Expatriate Forums in Malaysia

Huppe · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:01 pm Post subject:

How about present situation with these broadband connections?
I'm planning to work from Malaysia to Europe and I use VOIP, ssh and network-drives through VPN-connection, also a continuous connection to exchange-server and Terminal Server. I checked this tmnet offer from 1.5M/1.5M SDSL-connection. Is it suitable for anything to Europe?
http://www.tm.net.my/html/htm/product_streamyx/packages.htm
I'm willing to pay more for good and reliable internet-connection. 1000 MYR /month is not expensive 'cause my work depends on that. What do you think?

rajulkabir · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:51 am Post subject:

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ursassychx91 · Joined: 25 Aug 2008 Posts: 5 Home Country: philippines

Last post regarding this topic was in 2007... wondering if anything's changed... what would you recommend to be the most reliable internet service provider in KL/Mont Kiara?

rajulkabir · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:31 am Post subject:

I don't think things are likely to change significantly unless/until the government posture on broadband changes.

At the moment the government continues to support TM's near-monopoly on wired broadband and on international landing points, so it's very difficult for other ISPs to compete effectively. Of course this just means that everyone is stuck with mediocre internet access.

So far P1 wimax has been getting good reviews, but they haven't been in business long enough for us to know what will happen once they start to see serious bandwidth pressure. And I don't think they are currently providing service in Mont Kiara; just in the civilised areas of KL at the moment. Even in the best case, wireless won't be as reliable as even mediocre wired access for the last mile, so P1's only hope to excel in the long term is to have an excellent backhaul network and good international transit agreements; these are the main areas where TM/Streamyx falls down miserably.

patriciachansubang · Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:19 am Post subject:

I have quit using streamyx and am using ezy now.

OrangRojak · Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 4:24 pm Post subject:

Things may be different in the smoke. Out here (Port Dickson) in the sticks (I think it's the sticks, can't see 'em for oil palms), all the phones in our neighbourhood were being disconnected once every couple of months. TM would get the phones back next day, the day after, or occasionally 3 days later, but Streamyx was inaccessible for 4 days or more each time. We cancelled it in the end, and went to DiGi.

DiGi EDGE is slow - on long downloads (hours) we do get close to a theoretical max for the technology of 25kB/s. The DNS lookups are slow too, so there are delays even before a page starts to download. Having said that, you would have to prise my EDGE adapter from my cold, dead fingers, having experienced Streamyx for 2 years. Maybe I got lucky with broadband in the UK, and got good speeds for low price and not one single reason to call in 5 years. Here, I think I called TM more often than I called my wife when we were courting!

I would only ever use a wireless network if I was absolutely desperate. For all my reluctance, and the low spec of DiGi's network offering, I'm impressed with it so far - it is reliable.

Usual caveats apply. Forget P2P, fancy VOIP clients (skype works), home hosting, gaming etc. If you just want web and email and reliability is more important than ultimate speed, DiGi has my vote.

WoofWoof · Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject: