Rank Top 25 on Pimp My Broadband Contest

Hey All,

Today, the results for the Pimp My Broadband is out! I am ranked top 25 for the Pimp My Broadband Contest. The prizes for rank 4-50 will be a HSDPA Modem and 3 months free subscription for Digi Explore Package. However i did not win the grand prize which is the new 13 Inch MacBook Pro. It will be good to try out the newly launched broadband by Digi. I hope that Digi broadband will provide better services and faster connection compared with the current broadband (Maxis Broadband).

Actually, the main reason why i joined this competition is because i am totally frustrated with my current broadband and wanna try other broadband. I have to go to McD, KFC, Starbucks, Coffee Bean and other WiFi hotspot everyday just to get me connected to the internet. It have caused my time being wasted, no flexibility, troublesome, inconvenience and SCOLDING from my parents. =( Moreover, I am student which i need to submit my assignments, assessments and FYP (Final Year Project). All i can say to my current broadband. You have been pimped! Bye Bye Maxis Broadband. Maxis Broadband has given to its customers their WORST service EVER! I cant wait to collect my prizes for this competition.

MOST IMPORTANTLY, I would like to give a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who have voted for me throughout this competition. Some of my friends and family members have sacrificed their free time just to vote for me everyday. At the same time, I would like to apologize to my parents that i always come back late because i am outside using the internet. Once again, I will never forget to all my fellow friends again who have took the trouble to vote for me everyday.

I will give a review about the newly DiGi broadband in my blog and Facebook once i received the prizes. Thank you.




For more information, please Click This Link http://www.pimpmybroadband.com.my/WinnerPage.aspx/

Lee Sheng Yang
Frustrated Maxis Broadband Customer.

Kampar Life

After busy weeks in China and Laos, I am back now in Malaysia. My holiday trip was great and now back to study like @ Kampar. OMG..... KAMPAR.. If you dont know where is Kampar, I will explain to you further. It is located at Kinta Selantan, Perak. The distance from Kampar to Ipoh is about 36km. Ipoh is a common place to chill out, kill time, and buy/do something where Kampar cant do. It took about 25-45 minutes if you drive to Ipoh depending which way you use and how fast you drive. Drive at your own risk because Ipoh to Bidor have a lot of trucks and trailers all around. High accidents always happened at the old road. Therefore, BECAREFUL!

Back to my Kampar life. I am now staying in Kampar for 2 weeks already. All i can say that the weather here are extreme hot and cold. Meaning that during the day time it will be extremely hot until you have to take bath at least 3 times. While the cold weather occurred when it is raining heavily (usually at the year end). I also have to drink lots of water everyday to prevent dehydration. The second day at Kampar, i was having fever and got into viral attack due to the water in Kampar. Water here at not filtered and I vomited twice on the day itself. Luckily, I was able to recovered by midnight.

Study environment at UTAR Kampar is better than the one in Petaling Jaya Campus. Lecture room and the tutorial room are 1000 times larger compared with the PJ Campus. PJ Campus are considered Universiti Tak Ada Ruang (UTAR) already due to its small space in its building. But in Kampar Campus are different. There are many blocks all around the campus and 100% assured that sufficient space for the student to attend the lecture and tutorials. However, study environment good doesn't means that study life at Kampar are good as you expected. I was told by my lecturer that Kampar students tend to fail more compared with the PJ Campus. That is because students attitude are worse due to bad attitude, abuse of freedom (always hang out, especially Ipoh. Oh yeah, McD is in Ipoh. There were no McD in Kampar!), full time entertainment and others. Lecturers in UTAR Kampar are new compared as in other campus in UTAR. Most of the lecturer who taught me isn't that good because i am not able to understand what the lecturer is saying! Somehow, I managed to understand by learning it by myself. =D

Hostel life (Meaning where you live while you are studying) pretty bad as usual. This is because students (my neighbors) blasts their sound system and screams every night until 3am. What a joke... That bulgars must be insane... Many Students also love sitting down on the walkway in front of their house during nighttime. Most of the time they will be chit chatting among themselves. That is very common in Westlake, Kampar. They have a table and chairs inside yet they still enjoy sitting on the road... Very Interesting. I saw students in Kampar enjoy playing basketball until 3am.

