After a lot of chats to Zen broadband I'm assured the city fibre upgrade won't open me up to future price increases so after prevaricating on it further I'll see if I go for the upgrade. I don't need to quadruple my speed but hey an increased upload speed would be handy. Can't quite understand getting a new Fritz router but guessing I get a fibre connection into the property, not an ADSL phone connection? #broadband #UK #Glasgow #CityFibre #FullFibre
Ironically, the fastest broadband I had ever experienced until recently was in a house I rented in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. Fibre optic cable right to the router on my desk and a potential speed of 1 Gbit/sec although I only paid to have the 200Mbit/sec service. The service was delivered from somewhere in the middle of this lot:
@Paulos_the_fog Worrying coffee shop signage there I notice.
If you are referring to the 'Gollywog' style signage - the Thais as a nation are resolutely racist, being raised to believe that their greatest good fortune in life is to have been born a Thai and that all other races are inferior to them.
Thailand is full of hypocrisy! The local Police 'raided' 'Walking Street' in Pattaya (for those unaware of Pattaya's reputation - it may very well be the world's biggest brothel with an estimated 10,000 - 15,000 working girls, bar-girls, ladyboys and trans-sexuals plying for hire). Walking Street is the very heart of the town's sex-trade - around a kilometre of wall to wall red-light bars, go-go bars, live sex acts and other assorted paid-for sex orientated attractions not to mention dozens of 'girls' offering services on the street itself. The conclusion was that, despite the best efforts of a large number of Policemen, no evidence of prostitution (an offence in Thailand) was found on Walking Street. Everyone who knows Pattaya simply roared with laughter at that utterly ludicrous conclusion!
@Paulos_the_fog Great example re Walking Stret and yes it was the Golly signage. Thanks for the context.
I just had a look on Google maps, the cable salad is still there (just around the corner from where I used to live) but the coffee shop has now morphed into a Pizza joint - probably just as well!
@Paulos_the_fog Things move on. Cable salad is forever.
Cable salad is one of Thailand's specialities!
This one is down in Pattaya (unless you happen to be interested in paying for sex - this is about the best thing Pattaya has to offer!)
@Paulos_the_fog I think i'll take the cabling. This is wonderfully chaotic but I guess, at leat accessible for repair and replacement.