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don’t want streamyx. it is too bad.
other ISP at Sarawak. boycott TM NUT !

fuct steamix, damn tmnut blocking p2p
broadband is useless witout p2p

There was another (great) ISP that appeared in the SURF magazine, OPTIC. Known as the fibre optic broadband that provides 2mb of speed with only RM60 /month. I was impressed, I made a call to the ISP to apply, however i was replied with a disappointing answer. They could not deliver the service to my area (Puchong).

I felt most organizations in Malaysia carries the values of the “typical malaysians” attitude. Which shows their apathetic response. They should learn to value customers. If there’s no coverage in that area… why can’t they just make the coverage in that area instead of waiting for groups of people asking for it.

Organzations should always take the innitiative, the proactive action towards any needs of the society.

Typical malaysians… creates typical organizations… aiii…..

Arthur

man ,streamyx suck
when can I reach 2mb/s ?

well , it seems that tmnet is trying to boost up the speed , but its way too slow , and the broadband penetration is way too low compare to other leading country just like japan or korea , lets just hope tmnet will do take some serious action about this

hye guyz.. i really wanna help from u guys.. actly i’m student.. i’m now doing research about broadband n dial-up.. any body know, how much users broadband n dial-up in malaysia?? (jaring, maxis, streamyx n others) any body know, reply to my e-mail k.. A.S.A.P.. Thx..

Onspeed is not a very useful software for desktop users for me tho that is. It’ll be useful for people who surf with handphone tho. B’coz picture quality is less important on small handphone screen.

T_T I am currently really sad that my location is abit too far to have broadband internet… TM surely not going to be the one I will choose because cable down (cause by cable thief), and the only choice would be wireless satelite broadband. But another problem is that some of them such as VSAT are not available for home users or residential, alsothe SMART KU-Band is far too expensive… and for 3G network, damn i don’t got a laptop… T_T Malaysia ISP just keep me dissapointed… Man… I need broadband lah! There no way a webmaster can live without network!!! (means I work OUTSIDE now …)

And ah… forgot to mention : Why everything just focus in KL ?! It seems likely we (east) are not exist ! If you calculate coverage spot of all ISP in KL itself already hit more than 500 spots… but if you calculate here at east (Borneo) … sad to says.

TMNet services has been degrading since they started blocking peer to peer networking. It seems like the company is heading toward the wrong direction. Instead of improving the services, they are cutting the services. The worst thing is, changes are made frequently to the service and yet it has not been informed to the customers. Eventually, we are smart enough to find out. Can’t wait for PenangFon and other ISP provider to raise.!!! TMNet is going down!!!

yeah! TM Net does really sucks. the price of the service is expensive but the service they gave are too pathetic. I can’t figure out why they can’t improve their service to be much better for time beings, its a big company but with a small mentalities. fuck TMNET!! does anybody know which ISP that doesn’t ban P2P usage?

Why they are throttling the p2p service..nowdays many people are using p2p client. This shows how tmnet have a very littled concerned about their customers….

blocked p2p? then why the hell is streamyx still very laggy?? play WOW, downloads research from the net and others at a snails pace! so much for p2p users eating everybodies bandwith

Try Metrofon http://www.metrofon.com.my (Penangfon subsidiary)
A new player at the town,KL.
2mb for rm60 monthly

“Malaysia introduced its National Broadband Plan in 2003, with the hope of providing broadband connection speeds of 20Mbps by next year. (2007) ” - http://www.zdnetasia.com/toolkits/printfriendly.htm?AT=39362100-39094241p-39047352t

Wow, we ought to have 20Mbps broadband this year!

You need to post time. How come all posts bear Aug 26, 2006 9.44am timestamp?? Blame it on bad broadband huh, hehe…

Metrofon can the alternative for Streamyx, seems it’s cheap on connection fees. But however, its limited to certain locations only, sigh.

MetroFON should be added in the list. It is a sister network for PenangFON, but targetted to apartments in Klang Valley. The company is using fiber optic as backbone.
2Mbps for RM60 per month. Deposit RM180, installation RM120.
Check out http://www.metrofon.com.my. Registration is very simple. Just download the registration form. Fill it up and fax it back to them. Within 1 working day, they will call to make installation appointment.

what about Winet? it is available in certain areas in Kedah and Penang. Quite affordable price. http://www.winet.com.my/

All these ISPs are riding on TMnuts back bone infrastructure. Actually, there is NO alternatives. Alternatives means:
1) No need TM fix line
2) Ports are available all the time. If TMnuts has port in one area, and the competitor does not have, than that is NOT alternatives.
3) ISPs have their own end to end connection. i.e From my home in KL to my server in Houston Texas.
Any of these ISPs can do that?
4) Most of the excuses - We have NO port / We don’t have COVERAGE. WTF! Then don’t offer services. If they do have ports and coverage, then the cost would be almost double to what the NUTS is giving us.
There is no need for third party tools/software as we are already paying to the promised services which is NEVER delivered.
my 2 cents.

Go Lightspeed Broadband? i’m one of their customer.. what can i say, their service is SUCKS!! Customer at Desaria almost 3000 people, but their service still same.. no upgrade!! to slow!! very slow!! tired of it!!

