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--- 2427031
>be travelling around SEA and East Asia
>dont buy a SIM card because public wifi is everywhere and free
>arrive at pic related shithole
>public wifi asks for a thai number
>half the time it wont even connect
>many restaurants wont have wifi
>sometimes even coffee shops dont have wifi
No wonder China, Vietnam and even fucking Laos are ovetaking this shithole. They are behind on practically everything.
--- 2427041
just get a phone with an esim you STUPID FUCK, its 2023
imagine complaining about this shit when YOU are the one living in the past, holy crap
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>>2427041
kinda redundant to get a sim card when im in a new country every 2 weeks. how about thailand fixes their shit? e
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low iq OP
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>>2427044
it takes 5 minutes to set up an esim, imbecile fuckwad
everyone in thailand just uses mobile internet, so you expect the ENTIRE COUNTRY to set up wifi hotspots just to cater to YOU?
holy fuck you're a retard
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>>2427044
>I can't bum free wifi off the country
An e-sim costs like $10 for a week dude.
--- 2427132
esim is irrelevant, he might as well get a sim card it's cheap anyway.

mind you I'm mooching off free wifi in indonesia, but that's because it's part of my plan to kick my internet and 4chan addiction. so far I'm having mixed results.
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The absolute state of SEA losers in 2023
--- 2427164
All the incel bitchboys sperging out, while missing OP’s point that Thailand is - in fact - a cancer shithole
Just because some of you faggots finally got touched by a woman in thailand, doesn’t mean you have to defend it at all cost
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>>2427031 (OP)
just get a sim card it's like 5 bucks you retard sperg
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>>2427164
>Thailand is a shithole because there isn't free wifi everywhere
You can drink the water in Thailand, you can't say that about 90% of countries. Oh but Thailand doesn't give you free wifi instead you have to pay pennies to get a sim card.
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>>2427031 (OP)
>Doesn't have a dual-sim phone
>Doesnt get an e-sim
You don't have the right to complain.
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>>2427031 (OP)
Same is with Japan. free wifi is extremely hard to find and have to register most of the time to use wifi you do find. gonna make a thread about le japang too?
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>>2427199
Japan is technologically backwards on practically everything so this kinda just proves OPs point about Thailand being a backwards shithole.
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>>2427277
>Japan is technologically backwards on practically everything
Have you seen their public bathrooms? They have robo toilets and everything is extremely private and nice.
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>>2427322
yeah I have seen their bathrooms. with the shit stains all over the bidet and bowl and the 3 inches of piss on the floor.
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>>2427199
Wut? How hard is to give your Twitter account for free wifi? Everywhere in Japan is the same.
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>>2427132
Keep trying brother, I too am having mixed results.
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>>2427349
Never seen the twitter wifi. 
>Everywhere in japan is the same
Spoken like a true tourist who only has been to Tokyo, osaka, and kyoto hahahahaha.
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>>2427362
>I go outside the major cities and have trouble finding wifi
It's like that in the US too.
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>>2427399
>currently live in small town of 9k people
>have no problem finding free wifi 
thats strike 2. want to keep looking retarded?
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>>2427031 (OP)
>No wonder China, Vietnam and even fucking Laos are ovetaking this shithole

Literally fake news
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>>2427408
>I know where the free wifi is in my own town
Wow so impressive.
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>>2427362
Takayama had free wifi and that is not a precisely a big city. Just giving you a quick example. But you sure told me buddy
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>>2427347

