Slow surfing ahead for Streamyx users
Recently there are complaints and rants that Streamyx performance is appaling across cyberspace including a politician.
Suddenly The Star reported that Circult faults slow down surfing on Streamyx by Steven Patrick.
PETALING JAYA: Streamyx broadband users will have to bear with sluggish surfing speeds until March 5 due to technical problems, according to Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM).
TM said in a statement that there has been a disruption of TM’s Internet services since Feb 18 due to circuit faults on the Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) between Malaysia and the United States.
Due to this, customers using Internet services may now experience slow browsing while accessing content hosted in the United States, said the statement.
Additionally, customers using Internet Protocol services such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) and other critical business applications linked to the United States may also experience some service degradation.
To alleviate the problem and ease the congestion, some links have been rerouted, TM said.
During restoration process, traffic to North America may experience minor degradation while traffic to other countries would not be affected.
It is weird that no announcement is made on Streamyx site to inform customers of such problem. It seems that Streamyx has been bogged down by problems related to international links lately. As the biggest broadband player in Malaysia, TM would need to buckle up their service or risks losing more of their customers to the new wireless broadband players.
DiGi Prepaid: Activate and reload RM10, get RM30 FREE!
DiGi is driving up its acquisition drive by offering RM30 FREE extra credits for new prepaid subscribers that top up a minimum of RM10. This promotion is open to new subscribers from now until 30th April 2009 that activates and top up on the same day.
The RM30 FREE credit is credited RM10 for 3 consecutive months (RM10x3). From the T&C do note that:
- Top up must be done with a minimum RM10 in a single denomination. 2x RM5 top ups are not accepted.
- Subscribers must stay active in the 3 months in order to redeem the full RM30 credit.
- It is up to DiGi’s discretion to give out the first RM10 after the first month, so there’s no exact dateline of getting the credit after top up.
- Talktime transfer from another account is not considered a reload to qualify.
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