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I think TM will adjust the prices for Streamyx and set lower prices for HSBB-now named as UniFi.The fact is I was wrong.

According to the latest information getting from MalaysianWireless,UniFi has the packages of 5,10 and 20Mbps.They are expected to have similar download and upload speeds.The price charts for the packages are not yet disclosed,however,some source claimed that that could be RM149,RM199 and RM249 respectively.

I believe most of Malaysians will say that the prices are too high.I totally agree it.So now I just pray that the prices are for the tri-play packages,not for broadband only.We could get the exact information tomorrow as TM will officially inform the public about the charges for the services.

I hope that will not be another service which is going to kill my wallet.

It’s about HSBB again.TM has put a big count-down banner at its official website.It seems to say that the evolution is just at the corner.Well,I hope it will be true.

TM looks like setting up a live page to show that great time.

However,I’m hardly doubting whether HSBB will be really dramatic as we all assumed.I face some slow-down issues of my current Streamyx service.I sent the complaint to the customer service department and they gave me a reply saying that the issue I have to face is because of the highly congested network in my area.I was also informed that they could not promise when it could be solved.

Oops,they even can’t manage the existing ADSL systems,how could they have the strong ability to deal with higher speed fibre optics system?I have no idea. 

Today Maxis shows up new decorated wireless broadband plans.Maxis is setting up the wireless plan upon its growing UMTS/HSDPA network and so theoretically the speed for downlink should be around 2-3Mbps when you’re at a good coverage area.The new plans are pricing lower than the previous ones.I think this could be considered as a fight-back to Celcom which also makes 3G data service as a part of value added services.Another mobile service player-DiGi,however,wants to assist 3G data service to be one of its main products.

I had taken a closer look at the table of new plans.It’s cheaper than before,but not attractive to me at all.

The volume of usage is the way that they distinct the different plans.The most deluxe monthly plan is only of 12GB data volume,which is almost the same volume of my daily usage for watching some YouTube HD video clips,playing some online games,visiting some social networking websites and updating my blog etc-definitely not for heavy downloading.I think the plans are only good for those people who need to have broadband access on the move without occurring too many usages.

It seems Streamyx is still the king of Broadband in Malaysia in terms of prices and speeds(RM160 monthly at 4Mbps unlimited access) currently.

Two stuff are in my list of focusing now.

• When will Maxis be relisted in Bursa Malaysia?I’m interested in making some investments there and willing to gain some gold from it.
• When will I get Streamyx upgrade to 4Mbps?I don’t think I should be so hard to get that upgrade.However,the fact is it costs a lot of my time till now and nothing happened.
• When will the people in Padang,Indonesia get recovery both physically and mentally?

I just wish every could be fine.

I just bought a new ADSL2+ modem today-D-link DSL2542B.

My ADSL line(Streamyx) quality is not good because of the bad copper connecting between the cabinet and DSLAM.Thus,the free modem given by TM-Billion 5112S can’t get a stable connection always.I googled a lot to dig out how to get a low line attenuation and high SNR margin to achieve a much steady online experience and I found that the modems which are built with Broadcom chipset normally could gain a good result on a bad condition.That’s the reason why I choose this modem.

I have to say that it does work well at current condition.Here’s the ADSL information from the modem:

The downstream SNR margin shows consistently at 28-29db whereas the downstream line attenuation becomes at 43.5db,slightly lower than before.

The TM technician who I’m familiar with is still looking for a way to let me have a better line attenuation in order to fulfill the requirements applying to upgrade to 4Mbps.I wish that will be a way indeed.

Through doing the settings and testing,I met some questions and didn’t solve yet.

• I can’t get it work once I set this modem at bridge mode connecting with Linksys WRT54GL router.
• It seems like only auto connection could be done in the modem.I can’t manually connect or disconnect one session.

Anybody has solutions?