Streamyx Bullshit

At last, after so many trials using wireless internet and such, we decided to get a fixed cable internet as it should be the best. Little did we know what we were signing for!

The Solution in Malaysia, in fact, the only provider, is TM Streamyx. Had to wait for at least a week to get someone from TM to hook up the phone line, after which we got the modem and the instructions manual to setup the internet. Took hubby a while to set up the internet as he had to search online for the protocol used and addresses of Streamyx; lucky we had wireless internet as the setup CD does not work.

First week of Streamyx was great, really good service and we were very happy as the latency was around 300ms on WOW (hubby's joy). However, our happiness was short-lived! After a week the latency of the line was more than 10 seconds, which is unusable for online games. This is when we decided to research the reason for such internet lag time.

Hubby's research ended when he discovered that Streamyx actually throttles P2P traffic, WTF!! We are doomed!!

Below is the article that hubby found online that explained their perspective of things:

CYBERJAYA: Peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic is choking up local broadband lines with 20% of users utilizing 80% of the total bandwidth, according to Internet service provider (ISP) TM Net Sdn Bhd.

Dr Fadhullah Suhaimi Abdul Malek, general manager of TM Net's corporate and strategy services, said that as the number of local broadband subscribers increases, more users are expected to use P2P applications such as Kazaa and BitTorrent to transfer files online.
"We are not against our customers using P2P. However, it is an unfair situation which needs to be addressed, as we cannot upgrade our infrastructure (merely) for the benefit of the minority" he said.

To counter this problem, TM Net will introduce a number of time-based packages to cater for low-bandwidth users by the third quarter, said Mohd Nazeem Mohd Nasir, assistant manager of TM Net’s technology planning and development department.

WTF!! How is that for a reason? Blame the customers for their unwillingness to upgrade their infrastructure, and what can we poor Malaysians do? Nothing!! As it’s a freaking Monopoly just like most of the sectors in this country. It is indeed so so sad!!

It does not take much of online research to see the frustration of Streamyx users, there is even a website called http://www.streamyxsucks.com/ which shows as 5th search result on Google if you search for “Streamyx”, first 4 being streamyx itself.

“Malaysia Boleh”………………………… boleh bullshit, so they do!!!!!