I hope another ISP can take over here at Desaria Villa Condominium, Puchong

Khai - Limkokwing University Student

Are you sure all the broadband go through tmnet backbone? When i was using a isp in midvalley, some named isp starts with M… The speed was marvelous… connection to local server within malaysia was freaking fast!, no delay at all. when i was using streamyx back at home (1mps adsl), there were delay in the response… althought the delay is in milliseconds, but you can sure feel the differences. it’s like 2-3 times faster. even for overseas connection, the speed and reliability of that isp was marverlous! compared to streamyx, it sux! and you know, recently streamyx was having problem, almost all sites and local connection have problem! but that isp doesn’t have that problem! i think the isp name is called metroplex. i will try to find out the name and post again

Are you sure Airzed is priced at rm100?
The cheapest for home user was RM 188 / MONTH! with speed of 1Mbs/s download and 128kbits/seconds???? wtf
http://www.airzed.com/wimax/wm_plans.aspx

My experience with Airzed…
While i was at midvalley, i was trying to subscribe to their package, but i couldn’t. it was due to the system blocking outside connection when you don’t have an account with them. but wth, they even block payment gateway server to pay for their service, .. okay, they sux…

2nd, while i was using their connection at san francisco coffee… the wifi connection was okay, but… their internet seems to cut off for hours! what kind of service is this?
i’m very upset with their service, but what can be done? most coffee shop like coffee bean and san francisco coffee and raskin robbin only provide their service. Except for starbucks… but damn! it’s always crowded…

Hey, guys, we should compare with singapore broadband services, because our top speed of the broadband is only up to 4Mbps(Megabits/s), Starhub already have 100Mbps.

Metrofon and penangfon seems to offer very high speed broadband at very cheap monthly fees
but… they only offers to condominiums and apartment… damn!
Streamyx is so f*** now.. 22 aug 2007

WiMAX, it’s all about politics..
DIGI couldn’t even get their license.
if they could, i’m sure they could have deployed a affordable service for us…
but nooo.. guess who got it? maxis, celcom, and other non isp provider.. wtf* so.. MYS F* BOLEH

Hi,
the broadband is not called metro plex but from macrolynx
http://www.macrolynx.com
i think their the provider for zapzone

To james, Digi didn’t get any 3G licences, or wimax or whatever yet because goverment want telenor to cut out their share in digi. Plus, they want digi focusing to improve their GSM coverages first. If they got 3G or wimax licences now, they will focus on 3g/wimax services and forgotten about their 2G coverages since all the capex goes to 3g/wimax. But trust me, after telenor decrease their share in DiGi (by year end), digi will got something. Just wait.

By the way, the information above is not update. I hope the webmaster could update the information, most of the info is not relevant anymore.

anyway, yesterday goverment already awarded TM a huge contract worth 15 billion to provide broadband services nationwide. 15bil is a huge man, imaging they will roll out the services with 1 billion every year. i hope this will improve our broadband services.

Using metrofon at KL. It is call OCE. Not really good to me. The customer service never fix my problem. Being complainning for nearly half a year more every since it first install at my house. The is no good support, and also the connection sometime is worst than even streamyx for a couple of days and try to call the customer service and wrote multiple mail. But no reply.

Well now looking at Izzi but wonder if the line is as good as being told. I will try calling their customer service to see if they are good first. Hate it when you complain a problem and totally no reply. OCE cannot be use to play online games. They connection keep having packet loss and disconnect during the game causing the game to be very lag.

2mbps theoretical. You will never get 2mbps. and that is megaBIT/s mind you. not megaBYTE/s (8bits = 1byte. including start and stop bits, 10bits = 1 byte roughly.) My streamyx connection is 1mbps. So theoretically i should be getting about 100 kBytes/s download… In reality, i get about 60kBytes/s (or about 0.6mbps).

Hay guys,does anyone knows which is the best 3G company that works in tronoh,perak?

dear josh.lim..
go light speed rasanya dah gulung tikar.. before, desaria villa condominium (Limkokwing University Hostel) guna Go light speed, tapi disebabkan service yang macam tahi, penghujung 2007 lepas, diorang dah tukar dengan MyKris yang sedang khai pakai sekarang..even better… rasanya cukup ok..

go light speed punye official website pon dah tak boleh masuk.. dah berbulan2 tak boleh masuk.. betul la kot.. gulung tikar..
atau ada apa2 information terbaru pasal go light speed?

This page is useful, but it could be more useful if the mode of the connection(which technology), wherether if the ISP throttles as well as the speed and bandwidth is displayed.

hi, can anyone please give me a suggestion about broadband. i’m still a student n i need a broadband. i living in pelangi, damansara (near 1utama). i does not know which broadband i should choose. maxis or digi or celcom?
thanks

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im currently using jaring wireless , been stable but hard for my online games , best ping i could get is 130..which is so sucky..thinking of metrofon and izzi ? heard metrofon cant play online games due to packet loss ? any idea guys ? or maybe just wait for wimax ? :S hope to see a reply soon

hi, im looking for a good isp for playing online games. I currently use streamyx 1mbps and i lag a LOT. heck, when I join a server in Team Fortress 2 I have the highest ping, and CoD4 multiplayer is very unplayable. I love multiplayer but I wanna enjoy it without lag. thanks.

First hand outlook at PenangFON’s service.

the streanyx is very suck la , when i play WOW(world of warcraft) thi ping is 2000-4000 fuck la.when i change to maxis wireless broadband the ping is 200-300 damn,WHAT A BIG DIFFERENT. now still using streamyx because the maxis limited our usage only 3GB if not ,i will use maxis.

I was thinkin change ISP but only TM streamyx serve my area, (81100)
can any ISP consider JB market?? is potential!! coz Streamyx sucks!!

If you want a good broadband in South East Asia, migrate to Singapore. If want better one, study hard and migrate to oversea…minimum 20+ Mbps (not Kbps see carefully) Don’t put hope on ISP Msia, they don’t appreciate feedback!