wtf, when I was there even their train station toilets were immaculate
--- 2427568
Like others have said, get a SIM card, they cost a negligible amount. You're gonna need a working phone if you wanna do you-know-what, anyway. eSIMs are a meme and will subject you to random penis inspections.
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>>2427568
This skit is legitimately funny wtf snl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctDjnG8J9cY [Embed]
--- 2427887
No Google/Apple pay for tourists either; it's retarded as fuck but hey it's Thailand.
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>>2427199
I didn't know this but being the laptop fag that I am that's a huge turn off for me. Why the fuck does Japan not have public wifi?
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>>2427031 (OP)
Get your own damn wifi you fucker
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>>2427031 (OP)
>Arrive in Thailand
>Buy Thai SIM card
>SIM card is for 7 days but I leave on the 8th day 
>Didn't get 14 days cause it would have been overkill 
>Have flight today (8th day) 
>Wake up early and get ready to go early
>Ask hotel how to get to the airport 
>Take Grab to the train station that they tell me to go to 
>Find out that there are TWO airports 
>My airport is BKK
>In the wrong area
>"Ok no problem. Let me find some wifi and I'll get a new grab"
>Go to nearest decent restaurant that I can see
>No wifi 
>Go to 7/11 
>No wifi 
>Get the brilliant idea to pay for extra data on my sim card at 7/11
>Cant do that for some reason
>Go to bookshop 
>No wifi
>Go to three coffee shops and a drink shop
>No wifi 
>After 45 minutes I find a place with wifi 
I perfectly good trip turned into an absolute fucking nightmare. HOW THE FUCK DO THESE BROWN MONKEYS NOT GET ANYTHING RIGHT?! I am absolutely seething right now and may miss my flight. In Vietnam there is public wifi everywhere. What a fucking shithole.
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>>2428174
>>HOW THE FUCK DO THESE BROWN MONKEYS NOT GET ANYTHING RIGHT?!
>You failed to buy a sim card with enough data to cover you for your trip
>You failed to plan for wifi the day you leave
>You didn't look up where you were going before you left your hotel room
>You didn't specify to the hotel clerk you wanted to go to BKK. DMK is a smaller airport but it still services international flights
>You take a grab to the train station ???? instead of the airport that has free wifi everywhere
>You can't extend your SIM card because you bought a prepaid sim card worth 7 days (duh retard)
>This is Thailand's fault
Why didn't you just ask the hotel clerk to call you a taxi to BKK?
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>>2427031 (OP)
Is this a thing in Thailand post-COVID? I remember 2019 there was wifi pretty much everywhere in all restaurants and cafes and shopping malls and stuff. Went for years and never felt the urge to buy a SIM card.
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>>2428179
Pretty obvious you're a Thai monkey. How about you fix your shithole country?
>You failed to plan for wifi the day you left
Didn't expect to use wifi you retard. It's the hotel clerks fault but it honestly shouldn't be this fucking impossible to get wifi. 
>You didn't specify the hotel
I'm a tourist. Most cities I've been to just have one airport. Hell I think I even mentioned BKK to her.
>To take grab to the train station???
Cause I'm not near the airport. Of course if I would take the taxi directly there you retard. Taking the direct rail line is what saved my ass from missing the flight. Traffic is a thing you dumbass.
>You can't extend a 7 day sim card
I'm literally paying them money to do just that. If your sim runs out of data its commonplace to deposit money into it.
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>>2428187
>Pretty obvious you're a Thai monkey. How about you fix your shithole country?
Pretty obvious you're a retard. Don't travel abroad anymore, it's not for you.
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>>2428189
ok padthaicel. keep pimping out your sister to my countrymen like the cuck you are.
--- 2428192
>>2428191
I'm American and I creampie Thai girls. I don't know why you think a Thai person would be posting on 4chan.
I've literally never had a problem getting anywhere in Thailand. Then again I'm not retarded.
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>>2428192
>I'm American
>I creampie Thai girls
Sure you are ricel.
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>>2428194
You're a schizo as well it seems. Yes, I'm a poor Thai man who speaks English and comes to the 4chan travel board to defend my country against retards who can't figure out how to get to the most traveled to place in the most tourist friendly city in the world.
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>>2428174
>It's Thailand's fault that I'm a retard and can't do a single planning thing right
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>>2428192
Kek. I've been called a ricel too despite being Hispanic. Asian masculinity lives rent free in these people's heads
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>>2428174
You are dumb as fuck. For real
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>>2427131
>$10 for a week
Holy fucking hell imagine overpaying that much
Just get a sim at 7-11, you'll pay like a 140 baht for a month of unlimited internet.
--- 2428287
>>2428174
>Find out that there are TWO airports 
>My airport is BKK
>In the wrong area
How are people this fucking stupid, I genuinely don't get it.
I swear to God, every single time I'm on an airport bus or shuttle in a city with two airports some cretin will realize in panic that he's going to the wrong one.
--- 2428292
>>2427031 (OP)
>Ask hostel where I can get a sim card
>They tell me at the 711 across the street from us
>Go there
>"Sorry we don't sell sim cards to foreigners"
It's like they actively want me to hate this shithole country. OP learned that hard way that Thailand is a meme country. Don't visit that shithole. 
>pic related is my brain every time I have to deal with a retarded local Thai monkey
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>>2428287
My guess is that the people on the bus and OP made the same mistake. They both asked a retarded Thai monkey on how to get to the airport and the retarded Thai monkey didn't tell them that there are two airports.
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>>2428292
Just try a different 7/11. The staff is usually terrified of going through the registration process with people who don't speak Thai and will make up excuses to get rid of you.
I had an actual honest to god TrueMove store tell me they don't carry sims, imagine that.
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>>2428295
Awful luck to end up asking a Thai monkey of all the people in Istanbul.
--- 2428299
>thailand is a shithole because there is no public wifi
A thread died for this
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>>2427031 (OP)
>Thailand is a shithole
This was my experience too. Rats everywhere and the people see you as a walking ATM ready to scam you. Go visit a civilized East Asian country like Korea or even China. Thailand is a shithole.
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>>2428174
My favorite is this conversation with the average brainlet thai (ie all of them)
>"which way to the bank/airport/market/temple?"
>"yes"
God I hate these faggots.
--- 2428339
>>2428174

Next time download the offline google maps for the city you are in, it may help.

