USB modem/Dongle use for Internet

[Big Boy]

I bought one last year at the top floor of Market Village. Page 44 of the Digital Surgery has details including photographs.
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NB: Scroll down the page to the AIS stick

[BaaBaa.]

Thanks BB

Just thinking of a scenario whereby I move back to Isaan

I didn't end up going to the boonies Richard so can't help.

I've mainly got H in Takiab though and if not it's 3G.

[hollister]

Had a Huaway Dongle for two years which however got lost buy the family. Now I am using my iPhone 4s with AIS 1-2-call prepaid SIM and unlimited Internet at thb 799 per month. I just toggle Hotspot to on and can connect both our Macbook and iPad to it. In key areas they feature a 3G signal with speeds of 400Kbps up and down a tested by me. A little outside of cities like at the floating market it droppes back to Edge.

[usual suspect]

My wife bought me a dongle for Xmas 2 yrs ago from the AIS phone shop..the signal/speed was crap, it worked out at about 90B/min..yes the tariff worked out more that an international call!!
Put a True Move Sim in..still crap internet speed, and almost same rip-off tarrif..when challenged back at the shop they just shrugged & gave me another sim card and another tarif..still crap..so binned the dongle due to being fed up of slow speeds (Hin Lek Fai area)..and top-up credit lasting no time at all..

[BaaBaa.]

799b, unlimited with AIS in Takiab, spot on, not much slower than UK.

[Super Joe]

Put a True Move Sim in..still crap internet speed, and almost same rip-off tarrif..when challenged back at the shop they just shrugged & gave me another sim card and another tarif..still crap..so binned the dongle due to being fed up of slow speeds (Hin Lek Fai area)..and top-up credit lasting no time at all

AIS 3G devices operate at 900MHz and True's is on 850MHz, so the True SIM will not get 3G in an AIS device AFAIK.

My wife bought me a dongle for Xmas 2 yrs ago from the AIS phone shop..the signal/speed was crap, it worked out at about 90B/min..yes the tariff worked out more that an international call!!

This is for everyone considering buying one really... imo you bought a 3G capable device but not a 3G service... I did the exact same thing. I don't know how it all works so it may 'technically' be a '3G' service, but they throttle the speeds right down, so for all intents and purposes it ain't 3G. It's pants. It's like buying a Fewwawi and putting a 1.3L MkII Escort engine in it, or some appropriate analogy
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They still do it now look...
AIS Aircard 3G 7.2Mbps -- Maximum speed is 1 Mbps with unlimited use. Maximum speed of 3G is reduced to 384 Kbps after 3 GB is finished
... so a 7.2Mbps device is sold with a 1Mbps maximum speed. That's pants. But at least it's 'unlimited'.... until you use 3 GB's It's about as 3G as a big pair of Marks & Sparks Y-fronts.

I get 3G from TrueMove on the mobile (699 Baht/month post pay) which regularly gets speeds of 6+Mbps (2kms down Soi 94) until the quota's used up. That's more like 3G to me. Incidentally after the quota of 3GB is used up it reverts to EDGE at exactly 343Kbps everytime... this speed they are calling '3G' above!?!? 3G can be good in Hua Hin imho, I just did a TOT Broadband speedtest on laptop and got 4.2Mbps, but got better on TrueMove 3G with mobile...

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FYI, AIS 3G coverage 'map'...

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Additionally FYI, I've just listened to this so I'm going out now. The relevant part is the piano riff@1:52


SJ

[PJG]

Sorry am not very technical but just got a Huawei dongle from Lotus costing B1500. Installed a truemove 3g sim bought from a booth with a B99 package then registered the sim at the truemove booth. Could not understand why the Truemove booth did not sell the sims, only registered them. Live in Kho Takiep and am getting reasonable speeds when outside the house but rubbish when indoors.

[usual suspect]

Cheers for that Super Joe..I may now start looking down the back 0 the sofa, in the junk-drawers to find the dongle & give it another test-drive... Happy new Yr to you & your's. U.S.

[Super Joe]

I'm still waiting to see any benefit of "upgrading" to TrueMove H, since I understand that the iPhone4 is phyisically limited to a maximum download speed of 7.2Mpbs, which I already get with the "old" TrueMove.

Mate who has the new True-H 3G just done a few speedtests and generally was getting 2Mbps faster than my True 3G. This not too far from Grand Market, both S2. He got this pretty impressive 7.74Mbps...

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SJ

[buksida]

That's testing to Bangkok, of course you'll get close to the max speed (its only using Thai internal infrastructure). To get an accurate bandwidth speed test you need to test to an international server (since 99% of what we farangs do online comes from servers outside of Thailand), preferably one that is far away such as the west coast of the US - I always use LA as the standard when using that website.