"Gustaf" wrote in message
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> I'm going to spend some time in Thailand next year, and have been looking
> around for hotels that offer an Internet connection. I found that only
> top-end hotels do this, and these are not an option for me, since I'm
> going to stay for several weeks. Internet cafes are not an option either,
> since I need to send and receive files regularly and manage payments
> online. So I wonder: what is your experience of using the hotel phone to
> connect to internet? Does it work most of the time?
>
> Gustaf
I have used dial-up and it worked fine. Normallly they have US type phone
plugs though, as the first reply says, some are hard wired to the wall
socket (though in those cases you can often unplug the cable from the phone
itself). Cheaper hotels may have no phone in the room.
Does your ISP have a roaming agreement so you can call a local number in
Thailand? If not an international call is expenisve and line quality may be
lower.
There are international roaming services available or you may be able to get
a prepaid ISP service in Thailand.
Check that the ISP service includes local calls for the areas you are going
to.
I would certainly not use an internet cafe PC for financial transactions.
But some cafes will let you connect your own PC direct to their LAN router;
I just did that in Beijing, paying the same rate as using their PCs, and ran
it with my firewall on high protection level.
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