It is very important to know about your IP when you are using Streamyx because you will get VERY DIFFERENT connection quality if you are in different IP range.

I have been an unlucky one when come to Streamyx because I always get assigned the 219.x.x.x IP. 219 is a fuck up range that is over congested and deliver slower-than-turtle connection speed. Packet Loss are significant and loading up a page is consider fast if it can finish in 30 seconds. Sometimes it takes me 120 seconds to load up a page! Just a single page!

Once a while I will be having exceptional internet speed. Page loaded in less than 10 seconds for all sites and bandwidth test return 800kbps even to a US test server. It happens like twice a month. I thought that streamyx has fixed their fucking problem and my curse is over! Then out of curiosity, I actually want to confirm if they really have fix their fucking problem. So I actually go and DISCONNECT and reconnect. What The Fuck! My good connection is gone and I am back to the old shit days. %*(#!@#$^%

It took me a long time to actually find out what is causing this! When I am in rocket speed, I am actually connected to 218.x IP range. If I am connected to 219.x range, I am in deep shit! After knowing this, I really go and keep redialing until I can get 218.x and keep my router alive as long as possible even when I go to sleep.

This is confirm true when I try to search in the internet about this. Many people known this little secret for a long time (I am late!) and they are using this trick to get good connection. However, even knowing this trick doesn’t help much because it is very very very hard to get 218.x especially at night. I remember one night I dial almost 100 times before I can get it.
After that sohai technician went back and do a report that say my connection is ‘OK’, another staff call me to inform me the status of my report. We have a really long chat talking on points and facts. He is indeed a polite guy and not like the sohai. And it is from here that I know a lot more about streamyx problem and the IP thing. First let talk about the IP thing.

1. All streamyx users will get either 219.x, 218.x or 60.x

2. 218.x is VERY FAST because it is not streamyx line! It is actually TM-NET special dedicated line. This product is called TM Direct. I call to TM Direct and ask about the pricing. 384kbps dedicated line is RM52,000 per year and after discount is RM40,000+. He said if I subscribe I will be the first home user to do so. haha.

3. The reason we get into the 218.x is because of ‘accident’. TM-NET is working now to fix this hole and will block streamyx users for ‘accidentally’ connected to the 218.x in September/October. Damn It! By that time you can’t even get 218.x even if you redial 1,000,000 times.

4. 218.x is only use by a small amount of dedicated customers, so it is fast. 219.x is over congested by ordinary streamyx users.

5. 60.x is streamyx new IP range and many users will start getting it. It is a lot better than the 219.x and people who have 1mbps package can easily connected to this IP range. I have never get this myself! My friend do get it.

6. In the coming 2 months, most streamyx users will be directed to the 60.x IP range. The use of 219.x will be reduced.

Now let’s talk about the streamyx problem.

The guy do admit that they have problem connecting to international sites and they can’t do anything about it. So even if I bombard them will emails or keep calling, they can’t do anything (i will continue still do so to release my frustration). They say they can control the connection speed within Malaysia only, anything else is up to the foreign ISPs.

But my point is simple, if good connection can be delivered via 218.x.x.x without any problem, that simply means good connection are ARCHIEVABLE! Don’t give lame excuse and push your responsibility to foreign ISPs! The best cause for our slow connection is that TM-NET is overloading their streamyx line.

Look at this image, it is a bandwidth test to US Virginia server using the IP 218.x.x.x. The download speed is 806kbps! What a fantastic speed! This is what streamyx should be delivering on all time. This is what we are paying for!

Here you will see the same bandwidth test done to the same US Virginia server, using the same computer and modem but under fuck up 219.x.x.x IP. See the differences!

The poor result is only 49.6kbps which is lower than dial up 56.6kbps! And notice that upload speed is actually higher than download speed! My God.

Now let’s go more technical into Traceroute. Traceroute can tell us a lot of thing regarding the condition of our connection. One important thing is PACKET LOST. Which tell us the amount of data that is ‘leak’ out when it is being transfer. Let first look at the traceroute to US JP Morgan bank website using the fuck up 219. Inside the red box, you can see that large amout of data is LOST (i.e. missing in action, leak away). If 10 packet of data are sent to you but 9 is missing half way, how can you be able to get a good bandwidth?

Let’s look at the same traceroute done to the same website using the 218 IP.

