Bruce Mangosteen

No worries, mate. See you soon.

Still a while yet. You might have to repair the connection to get the IP address to be assigned. Also, you can check if you're acquiring an IP address: - Right-click the wireless network icon in the task bar (BTW, make sure that your radio is on, and check that there is not a red "X" next to the icon). - Select "Status" - On the window labeled "Local area connection status" click the "Support" tab. It should say something to the effect "Address assigned by DHCP". Compare the assigned IP address with the IP address of the default gateway. They should look similar, most likely the first three fields will be the same. If this is not the case then your computer did not have an address assigned by the network. To attempt to force this to happen, you can repair the connection (right-click the connection icon and select "repair") or: - Click the "Start" button. - Select "Run..." - In the field marked "Open:" type "command" and press <Enter>. This will open a command (DOS) window. - At the DOS prompt, type "ipconfig /renew" (without the quotes) and press <Enter> That should renew the IP address. Again, if all else fails, get the guy back who got it working last time. Being a lazy cunt, this is what I would recommend!

So typical of Microlimp to hide an important function under 23,087 layers of icons, menus, and other hoops to jump through. Cheers. How much longer are you around for?

Cheers, mate.

What he probably did was set the TCP/IP protocol to "automatically obtain IP address". To do that in XP: - Open the "network connections" page. Can be done either from the control panel or by right-clicking the network icon in the system tray. - Find the wireless network connection on the list, right click it, and select "options" from the drop-down menu that appears. - In the box labeled "This connection uses the following items", find the item called "Internet protocol (TCP/IP)", and double-click it. - A window will appear that is called "Internet protocol (TCP/IP) Properties". Click the "General" tab, and select the radio button labeled "Obtain an IP address automatically". - Click "OK" until you have exited everything. That should do the trick. If it doesn't, "repair" the connection as suggested above and try again. If all else fails, fetch the guy who fixed it back and have him fix it again. Good seeing you the other night BTW.

Concur on the rave for this place. I've eaten here twice and enjoyed it both times. The second time the owner (who I know and like) came out toward the end of the evening and we got stuck into a few rounds. Good place, good food, attentive service; highly recommended.

Is there a betting pool about when the building will collapse?

More like frustrated. If 1Mb/s CDMA-based broadband is available here, and it was reasonably reliable, it would be a step UP from what I am presently putting up with. Yep, will do.

It's a measure of my frustration over the present sorry state of the internet provided at VT1 at this time. It was down all day again today.

Thanks for the replies so far guys. I do love my torrents and generally leave the computer online 24/7. Never know when the next job is gonna come! If the throughput is anywhere near 1Mb I will definitely consider it. Looks like real-world experience is relatively thin on the ground (I have this thread on two other boards too), so I might have to go to a CAT/Hutch store, ask questions and have a play. Please keep the comments coming though.

Well, they do claim this, at least in bursts, with a steady-state download speed of about 1Mb/s, which agrees with your observation and would be higher than I get. http://www.globenewswire.com/pa/news.html?d=145263 Of course, due to the microscopic pipe between Thailand and the outside world, the internal internet speed is generally not the primary limitation on overall throughput for most farangs (although they claim to be about to upgrade that). Yup, a trip to Tuc Com is on the cards soon. I was hoping to get some real-world insight before I went though. Thanks for the reply.

