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Well my Streamyx is down again, I have to say it’s been quite some time since I’ve had any problems with it. It’s been relatively stable and reasonably fast for quite some time. After I got back from CNY it was off though, the DSL is syncing but the PPoE connection just isn’t happening, not [...]

Ah so many posts to write, Tmnut is playing silly buggers the last few days. Most of the time I can’t access Flickr, can’t access any sites hosted on blogspot, sometimes can’t connect to any Google services, can’t connect to MSN.. And when it’s all working it’s so terribly slow, even surfing is a pain. [...]

AHGRH!H!H! Meant to post some more pics over the weekend, got lots to do…but Streamyx was down since 11am Saturday morning. Until now. I called them twice, apparently they are having some major nationwide outage…I wonder what happened I really do. There’s nothing on the Streamyx site about this either, it’s out of date. Can’t [...]

Unsuprising, look at this, looks like the International link has been replaced by a single 56k dialup line.. Restarted the connection, even got onto a different IP block..still the same urgh. Broadband or narrowband? The answer seems obvious. The only thing that’s transparent about TMnut is their blatant disregard for quality of service and the [...]

Still the lack of quality of service surprises me with Streamyx. I think I’ll just call it Streamyx Shitband. They still keep selling it, still keep advertising it, still keep pushing it…but their infrastructure can’t even support the current userbase. At peak times it goes to shit, if I want decent latency (decent in terms [...]