LOL.. then im glad thomson has this firewall thing 

But the updated ping with 59% loss is when i ping the 2nd hop. What does the 2nd hop mean or do? So if this is the case, normally what causes it to have so much loss? Sry dude.. im throwing tons of questions.

what u mean second hop, tracert issit? second hop is the second router/server your connection pass thru...

packet loss, normally wifi signal not strong, fiber hv alot of noise, network switch hv collision, router cant handle heavy traffic, etc

btw i just notice I have around 8% packet lost using googledns, opendns is only 1%
now try... ping -t 208.67.222.222 , packet lost less than 4% for me is acceptable...

what u mean second hop, tracert issit? second hop is the second router/server your connection pass thru...

packet loss, normally wifi signal not strong, fiber hv alot of noise, network switch hv collision, router cant handle heavy traffic, etc

btw i just notice I have around 8% packet lost using googledns, opendns is only 1%
now try... ping -t 208.67.222.222 , packet lost less than 4% for me is acceptable...

Hmm.. i followed ronnie's guide http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2441911

or should i ping 8.8.8.8, etc. if for 8.8.8.8 im getting 1% loss for 1 min

btw, take note that the packet loss on 2nd IP may not be a big issue. I don't think the 2nd hop is consistently the same IP.

I used pingplotter (there's free version, but the 30 day trial one gives out a nice graph). You'll notice that the 2nd hop IP keeps on changing. Probably load balancing?

Maxis Home blocks Rapidshare completely huh. Geez...

NOW THIS IS SERIOUS!!

anybody else can confirm this?

just use google dns...u can access RS

Issues:
1) Download speed from rapidshare.com going down to 0kbps after reaching 500kb size
2) Internet sometime disconnect but Thomson router didn't show it was disconnected. So the auto-connect on disconnect function didn't work.

To those who are interested to know the power consumption of TM modem and Thomson router.

TM modem 4.4w
Thomson router 8.8w (total 13.2w)
Aztech Dect phone 0.5w (total 13.7w)
Laptop cooler 2.8w (total 16.5w)
Total annual electricity consumption in kw/h: 16.5w x 24hr x 365days / 1000 =144,540
Total TNB bill based on 33.4 sen per unit catergory is: RM48.28
Total TNB bill based on 40 sen per unit catergory is: RM57.82

Yeap, it's like they've blocked any downloads from RS. But at Maxis's forum, they'd say like "oh please gimmie your account number we'll look into this matter"

one day all ISPs will be sued for discrimination
as different accounts have different settings thou all pay the same amount and same package

Once I switched over to Public IP, I can no longer see my quota utilisation from the Maxis Broadband Self Care page..... Not so smart system