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sinom

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  1. The road running parallel with the railway is completely separate from the extension of highway nr. 7...

    It is being build by army engineering teams, and is indeed planned to alleviate Sukhumvit congestion.

    No bridges planned, the road will run simply parallel with the railroad.

    Believing all that is said is true. I notice at the end/middle of the construction works, at the Siam Country club road rail crossing, it all just kind of "comes together". I watch with interest to see what will happen at this junction.

    What no bridges ?

  2. what really amazes me with fire engines and ambulances is that no one moves out the way for them, i maybe wrong but i am sure it is an offence in the uk not to move over. The number of times you see ambulances (and i am sure the same for fire engines) with their sirens blazing and no-one moves out the way, there could be some one dying in the back, a little bit of education and i am sure a lot more lives would be saved in Thailand each year.

    BB

    My wife was amazed that people pull over for ambulances and fire trucks here in the U.S.

    Some sort of public education is badly needed.

    Incredible that a nation of 95% Buddhists can be so selfish.

    Perhaps also some education to abulance and fire truck drivers to only use lights and sirens when neccessary so to avoid "the boy who cried wolf" syndrome ?

    :o

  3. Why you don't use an Out-door antennea with 10 or up dBi?

    I using an 8 dBi Antenna mounted outside on the wall, grounded, and can use the signal around 300 meter!!

    The cost for an Out-Door antenna 10 dBi ist ~ 3,000 Baht while the 8 dBi I use is 2,200 Baht! Importand is the quality of the Cable and groundig (for my opinion)!

    sounds possible - would have to llok into this as a final option if no others available - still fancy the repeater option. just about to undertake some netstumbling - we'll see where this leads. Basically I'm looing for a clean and simple installation.

    From Peter991 - don't know how to do multiple replies yet so it's CTRL C

    Just another thought: I know you want WiFi, but do you OWN or are you RENTING your house in Pattaya?

    If you own it (or have a long-tern rental), have you considered running a blue LAN cable from the upstairs to the downstairs?

    You have a 4 port router (the same as I have - but I have a D-Link). I have the wireless router in my Office and have wireless to the Reception area and ran 100 metres of LAN cable to my room at the other end of the building.

    Peter

    It's my own house - I chose not to install LAN cables around the house. Being an engineer I hate wires and just love the wireless concept. Eventually when the coffers are reloaded I'll run bigger and better / more comprehensive networks (plus when I learn a bit more about it!!)

    thanks for the advice

    Sinom

  4. Another word of advice - if you are so inclined, you can play with antenna placement. Very easy if you have a laptop.

    Just put Netstumbler on the laptop and measure the signal strength everywhere in the house by walking around slowly. Netstumbler has two values that are important: S/N and S/N+. S/N is the current signal to noise ratio, anything over 30 will work fine. S/N+ is the best S/N ratio Netstumbler has picked up from the network.

    The important thing about S/N ratio is not so much the total strength but how stable it is. That is, if there are "holes" or sudden outages in the coverage, it's not good. Going down or up is OK, but disappearing completely even for just a second is not good (no stable connection possible).

    Then, you can put your Zyxel router in different places - for example, downstairs, put it on a high shelf or high up on the wall, with nothing in the way. I have seen people hide their router under the bed, or in the closet and wonder about bad coverage. Truth is, WiFi is very good when there's line of sight but anything in the way will absorb the signal more or less. It can penetrate one or two walls, but not much more.

    Pre-N routers (MiMo) will be way, way better about this, but unless your laptop already has it built-in you will need an external USB card or something and it's not going to be convenient so I would rather go with router + repeater and a normal 802.11b/g network for the time being. MiMo routers have a compatibility mode for older WiFi cards of course, but then they lose all of their advantages and become normal routers, except more expensive.

    as stated in my earlier reply - I'm locked into "g" hardware at the moment and don't want an expensive upgrade solution at this time.

    I'll have a stumble around tonight to see if I can map out my signal pattern to optimise router location (laptop in one hand beer in the other :o )

    I like your suggestions on repeaters and I still feel this is the way I would like to go. I do know a couple of hardware shops in Pattaya that might be able to help me but feel I should be a bit more "savvy" before tackling them.

    My router is a Zyxel P-660-HW i think (not the 661 - but will have to double check). I already tried a few searches for Zxyel repeaters but came up empty handed. Any further thoughts?

    cheers

  5. You can use a second router in bridge mode, try moving the router closer to the stairs first though to see if that helps.

    Another more permanent solution would be to switch to a router and wireless cards that run 'N' protocol. The range is much better than 'G'.

    thanks for the suggestion. I'm running two laptops and one desktop as a normal setup, plus other guests. All my hardware is "g" protocol only it would be too expensive to changeout at this time.

    I will continue to play around with router location and extension wires to see if I can get an improvement, but feel a repeater should be the way to go.

  6. Scenario : Living in a large two storey detached house in Pattaya area. Using a Zyxel four port wireless router to connect to TT&T's Maxnet (1024 package). Generally very happy with the service except for the coverage I get from my router around the house.

    i.e. when connected to an upstairs telephone socket the signal strength received by a device in the upstairs area is very good, but the downstairs area is very poor. This is oviously due to the amount of steel and concrete in my walls and floors.

    Can anybody advise an easy solution for providing good WLAN coverage in both upstairs and downstairs areas from a single telephone connecton i.e WLAN repeaters / extenders / boosters / bigger antenna etc.

    I don't know what commercial products are available for such cases and do not know where to find good tech support in Pattaya area.

    Any advice would be gratefully received

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