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I installed this gasheater on the back of my house 4 years ago. It's from HomePro and now priced at 5900 baht.
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The hot water pipes are 1/2" copper (pvc will not do well in the long run).
Water temperature can be set by using 1, 2 or 3 burners (middle knob). Minor regulation can be done with the knob for the flame height.

It can easily run 2 showers: just turn up the water temperature, so each shower only needs a bit of hot water to mix with cold water.

Gas consumption: 16.5kg (average size gastank) per 9 months. That's with 2 people each taking 2 showers a day for about 5 minutes.

I enabled IPv6 on my network quite some time ago through a tunnel. Today, there's a substantial increase ip IPv6 traffic:
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In Thailand, only NECTEC has put efforts into IPv6. According to NECTEC, IPv6 should be available for customers from CAT and TOT who specifically ask for it, but even their local engineers have no clue at all what IPv6 is: I don't know and cannot are their answers.

Worldwide, lots of services have been available over IPv6. Google and Facebook are examples of websites everybody knows. But there's a lot more. Most European and American based websites are IPv6 ready. In Asia, China and Korea are using IPv6. Practically all datacenters in Singapore are IPv6 ready.
By the way, ThaiVisa is not part of the next generation yet. No IPv6 to this website.

The biggest problem for Thailand is probably that currently IPv6 bypasses all their censorship attempts. Even when tunneling IPv6 through NECTEC, a Thai tunnelbroker.

Thailand still has a lot of steps to take into this new technology future.....

muratremix, on 2011-05-22 12:27:20, said:

My advice as well.

The mainboard is around 2400 baht. Mini-ATX case including power supply: 800 baht. Add memory (max 2x 2GB) and (a maximum of 2) SATA disks, install linux and you've got a machine that does anything you configure it to do.

It's silent and uses a minimum of power.
The successor of this board, the D525, doesn't run smooth without a monitor attached: it won't do warm reboots. So if you plan to use it as a headless server, go for the D510.
(if the problem mentioned above is fixed now, please do correct me)

Check what goes down during a power cut, the dsl circuit or the ppp connection. If the DSL connection goes down you lose the entire connection of course, and a DSLAM module usually takes about 3 minutes to start up again.

Best place to check if the local loop is on power backup, is your local CAT office, as it is their responsibility. The call-center doesn't have this information. Afaik, CAT doesn't use UPSes but separate chargers/inverters with batteries attached (which lasts way longer than a household UPS).

If it's just the PPP connection, the problem can be anywhere, as there's at least 3 devices between your router and the one that hands out your IP address.

bangkokburning, on 2011-05-24 12:00:43, said:

Actually I was thinking the same. If I check into a hotel and want to check my mail, check a few websites and do some work over a VPN connection, it would be very nice if a single person is not taking all the bandwidth that is to be shared with all other guests in the hotel.