My Life, My Pace

It’s been a long time this issue has been lingering in my mind. I’ve been wanting to post a rant about P1, one of our Malaysia’s leading WiMAX provider.
If you haven’t already read my first rant about P1, then I suggest you do. Here’s the link: P1 WiMax
So now, let’s add some salt to the already wounded impression of P1. As I’ve stated in my first rant, during the launch of P1 WiMAX, they gave you a trial period of 2 weeks for us to test out their connection for no fees at all.
It was oh-so-blazing-omgwtfbbq-fast during those 2 weeks even though the signal color was red, when I finally gave the 1-year contract a shot, I regretted it almost immediately. Why? because after the trial period expired, the connection fell from ‘flying-colors’ to a deplorable state of connection which practically spelled out ‘you’re fucked’.
I’ve just tested the packet loss, ping, jitter and speed on Pingtest.net & Speedtest.net, and the result prove that I’ve been chiseled, yup. The results speaks for itself:

Initial test: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Second test: Manila, Philippines

Third test: Houston, United States
*Houston, we have a problem!* it doesn't make any sense. Test result which goes all the way to U.S. is better than local's and Philippines's result.

Last test: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The fluctuation must be immense.


Speed test: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ensuing test confirmed that P1 has earned itself a huge F for FAILURE on Pingtest.net.
My verdict: Stick to cabled line such as Streamyx for Malaysia. I know Streamyx, to most, is synonymous with ‘Lousy’. However, considering the options, stability and affordability, it is much better than P1 which is proven to be synonymous with ‘Failure’. Since P1 is promoting their "Cut/Potong Now" campaign, I totally agree to it! Cut away from P1 and get a better service provider! because P1 WiMAX sucks!!
Hope you’ve enjoyed my review and if you’re someone who happened to stumble upon this entry while ‘Googling’ for P1 review before getting one yourself, then I hope this entry had gave you an insight and I strongly suggest you go for Streamyx or you could try the new Amax, at least its much cheaper than P1. Cheers!


Related P1 WiMax topics:
- P1 WiMAX
- P1 WiMAX abnormalities or just my luck
- Finally worth it!! or maybe not...
- P1 WiMAX Hits the wall

Recently I think I’m having a bad luck with computers.

Last week, my laptop were being ‘invaded’ by waves of Blue Screen of Death (BSoD from here on).

I can’t seem to find out the caused of it because it was popping out all the various BSoD, each with a different message.

Its not the two BSoD above, there are more. Above is just an example.

In my search of the caused of the BSoD, I looked into the event viewer and found there’s this error with DCOM. So, I did all I could to disable the relevant component, uninstalled some programs I’ve recently installed and even personally search through the registry to delete certain keys which the uninstalled programs left behind.

However, to no avail, the BSoD are still appearing. Therefore, my friends told me that it could also mean hardware problems and the probable cause is the RAM ==”

True enough, after some process of probability elimination. It was really the RAM… to add salt to the wound, my laptop has two RAM, one piece is 256 and the other is a 1GB RAM.

I was hoping it was the 256MB RAM that is faulty but… due to my shitty luck, it was the 1GB RAM that has to be taken out T_T *sobs*

The worst thing was, I thought it was a virus before finding out that it is really the RAM that’s causing the problem. So, I stupidly reformatted my laptop and reinstalled Windows ==”



After my laptop ordeal, I thought it was over… that I don’t have to face computer problems again… BUT… this week, my office PC that I am using for my programming work the hard drive K.O-ed on me T_T *sobs* how sad…



Therefore, I had to backup my office’s stupid hard drive which crashes like every 10 minutes or so, and face the screen of formatting PC and Windows reinstallation again…

What sucks is that there are so many programs and tools to reinstall… which used up two working days. Actually, I’m partially happy too because I don’t have to do any work during these two days and just reinstalling programs.

After I had Windows installed, I was surfing the web while reinstalling other stuff =P Well, I hope that you readers will have better lucks with computers =) Cheers!!

Recently, I’ve joined the 7-Eleven’s name the slurpee mascot contest without hoping that I’ll win, because I never had luck with contests before.

Contestant are allowed to enter as many entries as possible and I’ve only entered once.

To my surprise, I won!! I won The All-American Rejects concert passes!!

However, it came to my notice that Tyson has suffered from some injuries and the concert have to be postponed =( *bummer*

Well, best wishes to Tyson and hopefully he recovers and is able to perform soon!! Cheers!!

Recently, I’ve taken notice about this movie called Paranormal Activities and I’ve gotten really hyped about it. However, the catch is, they will only screen the movie in your city by demand.

Therefore, here I call for your aid to help me demand this movie to be screened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia or even in your city!! Help me spread the word and demand for it =) Cheers!!