Archive for the ‘Broadband’ Category
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Sometime around 3pm the Internet connection died. The phone is also dead (no dialtone). There's no sign of my friendly local technicians at the local switchbox, so perhaps it's not just this area. Then again, perhaps nobody knows. I tried to fill in a "Contact Us" form at www.tm.com.my but ...
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
No Streamyx again, after a half hour dropout yesterday. Starting before 6pm this evening and still out at 9:30PM as I write. I tried phoning 1300 88 9515 first, but got bored after about 5 minutes. Among the adverts (do they have to spam me with adverts for their products ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Friday, March 26th, 2010
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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 ...
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