Popped into 3BB the other day to buy a router with WiFi, having just bought a MacBook Air, my first ever laptop. The nice people there fixed me up with what I wanted (to be honest, I wasn't sure, but they worked it out) and set it up to work with the Air. They also upgraded my service from 10 Mbps down / 0.5 Mbps up, to 30 Mbps down / 5 Mbps up, at the same cost as previously (I pay in advance annually @ about 7,000 baht / $US 210 per year) This is what I am getting now:
Nearly double what they advertise, I'm well pleased!
Before fibre came to the neighbourhood about four years ago I was using a dongle on my Mac Mini to access nominally 3G wireless internet @ about the same cost. Advertised as up to 7.2 Mbps, occasionally I got a little over 1 Mbps, but it typically delivered less than 0.3 Mbps. Got that in 2009.
Prior to that, in 2007 when they first introduced wireless internet (experimentally apparently) I was getting about 50 kbps from a system that could deliver up to 156 kbps. Nominally costing 700 baht /month, it was about 18 months before I was billed for a few months, then they shut the service down when the 3G system kicked in.
Going back to where I lived 35 years ago, the nearest telephone was 20 km away, and we didn't have electricity. Battery powered shortwave radio was where it was at to hear from the rest of the world!
