Reader question: Internet connection filtered?

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March 19 2021

Dear readers,

I am now 3 months in Thailand for the 4rd winter in a row and have an internet connection here through TOT/Cat National Telecom Public Company Limited. 400Mb / 700 bht per month. This to everyone's satisfaction, good connections and fast. I can watch Netflix from NL and other TV channels via my Delta/TV APP. I can view my camera system in my home in NL.

until the day before yesterday... March 17, 2021

Suddenly I can no longer connect to various websites in NL and B and to the router in my home in NL. Not all websites are blocked, because I can still open the news sites. After puzzling for a while, I get back in touch with everything via VPN (via Belgium or Germany), but much slower (Max 50 mb).

I got the idea that there is suddenly filtering and blocking from Thailand.

It has been solved via VPN, but because this was never necessary, I find it strange that this has suddenly changed.

Has anyone else experienced something similar?

Regards,

Ferdinand

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11 responses to “Reader question: Internet connection filtered?”

  1. nicky says up

    You must be at TOT. I had the same issue with 3BB saying I was having issues with the VPN and it's now resolved.

    • Albert says up

      From what I read there is a problem without a VPN !

  2. Cornelis says up

    400mb per month, isn't that very little? Didn't you use that up so much with Netflix etc.?

    • Albert says up

      400Mb is the speed and not the data consumption!

      • Cornelis says up

        Sorry, I should have realized, but isn't that expressed in Mb/s?

    • Ferdinand says up

      Cornelius,

      It is indeed 400Mb/s
      but the bill says 400Mb

      I think the problem is now solved.
      that corr. further down

      greeting

      Ferdinand

  3. Albert says up

    Possible DNS problem.
    Try the following command as administrator: \ipconfig.exe /flushdns

    • Ferdinand says up

      I get the answer:

      Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.

      I have contact with my router in NL again

      Thank you

    • Hubert says up

      Hello Albert,

      Since 17/03 I also have problems with internet TOT - and e.g. the European banks - verification codes ...
      I can also no longer send emails to certain contacts - they all come back as undelivered
      Unknown address error 550-'SPF: 195.238.22.144 is not allowed to send mail from *****.be:\nPlease see http://www.open-spf.org/Why : Reason: mechanism'.

      Can you explain a little more about DNS…. What - where should I enter your command?

      and what do you mean as administrator .

      With thanks
      Hubert

      • Ferdinand says up

        Hubert,
        do you have windows 10?

        then press the windows key + X, then the old Windows menu will appear on the left.
        Choose to execute…
        Type CMD in the line and press enter
        A black window appears with the prompt line
        type the command Albert specified there: ipconfig.exe /flushdns
        If all goes well, a message will appear: Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.
        and the problem should be solved.

        success
        Ferdinand

  4. peter says up

    As administrator (owner of computer) you can enter all commands, in normal case sometimes not.
    Start button, right mouse button click, see pull list command prompt (administrator) click
    windows asks for permission, yes.
    You will get a pop-up screen with a blinking line
    ipconfig.exe /flushdns in the command prompt (under dash) and enter.
    You can copy/paste the assignment from my story to the pop-up screen.
    Windows executes command.


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