ok i am total noob at this so please be gentle

i am looking around for an alternative to streamyx seeing that they don't have enough ports for my area in penang. i find the plans very confusing. i am thinking of getting broadband advance package (RM 98 per month). does it come with the wireless modem? will i be able to get it to work on my imac and ibook? what are the actual speeds like? good enough for torrents?

i am already a celcom postpaid user. does that give me any benefits? thanks.

This post has been edited by hellfried: Oct 17 2008, 06:58 AM

just started using celcom broadband (D98) for the past few hours. i am getting download speeds of < 20 kb/s in the bangsar area. should i start complaining?

after following this thread i have come to the conclusion that i have subscribed to celcom at the wrong time. i just started using it last friday and i have to say that the web-surfing speed can be very bad; dial-up bad. just curious to know, was it always like this? from your post i can gather that there were better times before this? can confirm this?

i have a lot of disconnection as well.

list of problems with celcom for the past 5 days (i am a new subscriber) -

1. very very frequent disconnections - there is nothing u can do except to pull out the modem from the usb port and replug it in again
2. websurfing speed is like dial up 60% of the time
3. direct download can be as slow as 5 Kb/s
4. torrenting is < 20 Kb/s 80% of the time
5. getting into yahoo mail, gmail and hotmail.com is near impossible

fastest broad band, my a**! if this is the best that the competition can come up with, no wonder streamyx is dominating. give me tmnut anytime!

the whole of yesterday has to be hands down the worse for celcom bb since i joined about 10 days ago. i must have been disconnected like 20 times and last night i could not even connect to the network!
i am in penang btw.

ok this is kind of a weird question but does the signal strength differ from one spot to another in the same room? using my laptop in another corner of my room seems to improve the speed of my internet connectivity.

just want to confirm this. do they uncap u at the end of every month?

every time i hook up the usb modem, i never know what to expect from celcom bb. for example last night i could not even login. until about 3 am in the morning. on the few occasions that i managed to get in, i will be disconnected in about 10 minutes. i can see streamyx laughing all the way to the bank if this is the best that the competitors can come up with.

when i came home today i was so glad to see a letter from streamyx saying that they have finally got me a port in my area so that i can resume my previous streamyx account. finally i am out of celcom bb hell! right now i am typing this using streamyx broadband. yesssss!

This post has been edited by hellfried: Nov 6 2008, 06:49 PM

DON'T. its crap!