Aha so there is a problem

February 1st, 2008 by eyal | Filed under Day Trading. | Print This Post Print This Post

Now I know what’s been going on with the internet connection the last couple of days. From ThaiVisa forum:

If you call the true High speed internet customer service line now, You
get a recording saying that CAT telecom has a fault and it is affecting
all internet traffic in thailand..

It’ll probably take a week or two to change from this current awful connection to the previous just-plain-bad connection.

Also a bit of an update on the other alternatives I was looking to check out beginning of 2008 -

1. CSLoxinfo - after checking with them three times and being told that yes I could use their service, when we finally said sign us up it turns out they’re not able to offer broadband in my area.

2. KSC - after being told in November and December that new subscriptions will be possible starting January 15th, we’re now told they aren’t available yet and might take another month.

3. CAT - no word at all from them after repeated attempts (in English and Thai) to find out if they offer boradband in my building.

Not much more I can do other than make some significant changes to how I trade. Maybe I need to look in that direction alongside trying to do the best with the current connection.

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3 Responses to “Aha so there is a problem”

  1. Carlton | 1/02/08

    …or move closer to Sukhumwit / Silom areas… If there is a high speed connection in Thailand, it should be there. Alternatively, team up with some other frustrated farangs, and finance a private underwater cable from Singapore :-)

  2. eyal | 1/02/08

    Moving isn’t really an option for the near future, maybe after I complete a year here I may look at that. Preferably not around Suk though, the pollution there is quite bad. Will need to find somewhere where I can get at least 2 different connection options. Hopefully even a cable + ADSL.

    From the impression I got farangs in Thailand often can hardly finance themselves ;-)

  3. eyal | 1/02/08

    Strange thing, I’m getting lots of websites that aren’t displaying properly. Mainly images are missing and formatting/fonts/colours (CSS?) not loading. But not on all sites. I checked this across 3 browsers and finally noticed that when using a proxy the sites load up ok. I wonder if that’s because of the ISP proxies screwing up things.

    Just saw this news article about damage to underwater cables.

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