Internet in Kampar is the worst internet you could possibly get in Malaysia! This is because the download speed will be about 5kbps download. UTAR Kampar have the worst internet i ever faced! 460 BYTES per SEC! my 33.6kbps modem can download faster than UTAR Kampar internet! Meaning using internet in UTAR Kampar is useless. The only way is to use at home or at Cybercafes. Even that also, during the night. The internet will be very slow because students love watching their chinese dramas using PPS (PPStream) where it really leech the connection nicely in and out! The only solution will be using podcast to kill their PPStream connection. Hahahahaha! Make them cannot enjoy watching their TVB Drama! Other than that, the line should be fine here.

Food in old town Kampar isn't that bad. They have nice Fried Keow Tew using Coal located beside the fresh market and it is only RM2.50! Curry Chicken Bread in Kampar are also popular here. The only problem UTAR Kampar located at Bandar Baru Kampar (New Town), about 3km if you wanna come to Kampar Old Town. In the New Town in Kampar, the food are more expensive than KL, worse than KL, and you feel like not eating. The only solution, if you have a car. Please go to old town and eat. And If you dont have a car, make your own food is better.

Overall, Kampar lifestyle are extremely boring and you should have a car when you are here. =D And also if you want to study, better find a quiet place like Eastlake or something as long not in Westlake there. Boredness will be the biggest factor in Kampar until students willingly to sit down on the road just to chitchat. Imagine how bad is Kampar life... It is really that bad...

I will further explain to you about Kampar when the right time comes! =P



This picture shows a view of the UTAR Kampar

What happened to Pimp My broadband website?

Today, i was told by my friend that they cant enter to the website (www.pimpmybroadband.com.my) via sms. This is because i was at laos having a vacation there. Once i received the news, i rush back home and trying using my laptop to enter the website. However, i were not able to enter website too. It is seems that the website is having the Denial of Service Attack (DOS attack). The website displayed the Http/1.1 Service Unavailable. I cant ask my friends to vote for me as the competition is going to end soon. This is because for the past 2 weeks i was in China and Laos. There were no chance for me to ask my friends to vote for me. =( I hope that website is on operation as soon as possible.



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28 September 2009 - My Finals

Yahoo!!!! Exam over already! My last paper was the Distributed Computer System. This subject is all about distributing it systems via network. I dont know how well i did this paper. it seems a bit of problem at the compulsory questions. Whatever it is, EXAM OVER!!! Dont want to think about it.

Anyway, I will be chilling my self at Guangzhou, China and then later on to Laos. I hope i can really throw everything out from studies and my projects for a while. Year 3 Semester 1 is really a hell semester. Can really push you beyond your limits.

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Before I share my true stories, I have to briefly explain to you what is broadband because now maxis broadband is giving “NARROWBAND” services to me! This is cheating customer rights!

Broadband in data can refer to broadband networks or broadband Internet and may have the same meaning as above, so that data transmission over a fiber optic cable would be referred to as broadband as compared to a telephone modem operating at 56,000 bits per second.
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (better known as MCMC) sets a low threshold for broadband:
• Malaysian broadband definition:
– Any service beyond the scope of existing PSTN/ISDN and 2G cellular networks
– With data rates that exceed the the normal voice-related speed (56 kbit/s for PSTN and 64 kbit/s for ISDN)

Starting point – Getting Started Maxis Broadband

I have been a loyal customer for maxis broadband since maxis launched its broadband. The services and speed I was getting that time was so good until my dad decided to have a broadband for its office too.
As an IT student, internet is the most important tools that needed for me to get connected with the world to retrieve information’s for daily life and work! Sending critical work to supervisors and friends are important for me! Receiving updates of my course and software are also important to me too!
I have chosen it because Maxis Broadband is the only wireless broadband at that time and Screamyx giving a lot of problem like unstable connections and many more. It is convenient to have the Internet on the go. Speed that I am getting that time was way lot faster, stable and reliable than the Screamyx, by Terrrorkom Monopoly (another term of TMNuts). The first 3 months during the launch of maxis broadband services very superb. I am getting 2.1mbps with 600kbps download speed.

PROBLEM Arises with Maxis Narrowband

Since the year 2007, I have been complaining to maxis about many problems such as slow connection (100kbps +-), high latency (ms), data error (when downloading), disconnection and so on. Logging into Windows Live Messenger, MSN Messenger, and Microsoft Messenger for Mac, or 3rd party application such as Adium, aMSN, and etc. is the biggest nightmare I had ever been!

Most of my assignments and projects failed to be sent to my fellow friends. The worst part is, GMail and hotmail was unable to login (due to slow connections Download & Upload). Therefore I have to go to HOTSPOTS (Starbucks) or wherever I can get Internet connections. My studies are being affected badly due to the broadband that I am facing. Due dates of assignment was badly affected. My parents that time were frustrated with the services that they have given to us. Because of this problem, my dad had decided to change its Office Broadband to SCREAMYX! No choice as it was affected my dad business too.
The BIGGEST joke is that I am not the only one who is facing these problems. MY fellow friends and relatives who are using these crappy broadband also faced the same problem as me. Some even given up Maxis broadband and change other broadband services. That time I did comparison with DiGi Edge connections and it was so much faster than the Maxis HSDPA connections at the same time and locations.

P2P are being blocked because of the fair usage policy. I don’t really care, as I don’t use much P2P, because I am not those crazy of TVB dramas or TV shows. I usually use HTTP to download my songs, software and music videos. Mostly my keep update my computer with latest software and operating system (Windows and Mac Operating System).

Well, complaints have been made and rebates have been given about RM 600++ for last year after calling the hotline almost everyday. They did solved a bit of minor problems after a long time till end of 2008. The damages have been made to me is unbearable. I not satisfied of maxis by just giving rebates to solve their problem. No apologies have been made from them!

BOILING POINT – DISSAPPOINTED CUSTOMER (I am totally LOST!)

However, this year 2009, Maxis services are getting worse. The Hotline people are very rude, unfriendly, always cut my line when calling and refused to apologies and statements of wrongdoing. Probably they cant cover the a$$ out.

The MAXIS HOTLINE always gives LAME reasons such as network at the tower problem (repeating months and months), still under investigations for months, and many more reasons that maxis staff can cover up. They love dragging the problem even LONGER!

I have asked my dad to change to other broadband services such DiGi and others... But, my dad said the packages that other broadband are giving are relatively expensive and might not be as stable as maxis broadband. The reason of keeping this broadband is that it is cheaper and no contract required. Plus he doesn’t want all the trouble of changing the broadband as the rebate for 2008 was about RM400++. Well… I am very frustrated with Maxis Broadband treated me and their ABYsMAL SERVICES that they have given it to me!

Last 2 months, somewhere the month of early August 2009. DiGi launches its services at my campus (UTAR, Section 13 PJ) and have a road show over there. I was totally impressed on the new broadband services that they have given to me. To make sure that DiGi is giving a good service, fast internet speed, low latency and so on. I told the promoter to try the modem on my MacBook Pro. They have these small USB modem which is 10000 times smaller than my BIG GIGANTIC ZTC MODEM that maxis have provided it to me! It uses the bus-powered USB where you don’t need any power output.

Test begins; the speed I am getting is even faster than maxis broadband!
Download Speed: 2.5mbps++! OMG! This is great!
Latency: 158ms!
Upload speed: 250kbps++!




It supports Mac OS X as you just need to install the HUEWEI drivers onto the Mac! So Easy! I was then later convinced with the DiGi broadband!


CRITICAL MOMENTS! REASON TO HAVE MY BROADBAND PIMPED!

Problems from the previous year still arise and it is getting worse until it is one of the worst nightmares I have EVER BEEN! Recently, connections are so bad until I am not able to open the files that you have downloaded (like pdf, mp4, zip, dmg, exe, or other file formats). These have caused me to REDOWNLOAD the file again and again until it is workable (which never happened to me). I have to go Wireless enabled area to download the critical files that I needed.

The worst part is, when you are using the maxis broadband downloading update and firmware for your computer. It might not work properly until it happened that my computer unable to boot (start-up). The cunning maxis broadband give lousy services make my laptop need to be archived and UPDATE the software all over again.

I am DEEPLY DISSAPOINTED that maxis broadband are manipulating their services and caused me lots of disaster to me. Slow connections never mind, but file error is the biggest problem that maxis are facing now!
Uploading a txt file less than 20kb is really a big hassle for me. It took me 10 MINUTES just to upload a 20kb txt files to my friends. Most of the time failed due to ERROR or sending failed. This is because maxis are giving NARROWBAND services to me which limits only 64kbps of upload speed and sometimes I will only get 20kbps upload speed. Meaning that if I upload my Final Year Project about 3mbps, it is impossible to UPLOAD it at ALL!

SELFISH MAXIS BROADBAND IS BEING BLACKLISTED BY ME (not they blacklist me!) AND I HAVE ENOUGH OF MAXIS BROADBAND!
I AM TOTALLY EXSHAUSTED WITH MY MAXIS NARROWBAND! I PIMPED MY BROADBAND!

All i can say Time to Change! Always a smart choice!

Here are some results being taken from speedtest.net. Be my witness!


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