites using TOT WiFi Hotspot. Can't do the same using the 3BB from a hotel where it shows the "MICT" warning you're mentioning. This also goes for some Wikipedia pages and some YouTube videos.

So TOT is my only option at the moment. wai2.gif

lmao. You live in Pattaya and you base your ISP on accessing porn sites? Sorry but that is too funny.

As for the Sophon suggestion I will call them tomorrow. My condo uses a router in front of the building and I stay on the back so my internet really sucks !! I think it is 3BB. Our cable is sophon however.

"lmao. You live in Pattaya and you base your ISP on accessing porn sites? Sorry but that is too funny."

No you clearly misunderstood. I never visit porn sites, however I do care when some Wikipedia pages and some Youtube videos are being censored, and even if those pages aren't very interesting anyway I am still concerned about the ethical aspect of censoring, and it's a matter of principle to get the purest Internet access as possible, without any filtering/censoring going on.

@lemoncake I'm not sure how it works, but if you want I can send you some links that works from a TOT connection and that don't from a 3BB connection. I have never ever seen the MICT warning from a TOT connection yet.

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Some gambling sites are also blocked by MICT .

I can not access them from 3BB but TOT works on any website strangely enough, must be some high TOT officials that loves porn and gambling .

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Hey Lemoncake,

I have ADSL from 3BB and it works great. Been using them for more than 6 years now. Better than anything TOT has. As for Sophon, I have friends that say it is good.

I run 2-3 computers from an ADSL wireless router that works very well.

Myabe for you ADSL is old, but for me it wokrs better than anything I have used in this country.

But you have not tried the cable yetwink.png

Imagine going from driving a toyota to driving a nice BMWbiggrin.png

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@lemoncake I'm not sure how it works, but if you want I can send you some links that works from a TOT connection and that don't from a 3BB connection. I have never ever seen the MICT warning from a TOT connection yet.

Right now i am on Sophon, so if you want to test it, either pm or post the sites and i will try to open it and let you know the outcome

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@lemoncake I'm not sure how it works, but if you want I can send you some links that works from a TOT connection and that don't from a 3BB connection. I have never ever seen the MICT warning from a TOT connection yet.

Right now i am on Sophon, so if you want to test it, either pm or post the sites and i will try to open it and let you know the outcome

PM sent.

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@lemoncake I'm not sure how it works, but if you want I can send you some links that works from a TOT connection and that don't from a 3BB connection. I have never ever seen the MICT warning from a TOT connection yet.

Right now i am on Sophon, so if you want to test it, either pm or post the sites and i will try to open it and let you know the outcome

PM sent.

Got it and replied :)

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@lemoncake I'm not sure how it works, but if you want I can send you some links that works from a TOT connection and that don't from a 3BB connection. I have never ever seen the MICT warning from a TOT connection yet.

Right now i am on Sophon, so if you want to test it, either pm or post the sites and i will try to open it and let you know the outcome

PM sent.

Got it and replied smile.png

Thanks! So just to confirm so everybody know, I sent a link to a site that I have no problem accessing from a TOT connection, while @lemoncake couldn't access it from its Sophon connection and he got a MICT warning instead.

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OP, my ISP has been TOT for the last 6 years +, and I don't really have any complaints.

Currently paying about 550 Baht plus tax for 10Mb down and 512 kb up.

That's great! So how did you get this plan exactly? I had a look at the TOT website but couldn't find much content in English. I guess I'll have to call them?

Also what where the installation fees? I've heard it's something like 4000 baht to open a line?

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OP, my ISP has been TOT for the last 6 years +, and I don't really have any complaints.

Currently paying about 550 Baht plus tax for 10Mb down and 512 kb up.

That's great! So how did you get this plan exactly? I had a look at the TOT website but couldn't find much content in English. I guess I'll have to call them?

Also what where the installation fees? I've heard it's something like 4000 baht to open a line?

I went to their office on 3rd and Klang, signed up for a one year contract, there were no installation fees. However there was a long wait to get a phone line back then, luckily a friend of mine had an extra line that I could take over. TOT did the line installation for free to the junction box outside of my house, any additional cabling I had to do myself, or pay for. I've heard that you now can get a dedicated ADSL line without a phone number attached to it.

At the time I signed up the download speeds were less and the price was higher, but that has gradually changed to the better.

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Sorry, but since you are renting, the very first person I would ask would be the landlord

no direct contact with the landlord, renting through an agency, and they don't seem to really know the process either (or they don't have time to explain it to me... )

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Sorry, but since you are renting, the very first person I would ask would be the landlord

no direct contact with the landlord, renting through an agency, and they don't seem to really know the process either (or they don't have time to explain it to me... )

Condo management are the ones responsible and the only ones to speak with.

Your condo does have an office right? or juristic person?, usually most of them do

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