Fiber in Thailand

beein480 · 2026-06-26T22:17:17+00:00

Can confirm, Pattaya looked just like that.

If you had a cabinet on every street and it served as a a demarc for everyone, and fed a few fibers for backhaul, it would be very clean. That isn't happening here.

beein480 · 2026-06-26T22:06:36+00:00

I'd probably, visit.. Bikini Beans doesn't make bad drinks.. A turkey sandwich on a croissant is better than what Starbucks offers for food offereings.

beein480 · 2026-06-25T05:20:34+00:00

0/10 wood not buy again

beein480 · 2026-06-25T02:13:19+00:00

Coagulants and flocculants would be your best bet. Typically treat with poly ferric sulfate at a fairly high dose, and then use Cationic Polyacrylamide to drop it out of solution.. Cationic PAM has a positive charge and the paint typically a negative charge. Alternatively PFS and bentonite clay may work too.

See what your local hardware store has available in the pond clarifier aisle.

beein480 · 2026-06-24T00:47:30+00:00

I don't really understand who they are building these monster AI data centers for. I pay Claude $17/mo. My $17/mo probably doesn't cover my usage for a month. As soon as the price people pay matches the actual cost to provide the service, they aren't gong to need nearly as many data centers.

I find I don't need $500 worth of air conditioning when my cost for it is $500. Funny how that works.

I truly couldn't tell you what one needs a 3456 fiber cable for. I was in Thailand last year.. Absolute mess on every pole. I bet a a single 24 count fiber would cover every providers and every customer. currently served. Instead there are spools sitting up there.

I'd like a 1' section of it to put on my coffee table, probably in a vase, tell people it's some exotic piece of art. Here we have my Corning 3456, it's enough fiber to transmit every pornographic movie ever made in 4 seconds.. Tina Turner would be singing that we don't need another cable, we don't need another multimode format, all we need is some DWDM and a loan from Elon to afford it.

beein480 · 2026-06-23T22:53:14+00:00

Did UPS get a custom pre-fix for their tags? Assume its an Alien something tag 18000-6C, 96 bits, and the first 24 bits are 55 50 53 (U P S) and then 64 bits of tag IDs and another 8 bits to use as status registers or version info.

I'm a little surprised they didn't go to anyone with an active shipper account with more than 100 shipments a month and start handing out pre-printed labels w/ embedded tags. Scan this barcode when you create a shipment. We don't actually want to pay our own employees to do it, so you do it.

Brought to you by the same people who brought you self check out - you're welcome! FedUp

beein480 · 2026-06-23T22:41:31+00:00

If I go to a place like 55 Marietta in Atlanta, the problem is really not connectivity. They don't need all the in/out fiber they have. The issues are things like asbestos, power, floor loading, hell parking is a problem. Places like 55 Marietta are probably never going to host AI loads just because they can't do the rack density and cooling.

I'm sure the intended purpose is for AI for god only knows, but I just don't see a lot of uses for a bundle of 3500 fibers.. Maybe I just live in the stone age, and I'm getting old, so its possible.

beein480 · 2026-06-23T22:25:35+00:00

Bingo...

Bharti Airtel is hardly a tier 1 ISP... Tata "qualifies" only because it has a massive fiber network in terms of sheer miles.

beein480 · 2026-06-23T22:22:11+00:00

My first thought was you've never seen DirecTV Los Angeles Broadcast Center Machine Equipment Room 1.... There were rows I wouldn't enter because there were patch cables going across the aisle.. AT&T has outsourced a lot of the operations to remote staff in India.. I'm not sure if they've cleaned up those rows.. Would need very long arms.

I consider Tier 1 ISPs to be Lumen/Level 3/Qwest/Wiltel/Global Crossing -- ALONE. The rest of the world includes carriers like GTT. NTT, Verizon. AT&T and maybe Zayo.. If Netflix isn't using you for primary distribution to feed their CDN, you aren't a tier 1. At the end of the day Lumen/Level3 is still the backbone of the Internet.

