I read at Techcrunch about a new law that was passed in Finland. It guarantees that every person has a right to a 1Mb broadband connection. Wow, that's big, at least for me. I have limited choices where I live. In Thailand you need to be in a big city or along the route between big cities in order to get real broadband.
I used to be in Bangkok and I had ADSL which worked pretty well. I could even do video calls with Skype to friends in America. Now I live up-country and I use satellite internet from IP Star. It is pretty bad. They advertise you can get high speeds like 1Mb or 2Mb, for a price. Sure.
It is so unreliable. The speed drops to almost nothing during peak hours and there are even worse problems. Sometimes it suddenly cannot connect to any websites, like it lost all the domain name information. Other times it won't send email - that happens all the time. Those things aren't about the weather and signal to the satellite. It's about TOT's lousy system. So bad. Hate it. But no choice except dial up which is even worse.
It would be great if they would get 1Mb ADSL out to my area. Maybe someday. But I don't think passing a law would make it happen in Thailand anyway.
I read at Techcrunch about a new law that was passed in Finland. It guarantees that every person has a right to a 1Mb broadband connection. Wow, that's big, at least for me. I have limited choices where I live. In Thailand you need to be in a big city or along the route between big cities in order to get real broadband.
I used to be in Bangkok and I had ADSL which worked pretty well. I could even do video calls with Skype to friends in America. Now I live up-country and I use satellite internet from IP Star. It is pretty bad. They advertise you can get high speeds like 1Mb or 2Mb, for a price. Sure.
It is so unreliable. The speed drops to almost nothing during peak hours and there are even worse problems. Sometimes it suddenly cannot connect to any websites, like it lost all the domain name information. Other times it won't send email - that happens all the time. Those things aren't about the weather and signal to the satellite. It's about TOT's lousy system. So bad. Hate it. But no choice except dial up which is even worse.
It would be great if they would get 1Mb ADSL out to my area. Maybe someday. But I don't think passing a law would make it happen in Thailand anyway.