Connection stability

It is stable, most of the time. Even if you have exceeded the fair usage limit, the throttled speed is still acceptable. At least you can do casual internet browsing like e-mail and web surfing smoothly.

However, there is on emajor drawback. The maintenance time. Recently, there are MANY (read: MANY) maintenance schedules and the connections can go haywire at any time. This is very frustrating, especially when we are in urgent need to use the internet.

Conclusion: Wimax is great in terms of connection stability, NOT INCLUDING maintenance times.

Modem usage

With WiMax, you can opt for bulky modem with Wi-Fi service built in, or smaller, mobile version of the modem (P1 W1GGY). Both of the have their own pros and cons.

Pricing

RM 99 for 1.2 Mbps, 20GB Fair usage threshold. The best for wireless broadband so far. If you are not going to move around, then I think Streamyx is a good choice for you. If not, probably P1 is you ONLY choice, given the fact that it provides good deal for decent price.

Speed

Most of the time, P1 Wimax never fails to deliver its service excellently. There are times that I actually can browse the internet with speeds more than 1.2 Mbps. Downloading files are fast, faster than the so-called 3.6Mbps Maxis package.

Verdict:

If you intend to move around within P1 coverage areas only, opt for P1 Wimax.

If you want internet on-the-go throughout Peninsular Malaysia, opt for Maxis Broadband or Celcom Broadband.

Have a permanent home: Streamyx rulezzz.

Notes

Want me to add more? Suggestions are welcomed. Just write them in the comment section below.

TMNet Streamyx for OKU

Listed in the table above is a list of packages available for disabled citizens. These disabled citizens must be registered under Social Welfare Department (Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat) only.

Some notes for the prospective customers:

1. Streamyx is applicable for personal application only.
2. Minimum subscription period is 12 months.
3. Service is subject to availability and technical testing.
4. Speed of service is on best effort basis.
5. Customer is NOT ALLOWED to change the telephone number (connecting to Streamyx) before installation of service.
6. Customer is responsible for internal wiring, NIC card and networking.
7. Streamyx In-A-Box and online registration is not applicable for this package.
8. For Streamyx 2.0Mbps and 4.0Mbps package:
   a. Service is available in selected areas only. List of the areas is available here
   b. Service is subject to availability and technical testing during installation.
   c. For existing customers who want to upgrade to these packages, new modem will be provided. Service interruption will occur for a maximum period of 2 working days.
   d. For existing customers who want to upgrade to these packages and fail to get the service upon service verification during installation, their application will be reverted to existing package.
9. All Internet charges will be included in one single bill ‘Bil Telefon & Multimedia’ (inclusive of telephone charges, Streamyx charges & others).
10. For account activated on every 29th, 30th or 31st, the current charges for the month will be pro-rated.
11. If customer terminates Streamyx before the end of the minimum subscription period, the customer must pay the subscription fees of the remaining months and return the modem. Pre-mature termination includes relocation of premise.
12. Streamyx bill must be paid before the due date to avoid any service suspension. During the suspension period, TM will continue to charge for the monthly subscription fee. RM10 reconnection fee will be charged upon service reactivation.
13. Streamyx download and upload speed is guaranteed for local content access only. TM is not responsible for the low speed of either download or upload of international content access.
14. Email account provided will be xxx@streamyx.com (minimum 3 characters, maximum 8 characters)
15. This package targeted only for DISABLED CITIZEN who registered under Social Welfare Department, Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development.
16. Registration is available at TMpoint only.
17. Upon registration, applicant must present the OKU identification card issued by Social Welfare Department, Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development to verify the status of DISABLED CITIZEN and submit a copy of OKU ID card.
18. Applicants may send representative to TMpoint to register for the package on behalf him/her. Representative should present the OKU ID card & submit a copy of the card.
19. The 1st bill received will include one month subscription fee (from the date of service activation) and an advance charge of the second month subscription fee.

