illmill

So I just got back from the Philippines, which was my first time in Asia, and I fell in love with the people and the place. I want to explore Asia more, but as a resident who travels to different countries. Since I can make interweb monies I'm thinking about moving over there. The Philippines would be nice cuz it's cheap, the people speak english, and there's tons of hot bitches who love tall white guys (I'm a 6'7" white guy). There internet is ok at best. They just need to get their shit together. The computer system at the airport went down as we were trying to leave. They have blackouts frequently and the internet could get frustrating just checking email, nevermind working on wordpress and managing campaigns.

Sorry for the rant, but I was wondering if there are any AM's here who live in South East Asia and are happy with the available internet and other technology/comfort. I've heard Vietnam is awesome and has fast internet. To see pics and videos from my trip go to Asia | traveling miller

acemenace

Try Thailand. Land of Smiles.

Virtual Banker

1 - they are crazy shady catholic, imagine a mexican mixed with a chinese for all the bad. . .
2 - the food


yeah the internet works well when they decide to show up to work. . .

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TheDean

the blog reads well...i hope one day the travel gnome visits you and supplants the adsense...se asia not my forte...gl

illmill

The food sucks! They are crazy and shady catholics, but I'm not sure how these three traits are related. They're shady because they're broke and will do anything for money. I can't really say I blame them. They're crazy because they are women. Sorry, I didn't really get to know any guys there because I'm not into guys. And finally, they are catholics because the spanish ruled them with an iron fist and pushed their religion on them. However, they didn't really seem to mind or judge me for not being catholic.
Good sides of their culture: RESPECT is huge there. Kids in American don't give 2 shits about anyone. Shit's cheap. Dinner for two with about 4 drinks: $6. Baller-ass appartment: $600 a month. You can get a nice appartment for $200 a month. Did I mention HOT BITCHES??? That's #1 thing I look for in any city I go. I love asian girls, but unfortunately usually they don't have very big tits or ass. Filipinas have the asian look AND fat tities and ass. Oh yea, they speak english. I can't imagine trying to get around Japan or China when they don't even use letters.

Virtual Banker

I appreciate not have guards with double pump action shotguns standing outside of Mcdonalds





spend a few days in Thailand and you will quickly forget all about the philipinas

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fvaldes

[QUOTE=Virtual Banker;570272]I appreciate not have guards with double pump action shotguns standing outside of Mcdonalds


the same is true for many latin American countries...

TacoBells guarded by guards with M16s!!

msullens88

I lived in Manila (Philippines) for 5 months and the homes and hotels all have horrible internet, the only place that had a good connection was at my office in Makati over on Ayala Ave - Most of the offices there have E-1's that are much more reliable then the cable connections everywhere else...

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knukk

Singapore and Hong-Kong.

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Wicked Ice

I am in Singapore. Internet here is very fast.

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oksk89

If I'm not mistaken, Korea has the highest population density of people with access to blazing-fast internet connections.

Not to mention, the internet culture in Korea is SOOO huge and monumental.

Rage9

Do any of the asian countries like Thailand, Singapore, or Korea censor the internet at all?

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SandnSurf

Thailand can (will) block any site that shows disrespect to their king. I believe they blocked Youtube for awhile because of that.

CPW-Carl

Singapore has crazy fast internet, but is way more expensive cost of living than the Phils.

oksk89

Korea does not censor the internet. The only instance I know in which they censored something internet-related was when the poor korean fellow was beheaded by terrorists and the video was leaked on ogrish.com --> the govt ordered all korean ISP's to block that site.

Drake

Japan's internet is mad fast, but that is really not Asia.

And the economy sucks there and shit is still expensive.

I have seen megabytes per second more than a few times.

Rob_TID

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bennet

avoid mainland china like the plague, the net there is shit and has been ruined by their firewall. youtube.com = blocked currently and they block sites at will. many foreign sites that arent blocked load mysteriously slow due to their firewall.

zimok

You might have better luck getting advice here,

Travel - Two Plus Two Poker Forum

Poker players are very adamant about their internet and I've seen it being discussed a bunch.. (If I'm not supposed to link to other forums mod please delete)

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wristcore

Turkey

knukk

Yeah, Japan and South Korea should have decent Internet connections as well.

