I bought this wireless router back on January 2010 when I went down to Kuala Lumpur for sightseeing. It was priced competitively and moreover, it is priced very attractively at Sri Computer Low Yat Plaza (about 40 ringgit off market price).
Belkin Wireless-G Router (F5D7230-4)
I did not do much study on it before buying. It’s just pure cheap deal that made me buying it.
Previously, I’m a very happy and content Belkin wireless G router (F5D7230-4). It has been serving me very well for more than 2 years without any much problems. That’s the major reason I trusted Belkin and buying their product without looking at reviews first this time round.
Additionally, I bought one Belkin N+ wireless USB adapter too so that to match up with the router’s rated speed at 300mbps. The reason I’m buying N+ adapter and not N is simply because the vendor do not have it in stock and would not mind giving some discount on the N+ model.
It does not talk ‘Torrent’
Things are good at first.
At start, I removed my faithful Belkin Wireless G router and hook up with the new one. I removed the wirelss G adapter on one of my PCs and plugged in the N+ adapter. The PC mainly runs torrent client.
Things look good in the first 2 days. (My equipments run 24×7) Torrents run fine with no noticeable drop in speed compared to when using the older wireless G router. The PC managed to obtain about 104mbps with good signal quality with being about 20 feet away from the router pushing the transfer rate of 6MB/sec or about 50Mb/s.
At the end of second day, the Internet light on the router turned off, the modem light turns amber. The router hangs. At times, I can’t even access its router configuration page through LAN connected PC. Surprisingly I can access it through Wifi-connected PC but there isn’t much that one can possibly do to solve the hang issue.
The router will only hangs when one runs torrent client with it even with all care taken (port forwarding and such). One will see there are a lot of UDP flood attackwarning in the router’s firewall log. The UDP traffic are from the torrent client.
Finding solution
After extensive time spending on finding the solution in the Internet, from trying to reset the whole router to upgrading to latest official firmware and getting a beta firmware from the official distributor in Malaysia, I gave up. Read more
If you have experienced problems with your Streamyx before, you must be very familiar with the following lines when you called up the Streamyx helpline (1300 88 9515 / 100).
“Have you bypassed your splitter?”
“Have you disconnected your splitter and connect directly to your modem?”
Splitter splits the frequency band accordingly so that your phone and modem will not cross-over between each other and causing interruptions while in use.
The quality of your DSL (Internet) line can be determined by looking at the modem’s parameters, in particular, SNR margin.
Check your local and remote SNR margin. the higher the better. the ratings below is for local SNR margin.
30 and above = Good, u shouldnt have disconnections problems.
15 – 30 = Maybe a few when peak time, probably your line needs to be changed
15 and below = Very FREQUENT disconnections. You should consult telekom to have your line checked, most cases are because the line are too old and once they are changed they’re fine (the lines on the telephone poles). If you’re using a lightning surge protector. REMOVE it. they are known to weaken the signal by around 50-70% in order to prevent the surge on devices.
There’s ample of technical knowledge and assistance that you can obtain from Lowyat forum and I will leave you with that. I’m just sharing one simple yet highly effective trick that will almost instantly boost your line quality and who knows, you might just be able to fix your connection problems!
The trick is DO NOT CONNECT your modem through the splitter. This would reduce the resistance that signals need to overcome before reaching your modem. If you need to connect to your house phone, use a RJ11 double adapter like the one shown below instead.
Connect your modem directly from the adapter, then for your house phone, connect it through the splitter before plugging it into the adapter. It is just that easy.
No doubt about it! When the “have you cut yet?” series of advertisements hit the street, it surely has created just a buzz in the broadband market here in Malaysia. The ads are amusing and entertaining!
Before knowing what the ads are all about, one must be thinking “Why the heck you ask everyone to go sunat!!!???”
Of course, the major (monopolized) broadband player, Streamyx strikes back after a while.
P1 is now Oversubscribed and Complaints are mounting
And thanks to P1 Wimax’s great marketing skill. I believe that they have been overselling broadband services, far exceeding their actual capability. There are lots of complaints being lodged at Low Yat Forum recently. Here’s just a few of them.
come on la P1..i pay every month..
then provide good service la..
i hardly earn the money..
and you guys easily took it by providing bad service..
please respect your customer..
i hate on using harsh words..
but the thing is… i just FED UP with the connection…
please use your brain and think if you subscribe for bad service..
what do you feel…?
will you just pay for that bad service??
will you just keep silent??
please la..i am tired of being in this situation..
i just want you guys to IMPROVE the service..
use OUR MONEY that you guys get every month to enhance your service.
AND DONT JUST JUST SAY `WE WILL GIVE U 1 DAY FREE OF CHARGE,AFTER WE GIVE U TROUBLE EVERYDAY’
I DONT NEED ANY REPLY FROM P1,COZ IM GETTING GASTRIK HEARING/READING THOSE ANSWER. Quoted from tartputat
And this user needs to use Celcom’s broadband just to do a posting.
Here i have exactly the same problem as lot of P1 Wimax subscriber. The problem is super slow internet speed for 24/7. U can see in my signature below this speed only happened on my 1st week subscription. Then now after almost 7 months of subscription it as night mare for me pay almost rm100/month for speed around 200kbps and this happened for 24/7. For your information I subscribed for 1.2Mbps @ Rm99/month. Only god know how my feeling now. Want to terminate this account but i have contract for 2 years. Now to add this reply also i need to use my backup celcom 384kbps broadband. Pls do something… if u need my details pls pm me. I think P1 Wimax already over subscribed. The P1 tower now can’t handle for its over subscribed customer. Quoted from mjoe
And how is it compares to 56kbps PSTN line?
have the same problem yesterday midnight…1:30am onwards the line is not responding at all, able to open my gmaill page in 15 mins…(u know, login and go to my shower then come back, the page only show rclxub.gif ) Remind me the worst time during my 56kbps generation…. well this time is worst than that moment Quoted from taitianhin
And some users decided to fork out extra money to subscribe to another broadband service as backup when P1 Wimax is down.
Now my P1 totally out of service.. freaking slow and always stuck there even google page also!
I have no idea now.. so just purchase another prepaid broadband for temporary use! Quoted from chung5576
Be sure that you understand the contract before ‘cutting‘ yourself. Inviting troubles and wasting money. Read the fine print in the contract. Here’s some points that you need to take note.
7.10. In the event the Subscriber terminates the Service provided after the seven (7) days
in the COP policy, Subscriber agrees and understand that the Device need not be
returned to Service Provider and Subscriber agrees to pay the sum of Ringgit
Malaysia Nine Hundred Ninety Nine (RM999.00) only being the early termination fee
as per Clause 12.1 hereto.
12.1. In the event the Subscriber wishes to terminate early/cancel the services, the
Subscriber is required to execute a Service Termination Form and forward the
same to the Service Provider by hand, postal mail, email or fax together with the
sum of Ringgit Malaysia Nine Hundred Ninety Nine (RM999.00) being the
cancellation and early termination fee.
16.2. Subscriber may terminate any Service upon providing thirty (30) days written notice
to Service Provider subject to the Subscriber remains liable to pay all fees, costs
and charges due to the Service Provider prior to the termination date and the early
termination fee as stated in Clause 12.1 above.
16.3. Notwithstanding the termination by Service Provider pursuant to Clause 16.1,
Subscriber shall remain liable for all fees due and owing to Service Provider during
the subsistence of this Agreement. Such termination shall not prejudice the right of
Service Provider to recover all charges, costs and interest due and any other
incidental damages incurred thereto.
16.4. Service Provider shall not be liable to Subscriber for any claim for damages or costs
of any nature whatsoever arising out of discontinuance of the Service due to the
termination or expiration of any Service or these Terms in accordance with its term
including but not limited to any claim for loss of profits or prospective profits or for
anticipated loss.
I’m excited to announce another wave of updates for my dedicated photography blog! This time, there’s actually 2 updates to the theme.
Photo caption fix
First of all, it’s about a bug fix which is actually quite unnoticeable to the masses. There are 4 columns at the bottom of the homepage whereby 2 latest photos shown. The description of the photo has been made to be the same as what is displayed in the photo slide show / stream above. Primarily, we do not want to see “Click on the photo to see larger size” appears in the caption at the homepage which is ridiculously irrelevant, isn’t it? It’s only valid when user goes into the blog entry.
Expand blog entry
Secondly, it’s about serving better and wider range of photos.
Everything has gone wide these days seriously. You want wide wide highway to drive on to getting real big and wide screen display to play your HD videos. Heck, you can’t even buy a proper normal ratio (4:3 ratio with resolution like 1024×768, 800×600, 1280×1024) LCD panel on market as easily as 2 years ago now! Everything is wide, so do the photos and blogs. Okay, back to where we were.
For our case here, in particular, panorama. It’s a pain to the eyes when we are viewing something very wide like panorama like the scale of 5:1 (width:height). Just like the little long panoramic image that you are seeing above!
With just a click of button! Walah~
The blog entry content pane is widened to as much as the template permits. This has made photo viewing much much much more flexible and satisfying. Hope you all like this little update.
Technically, of course, for those who are interested to get wide too on their blog too, read on.
Just in case you decided to try other location tagging plug-in for your Wordpress today.
I have developed a fairly simple data migration script so that you won’t need to go through the pain of re-adding latitude and longitude for the new plug-in in all your posts.
Essentially, you will need a bit knowledge on how to access your database administration. Typically, you will be using phpmyadmin to manage your Wordpress database.
Here is how we do it.
Go to your phpmyadmin
Select your Wordpress’s database, by default, it has a suffix/prefix of ‘WP’
Click on the SQL tab
Then, execute the following queries below.
Run this for its latitude…
insert into wp_postmeta (post_id,meta_key,meta_value) (select p.post_id, ‘_geotag_lat’, format(left(g.coord,instr(g.coord,’ ‘)-1), 5) lat from wp_postmeta p join wp_geopress g on p.meta_value = g.geopress_id where p.meta_key = ‘_geopress_id’);
And, run this query to retrieve the longitude…
insert into wp_postmeta (post_id,meta_key,meta_value) (select p.post_id, ‘_geotag_lon’ , format(right(g.coord,length(g.coord) – instr(g.coord,’ ‘)),5) lon from wp_postmeta p join wp_geopress g on p.meta_value = g.geopress_id where p.meta_key = ‘_geopress_id’);
I have migrated mine successfully. Hope it helps for you too!
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