Our current broadband situation in Malaysia is seriously getting from bad to worse with no major improvements and yet trying really hard to do a lot of promotions just to pull customers in and hope they won’t be going to the competitors. Have the Internet service providers (ISPs) forgotten to put their customers’ satisfaction first?

A major setback here in Malaysia is that the last mile hasn’t been opened up yet to other providers so there is no way for them to provide wired broadband service to the public. As a result of that, wireless broadband providers be it WiMax or 3G services are coming out like mushrooms. Wireless broadband is pretty handy in many ways such as the portability and with the ever advancing technology; the performance of a wireless broadband is up-to-par.

There are of course many reasons for one to choose wired over wireless. Latency of course is the issue here especially for gamers as they are always looking for the lowest latency possible. The speed on a wired broadband should also be more consistent than a wireless broadband but this is not the case for TMNET Streamyx though.

I believe DiGi’s attempt to make broadband right in Malaysia is heading to the right track. The speed that I was able to get out from DiGi Broadband when I did a test on it was a whopping 5.87mbps of download speed while the upload was at about 490kbps! You do the calculations on how much faster it is compared to other broadband connection for the home users. DiGi as the first Internet service provider to offer a wireless broadband via 3G with HSPA technology is also another advantage as the latency is much lower than what you’ll get on a HSDPA and UMTS. I was able to get an average of 100-150ms to most local servers and compared to HSDPA, the lowest you can go is usually about 200ms.

I wish our Internet connection here in Malaysia will be improved really soon as we now live in a digital world; we rely a lot on the Internet. How many of you had your connection let you down when you needed it the most such as for work or assignment purpose? How many of you experienced the frustration at times when you needed to chill out from stress at work or school, maybe load some videos of YouTube or visit social networking sites such as Facebook and it takes forever to load? I’m sure many of you do and you probably have gotten used to it.

I shall conclude my short writing on the broadband situation here in Malaysia with a short motion graphics I did in conjunction with the DiGi Pimp My Broadband contest titled Broadband Life. Now DiGi, will you pimp my broadband? :D

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