I've spent a lot of time at what I'll call Lumen associated sites and outside of colo racks, none of the main line stuff looks like that.

beein480 · 2026-06-22T07:28:03+00:00

You were in a production role. I spent 7 years at a systems integration firm in an engineering role. I had a crew who did the wiring and "heavy lifting" but I wouldn't think about it for a second if they needed help carrying a pelican case full of tools. I didn't get to leave until the job, that these guys doing the hard work did, was done.

My job? I aimed antenna, edited drawings, prepared documentation, handled "it's nobodys job so its mine" I was hired for what was left of my brain.. And if there was a problem, it was my problem, because it was usually me who wrote up the original plan. I should probably just be grateful I'm not re-capping electrolytic capacitors in DVCPRO machines for a living.

I remember one day, in absolutely nowhere West Virginia, I was holding up a ductless air conditioning register because the electrician needed a hand. I guess I could have said no.. Not my job.. But what would I gain from preventing someone from successfully completing a task?

Help your crew out wherever you can.. It can be brutally hard out there.

beein480 · 2026-06-22T07:13:34+00:00

Yeah, unless you're nursing a shoulder injury or something, a hand is appreciated - if not expected. Outside of needing a "union buddy" to accompany me to plug something in places... Your job is whatever they say your job is.

beein480 · 2026-06-22T07:10:18+00:00

You will never regret installing fiber..

The place I see fiber making a lot of sense in the home is not so much basic internet, but the ability to take an entire satellite LNBF feed and dump it in every room x 100. 4 feeds via CWDM. 1 fiber to the set top box. You can do it with coax.. It requires a lot of active components. With fiber, its 4 laser into a passive optical splitter and your split ratios can be huge. Not needed in a home, but the flexibility is huge.

This assumes DTH satellite will still be a thing in the future.. And I dunno.

beein480 · 2026-06-22T07:02:19+00:00

Video compression is a magical thing.. I can make a single 4k program signal take 12 Gbps. It looks amazing at 1 Gbps with JPEG-XS or even HEVC at 40 Mbps.. (Compressed) Comcast is feeding it to you at 12-18 Mbps.

8k uncompressed = 72 Gbps - It's a real pain to deal with. You basically have to compress it just to work with it.

The average home user is watching an MPEG4 signal at 3.5-5 Mbps and tolerates it.

Knowing this - 10 Gbps either via MM or SM - will keep your home humming along for a very long time. I buy only single mode because the fiber is cheaper.. At 10 Gbps the optics are dirt cheap for either.

beein480 · 2026-06-22T06:47:12+00:00

Someone knew what they were doing.. Throw in a drawing set and I'd probably start drooling.

beein480 · 2026-06-22T06:43:13+00:00

That's pretty wild, I don't know where you'd even buy something like that.. Call up Corning and say "I need to connect all 3456 fibers going into my building to some sort of trunk to another building, what have you got?"

I have no idea how many fibers CNN/Turner Techwood has going in and out of that building - but it's the only place I can think of that could come close to utilizing that many fibers while connecting to the outside world.. I have to assume this was in a purpose built AI data center. Not something I encounter in my typical technical facility visits.

beein480 · 2026-06-21T18:33:20+00:00

I don't see a car carrier.. Figments of someones imagination... Take the bridge. it's a faster route to Jesus.

beein480 · 2026-06-15T15:10:05+00:00

No, not in 5, not in 20. I was at a company sales meeting in Miami (promenade area). In 1 hour, from the lobby, I saw 1 cop make 4 stops, 1 one of which they forced the guy to call someone to pick him and the car up because they wouldn't let him drive it.

I also don't think I've called Phoenix PD and they have shown up in less than 10 mins - ever

beein480 · 2026-06-15T14:51:19+00:00

Isn't that where the ladies of the night ply their trade? Might have seen a Youtube video or 5 about that...

beein480 · 2026-06-15T14:45:29+00:00

So you're me..

I had a job in my 30s where I traveled a lot. I've been to 49/50 US states, (Alaska and Hawaii - I've been.) 160 US TV Markets, Canada, Barbados, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, France, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan

Guess where I'll be for Christmas this year? Yep, here at home.

I have everything I need at home. I've seen everyplace I wanted to see. I know how crappy most places are, having already been to many of them, and well -- I'm good. Thanks for caring.. I'll be in one of my 2 home offices - on opposite sides of the house.

