Archive for the ‘Broadband’ Category

TM Net’s Streamyx. The productivity killer par excellence.

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

I have never clicked on a link to slashdot.org and been impressed with the speed it loads at in Malaysia, it is usually more than five minutes before even a single page will display in my browser. Some days though, the pages never load at all. Today is one of ...

DiGi and Streamyx: The tortoise and the hare

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

I still can't be bothered phoning this one in, it is after all just bad and not actually completely broken. It is also Sunday, so the weekend-workers at TM would probably rather tackle something really major. I mentioned a couple of nights ago that Streamyx was bad to some international ...

Streamyx bad to international sites

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Not sure I caught the start of this one, been mostly working on some local projects. I noticed earlier (midnight?) that some USA-hosted blogs were slow or not loading at all. It's 1:30am now. Have a look at these pings: root@box0043:/home/sean# ping -n bbcnews.com PING bbcnews.com (212.58.224.138) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes ...

Bizarre delivery notification from TM

Friday, March 13th, 2009

I'm not sure what to do with this. I did go to the trouble of replying to a message from TM's Help Desk. They emailed me to thank me for sending in some ping and traceroute output from a few days ago, but the problem has already gone away. I ...

Streamyx down in the Port Dickson area

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Well, that didn't take long. From 1pm today (0400 GMT), our phones are dead. I walked around to the neighbours - their phones were dead. I popped into the local Internet cafes, their phones are dead too. At the 3rd Internet cafe, the staff looked surprised to find that their ...