Hotel or service appartment with High speed fiber internet

[Nw84]

Hi guys i am staying in Bangkok for a couple of months and i am looking for a hotel or service appartment with high speed fiber internet. Because i want to be able to stream tv and sports, which i am unnable to do at my current location.

Thanks in advance

//T

[RichCor]

You'll probably need to be a bit more specific on your question.

What AREA of Bangkok? What are you paying now (or willing to pay)?

A 'couple of months' is really short time. Have you thought about paying for Mobile Internet for that period?

[Nw84]

Thanks for the answer Rich. I am currently staying at Thong loh and i am paying 65 000 B for a two bedroom appartment with my friend. We are looking for a place around Suwkumit 11-63 preferably. But we are open to other options. We are probably willing to pay a maximum 90 000 baht a month. Yea i was looking at the mobile internet solutions, but i was unsure if they were good enough to stream soccer games and stuff like that over it ? and arent they capped at like 3-10G for Max speed ?

Thanks in advance

/T

[RichCor]

Haven't personally taken advantage of the Serviced Accommodations in that area of the city, but Google shows:

Ariva Ivy Servizio Thonglor

Montara

Oakwood Thonglor

President Solitaire

Somerset

Unfortunately their websites don't mention private Internet connections, only 'free-WiFi in the common areas' which is NOT what you're interested in.

I mentioned the 3G/LTE Mobile as an option, as many hotels that provide Internet (or WiFi) have all of the building's clients share the same service, so a Mobile Internet connection may prove to be faster.

The 3G and LTE Mobile Internet signal and service speed can be very good in and around Bangkok.

The issue, though, involves how much data you can contract and consume at high-speed before the service either ends or you are reset to the snails-pace 'Fair-Use' speed for the remainder of the contract period (say 30-days) before the package is allowed to renew and resuming at the faster rate. So if you selected 3GB for 500 baht, and consumed that 3GB of data in the first week then that account is reduced down to snails pace somewhere below 384kbps for the remainder of the 30-day contract period.

One way many people manage this is to purchase MULTIPLE SIM Cards and rotate through them during the month so they can maintain a constant subscribed speed, switching to the next SIM Card so they don't have to wait out the 30 days till the account renews and the higher speed kicks back in. Some people have found it easier to purchase and use a 3G/LTE Portable/Personal Hotspot device (that can connect up-to 5 WiFi clients) then use the multiple SIM Cards with that to stay connected.

Currently the big three Mobile Services have:

True Move H (LTE upto 100mbps) 14GB / 1100 baht

AIS 3G (3G speed) 10GB / 1700 baht

DTAC (3G at maximum speed 42Mbps) 12GB / 800 baht

Note that Mobile Internet are also SHARED SERVICES so high speed is dependent on concurrent users and load.

International Internet Gateway throughput speed to other countries will be no better than one would get from a fixed ISP.

[Nw84]

Thanks for the good and detailed answer. The mobile internet True Move H sounds really interesting and i will definitely check it out.

Thanks again.

//T

[draftvader]

Less technical and more Bangkok specific. Moving to Bangkok forum.

[uptoeleven]

Problem with any kind of shared internet connection is that you're always up against whoever's using it to share torrents.

Right now I'm using a dtac happy PAYG SIM - onto which I load their "6GB + 6GB free" (so that'd be 12G then) Add-on which is 799 baht / month plus some kind of nonsense tax - it comes to around 865 baht for 12GB.

When it runs out I delete it from my account and buy another one for 865 bhat. I'm probably spending more or less 2000 baht / month but the bandwidth is pretty solid. I was watching footie last night on it. I watched the football on it on Saturday evening which is traditionally a busy net time in Thailand, no problems.

Make sure you get a room with a window with a reasonable view (if you can see the mobile tower / transmitter so much the better), and a long cable for your internet dongle (or use a phone set to hotspot mode).

[uptoeleven]

@disambiguated

It probably depends where you are, I'm on Pridi (Sukhumvit Soi 71) in a residential area and my nearest big condos are about half a mile away. So where I am, I can watch streamed football through a 3G connection. I can get about 10 megabits per second downstream on most days, it does depend how you're watching your sports and if you're using dedicated systems like XBMC which seem to be able to squeeze the last drop out of bandwidth (I don't but some do).

The issue with tv and sports is always going to be contention. For the most part mobile data is hideously over-contended in the heavily built-up areas, just like the rest of the internet is in Thailand. The trick is to find parts of town where that bottle-neck (which in Bangkok is mostly local under-provision) is relieved due to a lower number of people in that area using the mobile bandwidth-to-the-mast and backhaul from mast to local exchange. Beyond that there's not a great deal you can do.

If you're in a condo you're at an immediate disadvantage because you're bound to be sharing what little availability there IS with vast numbers of inhabitants of the condos who also can't get online through whatever crappy wifi is provided by the condo.

[fundudewithatude]

I am in the same boat as you are...or were! I found a few places, go to http://www.thaiapartment.com/apartment/kv-mansion-sukhumvit-81--3783

They have a 2 BR suite there that has a dedicated 40MB LAN and WiFi internet for your suite, and they do monthly rentals as well. Also just roam the site, go to advanced search options and put in what you are looking for.

Good luck!

[fundudewithatude]

Oh and forgot to add...for a 2 BR double room place there it is only $20k baht!