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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TECHNICAL FAQ PART 1 (tech-1)
Networking and Software

  * Networking
  N.1)  Network map
  N.2)  Domestic host count
  N.3)  NSFnet network statistics
  N.4)  Network resources
  N.5)  Commercial network access (revised)
  * Thai software
  S.1)  Microsoft Windows 3.1 Thai Edition

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TECHNICAL INFOTMATION

This part describes technical aspects of Thailand particularly Information
Technology and Science and Technology Development activities.

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N.1)  Network map

                 Domestic IP network topology

                               NIDA
                TU-----TU        |       KKU
              Rangsit   `\       | SUT   /     STOU
                     TIAC `\ MOPH| |   /' RU  /'
                         `\_`\ | | | /'_/'__/'
  UUNET/Alternet------------N E C T E C---------KMITNB
                             |   | |`\`\`------MUA
                      AIT  KMITL | `\ `\`-----KMITT
                       |         |  PSU `\
       UUNET---------Chula-------+    `\  `---KU
                    /' | `\            PSU
            Chiangmai  |   `Mahidol   Pattani
                      AU

Legends

-------         IP link

AIT             Asian Institute of Technology {Pathumthani}
AU              Assumption Univiersity, formerly known as Assumption
                Business Administration College -- ABAC
Chiangmai       Chiangmai University {Chiangmai}
Chula           Chulalongkorn University
KKU             Khon Kaen University {Khon Kaen}
KMITL           King Mongkut Institute of Technology, Ladkrabang Campus
KMITNB          King Mongkut Institute of Technology, North Bangkok Campus
                {Nonthaburi}
KMITT           King Mongkut Institute of Technology, Thonburi Campus
KU              Kasetsart University, Bangkhen Campus
Mahidol         Mahidol University, Ramathibodi Campus
MOPH            Ministry of Public Health
MUA             Ministry of University Affairs
NECTEC          National Electronics and Computer Technology Center,
                National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA),
                Ministry of Science Technology and Environment (MoSTE)
NIDA            National Institute for Development Administration
PSU             Prince of Songkhla University, Haad Yai Campus {Songkhla}
PSU Pattani     Prince of Songkhla University, Pattani Campus {Pattani}
RU              Ramkhamhaeng University, Huamark Campus
STOU            Sokhothai Thammathirat Open University {Nonthaburi}
SUT             Suranaree University of Technology {Nakornratchasima}
TIAC            Technical Information Access Center, NSTDA, MoSTE
TU              Thammasat University, Thaprachan Campus
TU Rangsit      Thammasat University, Rangsit Campus {Pathumthani}

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N.2)  Domestic host count

As of March 12 1994, Thailand has:

