Hi all,

My wife and I just moved to Chiang Mai and are pretty encouraged by the support and breadth of knowledge this forum has to offer.

We're in the process of moving into a house in Chang Phueak and would love to know what Internet service we should connect.

TOT seems to have a bad reputation while True Cable doesn't but has limited availability. I've also heard people recommend a "private" line. CAT has some fans as well. Everything seems to depend on locations though and nothing I've read so far mentions our area of town.

We'd like as good as we can get for less than 100$/month. We will also have 3G as backup.

Thanks all. Looking forward to getting to know the community here.

Eben + Annelies

I'm near North Gate and have 3BB for just over 600 baht a month. Been with them for over a year now and really good and stable service.

I'm near North Gate and have 3BB for just over 600 baht a month. Been with them for over a year now and really good and stable service.

Thanks tfc.

I live just north of the city, near to the superhighway. I wonder if that's close enough to where you are to be indicative...

Been using TOT residential adsl northeast of the khuangsing intersection for almost 9 years, on average pretty good and good service too, believe it or not.

We're not in Chiang Mai per se, and have found getting a reliable service a bit difficult. Most companies BBB, TOT aren't available in our area. AIS had a plug in WiFi that went through sim cards in 2 days. I find tethering my cell to one of our computers works fine for most internet activities and works better in the rain than the True antenna we have for TV. Cell phone with unlimited internet and talk costs 350 baht and I know there are cheaper sources. I can watch movies and US TV shows but it takes a few minutes to get them going right,and it's faster than the AIS plug in

Been using TOT residential adsl northeast of the khuangsing intersection for almost 9 years, on average pretty good and good service too, believe it or not.

Is that where chotana meets the superhighway?

We're not in Chiang Mai per se, and have found getting a reliable service a bit difficult. Most companies BBB, TOT aren't available in our area. AIS had a plug in WiFi that went through sim cards in 2 days. I find tethering my cell to one of our computers works fine for most internet activities and works better in the rain than the True antenna we have for TV. Cell phone with unlimited internet and talk costs 350 baht and I know there are cheaper sources. I can watch movies and US TV shows but it takes a few minutes to get them going right,and it's faster than the AIS plug in

Wow, that's cheap 3G. Clearly I need to get off prepaid AIS topups and get onto a contract.

if its just mail checking, web browsing, facebook etc tot is okay. im staying in chang phueak area as well.

however if you are looking for decent latency in gaming, (even in SEA servers) tot is totally messed up. if you trade forex, stocks etc online, you are gonna face some problems. the upload speed of tot is just erratic, you will find problems opening a new order even on a basic mt4 platform. it is near impossible to do scalp trades

i had been on tot, 3bb and true, both 3bb and true are okay, im on 3bb fttx now, no complains on gaming, tradings. torrent speed wise, im nt too sure about that

Been using TOT residential adsl northeast of the khuangsing intersection for almost 9 years, on average pretty good and good service too, believe it or not.

Is that where chotana meets the superhighway?

Yes

if its just mail checking, web browsing, facebook etc tot is okay. im staying in chang phueak area as well.

however if you are looking for decent latency in gaming, (even in SEA servers) tot is totally messed up. if you trade forex, stocks etc online, you are gonna face some problems. the upload speed of tot is just erratic, you will find problems opening a new order even on a basic mt4 platform. it is near impossible to do scalp trades

i had been on tot, 3bb and true, both 3bb and true are okay, im on 3bb fttx now, no complains on gaming, tradings. torrent speed wise, im nt too sure about that

thanks man, that's really helpful. is 3bb fttx adsl-based?

as long as torrents work, slower speeds are fine. video skype is our benchmark--if that's good, we're happy.

if its just mail checking, web browsing, facebook etc tot is okay. im staying in chang phueak area as well.

however if you are looking for decent latency in gaming, (even in SEA servers) tot is totally messed up. if you trade forex, stocks etc online, you are gonna face some problems. the upload speed of tot is just erratic, you will find problems opening a new order even on a basic mt4 platform. it is near impossible to do scalp trades

i had been on tot, 3bb and true, both 3bb and true are okay, im on 3bb fttx now, no complains on gaming, tradings. torrent speed wise, im nt too sure about that

went to the True Online shop near Chiang Mai Uni today and sadly, there isn't fibre available for my particular area of Chang Phueak. ended up taking a typical ADSL package (10mb) for 600 baht a month including installation and modem/router. they seem pretty organized--sent me a text telling me when the tech would arrive to install it 10 minutes after i left. he's coming over in 2 days. had to sign a 12-month contract, but somehow i'm not too worried. i suppose i could have gone to a 3bb shop as well and asked there, but i'm assuming the providers all use the same fibre trunks.