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tilac

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Hi,

 

Planning a trip soon to Thailand, but want to sneak out to Cambodia too for maybe a week.

I am interested to know about the use of Internet facilities over there (mainly in PP).

+ Internet cafes: location, service and price

+ ISP's: might bring a laptop so like to know if I can use that from my hotel to dailin to a local ISP.

 

This is maybe asked before, but I could't find anything !

 

Regards from tilac

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Plenty of internet shops in Phnom Penh...about 40 baht/hour (price varies from place to place...just a sample). Don't know about availability of connection from hotels. Maybe more expensive places like the Intercontinental/Cambodiana? To find an internet shop, just ask at your hotel's front desk or take a look around outside. Won't be too far.

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Current prices around 1500 - 2000 R / hour. So that's around 20 THB.

 

Speed is fine for email / surfing; I 'd say on average better than Thailand. You can plug in your laptop in a cafe.

 

I'm in the one next to Wagon Wheel on Sisowath. Nice view of the river over my monitor :)

 

Cambodia's infrastructure has much improved generally. Roads, street lighting, communications and personal security have all moved forward in the last year or so.

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As said before by the others, Internet Cafes are plenty and cheap, and some of them also good. Shop around, and I suggest you avoid the cheapest (less than 1000 Riel an hour).

As for connecting Laptops in Hotel rooms: I did this on both my stays in Pnom Penh, staying in middle class Hotels. The downside is: Also local calls are rather expensive (I don't remember correctly, but I think it was 1000 - 2000 Riel a minute at the Big Luck Hotel. And prepaid internet cards are very expensive (10 US-$ for 3 Hours) and it turned out that this did not work (some problem with DHCP. I got connected but not directed to a working DNS server ...). I then used my regular provider's IPass service, but at rates around 10 an hour ........

 

Hope it helps!

 

Sunny

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May be, I can add two more options:

 

There are now some "hotspots" in PNH available, that provide WLAN-internet-services. These can be found in the better hotels and the airport and the number is still growing. The price is comparable to prepaid ISP-cards. I used it with my WLAN-card and it worked fine.

 

In the better hotels is also an inhouse-service available, sometimes free. When I stayed in the Cambodiana the last time, the internet was included in a package deal for a junior suite on the club-floor (very nice rooms, btw.). This connection was fast and reliable. Otherwise, the price is about USD 5 per hour.

 

In Sihanoukville the internet is about double the price than in PNH (around USD 1++ per hour in a better cafe). I have no information about other places, but the tendency seems to be the more developed a city is, the cheaper the internet-cafe.

 

And of course, there is also the option to connect a private notebook in one of the internet-cafes. Simply connect the notebook using the LAN-card. The price is the same as for using the cafes' PC. The internet-cafés are also a very popular option for cheap international calls.

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