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hawksway

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  1. Coffee, once ground, deteriorates much more quickly than roasted, which in my experience, will last and keeps its flavour for up to 6 Months, especially if you use a zip lock bag and store in the fridge. Coffee is expensive in Thailand and its quality is highly variable. If you go Home to Europe for a spell, do buy a kilogram or two of a decent quality Arabica Coffee. Colombian Supremo is an excellent medium blend. Bean to Cup coffee machines from DeLonghi are on sale at Central Plaza locations. These make perfect coffee to taste with great convenience but at 4 times the price you get one from Europe. It's almost worth making a special trip back Home just to buy one.

  2. The Boy's age of 12 years may be significant. I believe that Children of Immigrants are not easily accepted for settlement in the UK once they reach the age of 13 and it would seem that perhaps you will be making such an application once he arrives here on a visitors visa.

    You may also be interested to know that British Airways is internationally known for its care of young travellers from check-In through to collection at the destination by the Parent's authorised representatives. If such an application has been made to the British Embassy in Bangkok, this could prejudice any visitors visa that you may make.

    If all you are doing is a straight forward visitors visa then there should not be any difficulty provided you give the usual undertakings that the young man will return to Thailand; your stated circumstances as you say have changed.

  3. Rules keep changing and it's difficult to catch up; even then, the rules get tightened or relaxed depending on the Immigration Points.

    I would take the Cambodian bus from Poipet down to Koh Khong and try to re-enter there. It's a shady looking place, but one where you can get things done for a consideration. If you manage to enter Thailand from there, it's a regular minibus service to Trat Bus Station and fast Thai buses to Bangkok Morchit.

    Short of that take the Plane to Bangkok from Siam Reap or Phnom Penh.

    Good luck

  4. Window Bars are ugly and an escape obstruction, but without them, burglary is almost certain. Having them though slows down break ins and increases the risk of the burglar having to share a room with 20 others.

    Because of the risk of fire make sure you have 2 firexes, one chemical for electrical and foam for cooking fires.

  5. This is a minefield and you should refrain from taking any advice from unqualified opinion on these forums. It's going to cost you, but the most sensible approach is to get an Immigration specialist Lawyer in the UK to handle this for you.

    As always Immigration Officials at UK Border have wide powers of discretion and are being pressurised by the UK Government to apply them conservatively.

  6. VPN does not slow noticeably when accessing data within the Country but due to very low bandwidth at Thailand's international gateway, virtually all traffic will slow right down. Business's often overcome this problem by using high speed leased lines from third party providers.

    3BB are quite good on their responses and if you are experiencing poor performance they can restart the line and increase bandwidth on the fly. Run one the Broadband Checkers to see what you are really getting.

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  7. Standard wiring in Thailand is 2 wire positive/negative. Most Europeans if building from scratch will use three wire plugs and sockets - the additional wire being for earth. If you have desktop PC unearthed then just get an additional wire, screw it to the chassis of the PC passing it through a hole in the wall to the outside and attach it to a small length of rod. Bury it as deep into the soil where it will stay reasonably moist. I did that with my old house and no more shocks. The shocks you are getting are not dangerous on standard computers which use 5V and 3v circuits.

    DENNIS

  8. I have a 12MB DSL 3BB Line and it's good but all depending where you are in the Country. Krabi Node is good but my Friend who is on TOT Fibre really does not see a significant advantage except that the TOT DSL line he had previously was so poor.

    Fibre is most beneficial for accessing sites within Thailand including cached (mirror) ones like Google. Thailand's problem is a lack of bandwidth at the International gateway so performance is very limited accessing foreign sites irrespective of whether your local connection is DSL or Fibre. Internet Providers can be very crafty too by employing "Line Management" to multiplex fibre. Simply this means that your connection may not be as exclusive as you might imagine. If you have a modem rather than what the Provider gives you they may find that not so easy to do. Several Modem/Routers around these day can work with DSL and Fibre, so consider buying from elsewhere.

  9. Best to do a Broadband test to ensure you are getting the speed applicable to your contract. If it's slow then tell 3BB and they can adjust the bandwidth upwards - sort of like adding an extra lane to the road. The fact that you can move it as you did and it works suggests that both locations are on the same DSLAM. You could not do this back in the UK for example but the infrastructure in Thailand may be a bit different.

  10. Seems likely that one of the connectors has developed slight corrosion which should easily be fixed by a visit to Pantip Plaza in Bangkok where these clever Thai Technicians seem able to deal with almost all problems. Sending it to an Apple Centre though is likely to result in a 10K Baht bill. This model in any event has been improved upon with the current line up with far better screens and unless you are an Apple Follower you could have a look at Samsung's Galaxy Range which have the ability to take large capacity SD memory cards. Even the latest IPads do not feature memory upgrades. Some Samsungs even have 4G cellular built in enabling phone calls and usability when away from WiFi areas.

  11. Some Modem/Routers have interchangeable reverse SMA antennas. The existing ones are normally adequate within the house but the gain of these is normally only about 3dbi so going outside means the signal strength falls away quite rapidly. For about 700 Baht at your local computer shop you should be able to buy a 7dbi antenna which will double the reception range. TP-Link is a common brand and they also have antenna at the other end which plugs into the USB port of the Notebook.

    There are other options though but check if your Modem/Router has the external antenna

    DENNIS

  12. There may have been some doubts over the viability some years ago but tourism Thailand has changed a lot since then. We are now talking about linking two very important Tourist areas which in themselves will generate additional business with links to the South and easier access to the Eastern Gulf to Trat and the Cambodian sunshine coast.

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    At the moment the Gulf of Thailand's potential is hardly being tapped from western gulf ports and there is are many possibilities to make ferry connections from Surat Thani to other Islands on the Eastern side and to Sihanoukville Cambodia and Vietnam's Phu Quoc.

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