Some of the worst places are probably North Korea and, as said, mainland China (not including Hong Kong of course, there you'll get a good treat ).

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tjewsky

South Korea - best speeds in Asia

Isostar13

Taiwan is solid and Taipei is a fun place to be.

Virtual Banker

Taiwanese girls are actually some of the best looking hands down in asia.

tall and fair skinned. Taipei is a good place to be if you like to fuck

internet is great too.

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kelhalla2

^^^ and now adding Taipei to the list. Heard you can kitesurf there too. hellawindy.

agree with above post about Japan. The economy isn't doing well and its still crazy expensive. lots of other upsides though and internet blazes in nice hotels.

WhatupG

Taiwan is ok. The women are hot, no doubt about it.

The internet is a sham though, just like everything else here. I pay for an 8M line but the actual throughput is far far lower. They offered me a fiber connection a few months ago, but after talking with other foreigners, I found out the fiber is even slower.

They are just incompetent here. The fat pipes are in the ground and high speed is possible but they are idiots. Things like DNS and load balancing and caching DNS are just way too advanced for these people. You can raise hell, and after they send idiots out multiple times, you might get lucky and have a guy that actually has a clue AND is willing to do something productive, but the blazing high speeds only last a few weeks before some yahoo in the CO screws it up again. The good news is that the internet rarely goes down completely and I've never had any sites blocked.


Thailand is great, but the internet goes down much more often. The Thai firewall will sometimes block porn (it's illegal) and of course anything remotely close to breaking lese majeste laws. The political situation is also still a bit unsettled there, but presently no big issues.

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Virtual Banker

I've actually spent considerable time in most Asian Countries. I will give you all a breakdown by women and Internet

Starting from the top

• South Korea - Blazing Fast Internet, women are hot, but kinda aliens
• Japan - Bukkake
• Hong Kong - Blazing Fast Internet - women are ok.. ususally short,inbred and bad skin with a few gems mixed in
• Mainland China - Internet is Erratic, you need Open VPN to function. Food is horrible and women are pretty nice, though nobody speaks english in the whole place
• Taiwan - Fast Internet, Tall and Fair Skinned Women who want to taste western cock, Nice place for a bacholer
• Phillipines. Internet Generally sucks unless you are in Makati. Food is uneditable, women are psycotic bitches.
• Vietnam - Sexy Bitches - Fast internet in certain spots. You are kinda king here as the tall guy amoung all the short people. Though generally I prefer thailand
• Laos - Backwater
• Cambodia - If you like pre-teens
• Maylaysia - Blazing Internet - Really sterile place - actually good for someone trying to run a serious business. Women are ok.... but sorta in their own world. . .
• Singapore - Similar to Maylaysia, but a little more culture and activity. You need $ to be here.
• Indonesia. - Skip it.
• Sri lanka - If you like boys.
• Thailand - Ahh land of smiles, my current home. Internet is not the best, but acceptable. Women love you long time.. . .

So really out of all the asian countries, I would recommend Thailand, Taiwan or Singapore depending on what you are into.

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bizkiller

ME = Korean

South Korea = Fastest Internet Connection FTW

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illmill

Great post! Exactly what I needed to know. I think you pretty much nailed it. Thailand has always sounded like a great option. Why do people keep talking about the 'smiles'? Are these verticle smiles?

amanda11

Japan, I think they got the Internet 2.

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Virtual Banker

no, only Bukkake

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sampunk

Taiwanese are wack. They all try to look/behave like Japanese cause they are in denial of the fact that they are Chinese.

everyone in South Korea looks (and smells) the same. Zero personality.

Fuck China (even though i am Chinese)

Japan - they pretty much hate all the other Asian country so it is not for me

all the other places are just way too hot to live.

