Cheap-ass Wifi from 3BB - 10 cents a day

[Grandpollo]

I am in town at the RG who had a mishap with internet on Saturday, where nobody could connect (now working).

 

There are a lot of SSID (wi-fi access points) visible, many are 3BB and I think are all hosted at the Family Mart.

 

Anyway to see how to hook up to a 3BB site I found their guide and the basic cost is 99 baht for unlimited service per month. Not 99 per day for a month, but 99B for the whole month - basically 3.3 Baht/day.

 

You send a SMS to 4825358 with the only message the letter A. This seems to not matter if you are AIS or DTAC as this 3BB looks like some joint initiative.

 

They reply with a username and password good for a month. And charge 99B to your phone. There are 3BB hotspots all over Pattaya so with an iPhone or Galaxy (e.g. something you may cart around with you) this adds a fair amount of connectivity at a cost of basically dick-all.

 

If you can see any access point that says 3BB something or APS something then you can switch your computer or phone to that access point, see if there is a good signal and if so, send the SMS and get your wi-fi fix for 30 days.

 

If you lived close enough to one it would be cheaper than paying for wi-fi in your own house.

 

Speeds are good (as good as RG has been).

 

Here are the instructions for the umpteen ways to get an ID. If you are AIS customer they will do a recurring deal for 25B a week vs. the whole, huge 99B at once. But I have no idea how you'd stop that. There are also prepaid cards with limited time per card but they are close in price to this monthly thing I wouldn't bother. 3BB WiFi - Packages and Promotions.pdf

Edited March 10, 2013 by Grandpollo

[cannonball83204]

Thanks for the info, that will be a great deal when I am in Pattaya next.

 

CB

[bigdelta]

Great-thanks for sharing.Amazing nobody found this before.

[short]

Up to 10MB/sec

[short]

Anybody find a map locating the hot spots?

[js007]

Sound too good to be true?

[Parkwahn]

Sound too good to be true?

 

Does, if you lived near a hot spot cancel 3bb I have found them very good ... Need to check this out

[CheshireTom]

Anybody find a map locating the hot spots?

 

On the website ...

 

 

 

 

[Grandpollo]

Anybody find a map locating the hot spots?

The 3BB site has a map with so many hotspots marked you cannot see the streets so there must be a lot.

 

I have no idea why there are 4 coming from Family Mart alone.

 

After 24 hours you are logged out but the minute you select the site or pick that hotspot again your web browser logs you back in again. That happened this morning.

[Grandpollo]

Up to 10MB/sec

 

Up to is how they love to specify speed as that can also mean "not 10". Also data speeds are quoted in mb/s not MB/sec (megabits are 1/8 the volume of megabytes, or MB)

 

I tested with Apple this morning, who have big files and good servers and downloaded at 400 KB/sec (kilobytes) which is the same as 3,200 kilobits (kb) per second making it 3.2 mb/sec downloads which is not bad for here.

 

It also works fine with Torbrowser for those of you pornophiles, you can see Xhamster and the like and if you add in downloadhelper into the Tor browser you can download videos without the risk of using flash player which would reveal your actual IP address.

 

It is certainly faster and more consistently so than the RG network.

[jacko]

Up to is how they love to specify speed as that can also mean "not 10". Also data speeds are quoted in mb/s not MB/sec (megabits are 1/8 the volume of megabytes, or MB)

 

I tested with Apple this morning, who have big files and good servers and downloaded at 400 KB/sec (kilobytes) which is the same as 3,200 kilobits (kb) per second making it 3.2 mb/sec downloads which is not bad for here.

 

It also works fine with Torbrowser for those of you pornophiles, you can see Xhamster and the like and if you add in downloadhelper into the Tor browser you can download videos without the risk of using flash player which would reveal your actual IP address.

 

It is certainly faster and more consistently so than the RG network.

Wouldn't that be 'M' not 'm' ? 'M' being the abbreviation for Mega, 'm' being used for milli.If I see 'mb'...I would think millibar.

All just too confusing, bits/bytes,Baud.......

[Grandpollo]

What is the norm, though hardly cast in stone is mb is megabits. MB is megabytes. kb is kilobits, KB is kilobytes.

 

Baud used to be a proxy for bits per second but not realy, and a 56K baud modem was quite the device at one time, Today that is internet at .056 mb/sec, pretty pokey.

 

Japan and Korea allegedly have near 100 mb/sec internet via fibre as quite typical. Most in home LAN/ethernet networks are 100mb/sec so that would be internet as fast as a home network.

[losgrad]

Thanks for 3BB WiFi info. I use 3bb ISP service in my condo, but was using the DTAC WiFi on a smartphone - 100 baht per 30 days with 20 hour limit total. I'll try the 3bb next month.

 

[Trvlr]

Has anyone used this other than the OP? Not meaning to question the veracity of what he said - it is a useful post - but some supporting posts will be helpful.

Is the speed fine? Are there plenty of hotspots...

[Regyai]

http://www.ais.co.th/ictfreewifi/

 

 

AIS (12Call) users Register here and get 5 hours free on the 3BB hotspots

 

Save speculating with a whole 99THB to find out

 

 

Patts has loads of hotspots....BKK a bit thinner on the ground

Edited June 1, 2013 by Regyai