Archive for the ‘Broadband’ Category

TM Streamyx and phone down Port Dickson area

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Sometime between 10:30 and 10:45am, still down at time of writing (10:55). I'm just going out for a short walk. Not like Captain Oates - I'm getting used to Malaysian Internet access now - just to see my friends at the local switchbox. Update - 11:15 how disappointing, there's not a ...

Streamyx down 15th April 2010 17:30

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

So... in the middle of editing a configuration file on one of my servers and Streamyx is down. Interesting differences this time are that my router still claims to have an IP address, there's an ADSL carrier, phone has a dialtone, TM's support line at 1300 88 9515 is permanently ...

The ‘One’ theme again: 1Malaysia, Unifi, Monopoly

Friday, March 26th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_868" align="alignright" width="136" caption="TM's high-speed internet service"][/caption] TM has announced its new 'High Speed Broadband' products, called Unifi, with the Prime Minister making the announcement. TM is Telekom Malaysia, the telecommunications monopoly in Malaysia. There is an alleged telecommunications regulator called the MCMC (Multimed... Commission, or something) but it doesn't ...

HTTP Ping – roundtrip times using redirect

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

I've been moving some of the stuff I wrote on poditronic.com over to spider.my recently. I can tell the Spinneret API is starting to settle down, because there's less pain every time I update my existing applications to match the new API. It also shows up some lingering bugs too! [caption ...

Streamyx down AGAIN! Up and down like a bride’s nightie!

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

What is a frustrated Internet user to do? I'm not sure if I can even be bothered to send email this time. No, not true. I have to. Streamyx has disappeared again 16:15 Wednesday 25th November. Fortunately I still have my DiGi EDGE adapter. Hey! No sooner did I start ...