Did you notice the differences? There is absolutely now data LOST and thus it can achieve a very high bandwidth!

Conclusion

Streamyx is wasting our time, money and energy. They give us a lot of frustration, stress and dissapointment. My explanation on the 219 and 218 shows that it is really TM-Net problem itself and they can’t blame the foreign ISPs.

Last point, 70,000 subscribers in Malaysia with RM88/month = 6 million ringgit. I think if we can just contribute 1 month of our streamyx fee, we can easily file a class law suit to them. Suing them OVER PROMISE and UNDER DELIVER! Suing them lying to their customers saying that they don’t have any connection problem.

What are you waiting for?

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Back to latencies, getting 218.x.x.x IPs enabled me to play WoW with 300-600ms latencies, which is very acceptable for gameplay. However, whenever you had to shutdown the router, and you get 219.x.x.x IPs, my pings would go upto 10,000ms. That means every action I do on my gaming, I had to wait for 10 seconds to see it happen on average. I’m so sick of it that I have to sit in front of the PC, connecting and disconnecting for 2 hours in order to get the “good” 218.x.x.x IP.

What a lame broadband provider we have. If only we can do something like filing a lawsuit against false advertising against streamyx. Anyone here with some legal expertise wanna start the ball rolling?

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ansuri here,

i already posted my offer here http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?act=ST&f...0#entry12830815
but i thought of posting it in a new thread so i could specify the thread title here. hope the mods understand =)

lemme put some details of my offering here.

- i'm letting go my maxis broadband 768 kbps account
- i bought it during recent PCfair @ KL.convention.center
- along with the package. i got a ZTE MF600 HSDPA wireless modem, a maxisBB sim card, and a Shiro (keypad-lockable) telephone

i like the fact that maxisBB speed is tremendously outrages. i tried comparing surfing speed to certain flash pages with my streamyx-user friend, and the result is satisfying. and i dont use torrent, so i dont care much about maxis blocking p2p. this guy over here http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/341424/+1000 run some test on his maxisBB (384kbps). and as u can see the result is satisfying. mine is 768kbps.

i tried surfing some famous video sites with maxisBB, and i can tell u the speed is awsome. sites like u-tube or meta-cafe offers light video file size for u to download n watch. e-mail no problem. surfing this forum is like a blink-of-an-eye (figure of speech). doing online banking is safer coz u didnt get stuck on any page.

my reason for letting maxisBB go is because of the bandwidth limit. though i didnt download stuffs from torrent, i'm actively down/uploading video files from/to certain servers. i'm doing freelance on video editing and sometimes i need to upload videos for my clients to view stage by stage. because the file size that i'm dealing with is big, maxis always limits my connection. and its bugging me coz instead of using a convinient internet technology which was suppose to help me, i have to ride tru traffic jams to my client's office to pass up the videos.

so it's a little inconvinient for me in a certain way. but i'm sure there's some people out there who cares for internet speed, and would not matter much on the bndwidth limit.

so anybody willing to continue my account, i'm willing to tranfer it for free [modem, sim, phone, and account for free (if maxis charge for account transfer, then u'll hav to pay for it)]. u just have to continue the monthly bills, and that's it.

so if anyone interested please contact me @ 016.6044.505 . if i didn't pick up, leave me an sms.

I received an email from my reader. He wanted to voice out how poor/bad/terrible TMNet Support center is. This is my help for him, by publishing his email to me.

Again, I am tired of making complain to TMNet too, recently I have problem with TMNet Hotspot, called them, they asked me to restart the router. I told them DHCP problem, cannot assign IP Address to me, they ask me restart router. Then I know the support people is a dumbass, they don’t know what is DHCP, they only thing they know is “restart router”. Wasted my time talking to him and to her(I called 3 times, 3 diffferent people, giving me the same solution). Can you see how lame the support people are?

It’s TMNet Hotspot, how you want me to restart the router? Furthermore a lot of places provide TMNet Hotspot are having the same problem, it’s impposible all the router have the same problem right? If it’s then it shows TMNet use a very very low end and poor quality hardware to cons subscribers money. Why Timenet can provide free wireless but TM can’t? It’s a shame, for a Malaysia giant/premier telco company.

After all, I think it’s staff attitude problem, not company problem. Not all Telekom Malaysia’s staffs have bad attitude, but most of them are.

