Bruce Mangosteen

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.

Turn on your monitor?

Not a lot unusual about people taking pictures in Pattaya restaurants mate.

A sandwich walks into a bar. Bartender says, "Sorry, we don't serve food here." A brain walks into a bar. Bartender says, "I'm not serving you! You're out of your skull already!" A tangled piece of string walks into a bar. It's unraveled and scraggly at one end. Bartender asks. "Say, aren't you a piece of string?" The string replies, "No, afraid not." A horse walks into a bar. Bartender says, "Why the long face?" A termite walks into a bar and asks, "Is the bartender here?" Giraffe walks into a bar and shouts, "Highballs are on me!" A guy walks into a bar. His friend ducks.

It is certainly true that no farang wants to earn or live like a Thai person. However, in Pattaya (and the tourist areas) ALL prices are inflated over the rest of Thailand. However, that is not the only reason. If you don't believe me, you should have a chat with a few farang business owners and ask them about how expensive it is to get the ingredients they want. Or, just take a walk through Villa Market. And IMO it doesn't hold a candle to the farang food in farang-owned places 99% of the time. I'd rather eat Thai food made by Thais than some bad imitation of farang food TBH. That's cheaper yet. Well, maybe, although I don't know what you base this on. Unless of course it's a guess. That being said, as I said, including 3 beers our tab for the entire meal came out to 1400 baht. I don't think that's too much for two people to pay for a delicious dinner of authentic Indian food; in fact I think it's quite reasonable. If you disagree, fine, you are entitled to your opinion.

Why should Indian food in Thailand be as cheap as Thai food? Farang food is more expensive than Thai food too. It has to do with the amount and cost of the ingredients; especially considering of those ingredients are imported. I can't see why this is particularly hard to understand I'm afraid.

Now folks wish neither of these had happened.

There are plenty of free pic hosts out there; solves the problem of running out of attachment space too.

Well, since not everybody is seeing this problem, I would tend to suspect that the problem is local to the machine(s) that are supporting it. Again, as far as I know, logins are almost always handled with cookies. To find out whether the problem is at TFC's end, I would suggest having him tell you his browser version and all his browser settings. PMing you screenshots would be the most efficient way to do that I should think. I would imagine that you would be able to tell him how to change his configuration to avoid this problem if he does that. If his configuration looks OK to you, configure the same version of browser the exact same way and see if you can replicate the problem. If you can, you have a place to start if you think it's fixable from your end. I know that sounds like a lot of work, but it's really the only way to be sure you are replicating his exact problem. Then, if you think the problem is at the board software end, you can disable ALL login-related checks, then enable them one by one, testing for the login problem after enabling each check, until you replicate the problem. That is the classical way to solve a problem like this. However, you first have to have a computer that mimics TFC's symptoms. PS: Yes, I AM a software guy! Sorry if you weren't looking for this level of advice.

Interesting, thanks for that tidbit of information. Could it be time-related?

You don't have to actively delete your cookies for them to be deleted anyway. Note Firefox's options for deleting cookies: