[AusNOG] Hardware needed for Thailand.

[Richard Ham]

Bruce,

Two points - buy in Thailand... Esp if you have a thai company behind you,
the gear from (even the "average") wholesalers is about 20 to 40% cheaper
than oz wholesalers. Retail at Pantip or Fortune town tends to be approx
wholesale in oz....

Secondly, I've noticed that the trend seems to be towards HP. As always
YMMV! I haven't experienced Dell support in Thailand yet.....

As with anything in Thailand, if you speak Thai (Sawaade Krup!) you'll get a
lot further than if you speak English.

With Regards,

Richard


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-
> bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Bruce Forster
> Sent: Tuesday, 2 September 2008 11:10 AM
> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: [AusNOG] Hardware needed for Thailand.
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Really hoping someone can help out on this one.
> 
> I need to purchase some machines for Thailand and I was going to use dell,
> get 8x5x365 for support, However I was talking to a few people and they
> said be careful because dell support isn't as good as they are in
> Australian and USA.
> 
> Apparently in Canada your better off buying HP then DELL because the
> support is way better due to the companies HP/DELL use for the support
> etc.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone knows this to be true? and also if anyone can
> make some recommendations to which vendors to use in Thailand?
> 
> 
> PS: We have tried shipping machines from AU to Thai they don't always
> make it in working order, plus once they fail getting them back to AU is a
> slow process.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bruce
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