Since i subscribe streamx, it has been always disconnect…..especially when i am back from work. So what for i pay for the bill since i cant use it when I need it???i subscride stramyx is because of 24hours service… but what i think now, all is just a big lie to all the Malaysian.

Then when i ever i meet the disconnect problem, i called them. But the problem is nobody is picking up the phone. they said their service is 24 hours.But WHY nobody picking up the phone. So, i wondering wether they are sleeping o what!!! So this kind of service they provide to the customer.

After i cant get from the streamyx, so i called up for the dial up 1515. i did that because they are same company, and they get the salary from the same boss. But what i get from them is a rude manner. they js convert my call to the streamyx department which there is nobody picking up the phone. So i straight complain to them and i asked the officer talk to me. So a operator admit her as one of the officer. She told that her name is “Nazami”. But the way she speak to me is very and extreamly rude. she is bang my phone and straight convert to the streamyx department. So i fed up and i called her again. Then she just go on scolded at me. Come on, is this service they given. I am not her husband or boy friend tat i need to stand her. Instead i am a customer, and customer is always right!!!!then i called again another guy picking up the phone, the guy had apologized to me. But what i want now is the girl apologize to me because of her rude and suck manner!!!

I was already sad that day because of the disconnection and i couldnt contact my boy friend in
vietnam. and then i get that suck service. So it is really hurt and make me fed up. So if the girl is not going to apologize to me, i will not stop complaining. i may complain to the media. I know it is useless to complain to the streamyx. But the action should be taken and find the girl to apologize to me.

Actually, before i subscride it, i faced a lot of problem. For example the promotion is totally different from store to store. And what the agent told me that they just lik direct sales. But please Direct sale also has their system. And what a international company- TMNET is so unsystematic??? So there is a Question mark!!!!

If oneday, i really need the tmnet service, may be i been lock by somebody in my house, i want to seek help by usiing tmnet. What i can tell is i surely will be DIE!!!

So i think this is the kind of service they given !!!

bloggers pissed with streamyx

No, this is not an April Fool’s joke. The reverse, actually. I thought I’d make a list of all the recent complains by bloggers on our much loved and hated Streamyx. You know, because I can.

Connection problems:

Adventures of a Blog Junkie - TMNet: Do you even know what you’re talking about?
Chapree Da Grande - Me VS. TMnet Streamyx Again
Chapter 3 : To Begin What’s Left Behind - Streamyx is the WORST CONNECTION OF ALL
Chorwin - TMNet’s Streamyx Service Complaint!!!
Foolish Guy in Act - Damn Streamyx
Groovy - Depress Owning Wallfing Nausea
Hot Screensaver - Streamyx Slow - Broadband or Narrowband?
Jane Tarzan - Crawling…
Jeff Ooi - Internet connectivity… problems
Jeff Ooi - Internet connectivity… Problems, Day 4
Messy Christian - Streamyx Sucks
Paul Ooi - TMNet Streamyx Poor Service
My Journey - Pissed Off!
Narcissism in Words - Bit of Grave
soufulow blogs - malaysia streamyx
Keroyhima’s Blog - I’m SICK of everything!!!
Alan Chung - Streamyx caurse our office cannot operate well for online service again!
What Talk You? - Streamyx: The Saga Continues

Activation problems:

MenJ- Telephone activated, Streamyx activated - but I am still not connected to The Net!
MenJ - Still no Streamyx!
Yen - bad services

Miscellaneous:

LiewCF - TMnet Blame Streamyx Broadband Users on P2P Usage
Path of My Life - Ops, I was wrong! Fact: TMnet continues being sux…TMNET BLOCKS P2P !
Pigduck.com - Fly Like a Bird
Single State of Consciousness - Streamyx upgrades, anyone?
Wingie’s Cradle - TMNet and their incompetant staffs
Paultan.org - Streamyx is pointless
Shagadelica - Internet Bandwidth at TM Point, Menara TM
Volume of Interactions - The hypocrisy of TM Net

ShaolinTiger’s entire index of Streamyx related rage

RAGE RAGE RAGE!!!!

Funnies:

Mood Station - Funny
What Talk You? - Ode To Streamyx

Z0mg so many people so unhappy!!! Time to buck up, I think? If you have a blog post related to this issue, leave a comment and I’ll add it. If you want.