Streamyx – The Bandwidth test hoax
Your Streamyx line drives you crazy again when you try to access your much needed every day’s dose of perezhilton or gutterpost. Your connection speed has been this slow as ever and you decided to call up the infamous unfriendly Streamyx helpline hoping that they will at least, bother to issue a new complain report for you and hopefully, in the end of the day, they would cherish your browsing experience.
Of course, you will be asked to check your splitter, modem, this and that but I’ll skip that. You will be eventually asked to perform bandwidth speed test. They would instruct you to perform the test at their official website. Here’s how the result would look like normally.
I’m running on a 1.5Mbps line and getting 1312kbps (1.3Mbps), that’s pretty good and there’s really nothing to complain about. The helpdesk would argue that I’m getting reasonable fast speed and there’s no need to call them nor filing a complain! Case close? Hell no!
Making a bandwidth test is highly location dependent, you are actually testing by downloading and uploading file to a specific server which in the above case, you are “talking” to one of many Streamyx’s server in Kuala Lumpur. Of course, for a server that resides within Streamyx network, it will be un-amazingly fast.
There are many bandwidth speed testing websites but I’ll just stick to speedtest.net here, you can perform test with many servers across the globe, let’s start with the one in Penang.
Download speed at 1.31Mbps, not bad at all!
Thing is, you are surfing to servers that resides outside the country, mainly, from USA. Simply perform another test with server in USA and you will see why. Download speed stands at 0.14Mbps. Now you see something.
Talk nicely to the helpdesk guy, tell them your international browsing speed is horrible. Get them to check if you are getting a bad IP or something, anything!!!
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ViaN on April 12th, 2009
I wish to show you my speedtest result..!!!!!
Stop complain anymore.. haha.. mine 1 is 2 digits – 31kbps @______@llll damn it. some more i called to streamyx helpline more than 3 times, but my connection speed STILL remain the same.
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Hugo Lim Reply:
April 13th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
hahaha.. hmm, if your LOCAL server bandwidth test is bad as well you can complain to streamyx, no problem! its absolutely within your power domain to do so!
what more can telekom do if they can’t even provide good “home-net”, “streamyx-LAN”, “malaysia-giant-local-area-network”.. hopelesss
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Ah Ming on June 17th, 2009
Streamyx starting to cheatting our money now, we pay the price never can get the speed! same like me pay RM88 get slow than 56k Modem Speed and cannot Discount. This new service start from “2008 December”
Anyway “STREAMYX LINE SLOW WE PAY SLOW!”
Me 4 Month No Pay The Bill Already, Streamyx Send Red Bill Come I Just Pay 1 Month Money, If Streamyx Block My Line, I Will Call 1300-88-9515 To F@CK Them! If They Say You Have 4 Month Bill No Pay So They Block My Line! I Will Say You Line So Slow! I Pay You Money So Fast For What?!
DON’T LET MALAYSIA NO’1 CHEATER COMPANY “STREAMYX” TO PLAY US!
MONEY IN OUR HAND AND WE HARD WORK TO GET THE MONEY DON’T LET THE CHEATER COMPANY EASY TO GET OUR MONEY!!! WE CANNOT GET BACK THE LINE SPEED WE CAN PAY SLOW TO THEM “REMEMBER THIS”
Now I’m Keeping To Hold 3 Month Bill No Pay But I’m Still Can Using It!
REMEMBER : STREAMYX LINE SLOW WE PAY SLOW
RECOMMAND : Hold Streamyx 2 Month Bill No Pay (2 Month No Pay They Cannot Block Our Line)
Don’t Let Them Play Us! Power In Your MONEY!
Come Everyone Do Like This! Only Me One People They Can’t Feel It.
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Honda – Power of dream
Toyota – Moving forword
STREAMYX – Ready To Be WaterFISH
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