Speedy Gonzalez

Finally the day came for the installation to be made. I was offered a new Internet connection to our apartment a couple of weeks back and I didn't think twice. A new 500 Mbs Internet cable were being installed and I was the first few to sign up.

The installation was quick. And at the end of the work, we got a top speed of 420 Mbs up and down. Unfortunately the internal cables couldn't cope with the speed, but I won't go around complaining. That sort of speed were something most people could only dream of.

I managed to download my Mac OS update in 39 seconds. The size of the update file? Just over 2 Gb. I was sure that the speed would hover around 250 Mbs as I got more devices connected to the network. But that would be more than enough for Netflix. In 4K.

Another Counter

After the wait at Air Asia yesterday, it was time for me to wait at the TM Point today. We were finalising the sale of the house in Taman Cemerlang, and we had problem disconnecting the Internet line. It went way back to 2013, and we were still being charged monthly since.

Anita went too sort it out six month back and was given assurances that the matter had been sorted out. But we were still getting monthly billing. It appeared to be one of those instances where one department not communicating with another and the customers were paying the price.

So, another report was instigated and there would be a other investigation into the matter. As usual, we were not able to sort the issue out there and then. Hopefully I do not have to take another day off just to sort this out ...

Sluggish Access

Since Wednesday morning, the loading time for the blog had lagged tremendously through my broadband connection. It fared better on P1 and LTE. If just be some peering issue with Time Fibre.

I had plenty of updates to do from my trip last week and with such slow connection, it was just too painful.

Hopefully it improved by today as I won't be able to spend too much time next week with work stepping up a gear into full swing. Let's hope that the lag disappears.

Email anyone?

The announcement of the proposed 1malaysia email address for all Malaysians has certainly drawn a largely negative reaction amongst the cybertroopers in the local scene. The twitter discussions were certainly cautious to be politically correct, if not suspicious.

First of all, being an email service provider is not something that is simple. There was certainly no real need for one judging from the sophistication that is Gmail. And the 50 million ringgit it allegedly cost on the first glance sounded expensive, but in the real term it was cheap, and too be honest, too cheap to be true. And true to all Malaysian projects, we are always very keen to set things up, but when it came to maintenance, we tend to lag behind. I can see it as being the case here.

Every time a Minister says something, we hailed it as sage and never question it, no matter how stupid was. We put it up there as the best thing since sliced bread. This project is doomed to fail. It will at best become another one of those half-baked. It looked good on the outside, but it will be one he'll of a challenge to get it done. And the shame of it all, it was one of those challenges which was not worth the effort. We could have done much better by investing in the infrastructure of our broadband services. Look at Singapore. They are much better at broadband than us, and our Minister did not even acknowledge it as such. Once the broadband service is up to scratch, then we can have that 1malaysia email service as a beta. Learn a thing or two in terms of its viability, then launch it as at national level. No more of this Malaysia Boleh thing. We'll save that for next summer's Olympics.