Broadband is everyone business nowadays. If you are on the net and you are not on broadband, you are like at the slower world.

As far as broadband service at my place, streamyx and jaring is the only two wired service you can subscribe. Majority are on streamyx and I myself subscribed to streamyx… the cheapest unlimited usage 😀 because I’m not a heavy downloader.

Jaring is also providing satellite backup line. I heard Sutera Harbor Resort is using Jaring and they have satellite backup connection.

Actually, there is no point for us to subscribe to Jaring’s wired broadband because it is riding on TM/streamyx infrastructure. So, when the TM infrastructure facing problem, so do the Jaring service 🙁

As for wireless broadband… I think you can forget about it, as far as my place. Maxis, Celcom and DiGi are only able to provide EDGE or GPRS speed. Some areas will get 3G… and probably HSDPA by Maxis and Celcom. But I guarantee you, you will not be satisfied with the service quality & performance… It will be as fast as a dial-up service sometimes or  much slower… it will not worth the money you pay for the mobility service.

Anyway, if you want to test your connection speed… download & upload… try www.speedtest.net, the results is more realistic than the streamyx speedometer which I think is cheating the whole streamyx subscribers. Why I said that? Well I had the chance to setup a DSL at 1.5Mbps upload and download. The TM technician shows me using their speedometer and it shows 1.2Mbps++ for up/download. When I test it using speedtest.net, it shows almost the same results… that was when they completed the wiring.

After 2 weeks, the DSL started giving problem. When I test it using the speedtest.net, it shows more like ADSL… 1Mbps download and 512Kbps upload. But when I test it using TM’s speedometer, it shows 1.1Mbps up/download… that’s why I said their speed test is cheating the whole streamyx subscribers.