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1. RM 165 – Multilink Media Supplies Sdn. Bhd, Lot 4-30, Level 4, Plaza Alam Sentral, Jalan Majlis, Section 14, Shah Alam 40000, Selangor Darul Ehsan
2. RM 175 – ThunderMatch (Lowyat Plaza, KL / Level 4, Plaza Alam Sentral, Shah Alam)

Maxis Broadband is a broadband service provided by Maxis. Coverage is available in most populated areas in Malaysia. There are wireless broadband and wired broadband available, but since wireless broadband is the most used, we are going to give you information about wireless broadband packages only.

A little note on wired broadband

Maxis also offers wired broadband, only at selected areas, such as Section 9 Shah Alam. More flexibility and freedom can be achieved if you subscribe the wireless broadband compared to the wired one.

Coverage

Maxis Broadband covers most areas in Malaysia, with densely populated places are covered by HSDPA, some other WCDMA and EDGE. Other parts, GPRS can still cater for your internet needs.

Package Set #1: Monthly Device Packages

There are four packages together in ‘monthly device’ packages’, with all of them offer free modem for the customers. Recommended for people who want to use internet a lot, especially the 12 GB package. VOLUME QUOTA: Fair usage threshold of the package. It means if you subscribe to 1.5 GB package, you are eligible to use up to 1.5 GB worth of data for downloading and uploading.

1.5 GB Package

3 GB package

6 GB package

12 GB package

Package Set #2: Bundled package

Package Set #3: No-device package

For no device packages, you will only get a Maxis SIM card. You have to use your own modem to surf the Internet.

* Advanced Lite Youth Package – Terms and Conditions

• Customers who sign up MUST be between 18 – 25 years old
• Bolt On & Direct Debit rebates are not applicable for the Advanced Lite Youth Package

*** No Device Package Rebate is applicable from Month 2 – Month 12. Got questions? Take a look at their FAQ. Terms and Conditions apply.

For more, ask Maxis about the No Device Package at 1 800 82 2000.

Source: http://www.maxis.com.my/personal/broadband/broadband_wireless_sim_card.asp

Package Set #4: Weekly/daily broadband

Weekly and daily broadband packages are also available for users who use the internet occasionally. This package comes in prepaid, and you have to subscribe first before you can surf.

Weekly Broadband

Daily Broadband

Author’s Note

Picture credit: http://maxis.com.my/personal/broadband/wireless_allplans.asp

Revision: 1

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Overall media playback capability is decent enough. The main problem is for DivX files, the subtitles need to be embedded in the movie files itself (movie with subtitles, file extension .divx). Media browsing can be very slow especially with large drives, such as 500 GB external drive. I am still figuring my way out on how to improve the overall media browsing speed of PS3.

• ATRAC files compatible – need to be enabled through system setting
• .MKV compatible – tested by onetwenty. However, in some files, no sound can be heard.
• uPNP compatible – can be discovered through your network
• H.264 compatible
• Subtitles compatible – by embedding subtitle file into .divx file. Tested by onetwenty.
• WMA compatible – playability can be adjusted in settings page

Connectivity

• Can be controlled remotely, such as from PSP Go or SonyEricsson Aino
• Bluetooth device support
• Wi-Fi enabled (802.11b/g)

Supported controllers

• Logitech (Wired) Rumblepad 2, does not support vibration function though.
• Logitech Wireless Rumblepad (according to some sources)

Storage

• Games cannot be installed fully into PS3 hard disk. Games Blu-ray yang dimainkan tidak boleh diinstall sepenuhnya ke dalam PS3. Hanya ‘game cache’ akan diinstall dalam PS3. Ketika ingin bermain, tetap memerlukan Blu-Ray disc.
• Pictures, music, videos can be copied into PS3’s internal hard disk
• FAT32 compatible – 500GB drives still compatible, although the browsing of files inside becomes slower.
• NTFS non-compatible – strictly not compatible. Tested and proven as on December 2009. Future firmware upgrade might solve this.
• FAT – not yet tested. Might be compatible.

