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I moved into a new place, serviced apts, they installed True wifi claiming 15mbps. This must be "true" because I get 8-10 mbps on speedtest, but only during the day! At night (after 8 pm usually and always after 11 pm) the speed collapses to 2-3 mbps, and eventually dies to 0.1 mbps! Resetting the routers brings some life but only for a few minutes. This is not the result of traffic. The manager is aware of the problem and claims that True hasn't finished their work. Is this an excuse? What could possibly be causing this EVERY NIGHT this week that I've been here? Is True cutting the bandwidth or the connection at night? Any suggestions are welcome.
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A 23-year-old masseuse on Monday turned herself in to the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) after being implicated in an online dating scam, police said. Tidawan Kongjan showed up at the CSD to deny any involvement in a scam in which a victim was duped into transferring 190,000 baht to her account. Police say Ms Tidawan, who works as a masseuse in Sukhumvit’s Soi Nana, told them she was asked by a foreigner known to her as “Eddy” to open a bank account and obtain an ATM card. She said she met the man on the internet and had no idea he would use the bank account in a scam. Ms Tidawan decided to report to police after her name popped up in the media as a possible suspect in the scam. Last week Nawaporn Chai-amporn, a 35-year-old secretary from Samut Prakan, lodged a complaint with the CSD that she was tricked out of 190,000 baht in an internet love scam. The money had been transferred to Ms Tidawan’s account. In the apparent scam, Ms Nawaporn said a person she met online, who claimed to be “Mr Perry Franklin” from Australia, told her he wanted to marry her and would send her valuables. According to the victim’s complaint, she was advised to transfer 190,000 baht to a shipping agent named Tidawan Kongjan to pay for clearance and insurance fees to claim a parcel that never arrived. The operation is similar to dozens of other so-called “advance-payment” confidence tricks often associated with Nigerian criminals. via Masseuse implicated in web dating scam | Bangkok Post: breakingnews.
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Wireless broadband traffic set to rise Published on March 18, 2008 Nokia Siemens Networks forecasts that by 2015 about 5 billion people across the globe will be able to connect to each other anywhere and any time. Rickey Corker, head of sub-region north at Nokia Siemens Networks, said the revolution of broadband technology, especially wireless broadband, will create the phenomenon of a connected world. By 2015, about 75 per cent of the world's population will be able to connect over the Internet, be it fixed and wireless networks. In the next seven years, the number is likely to increase from 3 billion to 5 billion. Out of this, about 1.4 billion will be from the Asia-Pacific region. The growth rate here is expected to be about 53 per cent between last year and 2010. This phenomenon will create huge volumes of traffic over convergent broadband Internet, fixed and wireless broadband. It is expected that Internet traffic will increase by 100 times. The key factors include wireless broadband technologies such as HSPA, LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology, WiMAX, bandwidth hungry applications such as P2P file-sharing and video, the new end-user devices and the flat-fee subscription model. The increase of broadband Internet penetration affects the country's gross domestic production (GDP). Research shows that a 10 per cent increase in broadband Internet penetration will help the GDP grow by 6.25 times. Moreover, an increase in broadband Internet will help create many more social services such as distance learning, remote health support, market information service, entertainment applications, and also basic communication services. Thailand is a transitional market for broadband. Presently, about 1.5 million people or only 2 per cent of the Thai population are connected to fixed broadband Internet as compared to the total fixed Internet users of 3.2 million or 5 per cent of the total population. However, the number of broadband users in Thailand is expected to double from 1.5 million to 3 million by next year. "Broadband Internet users will double to 6 million users in 2011 and double again to 12 million by 2015," Corker said. The number of wireless broadband Internet users will surpass the fixed broadband Internet users by 2010. He predicts that by then, the number of fixed broadband Internet users will be 3 million while the number of wireless broadband Internet will be about 10 per cent of the total population. "Once the wireless broadband network is available, we expect that the number of wireless broadband users will rapidly grow and will surpass the fixed broadband Internet users for sure," Corker said. Asina Pornwasin The Nation ***Why are there so few Broadband users in Thailand? Is it ISP's lack of service or is the service to costly for average Thai folks? Another question, how can political reform advance in Thailand with so few connected to the internet? Is there just a small group of technocrats and special interests that run everything in Thailand? :?:
