Hi,

Was wondering if anybody knows if it's possible to get any DSL access installed in your home/apartment on Samui? If not available now, any idea when?

I've read the website for that IT Center place, but it seems you can only get access if you rent some of their office space - a move a bit too much just for fast net access.

Cheers,

Insight.

It appears as if only ISDN is available. SamuiNET

You can get ASDL but it a friend who had it in his shop paid 9000BT a month but I think it that may be the installation fee. You can get in installed at home thought. The speed though was only 128K so I didn't bother pursuing it.

However the same company had an advert in the Bangkok Post the other day and they have satellite connection (Star Express) at 512K

All the details are on the website www.csloxinfo.com but I was trying to work out how much it would cost and failed miserably

If you manage to find something can you post it back here?

I could do with something faster than Samart!

I guess if it's only 128k it's in fact ISDN and not DSL.

...plus the cost seems crazy...but hey, that's what you guys get for living on a beautiful island...

It seems that ADSL is still not avaliable even though 3,000 lines are avaliable. To check if you can get an ADSL line go to the TOT web site and type in your phone number, you will be told if your line location can get an ADSL line, same for TT&T web site.

Cost is around 500 baht a month plus about 2,000 baht a month for the ISP provider. There seem to be no firm prices as of yet. You get 128 speed al lot better than regular phone line connections but still have to depend on a phone line.

Most of my customers are using IPStar as am I at my home and office. I down load 10 megabites of data in about 1.3 minutes on avarage.

Download speed for my package is 265/128 DL/UL, pricing is by monthly down load, most use 1.3 gig a month and the cost is 4,500 a month plus 2.5 baht a megabite beyond that. Many packages are avaliable. With this you are on line 24 hrs. a day.

Installation has come down to 10,000 including VAT, but you must pay the ferry fair for the installation technicians to come to Samui.

This system works great and except for really heavy rain the signal is great, down time is minimal and is usually for maintenance in Bangkok, equipment failures are few and far between in our experience.

Thanks

Farang62

Thanks for all the info.

Farang62, I'm in the satcom business (mainly Inmarsat and Iridium) and have hard about IPStar, but the engineer thing was the only issue. Still worth considering though - cheers for the thorough info.

Based in Bangkok right now, just was thinking about the move to Samui and broadband access is one of the key areas.

Installation has come down to 10,000 including VAT, but you must pay the ferry fair for the installation technicians to come to Samui.

This system works great and except for really heavy rain the signal is great, down time is minimal and is usually for maintenance in Bangkok, equipment failures are few and far between in our experience.

Thanks

Farang62

Hey Farang 62, and if you live in Santi Thani, you can even have your phone lines cut, free of charge on a daily basis and pay to have them fixed for only 1,000 bht.

Such a deal!

Rgrds

Mr Vietnam

The last engineer that I had come to my house in Santi Thani told me the problem was that the hill was so steep that the electricity in the telephone cables could not run up it. Maybe I should move lower down the hill....