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Reader question: Three months of internet in Thailand, who has tips?

By Editorial
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22 September 2013

Dear Thailandblog followers,

I'm going to Thailand for three months (Nov/Dec/Jan) and I want to call and use the internet with my smartphone and (wireless) internet with my laptop during that period.

Do you have any tips about the options for this, where to purchase, price/quality ratio and national coverage?

Thanks in advance for your tips.

Michel

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12 responses to “Reader question: Three months of internet use in Thailand, who has any tips?”

  1. Jack S says up
    23 September 2013 on 02: 18

    Hello Michel,
    I bought an aircard from Truemove. This is a USB stick in which you insert a SIM card. You can plug this USB stick into the USB port of your laptop. My package is 5gb per month high speed (fast enough for youtube) and when it is used up, I can surf with 3g speed, like now. That's not fast, but it's fine for email and reading newspapers. Since I often use my tab and my girlfriend also has a laptop or two, this stick was not enough. So I bought a router from TP-Link (the cheaper one without a battery, but which runs on mains power or can get power via USB).
    With this I can use the internet throughout the house and if we go on holiday in Thailand, we can also use it in the hotel while on the road.
    However, this is not necessary, because in most – cheaper – hotels you often have free Wi-fi.
    If I want to download a movie, I often go to the nearby hotel (they know me by now) I open my laptop and while the movie is being downloaded, the gentleman here goes swimming laps in the hotel pool.
    True's package is on offer for a three-month subscription for about 950 baht per month. This is a lot more expensive than fixed internet, but you only get that for a year.
    Then you can also buy a prepaid card from various providers such as true, Ais and 3BB. It costs around 100 baht and you can use the internet at various hotspots. I have such a 3BB card and I can use it for 20 hours on the internet for a month. You can use the internet for an hour or more every day until the volume is used up. You can use several devices, but only one per session.
    If you only want to use Facebook with your tab or phone or just read emails, you don't even need a prepaid card at all. I've noticed that with Ais and True you have to surround to browse, but not for everything else. Only the browser was blocked for me, nothing else. I don't know how it is with skype. But where are we talking about this…100 baht.
    There is a difference in download speed here in Hua Hin. 3BB is not the fastest.
    I hope this was of some use to you.
    Oh, I bought the aircard at True. The TP-link router in a computer shop. There it is cheaper than with a telephone provider.

    • BA says up
      23 September 2013 on 05: 44

      wbt mobile internet,

      I think those Aircards just work on HSPDA +, depending on which version you buy. Improved version of 3G so to speak. You have aircards which were sold as 3600 and 7200 and also as 14400 I think. Maybe even more, don't know.

      Many smartphones nowadays also have a so-called thethering mode. Then you plug the charging cable of your phone into the USB port of your computer, you can use Bluetooth or simply set up a WiFi hotspot via the phone. Then you actually do the same as with your aircard. My Samsung S3 phone can do that anyway.

      I have a SIM card from True in my phone with an internet subscription (the hours of WiFi are also included if there is a hotspot) and if I happen to be out of WiFi range, I use my phone as a portable hotspot. In some cases that was also much faster than the hotel wifi or wifi in the apartment,

  2. Henk van 't Slot says up
    23 September 2013 on 03: 36

    1 2 to call,450 bath,1 month unlimited internet.
    Whether I'm on the beach of Pattaya or in my girlfriend's remote village, reasonable internet, about 5 MB.

    • Dennis says up
      23 September 2013 on 08: 24

      And how do you activate it? I see *988* etc everywhere, but no one can tell me how and what….

      I myself have a DTAC number where you can buy a separate number of MBs (250 Mb for 213 baht incl. tax for 30 days). This would be 3G, but NOWHERE (not even in Bangkok) do I get 3G, just an “E” which means something more like GPRS. According to DTAC I should be able to use my 250 Mb at 3G speed, but never, ever have I achieved this.

      I hear good reports about TRUE, but do they have national coverage? The TRUE sellers outside Pantip say no…

      • BA says up
        23 September 2013 on 08: 53

        I have no problem with True, but I have been told that it is only really good in the big cities indeed.

        In BKK, Pattaya or Khon Kaen I have no problems with it and also not until about an hour's drive outside Khonkaen, not even during the bus trip to Pattaya KK.

        In fact, I usually have H+ with True, while my girlfriend with AIS often falls back to E/3G/H.

        If your phone gives E or 3G, this is purely related to the quality of the connection, if your phone says H + then the theoretical speed is much higher, but that does not mean that your provider also gives it.

  3. Jack S says up
    23 September 2013 on 08: 51

    Via my aircard and router I have 3g in Wang Pont near Pranburi between the pineapple fields. constant. I first also used the internet via my HTC Sensation and my Samsung tablet. The speed left much to be desired and tethering via my HTC was a disaster. The aircard is a real improvement.
    I have internet 24 hours a day….

  4. Peter@ says up
    23 September 2013 on 10: 16

    I'm going to Thailand in January and I hope you can still surf the internet the old-fashioned way in the many internet shops that were still there 3,5 years ago and in the hotels of course.

  5. Cees says up
    23 September 2013 on 10: 45

    I use a dongle with an aircard from DTAC, I first bought a ticket from TOT, but that doesn't work everywhere, so I would first find out which network provides coverage where you are going. But updating your mail and the like in an internet shop also works fine and is not expensive.

  6. Ari & Mary says up
    23 September 2013 on 11: 17

    Can you also buy 2 SIM cards with the same number? Then we can put one in our tablet. Any idea which one is best?

  7. Henk says up
    23 September 2013 on 11: 29

    Dtac has internet packages, just like Ais and truemove.
    Simply purchase a prepaid monthly package. You can adjust the size yourself. 1 GB Dtac costs 399 bath. Including 150 calling minutes.
    Wi-Fi is also included for 65 bath.
    Can be used at various bts stations, central plaza, etc.
    If the 1 gb is used up, the speed is reduced or you pay 150 baht for the same speed.
    Larger packages are possible.
    The ZTE aircard has a speed of 7.2 mb/s.
    Works with all carriers.
    There are also WiFi cabinets for sale. Plug in your SIM card and you can connect 5 devices to it
    This can also be used in the Netherlands.
    Do you have a Dutch aircard simlock free that also works in Thailand.
    You can also use free WiFi in the various shopping malls.
    The true coffee has free unlimited wifi.
    The various locations are eg in Siam center, opposite and so on. Also located in hua hin.

    Speed ​​of the various providers suggest that there is 3g, but directly is questionable.

    If you have a smartphone that can function as a WiFi hotspot, you do not need the aircard.

    At Dtac you can also do postpaid for foreigners.
    Credit card and passport and to the Dtac shop.
    They make it right away.

  8. Eric van Dyke says up
    23 September 2013 on 11: 52

    There is free WiFi everywhere in Thailand if everything focuses on that, it goes a long way. Call via Skype, send messages with Wattsup and also take photos. Continue reading emails or surfing or whatever. Wi-Fi can be found in every apartment, hotel, restaurant. No problem there. ERIC

  9. Henk Allebosch says up
    23 September 2013 on 12: 23

    A very small remark… Most hotels offer free internet/WiFi, neatly provide you with a password etc… but in Isaan we never had access via SKYPE with the iPad in certain places… Checking emails went well…
    So I think it depends a bit on the place (or hotel) where one is located?


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