Found 0 hosts within th
Found 0 hosts within or.th
Found 41 hosts within nectec.or.th              (NECTEC)
Found 3 gateway hosts within nectec.or.th
Found 0 hosts within go.th
Found 1 host within moph.go.th                  (Min. of Public Health)
Found 1 host within mua.go.th                   (Min. of University Affairs)
Found 0 hosts within ac.th
Found 1 host within ru.ac.th                    (Ramkhamhaeng)
Found 3 hosts within nida.ac.th                 (NIDA)
Found 7 hosts within kmitl.ac.th                (KMIT Ladkrabang)
Found 1 gateway host within kmitl.ac.th
Found 16 hosts within crsc.kmitl.ac.th
Found 2 gateway hosts within crsc.kmitl.ac.th
Found 31 hosts within lcad.crsc.kmitl.ac.th
Found 58 hosts within ce.kmitl.ac.th
Found 2 gateway hosts within ce.kmitl.ac.th
Found 43 hosts within net.kmitl.ac.th
Found 12 gateway hosts within net.kmitl.ac.th
Found 13 hosts within ait.ac.th                 (AIT)
Found 16 hosts within cs.ait.ac.th
Found 1 host within staff_lan.ait.ac.th
Found 8 hosts within chiangmai.ac.th            (Chiangmai)
Found 1 host within kmitnb.ac.th                (KMIT North Bangkok)
Found 5 hosts within tu.ac.th                   (Thammasat)
Found 13 hosts within chula.ac.th               (Chulalongkorn)
Found 2 extrazone hosts within chula.ac.th
Found 5 hosts within acc.chula.ac.th
Found 5 hosts within cuuc.chula.ac.th
Found 4 hosts within csc.chula.ac.th
Found 4 hosts within car.chula.ac.th
Found 1 host within md.chula.ac.th
Found 2 hosts within atccu.chula.ac.th
Found 2 hosts within eng.chula.ac.th
Found 2 hosts within stou.ac.th                 (Sukhothai Thammathirat)
Found 5 hosts within mahidol.ac.th              (Mahidol)
Found 1 host within sut.ac.th                   (Suranaree Univ of Technology)
Found 13 hosts within au.ac.th                  (Assumption)
Found 6 hosts within psu.ac.th                  (Prince of Songkhla)
Found 1 host within kmitt.ac.th                 (KMIT Thonburi)
Found 6 hosts within ku.ac.th                   (Kasetsart)
Found 1 gateway host within ku.ac.th
Found 28 hosts within cpc.ku.ac.th
Found 1 duplicate host within cpc.ku.ac.th
Found 1 gateway host within cpc.ku.ac.th
Found 54 hosts within cpe.ku.ac.th
Found 1 gateway host within cpe.ku.ac.th
Found 3 hosts within lib.ku.ac.th
Found 6 hosts within kku.ac.th                  (Khon Kaen)
Encountered 407 hosts in 39 domains within th
Encountered 1 duplicate host in 39 domains within th

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N.3)  NSFnet traffic

NSF Backbone Service Traffic from/to Thailand.

                        Bytes               Bytes       Percentages
           No.          In To               Out From    In       Out
           Nets         Backbone            Backbone   (%all traffic)
=====================================================================
93  Jan      3         110086100           291218500     0.00    0.01
    Feb     11         153774900           450993850     0.00    0.01
    Mar     12         232535800           637034800     0.00    0.01
    Apr     11         157441200           596281150     0.00    0.01
    May     13         173862850           724595250     0.00    0.01
    Jun     13         258465250           883010950     0.00    0.01
    Jul     15         275098400          1433567400     0.00    0.02
    Aug     16         378205950          2042966200     0.01    0.03
    Sep     16         441728700          2253084200     0.01    0.03
    Oct     17           473182400          2694364850     0.00    0.03
    Nov     17         596610450          4087475000     0.01    0.04
    Dec     18         610994800          4037458900     0.01    0.04
94  Jan     21         972252150          4711328550     0.01    0.05
    Feb     25        2244173700          4127016300     0.02    0.04
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   Source:  derived from data at nic.merit.edu

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N.4)  Network resources

FTP servers

   ftp.cs.washington.edu
     /pub/thaisys/BBS          Selected files from BBSes in Thailand.
              .../info         Files from NECTEC /pub/info/...
              .../software     Files from NECTEC /pub/pc/... and
                               Kent State's /pub/Thai/Software.
              .../thainews     Decoded daily news from Thai News Agency
                               available at NECTEC /pub/news. Updated
                               regularly.

   ftp.mcs.kent.edu
     /pub/Thai/Docs            Text files from NECTEC /pub/info/...
           .../Fonts/...       Thai fonts for Macintosh, TeX and bitmap.
           .../Newsletter      Archive of Thai newsletters (the interim
                               mailing list prior to the creation of
                               soc.culture.thai).
           .../Pictures        JPEG files.
           .../STnews          News on Science and Technology development.
           .../Software        Various Thai software.

   zadar.cca.vu.nl
     /pub/pics/Thailand        GIF and JPEG pictures of Thailand.

