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Upon reading Gin’s Blog regarding this issue, I would love to share my experience about how wonderful TMNet Streamyx is. Before I start, Gin, issues regarding MSN Messanger and Friendster services, I do not think Streamyx is to be blamed. Certain versions of MSN Messanger seems to have incompatible issues, few of my friends uses a certain version and suffers illegal operation, frequent disconnects and so on, might be a glitch on the script, no idea, mine works jus fine, MSN Messanger 7.5. What Rayvin (whoever he is) commented on the Friendster issue is true. There are just too many users log in at the same time and too many activities.

Ok, back to the topic, our national’s 1st very own super fast ADSL connection, the STREAMYX. By paying RM88, we are entitled to download up to 99kb/s (differs depending on location downloaded, server bandwidth and so on). I’m not sure about others, but I’ve been experiencing UBER SLOW download rates on p2p programs. I suspect that Streamyx has been playing around to restrict fast download rates from p2p. I concluded the most logical reason would be, enormous downloaded movies / animes / videos which adds up to god knows how much and this consumes the area’s total bandwidth, therefore in order to stop this unfortunate event (Streamyx), consumers are ripped off. What is the point of having 1mb connectivity if we are restricted from p2p? As if we going to use 1mb to read www.TheStar.com.my ? or maybe www.bluehyppo.com.my ? This is jus plain stupid.

In Streamyx main website, it has a picture of some retard saying "Download mp3s in seconds!" Look, one moment we are threatened from using p2p due to piracy and copyright issues. I’m downloading 2k - 10k per second for mp3s in p2p programs which is ridiculous, and yes I’m aware it depends on the amount of users sharing but I’m still not having fast download speed. Why securing p2p programs such as Kazaa / Kazaa Lite++ / Limewire / Napster and so on. We paid for it, let us enjoy what we paid for. Consumer’s rights! Don’t expect us to pay a high price for a shitty service. Thats bull. So, guys out there, if you so happen to experience

If there is anybody with good suggestions on how to bypass this horrible event conducted by Streamyx, please help out. So far I’ve tried playing around with the ports for my p2p programs. At times, which seldom happens, I’m able to get a very good speed but only if I get like double or triple the users compared to last time. I hope Streamyx would stop doing this and give us back what we used to enjoy.

Penangfon, what a waste it is for selected condominiums and apartments only. Leaving out the other 2/3 of Penang residents to rot. I will support Penangfon if I am able to subscribe it which is cheaper and faster. Even if it has the same issues such as limited bandwidth on certain events, it is ok, because it is much cheaper compared to Streamyx. Streamyx, time for a change.

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