P1 Wimax heat! Lu Sudah Potong Liao Boi

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.

Taken from P1 W1MAX Terms and Conditions

So, if you have already subscribed to the service and screaming like hell now. Try to lodge a complaint at the authorities like FOMCA, Ministry of Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism, Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (SKMM).

If you terminate your contract prematurely, you will need to pay certain penalty fees as what I understood from the agreement. Complication.

So, you still wanna potong?

PS: I’m a proud Streayx user. I’m getting the maximum speed as said in my package plan although it does gets to my nerve sometimes. Very rarely.

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Access blocked websites

Blocked from being viewing websites that you usually patron recently? That’s because your beloved country imposed a roadblock!

If your are using Malaysia’s most popular ISP, Streamyx in particular, this ISP imposes block by denying DNS request to those websites in their black-list. Others may imposes block using some other ways.

How’s a DNS works?

Simply… you will say “Hey, I want to get to KLCC (aka waawaa.com) ” and the taxi driver (aka DNS in our case) replies “Halo sir, I cannot bring you there, It’s blocked!!”

And the critical question, how to overcome this

Simple enough, ask for other taxi company (aka use other DNS service).

For instance, by Streamyx as an example, it provides DNS service jsut like any other ISPs usually do, too. But, we may choose to use other DNS whenever, wherever we want to. And for this we recommend you to use OpenDNS service.

OpenDNS

Just like your normal ISP’s DNS service, OpenDNS provdes you the same service but at greater availability and speed, unblocked!

Click here for the steps to change your PC’s DNS

You may also use OpenDNS if your poor Streamyx DNS gone haywire too.

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Someone is watching you in Facebook

The overwhelming success of Facebook in recent year has made…

Oh, hold on darling, I’m checking your Facebook.

Wait, let me check what you are on first at Facebook before I can start talking to you verbally.

Oh ya, that one! OK, I will reply you in Facebook (rather than replying immediately, verbally!).

It’s a serious contender of what made Twitter that we know today. Status update! Now that Facebook has gone mobilized enabling greater audience approach, it has, indeed, becoming part of our daily life.

Just remember, the Internet does NOT have the DELETE button

(Quote: Lasker)

There’s one story I would like to share:-

Once upon a day long long time ago (that’s how story telling always begin,right?), Melinda (oh yes, we need to give a name) got recruited into a magazine company for her internship. Out of good deeds wanting to form better alliance and relationship with her new company friends, she added her boss (and some other) to her Facebook. Nice girl!

Then, magic happens!

She falls sick and got herself MC for a week. She is excused from her daily torture routine a week. Then, she go and update her Facebook status. It says “Going to Singapore for holiday for a week yay!!!”

Kaboom! She’s dismissed.

Change your privacy settings to protect yourself

Always remember to check your privacy on net and not posting any sensitive information that would affect others or at least, bringing trouble to yourself. Happy weekend folks!

To those who are traveling, drive safe!

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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!

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Coppermine Theme based on Wordpress’s Brightness

Remember that I launched a face-lift to my Coppermine gallery last November? Now I’m proud to release this theme to the public for FREE.

This is my first thing getting my hand on Coppermine themes seriously. So, you gotta do something in order to get the theme works for you.

Take note that this theme is totally independent and it has absolutely nothing to do with your Wordpress Brightness theme whatsoever. Changes made here and there won’t influence each other as well.

How to use? Download the theme, and open up theme.html and start looking for YOURDOMAIN. You will need to replace it with your own website domain, of course!

And for the top bar links, you will need to manage/edit them manually as well. Open up theme.html and you will know where to start looking.

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PS: You are free to edit the source code. :)

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