I was thinking if the speed of WiMAX is comparable or even greater than Streamyx, there is no reason to still stay with Streamyx, provided WiMAX’s coverage is great. I am paying RM88 a month subscribing to Streamyx 1Mbps currently, in which I will already be happy if I can get half of that speed for international connection. Today’s joke:
Not to mention that P2P traffic are throttled by Streamyx and their unhelpful customer service operator. If WiMAX can make it the same price but with better speed (it can be still 1Mbps as long as it is really providing that much, unlike Streamyx’s 1Mbps which cannot even provide half of the speed subscribed), good coverage, and lastly a helpful customer service. Click here to check out how frustrated a Streamyx user can be.
Heck, I would even pay more than RM88 if WiMAX can provide the above mentioned criteria after a second thought. This is when you can convert your money into less stress and save more time (slow connection causes stress indirectly and of course, time is being wasted). How much are you willing to pay for WiMAX?
I can’t see that they can be any better than Streamyx – not that I am saying Streamyx is any good.
Presumably they will be tied into TM’s backbone somewhere so eventually they will meet the same bottleneck that we already face.
Wireless networks will be the first to throttle their customers as the bandwidth of the air connection is limited. So, I doubt we will see any improvement over TM.
I already use 2 Streamyx lines & Jaring wireless and will be the first to try these new offerings, but don’t expect miracles of them.
At least it creates larger competition to Streamyx and hopefully they will try to improve themselves. But somehow Streamyx has very little downtime these days and I’m happy with it as I don’t have to ring their hell line.
im using wimax with package 400kbps..but i only get 30kbps