4G FTW!

Not sure what had happened over the weekend, but my Nexus 7 - which was recently updates to Kit Kat - had been registering 4G connection on Celcom. I had to upgrade my SIM on the iPhone for LTE connection, but I didn't bother doing anything for the Nexus tablet.

It had only started doing so from this morning. So, I assumed that there had been an upgrade over the weekend. I wasn't complaining. It was just that I was pleasantly surprised. And yes, the connection was about 20 Mbit - which was slower than Maxis at SJMC - but it was noticeably faster.

No Celcom LTE yet at Taman Setia, so I had to make do with HSDPA and WiFi at home. Fast enough but could be slow at times inside my bedroom.

At work, although there were WiFi available for staff members, speed could be found wanting during peak clinic hours. The LTE was definitely welcomed to do quick browsing in between my clinic patients.

Upload Issues Again

I managed to upload the Raya photographs onto Flickr with no issues. But yesterday, when untried to upload the photos from Pavilion and Kuala Selangor, things got a bit awry. Download was not a problem, but uploading my snaps took helm of a long time.

My main connection at the Gombak House was P1. It played up before Puasa but seemed to improved a bit since - although the speed still left plenty to be desired. Last night it was hardly uploading. I then switched to my phones, both Maxis and Celcom. No joy.

I decided to sleep on it and tried again this morning. Much smoother.

I guessed there must have been plenty of traffic at my local area. But slow internet speed is just becoming painful especially when I used the cloud rather readily. Hopefully the connection get better as I have plenty more uploads to do .....

Internet Revamping

It looked like ParkCity had made some changes as far as Internet access were concerned. We still get free Internet, but only with registered devices. So, I had to call the IT department and get my stuffs to be made legal!

But the officer was tied up this morning and I wasn't in the mood to wait. I'll catch up with them next week.when I return from my Raya break.

Since the hospital operate as a paperless unit, it made sense to secure the Internet and Intranet Web access. We can't afford to have a third party snooping into the system, prying on patients details and worth still, hack the notes and the various results system. It would create havoc as we didn't have a paper backup to access these data readily. A nightmare should the system be hacked.

The place also looked extra empty today. I only.had a couple of patients to see and was done by 11 am. Things were already winding down for the Raya break I guess.

P1 Unreliable

For the last couple of weeks, the P1 connection we had at our Gombak house had not been at all reliable. It kept breaking up, or suffered from slow bandwidth. Yes, I do get the SMS update that they were looking into it, but it was becoming so often that the SMS started to sound like spams. P1 could have done better by making sure the breakdown doesn't happen in the first place rather than this lame PR exercise.

I ended up using my Celcom line as internet access. And I was sure if this kept on happening, my Telco charges would go up. I would be throttle down soon. Updating blogs was becoming a pain. And I have stopped updating my medical blog as uploading articles were becoming a suffering. Uploading photos to my server? Forget about it!

I could install Unifi here but the wiring would be a pain since this was my in-law's house. For serious work, and uploading big files, I had to go to my apartment. I would enjoy the 30 Mbit speed there. But unfortunately, there were no fibres yet in Gombak ......

Unreliable P1

Being on leave, I was hoping to get my website sorted out as well as doing other things online. Unfortunately, since yesterday evening, my P1 connection had been playing up again. Not just dropped connections. It was no connections.

This had been going on for the last few weeks, and it was becoming unreliable of late.

So, had to delay my online stuff until later. Would be heading to Telekom after this to pay some bills, then off to the hospital for a quick rounds and to do some procedures. I should be free after that. Hmmm! Time for a photowalk maybe then .....