QUOTE(James Bond Solace @ Dec 25 2008, 04:59 PM)
Yo bro, Nice Speed for Streamyx ( 1439kbps DL & 420kbps UL ) on speedtest. But it doesn't actually impress me at all! Why? Because those results may not be so accurate!
I am also another amax Wimax subscriber here and i am also still having Streamyx at home. But the different between Wimax and streamyx i would say is Wimax has better advantage on any watching online video because of no loading so far i experienced and the download speed for torrent & direct server download is actually faster! Watching online video using Streamyx is like dying for me because of the loading, so frustrated to wait, wait, wait, until i give up most of the time! As for me, I take download speed & watching online video as my benchmark in comparison!
FYI, I am using 1 Mbps Streamyx package. The good thing about streamyx is they have low latency as compared to Wimax. However, the download speed actually doesn't give me the satisfaction at all such as 30, 40, 50 KB/s & the speedtest shows 1292kbps, the download speed is still slow! In contrast to streamyx, Wimax can reach up to 120 KB/s++ to 130 KB/s++ easily using the Wimax USB modem. Maybe my area for Streamyx has been overloaded of Streamyx subscribers. And even though speedtest on streamyx give me 1300 kbps, the smoothness for surfing internet still doesn't give me the satisfaction and i still find that Wimax have a better advantage on that!
So i would actually say that speedtest on the P1 website really doesn't give a accurate results at all! So i would really advise people to give Wimax a try at least especially you are a mobile user and not so much of a gamer. Btw, i haven't try Wimax on online game yet as i don't play online game! And one exprience i would like to share with everyone is i was having a very heavy surfing on internet, a few downloads and watching video at the same time during heavy raining day, i was actually surprised that my speed has not been decrease at all and i didn't face any disconnection! I thought that raining day will effect the wireless connection, but it actaully did not effect at all. Cool
In my personally opinion,i think that Wimax actually has overcome/overtake ADSL line already whether someone said that i can't compare wireless and fixed line. But the Biggest disvantage of ADSL is that if your area has too many subscribers the speed would actually slow down and also depend how far or how near the distance between the TM exchange and your house. Based on one technician experience, he told me that even if your house is too far away from TM exchange, even with good ADSL modem also useless. The only thing that Wimax can't really compare with is Fibre Optic i guess. In Conclusion, I would still say Streamyx suck!!! Not worth paying RM88 for it, i am still using it because in case of backup use only...
Dude your observation here is a bit skewed. I am from the telco industry so let me tell you a little bit. Wimax is great because it makes the last mile connection to the users so much cheaper. Instead of pulling in cable (fiber/copper) to every single house, and having a freaking router for all the ports from the houses and then redirecting to other hubs, all you need to setup a base station, then just transmit to whomever is within range. This is so much easier and so much cheaper for the telcos. But few issues here: 1) WiMAx or any radio based technology uses contention access which means they transmit/receive on an interrupt basis. There is no persistence in the connection. This is ok if you are just surfing web, if you use apps like Skype(VoIP), this really sucks. And its gets worse as you stay further away from the base stations as the stronger signal from closer clients will always take precedence over yours that is far away. Secondly there is always interference issues with radio, you just never know which morons tries to be funny and try to jam your network easily. Thirdly, the standard itself is not matured. Things are constantly changing. The forum can't even decide which freaking spectrum to use. On the telco side, not much of an issue, the the client connectivity suffers because if each country decide to use whatever they like, then people like Nokia or whomever have to produce different unit for different specs thus making the cost high, right now they mostly have narrowed down to like 3 or 4, i can't remember. Then there is the bandwith thingy, they happily claim can go up to 70Mbit/sec. Yes you can get that if the base station radius is like very close, practically you will probably get like 30-40% effective rate, then when you increase the range, the rate goes down further. Like all radio networks, this is common, just slightly different behavior here and there. HSDPA claims its can get up to 7.2Mbit/sec. That never happens.
Anyway, the reason you are enjoying WiMax is the subscriber base, which eventually will get flooded and you will have the same issues. Anyway the main issue of our slow network is very simple. We just don't have enough content in Malaysia. For every little thing we have to get the contents from US, Europe, wherever, just not Malaysia. So everybody has to hog that whatever capacity we have within the international gateway. Take even torrents, most Malaysian I know, only download, most people don't want to seed because its just going to limit the amount of open TCP/IP connections. So don't bother seeding. That's not helping. Streamyx sucks, I Agree. There are things they could probably do to make things better, they just don't do it. But eventually all the WiMax players will become this too. Happened already with Maxis and Celcom. Probably will be the same with P1 and Amax and I know the people behind Amax, not exactly your rescuer too. This is sad for us consumers. We just don't have enough rights. If people have been putting up with stupid Streamyx all the other telcos don't have to do much, just be like Streamyx or just marginally better, people will just stay.
Dec 20 2008, 12:15 PM
I believe there is a lot ppl who suffer from streamyx , and a lot others who enjoy it...
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