Last Sunday i was fortunate enough to attend one of the meetings held every week by Phuket computer club. There are some very capable computer enthusiasts attending this event every week in Phuket. Holding information speeches about things happening in the computer world, aswell as training sessions on specific products and platforms. Chances are that [...]

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Earlier i wrote an article about future of 3G like connections in Thailand, that original article can be found here: Earlier 3G thailand article Here comes some more specific information: WCDMA/UMTS/HSDPA are terms used interchangebly within the following article. WCDMA is the base technology used, UMTS can be seen as a revision upgrade and HSDPA [...]

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It now appears that CAT telecom is again routing european traffic through Telecom Italia sparkle, through their “seabone” network as written before Thailand internet routing and slowdowns . Traffic going to the United States appears to go through C&W (cable and wireless.) Since my last post on the same topic they had changed this fact, [...]

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When i first came to Thailand the routing of my Internet traffic always seemed to go through the US to get to Europe, this might have changed now. Using CAT telecom i can now see that my traffic during specific times of the day now has a lower latency to locations in Europe than locations [...]

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I was contacted by an individual who had read some of my former posts on the possibilities of using the 3G/CDMA2000/EVDO connection on the road in various locations around Thailand. He is an owner of the Aircard 580 from Sierra Wireless. Here is what he had to say: “Hi Oyvind, I’ve been a lurker of [...]

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More information – the players in the Thai wireless market Death of the very potent CDMA2000 and EVDO technology – who can we blame? Back in 2005 Bangkok Post wrote that the CDMA network might be shut down within a couple of years. Now we write 2008, and it is still on, though i have [...]

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I just tested my CCU-650 through CAT CDMA EVDO rev 0 on my corporate computer to a colleague in Norway.And i am quite pleased with the performance that Live communications server 2007 and the client “Office communicator” delivered. Quite pleased at the fact that it delivers a good communication experience despite the fact of the [...]

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Curious thing just happened with my CCU-650 modem. Suddenly it appeared my CCU-650 was delivering to me very slow speeds. It seemed like I was getting only 1xRTT speeds reported from http://speedtest.adslthailand.com when i checked there for reference. The speeds were around 100-110 kbps everytime i checked, this would resemble it connecting as 1xRTT, the [...]

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Being on the road we all appreciate being able to lodge into a guesthouse or a mansion that has a good internet connection. When i arrived in HadYai this need was no different. As soon as i stepped off the bus at Had Yai bus terminal i had to dodge a couple of shady motorbike [...]

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Wouldnt it be nice to be able to use high speed internet on the train? It is actually possible, and perhaps even more so after April when CAT telecom supposedly will release the CCU-680 and open their network for Revision A traffic. Up untill now we have been stuck with CCU-650 or Aircard 580 and [...]

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