The first thing I do when I wake up is get on my computer, even before my eyes can fully open, even before I take my morning piss, even before I brush my teeth. It’s been a habit for the past 15 years I think. I was checking my blog and this advertisement caught my eye:
I’m always interested in Streamyx promotions and upgrades. So I clicked my own ad. Yea so sue me, take that 0.000001 cent back! You can view their promotion page here. There are upgrade deals for Streamyx Combo packages and Streamyx Standard packages. Now why would I want to blog about the Internet Service Provider that I hate so much? Below is one of the few upgrade deals they are giving. There are many more upgrade deals here, but I’m only talking about the one I’m interested in.
What got me really interested was the price slash. The 4Mb package used to be RM250 or something like that I think. Now I can get it for RM130. Pretty sweet fucking deal if you ask me. The war is on between Streamyx and P1 Wimax. This is the shit I have been talking about for the past 10 years. We needed a fucking competitor in this ISP business and finally we do. All we need is a few more.
I was interested to know more so I called Streamyx up, twice. I always have to call them up twice and I can guaranty you, both times you will hear different things. The first time I called I chose to speak in English. The second time I called, I chose to speak in English again but some how they mixed my shit up and sent me to the Bahasa Malaysia speaking customer service people. No big deal, I’m a patriotic person. I can speak Bahasa Malaysia. But I felt I was speaking to the same person but with a different name. Today is a public holiday. It’s Hari Raya Haji. So I doubt they have more than 2 people working.
Basically if you want to upgrade your line, you have to go to the TM Point yourself and upgrade it. Don’t they know that people with Internet are lazy? Most don’t even go out and look for chicks to get laid, they just sit at home and watch porn. Girls do their shopping online; then find that they bought their clothes 2 sizes too small later.
I fucking hate going to TM Point, there is no TM Point near my fucking house. The nearest TM Point area is always jammed packed with cars and there’s no place to park. You can have speeds up to 4Mb but you can’t get a fucking decent IT fella to create you an automated system?
Then I saw the “REGISTER ONLINE NOW!” button. Could it be? Could I do it from the safety and comfort of my own home? This would be like a dream come true. I clicked it.
If I read correctly it says login to proceed with upgrade. So I happily do. What awaited me was shocking. I couldn’t believe my fucking eyes.
It stated that my current package is the Streamyx Basic 512k RM88 and I could only upgrade to a maximum of 1Mb. Their shit is broken; as usual. Nothing surprised me here. Their shit is always broken. So it looks like on Monday I would still have to go to a TM Point. The second lady I spoke to told me to bring only my IC and myself (the lady actually told me to bring myself, I think she was trying to make a joke). The first lady told me to bring only my first months bill. So I know for sure I have to bring myself, my IC and my bills cause their system is fucked. They would have to see my bill to know the real package I have.
I suspect the war between Streamyx and I will be reignited. They have the tendency to tell you they have upgraded your shit only for you to find that you get half or no upgrade at all. Currently I’m using a 1Mb plan but they upgraded my speed to 2Mb for 4 months free.
If you see the picture above, my 3com router detects that my line is a 2Mb. For those of you that don’t know 3com, its a very good brand. The price is a little bit on the high side but the router can go on for over a week of endless downloading without rebooting. You can’t say the same about other brands, after about 2 or 3 days of maximum downloading your shit hangs and you have to reboot the router. Another good brand would be Cisco’s Linksys. Below is my latest speed test:
I’m still 0.3Mb short of 2Mb but it’s alright. I average out at 1.75Mb which translates out to about 212.5Kbps download speed. To calculate your download speed just take your speed and divide it by 8. for a 2045Kbps line max download speed should be 2045/8 = 255Kbps. Or if you average about 50Kbps download speed then your line is 50*8 = 0.4Mb. If I upgrade my line to a 4Mb I will not settle for speeds less than 3.6Mb which should download my shit at 450Kbps. This is very important, Streamyx will tell you this crap they call time sharing or speed sharing or whatever. During peak hours you will get shitty speeds.
As a conclusion this is a pretty sweet deal in my opinion. But check your speed regularly and make sure you get what you pay for.