   chulkn.chula.ac.th
     /pub/cuword               Home of cuword

   ftp.nectec.or.th
     /pub/info/...             Information -- Text files
           .../gna             Global Network Academy -- list of courses/
                               degrees of which class attendance is not
                               required and the Internet and its facilities
                               can be used to stimulate classroom
                               environment.
           .../netinfo         Forms/procedures related to Internet
                               registration
           .../royal-speeches  Transcriptions of Royal Speeches on various
                               occations. Thai. TIS 620-2533 character set.
           .../soc.culture.thai-faq  Working copy of soc.culture.thai FAQ.
           .../thai-language         Thai word list, Thai word parser, etc.
           .../thailand-education    Information on local education.
           .../thailand-figures      Economic indicators and forecasts.
           .../thailand-gis+maps     GIS data and maps.
           .../thailand-networking   Domestic networking.
           .../thailand-travel       Travel.
     /pub/mirrors/...                Mirror archives of various software and
                                     specifications. Update automatically.
              .../dharma             DharmaNet Electronic File Archive (DEFA).
              .../games              U Mass Lowell's games archive.
              .../internet-drafts    Internet drafts.
              .../gnu                GNU archive from MIT.
              .../lpf                Leagues for Programming Freedom archive.
              .../microsoft          MS technical specifications.
              .../msdos              Simtel/Oak Repository archive.
              .../rfc                Internet RFC's.
              .../win3               Indiana CICA's Win3 archive.
     /pub/news                 Daily news from Thai News Agency. Thai.
                               TIS 620-2533 character set. Updated daily.
     /pub/pc/cu-writer         The renowned CU-Writer (a.k.a. CU Word).
                               Developed at Chulalongkorn. Thai.
         .../lao               Lao software -- now only the Lao version
                               of CU Writer 1.5. Developed by the
                               International Relations of Chulalongkorn and
                               the Lao PDR's Ministry of Science and
                               Technology.
         .../mm-may92          MS Windows multimedia application of
                               the 'middle-class uprising' May 1992
                               chronicle. Developed at AIT. Thai.
         .../thai-lib          C programming library to facilitate the
                               development of Thai language applications.
                               Developed at KMIT-T. Thai.

   ftp2.nectec.or.th
     /pub/mirrors/...                Mirror archives of various software.
                                     Update on a daily basis.
              .../linux              Linux archive from MIT.
              .../mac                Macintosh archive from Stanford.

Telnet server

   md1.md.chula.ac.th
                               Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn.
                               Index of Thai Medical Journals.
                               Login as CUML; no password. OpenVMS.
                               microCDS/ISIS package.

   rccvax.ait.ac.th
                               Regional Computing Center, AIT. Online
                               library catalogue. Login as LIBRARY;
                               no password. OpenVMS. microCDS/ISIS pkg.

Gopher servers

   emailhost.ait.ac.th
                               Regional and domestic information from
                               ESCAP, UNESCO, University of Maryland
                               and many others. Great source of info.

   chulkn.chula.ac.th          ** Experimental server **
                               Internet Service Office.

   gopher.chiangmai.ac.th      ** Experimental server **
                               Information center for Northern Thailand.
                               Travel information. Recent country-wide
                               weather forecast.

   gopher.kku.ac.th            ** Experimental server **
                               Information center for Northeastern Thailand.

   gopher.mahidol.ac.th        ** Experimental server **
                               Computer Center, Mahidol.