The search function won't work though, that's why the night before you check where the airport is. Imagine actually talking to people lmao.
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>>2427031 (OP)

Is it true that the Thai language sound really gay? Like really effeminate and also grating? I've heard it compared to finger nails on chalkboards
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>>2428497
You can just google people speaking Thai retard. But no you come here to shitpost instead.
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>>2428198
>he most traveled to place in the most tourist friendly city in the world

Not the guy you're replying to but the fact that "the most travelled to place in the most tourist friendly city in the world" still can't figure out basic services like this in fucking 2023 is kind of testament to how absolutely retarded this place is.

>>2428297
>The staff is usually terrified of going through the registration process with people who don't speak Thai and will make up excuses to get rid of you.

Same with this. You'd think that after decades of sitting on their ass and having gajillions of tourism $$$ prop up their economy they would learn to not shirk away with a confused face like a furrowed shriveled prune when a foreigner asks the most basic of all questions. Fuck, even in some middle of nowhere hicktown in Vietnam any shoeless rando will gladly set you up with anything you could possibly need. In Thailand an "educated" city worker with 3 mobile phones employed at a shop to sell you the exact thing you're looking for won't even take a 5 second break from popping their zits to barely acknowledge you. Then you look at their reported IQ levels which fall every year and the fact that they spend the most money on the education sector in all of ASEAN while getting the worst results and it all makes sense. 

>>2428299
>>thailand is a shithole because there is no public wifi

Thailand is a shithole because it's an irrelevant cesspit of incestuous superstitious alcoholics masquerading as a superior culture whilst contributing absolutely nothing of value except sultry men with tits and food that blows your ass out. The lack of public wifi is simply one of their many many issues. Like fuck, how difficult is it to NOT feed a constantly multiplying population of rabid street dogs? They're in their millions now but nobody does anything because muh Buddhism. Or how difficult is it to have actual sidewalks without potholes or spaghetti tangles of wires at head height.
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>>2428631
What "basic services"? Catering to retards who can't even figure out how to get to the correct airport?
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>>2427031 (OP)
TTT here. My new how has public Wi-Fi that isn’t blocked so I’ll be around. I’m going back July 2024. Let me know if you guys will be there
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>>2428631
What else happened to you, anon? Poor thing. Did you fall for the gem scam?

Or you so ugly that even the trannies won't come near you?
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>>2428631
Fuck off to Singapore then you pampered little bitch. Thailand is a beautiful for its faults as it is for its successes. Gentrification pussies who want to sterilize the place need to stay the fuck out of Thailand.
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>>2429097
Thailand is a shithole and should be glassed along with anyone with the stamp in their passport
--- 2429227
Costa Rica had the worst phone sim service I have ever experienced from Claro.
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>>2429145
You should probably just stay at home if you can't handle Thailand.
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>>2428187
>>I'm a tourist. Most cities I've been to just have one airport. Hell I think I even mentioned BKK to her.
You mildly autistic bro? You have to realize that the only thing that you can blame for this at the end of the day is yourself. Heard of online check-in? 
Bangkok is one of the biggest cities in the world, you think 1 airport would serve 14+ million people? Don't bother going to Tokyo, Seoul, Istanbul or New York in the future, you might somehow fuck it up again. Fuck I think London has like 4 airports, what you gonna do if you end up there?

I was in Thailand last month and it's far from a perfect country. It's the most western SEA country but still a SEA country in most metrics. What makes the overall experience worse are the man children like you running around making life more difficult for locals and tourists that don't have room temp IQ
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>>2429943
>Fuck I think London has like 4 airports

Heathrow; Gatwick; London City; Luton; Standtead; Southend
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>>2428284

this retard buys 4Mbps internet. lol.
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>>2427322
those are only for the tourists they still have squat toilets in public places
--- 2430783
Some serious issues with OP.

