Phew...after do a exhaustive research for this kind of service (yes, even i read every single post at this thread) no need to mention about googling and wiki (hopefully my boss will not read my post here as I abuse office internet connection ), finally I decide to buy one.

I choose Izzi USB. Deal with one salesperson (very nice and professional), he offer to come to my house, setup the demo unit to my pc and test as much as I want (well, he still in my house la)...i really satisfied with the product. REALLY satisfy. I have countless of unhappy time with streamyx before and migrate to Izzi seem a very good step for me. I get 100% signal strength and still, that guy has no hesitation at all to offer me the antenna for free. The bandwith, even not as fast as streamyx (sometime), I consistently get about 800-900 kbps. The latency to various website about 150 ms to 250 ms.

Testing to my fav online MMORPG games...the lag almost same with streamyx.

P2P havent test yet but will update soon.

my location :

Kelana Jaya, near LRT Depot. Level 15. Location of my PC, hidden under my PC room bunker (aka surrounded by all wall except a door. Open up the door 100%, close the door 100% too

I really recommend for those who want to enjoy fast broadband, affordable and also risk free, to ask the sales guy / girl to test the connection at your very own pc and home. Then you decide.

I am now a very satisfy and happy customer .

Sayonary Screamyx.

Sairay...I definitely agree with you. Almost all Izzi sales person I met before most likely a fresh train salesperson for this product. No need to bombard them with technical question as they will either give you rubish or simply said not sure (i prefer this one rather than hawsiaw me). Thats why i ask them to send a guy to test the system in my bunker room.

Always bear in mind, Izzi is wireless. There is always blindspot, interference and the list goes on and on. Dont push your luck...test it, get the data and decide to purchase or not. RM1300 is not small amount of money by the way.

For your case Sairay, if I stand on your shoes, defenitely I will smash the modem on that salesman forehead..no doubt

wow...did you really calculate the lambda when construct this antena?

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Yes...i keep the sales person contact number. Will post it when i reach my home...

However, i would like to remind you nothing is perfect, as per kajika81 case. He enjoy good performance for the very first month and now seem he kinda has dissatisfaction to the product.

Care to share more Kajika?

What I afraid most is, at very first month, they give us priority to get the promised bandwith...after that the priority goes to new subscriber...gosh

I read about iBurst, the antenna only able to cope with 24 Mbps (downstream). If each antenna only manage to handle this amount of bandwith, and 50 users use the same source, each of use restricted to 500 kbps???

Well, after seeing my ex-housemate pulling his hair, stress out with maxis broadband, I will never ever consider that service. And any 3G service speed still inferior in term of speed compare to wired and iBurst. Don't know who really enjoy 3.6 Mbps as advertised.

My first hand experience using izzi is a pleasant one but still, if in the near future, if the speed reduce to 500-600 kbps, I am still content with it. Most of my time in the office. What i need is reliable and the latency is in OK range. Reading Izzi plan to have whole Malaysia coverage within 3 years and cover Johor and Penang early this year sound promising.

I dont have fixed line, and don't intend to have one either. It's waste of money where we already happy with our mobile telco service. Paying RM26 as fixed line rental is more likely overkill for me as I dont want to use telekom phone.

Streamyx? Sorry. Too many probs I encouter before. Just read at other thread. Even today, at my office, the streamyx is really slow. A bit better than old school 56 kbps dial up service. And base on my past experience, streamyx is not so reliable service. DCing, BT throtled down, high latency to US server (except i get IP 218), almost cant use streamyx on raining day...haiyo...really cannot tahan woo.

Just consider what do you need most from your broadband? Izzi meet my requirement so I am happy with it, for now

For those who stay in 'elite' condo which they provide you fast fibre optic line...lucky you.

Not sure it get affected by this issue or not. My office located at bandar baru bangi. Our branch located in penang island doesnt suffer this kind of slow down. By the way, Izzi doesnt affect at all. Before I go to office I checked my torrent speed almost 100 kBps. Mind you, my torrent setting just plain vanila one. Download uTorrent and use it right away.