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INTERNET MONITORING AND CENSORSHIP Net slowdowns suggest Govt is monitoring traffic DON SAMBANDARAKSA BKK Post, 4 June 08 Thailand's Internet is stuttering with a series of unexplained outages and slowdowns that suggest that the government is running a far-reaching programme to monitor its citizens' online activities, one similar to the US Carnivore email policeware programme. This can be seen in the way YouTube is now all but unusable for TOT subscribers, and how sending large email messages through a foreign server on port 25 often fails, while encrypted, non-standard ports or VPN access over the same network works fine. ***TOT is my ISP and I cannot play YouTube vids on TF, also have the same problem on the other websites. If I logon to Youtube, I can play the vids. A former security-consultant-turned-businessman in Thailand, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the entire situation was seriously damaging business confidence and may be on the verge of being illegal, especially for foreign businesses operating in Thailand. In many industries, a user has a duty to alert his company or his authorities if he knows that data has been compromised. But what if the leak is to a foreign government? That said, in most countries, national security laws override privacy laws. There are legal ramifications on contract law, especially if the businessman is doing business with the Thai government or military. "If you are going to do it, do it properly," the former security consultant suggested. China and Singapore, for instance, use a monitoring software package from a company called Xacct Technologies from Israel which is capable of far more than email logging and can scale better than the system that he believes is in place now. Another packet monitoring system that is in use and can scale well is Phorm. He first noted earlier this year that email sending slows down as the work day progresses and fails almost entirely around lunchtime. His company uses a corporate email server located overseas. Analysis of the traffic suggest that the authorities are intercepting anything on standard SMTP port 25, regardless of the destination IP address. He said he has the IP numbers he suspects to be the sniffing machines as the latency incurred there is far too long to be a regular switch. To circumvent this monitoring, users can simply use a VPN to access their corporate network overseas, use SSL encrypted email ports or even encrypt on an end-to-end fashion. Gmail remains secure when accessed via HTTPS, although he did question what went on behind the scenes when Thailand lifted the ban on Google's YouTube and if any agreements had been struck. That said, the former security consultant said that there was a legitimate need for governments to monitor email for national security but that the way the Thai government had done it had failed miserably. "How hard is the system to circumvent? I have to circumvent it as otherwise I have no way of getting my email, by going to http://www.mail2pda.com or using HTTPS for Gmail. Then what's the point? Already the government has lost the ability to gather intelligence." Rather it should have been done professionally and be totally invisible without the terrorists or the public knowing. From the business point of view, it was just another in a long list of questionable decisions "that makes Thailand look positively Mickey Mouse," he said. Rather than announce to the world that they were intercepting and monitoring email and thus making everyone use encryption, it would have been much better if the government had kept quiet and had done traffic pattern analysis on individuals to learn more about their network, he said. For instance, if one person was using encryption all the time, the government should keep a close eye on him and who he contacts, but by botching up this project, it means that everyone has to use encryption and VPN and thus the government has lost its ability to gather information and protect the people. The consultant also questioned the legality of the recent Thai cybercrime law in the context of European privacy laws. In a seminar soon after the law was passed, police said that as long as a server host or ISP could provide a name to an activity, that would satisfy the 90-day log retention requirements. However, according to European privacy law, putting a name to an activity requires user consent. Quite how this would affect Europeans doing business here, or Thais doing business in the EU, was still unclear, he said. Another question was who had access to the information being gathered. In the past, the US government launched Echelon and Carnivore, projects aimed at wiretapping the Internet in the name of security. But at least they had clear objectives and responsibilities, unlike the clandestine Thai system that appeared to be in place, he noted. The consultant saw three possible scenarios: "If the reason is to spy by the government, then you (a journalist) are at great risk personally. If it was decided it was important to monitor all email and someone in government screwed up, this is fine and people should be happy. But if the reason is commercial and you are exposing someone's email to somebody in the government, this is bad," he said. Finally, he had a piece of advice he would like to pass on to the government: "The effort involved in censorship is far greater than the effort required to monitor, and monitoring gives you more information. Censorship blocks, monitoring gains intelligence. "In Europe, authorities infiltrated a major paedophile ring. They worked for 18 months, infiltrating and learning about the network, which operated in cells. Many of the operatives are still in therapy. But by taking that route, they were able to expand their reach through the cells and gather evidence they could use in court. In the end, they arrested hundreds of people and more importantly, they pulled 26 children out of that network who were being abused. "If they had taken the approach that this server has paedophilia and it has to be shut down, they might cut off access to 10 paedophiles but they would not have saved any children," he said.