Are Sim Cards hard to find over in thailand? Im heading to Koh Samui next week and need to get one when i get there. Any help would be much appreciated
--- 2430793
>>2430783
Just go to a local cell provider like AIS/dtac and they'll set you up. I think I paid $9 for basically unlimited data/local calling for 30 days. 7/11 or the airport booths will charge you something stupid like $40 for a 2gb 7 day package
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>>2430793
legend mate, thank you for the info
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>>2430783
Type "ais shop" "dtac shop" or "true shop" into google maps, visit shop, buy Thai sim. I think 711 sell True sims, I'm sure I read they have a deal with the network although I bought an AIS sim from 711 a few years back - might have changed since then. 

They may also have counters at Samui airport like they do at Suwanabhum, google it (like you should have done before posting this thread)
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>>2430799
>in this thread
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>>2427031 (OP)
third world conditions
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>>2430783
Quiet a few travellers I meet never buy SIM cards. A lot of countries are just really well connected with public wifi that you never need a sim card. I know a Vietnamese local who doesn't buy internet. 
Thailand is the exception cause its such a shithole. Every time I go back it feels like I went back 20 years and I remember why I left.
--- 2433182
>>2432525
this would of been valid maybe 20 years ago when everything was paper based and not everything was connected to the internet
> sir can I see your e-ticket / proof of online purchase?
> oh sorry I don't have mobile data do you have wifi here somewhere lol

Japan is the posterchild of modern connectivity but most of the free wifi spots literally require a local sim card and number to activate them. free wifi spots are suppose to supplement your data usage not replace it
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>>2429955
Sorry, wasn't aware you're traveling with your seedbox
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>>2430799
>I think 711 sell True sims, I'm sure I read they have a deal with the network
7/11 Thailand's parent company also has a large stake in True.
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>>2427199
Because Japanese people don't use public wifi in general. Everyone has mobile data and its cheap nowadays. I get 20 GB 4/5 G internet for about $20 with my phone plan, and upgrading to 100 GB is only a little more.
Meanwhile, most tourists are not abject poorfags, so they will rent a mobile hotspot for a few dollars a day.
--- 2433750
OP is a faggot and his thread sucks; this is now a Thailand General. Anyone know where I can find an opium den in Thailand? More specifically around Chiang Mai?

Thanks anons.
--- 2433802
>>2427031 (OP)
The sim cards in Thailand are cheap, I don't see why anyone would bother with wifi when you can just pay $25 at the airport and have data for a month. I landed in Japan after and was floored when they wanted $80 and don't even give you a phone number.
--- 2433823
>>2433750
There are small tribal villages outside of Pai in Mae Hong Song (accessible with a scooter) where they sell opium to tourists. Never done it myself but it's been a thing for years apparently. That's the closest thing to opium dens I've ever heard about.
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>>2433823
>Son
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>>2433823
Thanks, appreciate the answer. >>2433802
Can a call be spoofed with them or would I need a totally new phone to send prank texts to buddies for the lulz?
--- 2435324
>his hotel doesnt have free wifi
>his phone plan from back home doesnt allow for unlimited roaming and 100gb+ data
Why do you need wifi when out in public? Are you playing league of legends in some thai park?
--- 2436967
>>2433366
Because nips are supreme. Only boomer and poorfags whine about public Wifis.
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>>2428284
>being so poor, spending $10 in a week is a big deal
--- 2437019
Why is everyone in this thread acting like no public Wi-Fi is only a thing in poor countries? US doesn’t have it
--- 2437020
>>2437019
Majority of Western countries don't. It's just as Asian thing.
--- 2437035
>>2437019
>Thai shithole doesn't have wifi 
>"WELL whatabout the US?! They also don't have wifi?!"
Cause the US is also a shithole. It's the Africa of first world countries and I'm only half joking when I say that.
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>>2437035
Public wifi isn't even a thing in most euro countries.
--- 2437225
Last time I was in BKK they were giving away free sims when we got off the gate. I just went to a 7-Eleven to top it up after the 2GB ran out. Think it cost me about $5. 

There are tons of places you can get sim cards really cheap.
--- 2438808
To reemphasise: Nignogs that care about public wifi should be executed. And I don't mean .exe, I mean heads rolling. Poorfags. Whining about public wifi in 2023. Shut the fuck up.
--- 2440450
I just use T-mobile and have unlimited data at 512kb/second. 
Not good but it works
--- 2440495
Most wifi passwords in Thailand including the airports is 12345678 but you can just download an app that will tell you all the stores wifi passwords wherever you go
--- 2440512
Most retarded thread on /trv/
just buy a sim card you autists
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>>2440495
what app is that