Streamyx Rants

Damn the MCSC for the lack of competition and penetration in the broadband connectivity in Malaysia. It is solely because of the dominance of TM with its Streamyx package that the price and quality of service is on the down low.

Streamyx, Screamyx, Sleepmyx, or what ever you may call it has very poor coverage and service even in highly developed areas such as Petaling Jaya or Kuala lumpur and therefore will always cause a lag or even a halt in projects and development which rely highly on internet activity and coverage.

whats more annoying is that for all outgoing mail via a mal client such as thunderbird or outlook, will be blocked if the dynamic IP package has been selected, which is just abt everyone up to the SME level. This in turn cause everyone to use the "smtp-proxy.tm.net.my" (without quotes) protocol to send their mail which is very troublesome when one is using multiple access points over a span of time.

furthermore, i do hope that the coming wireless standard of Wimax will help enhance the broadband penetration rate, quality of service, competition and overall accesibility.

P.S. there is an ISP in Klang Valley which is called MetroFON which can offer something better than that of streamyx at a fraction of the cost, do check it out at http://www.metrofon.com for further details. (take note, these are the same fella's that provides the penangfon service in penang!