Malaysia’s Streamyx Is A Guzzling Succubus!

You can say by the title itself I’m one darn pissed off Streamyx user! It’s been more than a year since I got connected through TM Net’s Streamyx to the rest of the world. Yeah! Most Malaysians know that TM Net has been criticised locally on a range of issues. Maybe they didn’t bother about it anymore. I have subscribed to Streamyx’s 512Kbps package and I have to say that it doesn’t deserve to be called braodband at all! It should be damn expensive narrow-band!

Yeah! Streamyx is one Sucking Succubus! (A Succubus is a demon who takes the form of a highly attractive woman to seduce men, in dreams to have sexual intercourse, according to the medieval European legend.) The only thing Streamyx seems to care is to suck all the money from the customers without attentively listen to their customers’ needs! Yeah! Streamyx is just like the succubus, seducing you with their attractive “appearance” and later sucks everything away from you!

For the past few months, surfing the net through Streamyx is an excruciating experience. I’m not a heavy down-loader of movies or songs, hence I’m really baffled as to how slow the connection is even though my demands are of fundamental activities such as surfing, blogging etc. I actually have to wait a few minutes to access my emails. I have tried to contact the Streamyx customer service and it’s impossible to get through! It’s as if no one is there to attend to this obvious flaw.

All this while Streamyx subscribers have time and again complained about the insanely slow speeds and the lack of reliability of connections provided. However Steamyx’s terms states, like the other ISPs around the world, that “the service they provide is based on a best effort basis”, meaning that connections are not guaranteed to perform at their advertised theoretical speeds. Heck! Then they shouldn’t make that claims. Streamyx’s also claims that the lower than advertised performance could be due to ageing copper lines, insufficient bandwidth, high contention ratios! But I believe it’s a simple apathy due to a lack of competition.

As mentioned earlier, I am a subscriber or Streamyx’s 512 Kbps package. And the MAXIMUM download speed I could get is 51Kbps, a mere 10% of the ADVERTISED SPEED! Doesn’t that sounds like the dinosaur’s dial-up connection’s speed to you? I’m utterly disappointed, perplexed and annoyed! It’s like Streamyx is cheating on us.

In comparison, our neighbour Singapore has become the world’s most wired nation with an unbelievable household broadband penetration of 99.9%. It is obvious the level of competitiveness happening in the broadband market in Singapore. Of course a few naysayers will attribute the high penetration rate to Singapore’s tiny size, BUT really I believe it all boils down to their political will and clinical execution that has brought Singapore to that level.

How about us, Malaysia? A disgraceful, shambolic, loathsome 21% of broadband penetration! And we want to be a developed country by year 2020? God help us.

Other countries with impressive household broadband penetration are South Korea (93%), Hong Kong (83.8%) and Taiwan (76.8%). Here’s something noteworthy for us to ponder: back in 1996 when our Multimedia Super Corridor was first conceptualised, Malaysia was at par with South Korea and Taiwan in terms of broadband penetration rates. But today, we are miles behind of them. What went wrong? Easy, TM Net has been pampered and overly-protected by the government hence effectively inhibit any healthy competition.

And do you guys know that the broadband rates that we Malaysians are paying are amongst the highest in the world? Yeah! Do you think Streamyx really can’t scale down the price to encourage penetration? NO! I don’t think so. All in all, IMHO Streamyx just isn’t ready to cut its lucrative profits obtained from victimizing all of us-the once gullible Malaysians! But not anymore! Enough said, I’d better control my anger before something bad happened.

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Google Adsense Introduce Western Union Quick Cash For Indonesian Publishers

Good news for Adsense publisher in Indonesia, Western Union payment currently available in Indonesia. Publishers based in Indonesia can get their money through Western Union Quick Cash as a new payment method. Login to your Adsense account and sign up to receive your Adsense payments in cash using the Western Union money transfer service. This expedite receiving your cash instead of waiting for checks to arrive in the mail, then another days in bank clearing.

Some things to note:

• Payments by Western Union follow our normal payment schedule (https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9905)and will be available for pickup at your local Western Union agent the day after they are issued.

• Payments by Western Union are currently only available to individual payee names and not to businesses.

• Payments must be picked up within 60 days of issuance or they will expire. If this happens, a payment hold will be placed on your AdSense account and the payment will be credited back to your account.

• Payments will be made in US dollars, but depending on your local Western Union agent, they may be picked up in your local currency.

For Indonesian publishers, if you want to sign up for this new payment method, please follow these instructions.

Thanks to Adsense for your kindly to enable this feature for Indonesian publishers.

Is Barack Obama the Next US President?

This blog is not political category and I will not change the category of my blog. I only want to know the popularity of each candidates based on search engine result. Why? Everywhere, everyday, many people talk about Barack Obama, John McCain, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. So many blogs write about them. I realized, indeed all of them are the very very famous people today. As the presidential candidate of US, certainly they are in every one’s mouth.

I do searching by using the most popular search engine i.e Google, Yahoo, Altavista and MSN live search. Then, I type the keyword start with “Barack Obama”, “John McCain”, ”Sarah Palin” and “Joe Biden”. The following are the searching result.

For Google, Yahoo and Altavista the search result of Barack Obama more than John McCain.

But, MSN Live search result. Hahaha …. MSN showed different result compared to the others search engine. (is MSN anti Obama?)

MSN is only found out about 358,000 results for Barack Obama, meanwhile John McCain founded about 4,740,000. Wohooo…. more than 10 x. Sarah Palin (1,300,000 results) and Joe Biden (about 528,000 results).

Is the result as the reflection of the election result on next November? Is the news about Barack Obama and the other candidate which is appear every time on the internet support them or not. Nobody knows certainly. Whatever the search engine result, the true President will be chosen by US people on the next November.

Wait and See. . .