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dudumomo

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4 years ago
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How to select your ISP - Internet in Vietnam by dudumomo

It's probably one of the first thing you may ask, right after getting the key of your apartment or house. How about internet ? Here are some information about Internet in Vietnam: Technology Basically, you have 3 types of connections: - ADSL, ...

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Hello guys, quick update on this. I've moved to Thao Dien Pearl, and I had the choice of FPT or keep VNPT. I could go for FPT 300M, the price was in my budget, but I had to add 600k/month to get a static IP... and then it was too much! I ... Read More

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4 years ago
flothus

Where to buy fairly priced electronics? (monitors, harddrives, etc.) by flothus

I'm looking for a shop that has a variety of electronics at fair prices. All the shops that have been recommended to me only seem to have the latest tech at slightly overpriced rates. Are there any shops which sell things with reasonable ...

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And most of them will also have an AVR function to improve the quality of the power. Hope you will be able to fix your mac. Read More

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4 years ago
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How to select your ISP - Internet in Vietnam by dudumomo

It's probably one of the first thing you may ask, right after getting the key of your apartment or house. How about internet ? Here are some information about Internet in Vietnam: Technology Basically, you have 3 types of connections: - ADSL, ...

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I got all my pictures and movie there with some web interface to manage it. It's also a way to share files with others. And i got some additional services like RSS reader, bank account manager, etc.. In fact all this could be done in the cloud, ... Read More

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4 years ago
flothus

Where to buy fairly priced electronics? (monitors, harddrives, etc.) by flothus

I'm looking for a shop that has a variety of electronics at fair prices. All the shops that have been recommended to me only seem to have the latest tech at slightly overpriced rates. Are there any shops which sell things with reasonable ...

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I'm actually facing the same here in HCMC, i live in Vinhomes Central Park, that is supposed to be quite new/modern but I have monthly power outage (some are planned outage to test the generator, some are unplanned, or due to human error ... Read More

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4 years ago
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How to select your ISP - Internet in Vietnam by dudumomo

It's probably one of the first thing you may ask, right after getting the key of your apartment or house. How about internet ? Here are some information about Internet in Vietnam: Technology Basically, you have 3 types of connections: - ADSL, ...

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I also think it won't improve to load pages faster. But in my case, i will be able to handle more download/upload as I'm having a NAS at home. I might give a try with Viettel 200m, as I used VNPT 200m for quite some time now, and could ... Read More

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4 years ago
flothus

Where to buy fairly priced electronics? (monitors, harddrives, etc.) by flothus

I'm looking for a shop that has a variety of electronics at fair prices. All the shops that have been recommended to me only seem to have the latest tech at slightly overpriced rates. Are there any shops which sell things with reasonable ...

dudumomo

Vietnam IT market is not mature as in US, Europe or some Asian countries. You will find the popular models / mainstream models in Vietnam but indeed at higher price (Not the same volume, not the same go to market / price structure,...) and you will ... Read More

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4 years ago
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How to select your ISP - Internet in Vietnam by dudumomo

It's probably one of the first thing you may ask, right after getting the key of your apartment or house. How about internet ? Here are some information about Internet in Vietnam: Technology Basically, you have 3 types of connections: - ADSL, ...

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Hi, I'm checking again some faster internet connection but it's not easily available. I'm having VNPT Home Net 200m. Works great, but wanted to explore even faster connection if available. FPT SOC 1GBPS is not available in HCMC from ... Read More

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4 years ago
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How to select your ISP - Internet in Vietnam by dudumomo

It's probably one of the first thing you may ask, right after getting the key of your apartment or house. How about internet ? Here are some information about Internet in Vietnam: Technology Basically, you have 3 types of connections: - ADSL, ...

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700m is impressive! Same for upload? I'm only at 200m with VNPT (DL/UP) and I was keen to find something even better. Viettel might be a new option. (I was considering FPT SOC 1GPBS, but not available in HCMC from what I understood). I'll ... Read More

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4 years ago
AndyHCMC

Car hire in HCMC for B2 licence holder by AndyHCMC

Hi, Expats who have converted their licence to VN and have TRC etc. I know expats have cars and use their converted licence to drive, anyone use their VN licence to hire a self drive car? I have 3 year TRC & VN B2 licence but no idea who/where ...

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Just deposit. I had a provide my resident card, passport and show my license. Nothing special. Read More

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4 years ago
AndyHCMC

Car hire in HCMC for B2 licence holder by AndyHCMC

Hi, Expats who have converted their licence to VN and have TRC etc. I know expats have cars and use their converted licence to drive, anyone use their VN licence to hire a self drive car? I have 3 year TRC & VN B2 licence but no idea who/where ...

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I got the local licence (Recently converted) and a resident card. Price included some insurance yes (Not clear on the detail there) For the km, I guess it depends, but in my case I had a quota of 250km a day, after that I would have paid some ... Read More

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4 years ago
AndyHCMC

Car hire in HCMC for B2 licence holder by AndyHCMC

Hi, Expats who have converted their licence to VN and have TRC etc. I know expats have cars and use their converted licence to drive, anyone use their VN licence to hire a self drive car? I have 3 year TRC & VN B2 licence but no idea who/where ...

dudumomo

I just rented a car for 10 days, using https://www.mioto.vn/ Quite easy to connect and understand. (Kind of Airbnb but for cars). The price shown was what I paid for. I needed to transfer a deposit, and pay a part off the rental fee first. Quite ... Read More

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4 years ago
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How to select your ISP - Internet in Vietnam by dudumomo

It's probably one of the first thing you may ask, right after getting the key of your apartment or house. How about internet ? Here are some information about Internet in Vietnam: Technology Basically, you have 3 types of connections: - ADSL, ...

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Great speed you got! I seems Hanoi can enjoy faster speed as well. FPT SOC 1GBPS is only available in Hanoi from what I understood. You got a speedtest to share? It will help to get the detail. Thank you Read More

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4 years ago

[Guide] Select or change your Mobile Network Operator

One of the first thing you might do when you arrive in Vietnam is to purchase a simcard and register for a data package (3G/4G). ### Overall choice There are mostly 4 Mobile Network provider in Vietnam: - Viettel - Mobifone - Vinaphone - ... Read More

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4 years ago
Guest7921

Offsite computer backup by Guest7921

Like a lot of us, I work a lot on the computer, and I make a lot of back-ups of my hard-drive in case something happens to the computer. However, I would like to be able to backup my computer somewhere offsite (I work from home) in case some ...

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Hello, my 2 cents as well: Option 1: Buy an external hard drive, do your back up on it, and store it at someone else place. Pro: Simple, cheap, easy Cons: Cannot access remotely, may need to encrypt the drive to avoid data leakage Option 2: Use ... Read More

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4 years ago
AndyHCMC

Internet Access by AndyHCMC

Hi, Anyone having problems visiting NON-Viet based websites? even visiting expat site? last 2 night from around 6pm I've been locked out of google news, youtube, XE, facebook, agoda, google maps even but any news or VN site loads up like ...

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It's due to the undersea cable indeed. Also some ISPs block certains website, either you need to use a VPN (best) or a neutral DNS (won't unlock all, but most of them, from my side). If the low bandwidth is an issue, most ISPs got package ... Read More