I find that using the HTML5 player for Youtube helps the loading somewhat. 80% of the time the speed is still lembut macam taufu though.

24 – 29 July 2011

Maintenance work at SEA-ME-WE 4 (SMW4) submarine cable network linking Malaysia to Europe.

1) Slow browsing and high latency while accessing international websites hosted in the United States, Europe and North Asia.

2) Customers using Virtual Private Network (VPN) and other critical business applications linked to US, Europe & North Asia may experience some level of service degradation.

Hmph. Figures.

It's like the connections just dropped off the face of the Earth after 12pm.

Getting (the usual yada-yada) timeouts to international sites. 1mb GPU-Z took minutes to download.