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Just type this: https://gmail.google.com No peeky by brain-dead Gov. he he he http://lifehacker.com/software/gmail/secure-gmail-access-on-public-networks-228722.php Data Base, Bangkok Post Better to be safe than sorry when it comes to email security DON SAMBANDARAKSA Am I being paranoid, or is big brother finally waking up and keeping a watchful eye on our communications and how we use the Internet, especially email? I received an email the other day from one of my favourite sources who pointed out that his home ISP had suddenly taken the rather dubious step of blocking access to other, in this case overseas, port 25 SMTP servers. My friend did a bit of digging around and apparently this move was to stop spam. Many Thai ISPs (not that there are many left) now force the user to use only the authorised ISP email gateway for sending email. The problem is that many Thai ISP email servers are themselves blacklisted as spammers. "As a result, remote sites either reject mail or even worse, just swallow the messages without any notification at all," my friend wrote in conclusion. It was about a year and a half ago I noticed some odd changes in my own email usage. Every other day, I have to submit the photographs I take for publication. Now, it was about that time that it suddenly became harder and harder to send email. All too often the connection to the server would timeout and I would lose the connection and would have to try again. Now, it was by chance, being the paranoid geek that I am, that I noticed that my desktop PC (with just under a 1TB of hard drive attached to it and from which I do most of my picture emailing) had more problems sending email while my laptop, from which I send pictures only from time to time, was relatively unscathed. The only material difference I found after poking at the configuration was that my notebook was using port 465 SSL encrypted SMTP and the older desktop, set up in a time when I was more trusting of the world, was using unencrypted port 25 SMTP. I tried turning on SSL and changing it to port 465 and bingo, the problems when sending large files disappeared. My theory, and this is one of those loony conspiracy theories, mind you, was that my ISP, in this case TOT via Shin Satellite's IPStar, was at best messing up any unencrypted link with overloaded caches and proxies, or was trying to eavesdrop on my communication with a man in the middle attack which could not cope with the level of email that was going through it. Since then, I have turned to sending GnuPG encrypted email where I can and where I do send plain text email, I always make sure I send it using a foreign-based server using SSL encryption so that nobody here at least can tag my contacts on the way out. Just think about it. People are up in arms over social networking when it comes to the power they have from information about out social networks, who we know, who we communicate with. All that information, if not more, is also held with our ISPs and telcos. Remember, too, that today voice recognition technology is routinely used to monitor call centres. Some of my interviewees have told me that today a call centre agent can be automatically machine-rated by how well he sticks to the script and even if his voice print shows signs of anger or irritation, even in Thai. Now, just think about how much our telcos could know about us if they employed that same technology. Of course, being the moral, law abiding corporate citizens they are, they would not, but what if someone who managed to break into the telco's systems was able to do that? Furthermore, my ISP does not allow point-to-point tunnelling protocol (PPTP). In a typical set-up, this would be used by a roaming user to create a secure, encrypted tunnel over the Internet to the office so that the person working from home or in the field would be as secure as if he were physically connected to the LAN. PPTP can be used to create a VPN (virtual private network) link to a server in a different country just to avoid censorship. Most high-end consumer grade routers today have an SSL VPN server built in. If I had a friend in Singapore, I could conceivably log in to his router and then access the Web, post comments on web boards or do anything and all the Thai authorities would know would be that this IP came from Singapore, or wherever that router was located. One could argue that blocking VPNs was necessary to prevent people circumventing censorship and seeing undesirable videos. Then again, it could just be incompetence on the part of IPStar's configuration as, to the best of my knowledge, none of the ADSL providers block it, yet. Then there was the recent Cabinet announcement that agreed with a proposal tabled by the National Intelligence Agency to forbid any official