beekaykay

hi guys,

i just bought a Samsung Tab 10.1/wifi/3G 16gb in Bangkok for only 14k fully boxed and brand new!
RRP in Powerbuy is 18,900 bt for this model.
theres another 40 of em on there way over from the UK....

englishinsiam, on 2011-05-15 09:02:47, said:

Yes agreed www.SmartCurrencies.com are very professional and a great service

But a better and easier online service and with the best rates is: http://www.caxtonfx.com/
These guys will solve all your problems as long as you have a bank acct in the UK and a bank acct in Thailand in YOUR name, min transfer is £100 and upto £20,000 with NO FEES, they just take a cut of the exchange which works out FAR cheaper than using your atm card in Thailand they also offer the best rates out of all the others in the same game) I have used them for 2 years now and never had a problem takes me 3 work days to get my money from Santander to Kasikorn:)

Phil Conners, on 2011-05-08 12:37:44, said:

I have just received an email from CS stating that True started using TP's in May.....now thats why I cannot access unblockus just as they said, no idea where youre getting youre info from but its incorrect....

No Thailand has never used Trans Proxies if they had have been the unblockus service would never have worked in the first place (this is straight from the horses mouth see email below)
I have tried changing DNS on the router and on the PC still not working, dont forget it WAS working fine until about the start of May so why not now?
Thailand may have Trans Proxies in place but they do not enable them and it looks as though they are now to cut costs and save much needed bandwidth.

Email from UnblockUs

For now, if there is indeed an external transparent proxy, then you won't be
able to get through. We're working on alternative solution, but it's too
early to tell when it will be available.

Thanks,
UnblockUs Support

I use unblockus DNS so as to watch BBC etc and over the last week it has stopped working.
btw strongvpn is still working fine but its a completely different setup to unblockus.
I am also having problems accessing some websites, with "tcp error pages coming up" and theres nothing wrong with my router or system this problem has only just started and on both of my PC's in my room.
I have CSLox info SME 8mb package which basically goes thru True (approx 6500bt per month)

Heres the thing, email from unblockus figure it out for yourself...
nb I have deleted my static IP mentioned below in the email  for obvious reasons.

One other thing that I would like to add:
I did a tracert ping test for Google and guess what it returned an error code 5 and error code 31 on a ping test this is unheard of, however i tried again 10 min later and the ping test was working fine, WEIRD things a happening in Thailand right now!

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I'm not sure what's going on with your system, but it definitely look like transparent proxy OR your router has extra DNS field, which points to "wrong" DNS server. You can call your provider to check if they know anything about transparent proxies, but they may not tell even if they do. It's hard to tell why it happens, some providers want to cut costs, others tell stories about some government regulations. Largest provider in Singapore (SingTel) have it enabled all the time. Here is why I think this is a proxy OR incorrect DNS setup: 1. We have two different IP's for the same host name check.unblock-us.com: 184.106.242.193 is published on "standard" DNS servers and 184.106.248.229 on "ours" 2. You're connecting to our system from ***.***.***.***, which is probably your permanent IP with this provider. 3. At 20:17:05 GMT there was DNS query from your IP on our DNS asking about check.unblock-us.com (our "check service" page) and our DNS immediately returned 184.106.248.229 as required. 4. At 20:17:07 GMT your browser connected to 184.106.242.193, i.e. "standard" IP, which should never happen if it was using our DNS response. This means that either a transparent proxy uses "standard" DNS server OR your computer (at least occasionally) resolves IP's at "standard" DNS server. In both cases you'll get the same symptoms.