My GF was watching the tube this morning and I noticed some mentions of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) technology available in Thailand. A little poking showed that two companies support this technology, CAT Telecom and Hutch. If the technology is reasonably reliable and fast, I'd switch to it over the internet I presently have here in VT1. They recently "upgraded" it to about 1/3 of the speed it once had (about 800Kb/s, down from nearly 3Mb/s), and it's also very unreliable, the gateway asks me to re-login about 3x per day. It's also expensive at about 1500 baht per month for a one-month ticket. An alternative wouldn't have to be all that fast to be worth considering; especially if it was cheaper. From what I gather, CDMA 1x gives about 150Kilobit/s throughput down and about 100kb/s up. That is very slow compared to what I have now. However, with the newer technology, CDMA 1xEV-DO Rev A, they claim a throughput of 3.1Mb/s. If the throuhput is what they claim, the price is anywhere near 1500 baht/month and the service doesn't stop responding every few hours and ask me to log in again, it will be worth considering; ESPECIALLY because it means I wouldn't have to search high and low for the internet everywhere I go. Hutch and CAT have some sort of coverage sharing agreement, and between them claim to cover 70% of Thailand, including all heavily populated and industrialized areas. I guess the competing technology in the GSM world would be GPRS 2.5G ("BEST"). From what I can gather, this is much slower than CDMA 1xEV-DO Rev A. This is an open call to anyone out there that has experience with either of these technologies (or any other possibilities) in Thailand to tell what you know about them. What's the cost, what plans are on offer (including prepay), have you used them, what was your experience, how was the throughput and coverage etc.? This sort of technology could provide a low-cost alternative to the idiotically-priced internet access in some hotels, give guys internet access in the airports for no extra charge, etc. Thanks in advance for telling everybody what you know!

We'll be there as usual. BTW, the girl in your avatar wouldn't happen to be... ?

I remember it as having great food. Might have to try it again myself. Unfortunately, that'll pretty much guarantee that I never try it. Who said that? AFAIK it opened something like 3 years ago.

I haven't eaten there since just after it opened. It was excellent then; glad to know the quality hasn't slipped. Greg is a friend and an excellent harp player. After opening the GARCo here he did indeed move to Hua Hin (to open a GARCo there) for a spell. Can't imagine he's doing all that well in the Tony's food court as it seems to be deserted whenever I pass. Good luck to him though.

They opened it into the teeth of the airport closure and the economic meltdown and the red shirt ASEAN protests and the airport duty-free scam exposure and the H1N1 flu nightmare and a whole host of other misfortunes. I don't think anybody could have predicted that the last 6 months would consist of one problem after another for Thai tourism. Who knows if Shooters could have continued the kind of steady growth we were enjoying in these conditions?

I'll be there to teach you how to drink!

None better in town than Real Divers. http://www.real-divers.com/ Owned by two brothers, Pete and Neil, along with their dad Dave. Very experienced instructors. I took my open water cert from Pete and it was fantastic. Two thumbs WAAAAAAAAAAY up!

How is MJ like Walmart? He has boys underwear half off. How is MJ not like Eric Clapton? He pulled his kid in off the balcony. How is MJ unlike acne? Acne waits until they're teens before coming on their faces.

Most websites aren't set up for any particular aspect ratio. Because the browser will rearrange the site to match the horizontal size of the window, doing that isn't an easy thing to do, or even possible in some cases. Concerning how much you see vertically, again that has nothing to do with the aspect ratio of the monitor. It is dictated by the window size again, and also the screen resolution. At 2 years old the computer in question will no doubt be capable of handling the wide-aspect (16:9) screen. It might be capable of resolutions that the computer isn't though, so read the documentation before setting it up.

Give Ken regards from Ray who used to own Shooters. I'll try to make it, but definitely will see him during his trip.

It's a nice amp. I had it on 3 other boards, but some guy on Thaivisa (which I am not on) was looking for one and davethailand and another BM hooked us up.

Amp now sold.

Fender Blues Jr Guitar Amp. Blues style tube amp. All tube 15 watt combo amp with single 12" speaker. Very low hours. These list for $575 (about 21,000 baht) in the USA. Black. With cover. Price: 14,000 baht. Offers by PM please. Sample pic:

Pics showing fine for me mate. Make sure your browser is set to automatically show pictures? What error are you getting? Later edit: Nevermind. The pics are uploaded to a different board (Addicts) and hotlinked from there. If you're not a member of that board and logged in there I don't think you'll be able to see them.