work from using a foreign web-based free email account. While this makes so much sense from an image point of view, the fact that it was tabled by the NIA does raise some eyebrows. The reason given was so that foreign entities (such as Microsoft, Google or Yahoo!) could not gain access to confidential Thai government information. On a side note, one of my friends at a unit under the Ministry of the Interior phoned me up to tell me that he went to work one morning and suddenly Hotmail, Yahoo! mail and Gmail was blocked at the office firewall. A call to IT support was met with a reply that they did this to comply with the resolution. Now, as far as I recall, the resolution was to phase out use, not to ban it overnight. I wonder if the real reason is that the use of these services meant that the NIA could not eavesdrop on Thai civil servants and monitor them, Big Brother style. If one were to use Gmail and start with the session with https (rather than http), then that entire session is encrypted and none of the people in the middle, be they network administrator, telco or gateway could see what is being sent. Together, these bits of information point to a more sinister picture. Someone out there is making it harder for us to stay anonymous and easier for the state, be it the telcos or the secret police, to eavesdrop on us. Information theft is interesting in that on the one hand, nothing is actually missing. Furthermore, the stolen information can make it easier for people who have it to make better decisions, decisions that may affect someone who opposes the people in power one way, and effects those who support those in power differently. If you haven't done so already, use https for webmail; use port 465 for SMTP and 995 for POP3 with SSL encryption turned on (even most smartphones can do that). SSL IMAP for those who access Gmail on your Mobile uses port 993. Actually Google is nice in that it requires SSL encryption and does not allow unencrypted email client access at all. Conversely, using push mail and giving your email password to your telco is pure lunacy in my humble opinion. If you are a bit more paranoid, look up GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) and plug-ins like Enigmail for Thunderbird. I do hope I am wrong, and that all these problems are down to technical incompetence, but better safe than sorry. :idea:
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If we have a True Hi-Speed modem, and a true hi speed connection, could I pop down to panthip and buy a wireless hi speet router, connect that, and have wireless internet around the house?? Or do I have to go through True, and one of its pay more packages?
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I have been using ebay for a few years now. I've recently had some things made in Bangkok to sell, but I've come across a huge problem. After talking with a mutual friend, he said that paypal suspended his account because he was attempting to make a withdrawal from the internet in Thailand, while his confirmed address was in the USA. Not wanting to change my confimed address on my current ebay account (so my family can use it back home), I decided to make a new ebay account here in Thailand and open a new bank account. So I get a new account from TMB, along with the debit card I will need for ebay and paypal. Now the problem. I sign up with both ebay and paypal, but both reject the TMB card. After spending 750 baht to start the account, I don't want to go to another bank and have the same problem. Any suggestions on what I should do? Does anyone here use ebay/paypal from Thailand? Is your address/bank here in Thailand as well? Any help greatly appreciated!
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I just got True high speed.....did a ping test...seems as soon as I leave asia...my speed drops dramatically. Does anyone know of a good site, in asia, for downloading music, movies, etc etc....
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hey everyone...i was wondering if there was a place where you could watch "BangRakSoi 9" (actor: Saksit Tangtong actress: Aom) through the internet for free? Here are some images of Banraksoi 9 comedy drama series in case you don't know what I'm talking about: **there ya go...i hope this looks more familiar to you now...if not, i'll post some more images...** and if you have no clue to my question, then do you have any idea where you can watch any drama series (lakorn thai) over the internet for free? thanks ahead of time :]
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hey guys I think we all know that it's easy to find sex from internet but do you also think it's easy or i should say it's possible to find your love? I do agree that internet made our life easier and faster but i think it's also caused a mass.