Talking

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?

TM Streamyx gave out an announcement saying that the service disruption due to the breakdown of Segment 7 of the Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) undersea cable network between China and Taiwan have now been fully completed.

TM has already recovered 100% bandwidth capacity for its Internet traffic to the U.S and Northern Asia to-date. TM Internet and IP services as well as other critical business applications linked to the US and Northern Asia has resumed normal operations since Thursday, 10 September 2009. Therefore, all international links have been fully restored and our services have resumed back to normal.

We would like to thank our customers for their patience during the affected period. Customers can call TM at 100 and select “Internet Services” or e-mail us at help@tm.com.my for any Internet related problems.

Thank You.

However,as a user,I could feel only a bit improvements on the said connectivity.TM really needs to put some more money to have more capacities and enhancements for users.

After a bulk of complaints and interactions with TM,an installer came to my house in this morning and checked up the line in order to upgrade my plan to Streamyx 4M Combo.However,the result was quite bad and he told me that I can’t get upgraded service because the quality of my line was below the basic requirements.He issued the service acceptance form to me,ending my dream to have 4Mbps service.

The installer rejected to upgrade my plan because he must follow the rules set by TM.According to the information in the form,the line should have attenuation figure lower than 40db and SNR margin higher than 15db.As a contracted person,he told me he would lose his job if he breaks the rule to make an installation in my case.

I know that high line attenuation will cause the unstable connectivity of my ADSL service.However,I think I could accept that if the disconnection won’t be too frequent and I want him to do an upgrade for me temporarily,just trying for some days.The thing is I even can’t get any chance to TRY it at all.

I could understand that TM wants to maintain a good service quality so that the basic requirements for High Speed Internet come out.But the figures are not the exact all.For example,I could change to another modem to show a different figure on Line attenuation.

Having this kind of issues,TM has responsibility to solve it too.The faulty of equipment/wring is always the main reason.I can’t accept that I’m willing to pay the service,but I can’t enjoy it only because of that figure.

I had forwarded this post to TM customer service and MCMC.I’m willing to tell those people that when they are ready to introduce HSBB in some high-end area,could they care of other people too?The gap between rich and poor has been a big issue and hard to be controllable.I don’t want to see there is another gap called ‘Digital Divide’ happening in Malaysia.

Just take some minutes to think about it,guys!

Could anybody tell me what will be the performance if I get my 4M ADSL service based on current line quality as below?

  Thanks!