Good wifi/ADSL condo

[payoff71 0]

Looking for a place with very solid ADSL for a longer term stay.

Any suggestions?

Best connection I ever had in pats was at secrets wifi but I'd go mad if I had to stay there longer than 1 week

[upena 2]

unsecured wifi is everywhere in Pattaya

[Obsession 571]

unsecured wifi is everywhere in Pattaya

What about the passwords?

[js007 795]

I wouldn't go so far as to say there is unsecured WiFi "everywhere" in Pattaya. Sure, you may find it, but not everywhere. When I was staying on Soi LK Metro my laptop could pick up four or five signals, but they were all password protected.

 

 

J

[dv34917 13]

Wireless internet is available in many places, but almost all are hotels. There are a few new condos/apartments that have been built in the past year around CarreFour. They run about 8K per month and allegedly have wireless installed. Has anyone lived in such a complex with wireless or adsl already installed?

 

Two years ago I tried renting at View Talay and then getting adsl installed. After 6 weeks it still did not work and I had to move to a hotel. If anyone knows of a condo with internet already working, I would love to hear about it.

[Obsession 571]

What about the passwords?

I just realised after I posted that you wouldnt need a password if its unsecure Doh. I think I win dumb post of the month

I was thinking of the lk metro area too. I knew a BM who stayed in Chaiyapoon and picked up all the local hotels.

[Eneukman 1]

I have ADSL in View Talay through TOT. Given a choice, I think I'd be inclined to go for TT&T as TOT's quality of service is shite.

 

Alan

[valentinoxxx 4]

I just realised after I posted that you wouldnt need a password if its unsecure Doh. I think I win dumb post of the month

 

Not necessarily. You'll find that there are unsecured networks, such as My Cyberpoint which require a username/password combination to obtain access beyond the log in page.

[Obsession 571]

Not necessarily. You'll find that there are unsecured networks, such as My Cyberpoint which require a username/password combination to obtain access beyond the log in page.

 

Thanks.

[joekicker 53]

I have ADSL in View Talay through TOT. Given a choice, I think I'd be inclined to go for TT&T as TOT's quality of service is shite.

 

BUT TOT is the only one that gives you wireless out of the box, plug-and-go.

 

If you're a full-on laptop person, you should look at TOT, and find out the level of service in your neighbourhood.

[ilovethailand 0]

The new McDonalds...wide open as of a couple of weeks ago and fast.

[jackcorbett 2]

Wireless internet is available in many places, but almost all are hotels. There are a few new condos/apartments that have been built in the past year around CarreFour. They run about 8K per month and allegedly have wireless installed. Has anyone lived in such a complex with wireless or adsl already installed?

 

Two years ago I tried renting at View Talay and then getting adsl installed. After 6 weeks it still did not work and I had to move to a hotel. If anyone knows of a condo with internet already working, I would love to hear about it.

 

 

My pal Ross just stayed two months at a place just up the street from me for 6000 baht per month. This is a new place and it's kept spotless. Its wireless Internet service worked out pretty well for him although he did have to pay a little extra to be able to access it, for his electric and his cable t.v. all of which still kept his total monthly bill to less than 8000 baht per month. We tested the wireless there with both our laptops before he moved in. There are five floors there and they have two wireless access points per floor with each one being close to the end of the floor. If you stayed in the very center of any floor your signal would be the weakest with the strongest at either end.

 

Regarding Alan's comment about TOT and TTNT, here at Wongamat Residence all condo units are billed 130 baht per month for Internet service. This is to spread the cost for our common internet service from TOT over the 60 units including the shops. It can and sometimes does reach and even exceed 1000 kps. But the service is pretty unreliable. For this reason I bought an additional line in my condo with TTNT for which I pay 1200 baht per month. It started off at 256 kps download but a few months ago TTNT speeded it up to 512. It is definitely more reliable than what my fellow co-owners have but even it will go down, but when it does all I have to do is to switch lines and change my ip settings which takes just a couple of minutes. Total setup for this including modem was 8000 baht however.

 

Recently a couple of my fellow co-owners complained to me about having to do without internet service for several days in a row. This experience used to be quite common for me. OUr building had tried two different internet suppliers before with equally dismal results. I told these two co-owners what I had done and that I had paid 8000 baht up front for the new service from TTNT, and that I had thoroughly tested the comparative speeds of the old service versus the new with the new much more expensive service (for me) averaging speeds four times faster. But these two co-owners had mumbled something about doing likewise (someday). So here they were recently complaining to me. I suppose they expected to get comparable performance to what I'm getting for 1200 baht per month for the measly 130 baht per month they are currently paying.

[Obsession 571]

My pal Ross just stayed two months at a place just up the street from me for 6000 baht per month. This is a new place and it's kept spotless.

Do you know the name of the place. Ive been trying to get a place for a stay of a few months, but some are wanting long contracts. Thanks.