Will post the screenshot when I reach my home and hopefully the speed doesnt flactuate much. Duh..wireless

Bear in mind, that iBurst signal, even it can cover up to 13 km radius, we still bonded to the nature of wireless data transmission. The coverage will detotriate significantly if your home is blocked by tall building, or there is a couple of walls before it reach your izzi antenna. Even tennis court fence will affect the signal.

Kajika...u r not alone...my izzi now have same syndrome with yours. I think, there are more than 50 user at Kelana Jaya now. At peak download hour (night of course, my speed can decrease to 600 kbps).

Well....

Oh sorry my bad. Its not I dont want to share with other forumers. It just I discover something that need further observation. But, still if you insist, here is the contact :

Name of Salesperson : Mr. Lennon
HP Number : 016-2630911

Just be sure to mention my nick to this Mr. Lennon hahaha. He must belanja me makan if he get customer from here lol

Anyway, my izzi no longer immune from slow internet connection. Base on 1 week observation.

Night speed averagely 500 kbps. Fluctuate between 400 to 600 kbps only.
Night latency 98% 300ms to google.com but sometime it spike to 2000+ ms for a couple of minutes. Hang up and redial solve this probs.

Early morning speed (before go to work, exceed 1000 kbps.

My izzi syndrome not much differ from what kajika experience XD

Noted : Signal strength always 100%.

Good thing about izzi...online gaming. I suffer a lot using streamyx unless i get IP 218. With izzi, online gaming latency seem almost not exist. Currently play 2moons. Ping to this server (consistantly show in the games) is 300 - 320 ms .

For those love torrenting.... 100 kBps is possible EARLY MORNING (only) default uTorrent setting.

Take my word....the more user hook to izzi service, the worst my connection will be...and kajika and other user tooo. So, pick another broadband lol...Hahaha

Kidding.

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Added on November 2, 2007, 3:53 pmHaiya Kawan, in Malaysia now, with current trend, tell me which ISP able to service us without any probs? I already out of my head (totally) headache with SCREAMXY, SLOWMIX, CheatXIS, Limitation 3G to 5th floor ( i live in 15 floor wooo).

So, what to do. Close 1 eye and just enjoy the 60% speed lar. Hopefully, they will improve the speed when they get enough customer. In real practical world, it's ok to make little mistake as long as they are willing to take correction action. The ideal world, definitely no mistake but full with preventive maintenance.

Depend on the game, 0.3 second most probably will not offect MMORPG gaming experience. But Online FPS or racing might give significant disadvantage to you. But....despite the nature of wireless latency, I think, in real world gaming, the latency between Malaysia and US server (for example) is the major latency problem. My streamyx latency to 2moons server is higher than izzi latency..hows that

So long Izzi willing to improve back the speed, I am with them. Just dont let the service become pathetic like streamyx. DC more than several days, high latency gaming (non local server), keep DC cukup la.

500 - 600 kbps, sometime better than 1 MBPS but keep DC and unable to torrent (for most user, not LYN geek).

I do lodge a complain about my max speed capped at 500 kbps. But reading other users post...I think this is not my connection problem...but more to.... too much user per antenna problem.


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I am staying at Kelana Jaya too. Yep.... my MSN keep on and off. Dont know why because my online gaming run smoothly without dc. My MTU is 1400 (this is the max size for my connection without being fragmented.

This post has been edited by expertester: Nov 2 2007, 03:53 PM

yup... 7 days AND not more than 3 MB download. Its an AND not OR. Both condition must be met in order to get the refund. And its not 100%. RM 180 will not be refunded.

Other terms, no coverage.

yeah...i ask for it. My reason is, the point i go for easy because it wireless...which mean i can use with my notebook when where ever i want. Definitely some of the place will have weak signal...some kind of that...

Soo...he just...oh OK...I will give you one.

The further observation ...well not about the salesman, but download speed. Sometime it decrease a lot to 600 kbps only. But i guest, not a big problem la.