Alpha

Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Vietnam, Shanghai, Beijing, and last but not least Macau.

Bombastic

Japan's not that expensive if you come from a city in a Western country. When you factor in taxes and tips (sales tax 5%, no tips), it's cheaper than Vancouver. Rents in central Tokyo can be fucking high, but that's like one tiny dot on the Japan map.

Internet here is mad fast if you get hikari fiber connection. I think I've gotten torrents downloading at 3 mb per second before. No sites are blocked.

sampunk

can u use hulu.com or netflix watch instatly?

sumitdhawan09

Hello friend,

I hear most fast internet in world is Japan and South Korea.

Good luck bro

Refrozen

Recommending western Canada or California.

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on-on

I'll generally echo the internet parts of this. I'd add that internet's fine in most CBD areas in The Philippines - pretty much if there's a call center or two around then local PLDT is going to be zippy. Ortigas is fine in Manila as are parts of Cebu, for example (and presumably other oddball rural areas). Thai internet's gotten better, even international, in the last year or so and the True 4mb and 8mb packages are almost as good as run of the mill DSL back home in America in bandwidth terms these days, but the international latency is still pretty annoying (though better). Saw a map of the country's internet infrastructure once, it was the usual mess of lines connecting this to that and that to this and then when it got to the international connections there were three lines, only two public. I hear there are two more that aren't publicized, but I forget what they were supposed to be for. Probably CP and the military.

Also, yeah, food in The Philippines is rancidly bad compared to almost everywhere else. As a friend says, "Ever seen a Filipino restaurant in the rest of the world?" I hear there's Jollibee in Southern California, but outside of huge enclaves it's hard to imagine anyone else eating enough of it to support one. On the flipside, even Starbucks has armed guards, so you're always safe (lol).

illmill

Hulu blocks all countries other than the US and maybe Canada, so no.

Rage9

That's what a proxy is for.

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markus

Also been to most of those.
You've over rated Thailand and under rated Hong Kong.

While in soi cowboy/pattaya or wherver you go, keep an eye on the adam's apples

land of smiles, right before you get roofied for organ harvesting
yeah, its not that bad, but only good for kicks
hard to get any work done there

Singapore - censored
S. Korea & Japan - language barriers

I'd pick Hong Kong; centralized, blazing internet, and the best place to do business in the area.

markus

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Your best places for getting shit done, in no particular order
Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, Singapore (but don't be smokin nothing when there-death penalty)


For holidays;
Philippines, Thaliand (koh Samui), Angkor Wat (cambodia?), Bali

markus

you should probably lay off the soup #5

hyperion

Thailand internet can suck my balls, although I do agree, over the three years I've been here there has been massive improvement. I've heard they plan on adding a little more bandwidth to the international line within the next year, as well. However, during the day the connection sucks.

At night though, I can stream international torrents and shit pretty fast at 100 kbs a second. The domestic connections are always very quick, but that's not too important unless you can read Thai.

Girls here are hot if you know where to go. If you like hookers and ladyboys, yeah, go to Soi Cowboy (never been here and never will go) and Nana. If you like normal Thai university girls and race queen models, go to Thong Lor/Ekamai (I recommend Funky Villa. Amazing girls and a good band playing every night (if you can stand to listen to Thai music)). If you want to hook up with the high class socialites, actresses and singers, and fashion models (mostly international or half-thais), head to the likes of Falla Bella, Bed Superclub (actually, skip this one unless you like to mingle with asshats), Club Culture, 808, Wine Bridge, Monopoly, Narcisus, etc.

Japan's internet connection was fucking blazing. I had a mobile 3g connection and at times I was downloading at over 1 mb a second. Girls were all very cute, but I prefer the Thai halfies and models here.

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amanda11

Enjoy your AIDS and dick girls.

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Virtual Banker

your just jealous cause you dont have a dick

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guerilla

Slow down Steve. Amanda does have a dick.

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Virtual Banker

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illmill

ahh hahaha... gotta love wf.