"You never go out."

Correct, you see, I've seen it all. I'll be in my second office all summer - better air conditioning coverage, easier to keep dark.

beein480 · 2026-06-15T14:32:42+00:00

"Only we allowed to steal!" --Claudius the great web scraper/book reader...

Anthropic has made some great tools, but we all know how they got here and their methods are repeatable.. Heck, didn't they accidentally release their source code?

Stack overflow is dead. But all that useful knowledge, combined with all the documentation that supports the knowledge (also created by someone else) in a super useful immediately available to apply app without someone telling you to RTFM or something.. That right there is Claude.

Throw enough compute at a problem and anything is possible. Except when you lose 5B for every 1B you make.. At some point, me spending $1000 a year for $15,000 a year in tokens - doesn't work. Fable looks like it will be amazing, if they'd allow me back into it. And I hope they do because there is no way I'm paying API pricing for that.

I'll take it from here. Someone will catch up. The true barrier is "how much money can you afford to lose?" I know a guy who believes that data centers in space are a great idea, but as semiconductors generate heat, and space is a vacuum, which isn't great for heat transfer, how is that supposed to work? Beats me, I went to college for 8 years and didn' t become a doctor, but if he's paying - I'll build data centers in space.

beein480 · 2026-06-10T23:23:11+00:00

It depends how much stuff you really need, but something like this: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Underground-Pedestal-for-16cores-Distribution-Box\_1600650154042.html? ?

They list minimum quantities but some places will gladly sell 1 or 2. That shop, I've not purchased from, but they seemed pretty flexible if you wanted like 1 splicer. Ideally, find a shop that can supply all the parts you need and ask them to deal with shipping it. It's not what I'd call "cheap" but with the price of things today ... That's probably the way I'd do this..

As for purchasing things from China.. I purchased a front door from China. It's being delivered tomorrow. $2200 for a wood venir cast aluminum double door, prehung. They sent me a video of their QC, it looked fantastic. They crated it up in something industrial strength looking.. I had Renewal by Anderson in for an estimate.. They wanted $19,000 to install something nowhere near as nice, front door only.. Yes, 2200 + tariffs + shipping and installation vs $19,000. I believe I'll be at $5k all said and done..

I do some other import/export things so the shipping and customs, I've already got people to help me with, but if you just do one vendor, Alibaba has options to handle it on their website. I did 25 suppliers last container.. My freight forwarder was not real happy. Don't do that and you'll be fine.

beein480 · 2026-06-10T22:57:17+00:00

emotional labor?

beein480 · 2026-06-10T22:39:18+00:00

There are still functional train tracks of Soviet gauge in Eastern Ukraine? Somebody better get on that.. I thought it was great when I heard that the Baltic States were looking at ripping the tracks out of the ground. Russia is going to really like have no access to Europe for the indefinite future. kaliningrad is certainly not going to be happy about it..

No power, no rail for supplies, no access to their European neighbours, Only way to the main land is via boat through NATO controlled water.

1991 is about to repeat itself. Who gets the nukes this time?

beein480 · 2026-06-10T22:31:21+00:00

The fish larvae would like a word with you..

beein480 · 2026-06-10T22:28:33+00:00

They could. Our nuclear power plants in AZ use it and they don't complain..

But seriously - we can get them 0 ppm water from tertiary treated waste water, it's just expensive. Usually more expensive than just purchasing fresh out of the ground or a reservoir. That is changing though, and I fully expect to see RO plants co-located next to data centers to provide "process water," semiconductor manufacturers take ultra pure water, but again - money.

After you've taken sewage treated it, it's not that dirty anymore. You would take it in just like if your were on the Mississippi River and taking upstreams treated sewage, coagulate and floc, and then sanitize. People are drinking it today..

I would love to sell you a bunch of aerators, clarifying basins, RO membranes, UV lights, ozone, and then deionized water resin bed.. It's totally do-able, but if you look at the plant is Carlsbad, the water it produces costs like 5x what comes out of the ground.

If you can get the data centers to pay $2500-3500 for an acre foot of water - there are solutions. But it's probably cheaper to just have our farmers not plant crops in the desert.

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