I notice that Perfect World latency is higher than 2moons latency. Wondering why. By the way, agree with kajika, lately latency not as good and consistent as before. I guess they started to have TOO much customer with their current line / antenna / back bone...well be my guess....

Speculation : This gonna be worst Kajika.....at least before they have another mountain high gold of fund to improve their facilities.

Guys, as a prospect izzi customer,do yourself a favor. Test it on weekend and worst case scenario,....weekend + night time (after 9).

That will give you general idea how worst izzi will be. If you OK with that...you will have no problem at other day. And feel free to dump RM1200++

This post has been edited by expertester: Nov 6 2007, 01:08 AM

Yeah..only that 3 credit card are guaranteed installment free. Others, depend on the sale person. My salesperson, offer me 0% even I use maybank (not MBF) credit card.

Perhaps, he gonna bear the interest for the sake of more future customer....well, only they know how much commission they get per customer rights.

I will do the same thing too if the commission is thick enough to bear credit card interest.

Nego with your salesperson. If he is not OK, so many other salesman out there willing to help me.... MONEY talk.

Hahaha Kajika, better you take down your siggy lar. Very miss leading lar for this current situation. When I look at your siggy before (couple of weeks ago), my saliva already drop wooo ..but now..my tear....hahahaha.

Why dont you play dota at izzi server? No community not good enuff? Luckily I dont play dota. Mostly in MMORPG...but, gaming at night without any kind of download (2moons use about 8-10 kbps only)...sometime lagging till I die ...huhuhuhu. Not even red name monster...

So now more on downloading ubunty, farcry etc...dont give a damn about the speed as long as the torrent more than 60 kB...I just sit back..watch downloaded movies or watch astro. Gaming now... equal DEATH.

Too bad I am a working person....if only I am a univ student, I can play game not at night..

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Added on November 6, 2007, 10:11 amAiya..dont compare izzi with maxis broadband la. Tingkat 5 pun dah tak boleh login...ape hal??? No need to mention about stable or not

This post has been edited by expertester: Nov 6 2007, 10:11 AM

Haa...thats because you dont mention my nick at Lennon...hahaha... just kidding.

Yeah, thats what kajika, me and other izzi user talk about here. After 10 pm...the speed drop, and the line seem not so stable (in term of ping latency). I monitor the ping latency all the time....the speed drop significantly when ping reach 2000++ ms. I just dont bother, coz either you restart your izzi connection or a minute later...the connection will be OK. OK not great.

Ping to google...nowadays at peak time (as you mention) close to 600 ms at my side.

More user than they can cope. Just cross your finger this probs will be rectified soon. Do update us about your izzi connection outside peak hour band...

My dear, your lagging problems is not because latency alone...its because your PC hardware can not handle all those high detail 3D graphics setting too. Thats why, by turning down those setting you will feel smoother than before. But for people who use "more than capable" 3D card, let say Geforce 8800 GTS for example, ultra high setting in any MMORPG game will never taxed our computer out.

Like you said before, your char will move but hardly attack..thats latency lag problems.

Anyway, thanks for sharing with us.

Note : Perfect World...among the best visual 3D MMORPG available now

You may try to change your MTU to 1400. It works wonder to me (gain another 20 kBps) compare to MTU 1500. But, your speed seem not normal. Using Ubuntu now (and also windows xp, even my ubuntu seem more izzi friendly lol in term of speed), my speed averagely 95 KBps.

Double check that your download speed is not limited by the server. Try to use download accelerator or download manager, max the download segment and download couple of files from different fast server.

For me, nZone is the best place to test download speed.

your 10 kbps is kilobit or kiB (kilobyte)?

use speedguide tools....

I dont trust speed guide much..

Why? I always got wierd result using server Malaysia and Singapore. A couple of times, I get below 150 kbps (should be 1000 kbps) downstream and 60 kbps upstream. But, my download speed using torrent after that ( i stop all the torrent for the purpose of speed test), climb to 90+ kBps.

I am using Ubuntu / Kubuntu Linux (sourceforge driver) + Deluge Torrent Client.

Normal download from nzone also give the same result.

Sometime 500 kbps is normal cap.