Streamyx Throttling.

is it just me or is streamyx throttling http?

i'm sure most of you streamyx user have noticed downloads speeding up after 12am and slows down to an unbelievable 20-ish kB/s.

reasons you should be pissed off:
1. most of us pay RM 88 a month for the 1 Mbps line which should give at download speeds of at least 90 kB/s.
2. hence, your money is being ripped off.
3. blocking P2P is fine, but blocking http is just crazy as i don't think any one ISP in other countries block ALL http connections (local or international)
4. what's the point of waiting till after 12am to utilize the internet? most of us need to work the following day anyway.

if you think about it, streamyx charges should be reduced and its changes reflected in the coming phone bill. but obviously, TM is never going to allow that to happen but i'll try to give a breakdown of what I should be paying for the current service i'm provided.

i get about 240 kbps for the first 12 hours of the day and then about 1320 kbps for the remainder of the day. so, let's take the average bandwidth i'm given by streamyx or "Nazis" as we shall refer to them from now on, is about 780 kbps. so, all we need to do is take this number, divide it by 1536 kbps (which is what i'm getting) and then multiply it by RM 88 (or whatever amount you are paying). Hence, i should be paying only RM 44.69 which is almost half of what i'm current paying!

if this goes on for the next 12 months, imagine the amount of money TM would make. assuming that everyone has the same connection as i do and with streamyx subscribers of about 500000 nationwide, that's RM 268,125,000 worth of service denied to the customer!

as fred durst of limp bizkit said in his song, "just think about it".

Proofread, Anyone?

i happened to come across THIS article in today's edition of the Star, which is one of the major newspaper publishers in Malaysia and if you read the article and look at the picture given, something is not very right at all.

you guessed it, the article says that a Play Station 3 (which is actually spelled as PlayStation 3) was given to a kid as part of some collaboration between Sunway Pyramid Sdn. Bhd. and the Children's Wish Society of Malaysia when in fact, they gave him a slim PlayStation 2!

take a look at the orange box that i placed in the picture from the article to highlight this for you, and now for comparison as well as for those of you who've never seen what a PS2 or PS3 console look like:

a freaking huge pic of what a PS3 console and its box look like courtesy of Wikipedia Commons, 2008.


and this is what a PS2 console courtesy of philregalo.com, 2008.


and there you have it, undeniable proof that the person in charge of this article did not proofread or s/he did not know the meaning of the word proofread as Wikipedia defines as,

Proofreading traditionally means reading a proof copy of a text in order to detect and correct any errors.

so, who do you think is to blame for this? did the people sponsoring the alleged PS3 know that a PS2 instead was purchased, you could literary get 3 PS2 consoles for the price of 1 PS3 which leads to questions of corruption. finally, have the people responsible taken actions to errata the article or to exchange the PS2 given in the article for a PS3?

anyone working for these organizations and happen to read my blog, please drop me a comment or email.

seriously, do you really want to cheat a kid from owning a PS3?