Your Wireless Internet In Pattaya

[Ling Kae]

My friend is coming to live in Pattaya in November on a fairly pernament basis and wants to set up 2 laptops in his his condo to work on wireless. He asked me to find out what company is the best to go with? Who has the fastest most reliable internet in Pattaya around the Pattaya Klang area, 3rd road area?

What equipment does he need to buy exactly? Money is not a worry for him, he just wants the most reliable, any ideas or advise? Posted here because it is Pattaya specific.

[monty]

He'll just have to go to the more expensive adsl packages!

The more you pay the more stable the speed and the more reliable your connection will be.

The el cheapo packages are NOT recommended if reliability is important.

Reckon on paying 1600 Baht/month (256/128), 2500 Baht/Month (512/256) or 4000 Baht/month (1024/512).

Most ISP's have offering at these prices...

If reliabilty and speed is extremely important and money is absolutely no problem he can go for the premium adsl lines.

But at a whopping 38500 Baht/month (+7%vat) for 2048/512, it is a tad on the expensive side

http://www.ji-net.com/index.php?lang=en&pid=34

Then get a wireless adsl router and everything is set

[Kerryd]

I use T.o.T.'s ADSL package (1,024 kbps speed) for 1,000 baht/month. During the last 6 months, I've only had one short period where the service was crap (plus one other short period after a nearby transformer blew and took out the phone, TV and electrical lines. Even then, only lost the service for a couple hours).

Pattaya Klang/3rd Road area shouldn't be a problem as that is pretty much where T.o.T. had their main office, and the Communications Authority of Thailand (CAT) is in the same area.

You'll probably need to have a normal phone line installed (3,500 baht ?). Then buy the wireless modem and get your internet connection setup (another couple thousand baht).

Be aware that it won't happen overnight. It could take weeks to get set up. I applied for my phone line in early December '05. My phone was installed about 5 weeks later, and it took almost 3 weeks more before my internet connection was up and running.

Been pretty smooth since then though.

[Ling Kae]

Thanks guys, it sounds like ADSL then a wireless router is the go. Is there no wireless company at all that is any good or is it too unreliable?

[monty]

The only real wireless service is GPRS through mobile phone wich is at best only good as a back up or to check on e-mails.

Slower or sometimes same speed as dial-up, but very unstable, high latency (long ping times) and lots of package loss...

Plus the whole mobile phone network at the moment is not very reliable due to heavy price cutting resulting in use so heavy the networks get overloaded (network busy when you try to call)

[naka]

Thanks guys, it sounds like ADSL then a wireless router is the go. Is there no wireless company at all that is any good or is it too unreliable?

Sounds like you want to go to an office, pay the fees and bingo ... you've got wireless.

Does not work that way, wireless is very short range, only a few tens of meters.

Options are ADSL + Router (you need your own phone line)

Live in a Hotel which has wireless.

Sit in a Bar which has wireless.

Get a sattelite system like iPstar.

Naka.

[Ling Kae]

Thanks guys, it sounds like ADSL then a wireless router is the go. Is there no wireless company at all that is any good or is it too unreliable?

Sounds like you want to go to an office, pay the fees and bingo ... you've got wireless.

Does not work that way, wireless is very short range, only a few tens of meters.

Options are ADSL + Router (you need your own phone line)

Live in a Hotel which has wireless.

Sit in a Bar which has wireless.

Get a sattelite system like iPstar.

Naka.

Does iPstar do sattelite TV as well? Could you get internet and TV from such a service? If you could I think he would be very interested in such a service. Thanks.