Firmware

• Upgradeable through internet/external storage
• Firmware size is more than 100 MB

RAM atau nama penuhnya Memori Capaian Rawak (Random Access Memory) adalah salah sebuah komponen dalam unit system (system unit) computer. Secara asasnya, RAM digunakan untuk menyimpan data-data yang diperlukan sewaktu program computer sedang berjalan (running) dan data tersebut akan terpadam dengan sendirinya apabila computer tersebut ditutup (volatile storage).

Multitasking

Multitasking ialah keadaan di mana komputer melakukan banyak kerja dalam satu-satu masa. Sesebuah komputer dikatakan berkeupayaan untuk multitasking apabila ia boleh menjalankan pelbagai aplikasi pada satu-satu masa seperti menyalin cakera audio ke dalam komputer dan juga menukar format video pada satu-satu masa. Multitasking dalam computer amat bergantung kepada kapasiti dan kelajuan RAM.

Keperluan menggunakan RAM

RAM ialah salah satu komponen mandatori dalam sesebuah sistem komputer. Oleh itu, sedikit atau banyak, RAM tetap diperlukan untuk membolehkan sesebuah komputer berfungsi.

Apabila RAM digunakan sepenuhnya

Apabila kapasiti RAM sudah penuh, komputer akan bertindak memasukkan data yang sepatutnya dimasukkan ke dalam RAM ke cakera keras/HDD (hard disk) ruang dalam HDD ini dipanggil virtual memory. Ia akan bertindak seolah-olah RAM.

Virtual memory vs RAM

Pengendalian data menggunakan virtual memory amat perlahan berbanding RAM. Bayangkan, data transfer rate RAM ialah 5~8 GB/sec, manakala virtual memory pula antara 50~60MB/sec.

RAM juga lebih efisien daripada HDD kerana RAM hanya memerlukan sedikit sahaja kuasa elektrik untuknya beroperasi. HDD pula mempunyai komponen fizikal bergerak yang semestinya memerlukan lebih kuasa.

Kapasiti RAM yang sesuai

Windows XP 32 bit: Sekurang-kurangnya 1 GB

Windows XP 64 bit: Sekurang-kurangnya 2 GB

Windows Vista 32 bit: 2 GB ke atas

Windows Vista 64 bit: 3 GB ke atas

Windows 7 32 bit: 2 GB ke atas

Windows 7 64 bit: 4 GB ke atas

*tidak semestinya sama seperti garis panduan Microsoft. Hanya berdasarkan pengalaman saya dan beberapa pengguna PC yang lain.

Mematikan fungsi virtual memory

Windows XP

Untuk Windows XP, jumlah minima RAM yang diperlukan ialah 2 GB sekiranya anda ingin mematikan fungsi virtual memory.

Menurut pengalaman saya dan juga beberapa penyelidikan ringkas bersumberkan internet, adalah tidak menjadi masalah sekiranya anda ingin mematikan fungsi virtual memory. Sesetengah website menyatakan anda mungkin mengalami beberapa masalah sekiranya mematikan fungsi virtual memory, namun sepanjang pengalaman saya dan sebahagian besar pengguna internet yang lain, masalah tidak akan timbul sekiranya anda mematikannya.

Cara mematikan fungsi virtual memory:

Go to:
System properties > Advanced > Performance > Settings > Advanced > Virtual Memory > Change > Select no paging file.

Windows Vista dan Windows 7

-       Anda tidak dinasihatkan untuk mematikan fungsi virtual memory. Sebaliknya, jika anda ingin menambahkan keupayaan system anda, anda bolehlah menggunakan Windows Readyboost melalui pendrive ataupun kad memori.

Author’s Note

I took this article from my former blog.

Revisions

1. Some minor edits
2. Major rewrite

Sources

• Experience
• Internet research

Takrif

• Update – Satu proses untuk menaik taraf software dalam komputer anda ke versi yang terbaru.
• Software – Perisian komputer
• Driver (s) – Sejenis perisian yang direka khas untuk memudahkan interaksi antara anda/OS dengan perkakasan komputer
• Loophole (s) – Kelemahan-kelemahan yang wujud dalam software yang boleh membahayakan komputer anda.
• Patch (es) – Terdiri daripada satu fail atau beberapa fail untuk memperbaiki kelemahhan yang wujud dalam software anda.
• Download – Proses memuat turun. Biasanya dari internet ke dalam komputer.

