High Speed Internet

[leemo 0]

Sorry in advance, I tried to locate my earlier thread on the subject and only managed to get as far as here.

 

I previously asked for help/advice/guidance to an unlimited reliable high speed net access for home use. There were several replies, and I checked out some of them (losing the rest, see above), though none were suitable mainly due to providers not servicing View Talay 2.

 

 

Update:

 

ToT, my telco, offer a high speed service though not for Jomtien. They have been asking me to call again each 2-4 months since March, and the latest, yesterday, prised a promise that they 'might' cover parts of Jomtien in February, though not necessarily VT2.

 

TT&T cannot service VT2, even if I bought a line from them, and apparently have no plans to extend cover until late next year.

 

Loxinfo guided me to Watana in Pattaya Tai, but they can't help short of an 18,000 baht + monthlies satellite connection, and even so they finally conceded no guarantee on reliablity or performance.

 

Through PEC, I found my way to Liberty Computers who are plugging Kat Telecom that do cover not only Jomtien but also VT2 (gasp!), with one line devoted to a maximum of 10 users. Unfortunately the last tenth part of their last available line was taken up by some bastard on my floor last Tuesday, and they don't expect to have any more lines until April, at best.

 

The bumf I got from AsiaNet looks ridiculously expensive (10000/15000/20000 pcm + startup + extras for 128/64 256/128 and 512/256 respectively). They also advise that their ADSL only works on a TT&T line.

 

 

1 - Can anyone help?

2 - Is it only me, or a general corporate mallaise/disinterest in Pattaya?

 

 

leemo

[Eneukman 1]

Leemo,

 

I hope you find a solution to your problems. They are a bit disconcerting though as I'm looking at becoming one of your neighbours within the next 7 months or so.

 

Alan

[leemo 0]

Great - so you're not the bastard.

 

Welcome.

 

 

leemo

[leemo 0]

Leemo,

 

I hope you find a solution to your problems. They are a bit disconcerting though as I'm looking at becoming one of your neighbours within the next 7 months or so.

 

Alan

Opt for the beach side if you have the choice. Aside from the view you can then install satellite, which for some ungodly reason is not available to us in the other half. Nope, we're stuck with Sophon cable, much like crunching on taketan outside the Pig & Whistle.

 

 

leemo

[SunnyValentine 173]

Leemo, I might be wrong on this, but: All I heard of was that TTT is now covering most of Pattaya at least East of Sukhumvit. I also heard that there are shortages on TTT lines in VT 2.

In order to get a DSL connection you need (as far as I know, and I checked this quite thoroughly this summer when I moved here (stay at a house about 300 Meters away from VT2))

1.) TTT line. Costs some 3000 Bt for install and minimum 100 Bt monthly costs (wnen you don't use it as phone)

2.) Free Modem capacity for your line of numbers at TTT. They assume some 5 or 10% of their phone line subscribers might want DSL, so put some 5 or 8 Modem lines for every 100 lines in their exchanges. Heard that they add more when they feel demand.

I got the first one in my compound some 3 month ago, now they are already full, my neighbor is being told to wait 2 or 3 month.

3.) A DSL provider. There are several in the market, I use Jinet and it works very well, a 512/256 connection with unlimited time and Volume costs me 2600 Bt a month, a 256/128 is available for around 1500 Bt.

 

Forget TOT. They will never get their act together.

I suggest you try to get a TTT line first, then contact TTT with the wish to get DSL. You will be put on some kind of waiting list. When (and if) they contact you saying they have capacity go chose a provider.

 

Sunny

[leemo 0]

Leemo, I might be wrong on this, but: All I heard of was that TTT is now covering most of Pattaya at least East of Sukhumvit. I also heard that there are shortages on TTT lines in VT 2.

In order to get a DSL connection you need (as far as I know, and I checked this quite thoroughly this summer when I moved here (stay at a house about 300 Meters away from VT2))

1.) TTT line. Costs some 3000 Bt for install and minimum 100 Bt monthly costs (wnen you don't use it as phone)

2.) Free Modem capacity for your line of numbers at TTT. They assume some 5 or 10% of their phone line subscribers might want DSL, so put some 5 or 8 Modem lines for every 100 lines in their exchanges. Heard that they add more when they feel demand.

I got the first one in my compound some 3 month ago, now they are already full, my neighbor is being told to wait 2 or 3 month.

3.) A DSL provider. There are several in the market, I use Jinet and it works very well, a 512/256 connection with unlimited time and Volume costs me 2600 Bt a month, a 256/128 is available for around 1500 Bt.

 

Forget TOT. They will never get their act together.

I suggest you try to get a TTT line first, then contact TTT with the wish to get DSL. You will be put on some kind of waiting list. When (and if) they contact you saying they have capacity go chose a provider.

 

Sunny

It's no bother to install a second line for the convenience of a decent connection, but TT&T told me they cannot service VT2 with ADSL even if I had a TT&T phone line.

 

Your post suggets they do in fact service VT2 - but with a line shortage - which sets off an entirely different ball game since at least I could go onto their waiting list, subject of course to having a high speed service once their line is installed. Thanks, I'll check that out.

 

Do you have a contact number for Jinet?

 

I think you're right about ToT. As the equivalent of BT, they think they're the bee's knees and can give their customers a secondrate service. And as with BT, they'll pay for it over the long term, once the effects come through of the competition exploiting this weakness.

 

Many thanks.

 

 

leemo

[SunnyValentine 173]

Of course maybe VT2 is the one excemption, and they cannot service it at all. But I never heard of that. (But also don't know anyone who runs DSL from VT2. As a matter of fact, I only know one guy who lives in VT2. No, stop, I think there are 2, but one of them is internet illiterate).

Where did you get information on TTT? At the Carrefour shop? My experience there is a hit and miss. Coming back with the same question the next day usually revelas a totally different answer .....

 

Sunny

 

PS Jinet Number is 038 783793

[leemo 0]

Of course maybe VT2 is the one excemption, and they cannot service it at all. But I never heard of that. (But also don't know anyone who runs DSL from VT2. As a matter of fact, I only know one guy who lives in VT2. No, stop, I think there are 2, but one of them is internet illiterate).

Where did you get information on TTT? At the Carrefour shop? My experience there is a hit and miss. Coming back with the same question the next day usually revelas a totally different answer .....

 

Sunny

 

PS Jinet Number is 038 783793

I dropped in for a chat at the Carrefour office...tx for tip and also Jinet's #, will try again tomorrow with a different angle.

 

 

leemo

[Eneukman 1]

Opt for the beach side if you have the choice. Aside from the view you can then install satellite, which for some ungodly reason is not available to us in the other half. Nope, we're stuck with Sophon cable, much like crunching on taketan outside the Pig & Whistle.

 

 

leemo

 

Thanks for that tip, Leemo. I'll bear it in mind when I'm out condo hunting.

 

Alan