Streamyx was down today. Half a day. My colleagues had to tap on unsecured Wifi (scarry – insecure) . I called the helpline and had to go through process. I was very professional so they escalated my problem to Level 2 Tech. That is the trick. Convince them, and go through the ping and gateway ping processes in order to identify the problem (DSLAM or My connection), I also informed them that other people in the area could not connect and Cyber Cafe around the corner had to put up a sign * No Internet – LOL.

The connection recovered at 2.45pm. I suddenly realized that we need a secondary connection. P1 / Or Amax. I picked Amax. Fiz my colleague and best friend called their agent and she returned the call 10 minutes later (she was driving ). Amax sent two techs in orange car, me and another colleague saw the car on the way to the parking lot. I said to my friend, look at that amax car, they probably looking for our office.

Amax WIMAX

When I was at the Datacentre installing and troubleshooting servers, Fiz called me up to inform Amax already done testing and deploying our backup internet connection. Yay!. According to him installation was a breze and yes the guys in amax car were the assigned installer techies. I took the modem home and use it to surf and blog today.

Here is the continuous ping result. We subscribe for 1Mbps package only

My SSH connection is also stable compared to 3G. Please take note this is Wireless so you could not compare with Streamyx (my office) or Time Netlynx (my home)

One thing I noticed about AMAX, they tend too keep changing ips, upstream and downstream not too sure. I had problem with my company billing system. Thank god I tweaked “Disable Session IP Check” and I managed to log in to the billing system. I had trouble logging to other pages that require session IP check though.

What is the point of all that? Load balancing? Keeping Bittorrent tracking confused? As for normal surfing I think it is sufficient, Winamp and Youtube, stutters though. To sum it up. Good job lah for Wireless. Definitely better than 3G.