osmond

Using CAT CDMA in Chiang Rai,with google.co.th or google.com for searches they appear to "stall" at w3.mict.go.th.  Same searches on Yahoo and Bing go straight through.  Looks like another botched attempt at censorship.  No matter what the search is for , it seems to 'divert' to check mict then stall. This is not always the case, disconnecting and getting a new IP address sometimes resolves, but not consistent.  Example below :

Near Pong Nakham / Karien Ruammit - gusts of 77km/h up ( have anenometer ), until that blew over !! 10 trees gone to. Outside ceiling fan spun so fast it stripped all its blades off by tilting and hitting the ceiling .  Apart from that - welcome shower of rain.

Same issue as macdon61 with roof tiles.  Now learnt by example why 30 degree pitch roof is not steep enough !!

There is a dry cleaner., going south on Old Airport Road towards the old airport, on the left side, nearly opposite Laluna resort.
No problems and reasonable prices.

Osmondo

sceadugenga, on 2011-07-24 11:22:55, said:

Apparently , if the infornation is correct, the instruction to shut it down for 'health reasons' came from the Office for Consumer Protection in Bangkok
In Thai -  สำนักงานคุ้มครองผู้บริโภค

Ours is not to reason why  . . . let's see what happens tomorrow

Since yesterday evening ( Sat 05 June ) uploads to anywhere are arbitrarily being disconnected. ( Still happening today ( Sunday morning ).

MailBigFile (HTTP) has persistently failed with a 25Mb file, and the same file using destination FTP servers in Singapore and USA has also failed.  What on earth have they done this time ??  Smaller files , <5Mb , seem to get through . . .

The management in CAT Chiang Rai admit that CDMA throughput has deteriorated significantly since about mid Feb, probably due to it being oversold and provision for extra bandwidth.  After 1000 weekdays it is virtually unusable until 1800 onwards.

Agreed the last month has shown even more degradation in my area west of Chaing Rai.  About 6 km from mast, over the past year steady 3 bar signal. Now it intermittently drops to 1 bar for variable periods of time then "recovers".

They have said it is probably due to a faulty CDMA USB device, which is absolute rubbish as I have two units EC226 and MC760 and they both demonstrate signal degradation to the same degree, and pick up again together when the signal improves !!

Is there anything definitive anywhere that says CAT will abandon all its current CDMA users and what is the alternative ??