WWW servers

  emailhost.ait.ac.th          Offers similar sets as AIT gopher plus
                               the richness of the global web. Home page:
                                 http://emailhost.ait.ac.th

  www.nectec.or.th             A world-wide web server to access all known
                               domestic information mentioned above. Access
                               to NECTEC mirror archives (RFCs, draft RFCs,
                               GNU, SimTel/Oak MSDOS, UML Games, D.E.F.A.
                               Buddhism online files, CICA Win3, Microsoft
                               technical specs, League for programming
                               freedom, Linux and Macintosh). Various
                               collections of handy network utilities. Global
                               Network Navigator. Global Network Academy.
                               Australia/Thailand Higher Education Information
                               Exchange. ANU Coombs archives Thai-Yunnan
                               Project Newsletters. soc.culture.thai FAQs.
                               Home page is URL:
                                 http://www.nectec.or.th/nectec.html

Updated on 1994-03-12.

------------------------------

N.5)  Commercial network access

From: [e-mail] (Mike Barnes)
Date: 14 Feb 1994 20:42:08 GMT

  Contacts for Compuserve in Thailand:
  PTT CONTACT INFORMATION IN THAILAND

      Commercial Service:
      Director, Commercial Division
      Communications Authority of Thailand
      Bangkok 10501
      Thailand

      Telephone:  [phone] or 233-1050, ext. 2217 or 2521
      Telex:      (788) 70021 or 80013

      Administrative Matters:
      Dr. Kittin Udomkiat
      Telex:  (788) 80006

      Technical Matters:
      Mr. Manit Saikeaw
      Telex:  (788) 70046

From: [e-mail] (Yunyong Teng-amnuay)
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 08:45:16 +0700 (BKK)

   THAIPAK is the X.25 service offered by CAT (Communications Authority of
   Thailand).  It allows connection to other X.25 node (server) via simple
   RS232 async port (?9600? bps).  There are minimum charge and traffic
   charge by the byte.

   At the moment there is no "commercial Internet service" in Thailand.
   So people can't just walk in with money to get an account for Internet
   access.  The current connections (started by Chulalongkorn University
   since September 1992 and later on by NECTEC) are under constraints by
   the CAT to be used only for education and research purposes.  That is
   by such organizations or their members.  If you can find some
   justification (such as affiliation with Chulalongkorn) then you should
   be entitled to a temporary account.

   [...] Commercial service for the Internet access may come in a year
   or so but even then it will still be expensive.  I would say 1,000 baht
   a month at the minimum.

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S.1)  Microsoft Windows 3.1 Thai Edition

From: [e-mail] (Panu Sittiwong)
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 12:32:26 CST

  Since my previous post on Windows 3.1 Thai Edition, I have received
  several info. about the product.  So I decide to post it in SCT to
  everyone.  Here is the info.

  Windows 3.1 Thai Edition
  The Valuesoft Vision Co. Ltd.
  15th Floor, Central Chidlom Tower
  22 Soi Somkid, Ploenchit Rd.
  Bangkok 10330

  Tel. [phone]
  Fax. [phone]

  I don't know that you can get it in the U.S.  I got my copy in
  Bangkok by trading in my English version of Windows 3.1.  The
  upgrade price is 1250 Bath plus 7% VAT.  You will need to bring
  all the diskettes of the English version for the upgrade.  The
  software comes in 8 diskettes and a Thai manual.  I have been using
  it since last August without any problem and the Thai characters
  look real nice.

From: Randall Jones ([e-mail])
Date: 24 Jan 94 12:24 PST

  I've just ordered the Thai version of Windows 3.1.  I ordered the full
  package, not the upgrade.  It cost $190.00.  (I haven't received it yet
  but I'm looking forward to trying it out.)

  I ordered from THE IDEA in California (Los Angeles, I think).  Their
  phone number is [phone].  This was the only vendor MicroSoft
  Help could suggest for the Thai Windows in the U.S.

==============================================================================

Acknowledgements

Thanks for contributions from:
  John. A. Brubaker ([e-mail]) for N.3;
  Mike Barnes ([e-mail]) for N.5;
  Panu Sittiwong ([e-mail]) for S.1;
  Randall Jones ([e-mail]) for S.1;
  Trin Tantsetthi ([e-mail]) for N.1, N.2 and N.4