Jenis-jenis update yang wujud di sekeliling kita

• Windows – Windows ‘dilahirkan’ dengan penuh kecacatan. Dari semasa ke semasa, Microsoft akan release updates untuk Windows. Anda hanya perlu install updates itu sahaja di http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
• Driver – Updates untuk driver biasanya akan memperbaiki kelemahan-kelemahan yang terdapat pada driver tersebut. Contohnya seperti ‘hang’ tak tentu pasal, program crash dan sebagainya.
• Software – Lebih kurang sama dengan Drivers. Cuma, updates mungkin menawarkan feature-feature yang baru.

Contoh cara update

• Kaspersky Antivirus 6.0 – Right click pada icon Kaspersky di taskbar anda, dan tekan menu update. Proses update akan berjalan dengan sendirinya. Pastikan anda mempunyai internet connection yang aktif sebelum memu
• Ad-Aware 2007 – Start Ad-Aware (AAW) dan pilih menu Web Update. Kemudiannya, tekan butang update.

Takrif (daripada Wikipedia)

Adware – (computing): A software application that includes advertisements, which are displayed while the software is running. Developers use adware as a source of income and to keep the costs of the software down (usually making it free). Some adware programs can include spyware.

Spyware – (Internet) programs that surreptitiously monitors and reports the actions of a computer user.

Perlindungan: sesuatu yang mandatori

Kenapa saya berkata sedemikian rupa? Kerana pada zaman sekarang, banyak orang bergantung kepada internet. Kadar penggunaan internet juga semakin meningkat dari hari ke hari. Dalam pada masa yang sama, ramai ingin mengambil kesempatan atas ‘kebanjiran’ orang di Internet. Kita disogokkan dengan pelbagai kandungan, dan kebanyakannya akan mendatangkan masalah kepada kita di kemudian hari. Untuk mengelakkan sebarang permasalahan timbul, komputer anda perlu dilindungi dan dipastikan ‘imun’ daripada segala anasir-anasir negatif yang akan membawa seribu satu masalah kepada anda.

Masalah apa yang mereka bawa?

Mereka, dalam bentuk adware atau spyware, akan melakukan sesuatu terhadap komputer kita. Antaranya ialah:

1. Mengintai tabiat surfing kita – Apabila sesuatu spyware masuk dalam komputer kita, ia akan bertindak seperti spy. ia akan melihat segala laman-laman web yang pernah kita lawati.
2. Merekod keystroke – Ia juga boleh merekod apa yang kita taip menggunakan keyboard (jenis spyware ini dipanggil keylogger).
3. Memaparkan popup yang tidak dikehendaki – popup akan muncul dengan kerap. Walaupun kita sudah install popup blocker.
4. Menggunakan CPU dengan kadar yang tinggi – Secara keseluruhan, ia boleh memperlahankan komputer anda.
5. Menggunakan bandwidth internet anda dengan banyak – Ini merupakan satu entuk pembaziran kerana ia akan download iklan-iklan tertentu yang tidak membawa manfaat kepada kita.

Apa yang saya perlu buat?

1. Install software anti-spyware yang cekap dan berkesan. Contohnya seperti Ad-Aware Personal. Anda boleh mendapatkannya di sini.
2. Update your computer regularly. – Ini akan diterangkan dalam “fauzan.my – Penjagaan Komputer (Bahagian 2)”

I have yet to receive any feedback regarding their service in Alor Setar, but I’m pretty sure everything is running smoothly over there, since they have managed to provide Shah Alam residents good quality connections.

Enjoy you broadband service there as P1 WiMax package offers the best fair usage threshold (amount of data consumption) among the broadband providers in Malaysia.

It also has unlimited bandwidth for business customers.

What else do you wait for? Subscribe now!

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http://www.p1.com.my/wimax/coverage_ref.aspx