Close to over a decade ago, a time when local calls were (nearly) free and i could logon to local BBS at 9.6kbps the whole night playing LORD, through the days when the Internet required Trumpet Winsock, to the bittorrents and youtube net life of today, i’ve pretty much stayed with TMNet as my ISP. Since it’s raya break and i’ve got time to burn i’m giving another local broadband provider a spin.
P1 is PacketOne, a subsidiary of greenpacket, which recently premier-ed WIMAX services in Malaysia. The WIMAX device offered is a black square brick, small enough for a home but probably not one for carrying around. Experience is pretty much plug and play, which i gathered means the device is pre-configured when i signed up with P1. So, on to the tests -
Test #1 – Speeding Around the World … technically.
A comparison of speedtest.net results -
For streamyx i could barely get the London server to start and it crawled to the result above. In any case even if it’s 1MB vs 1.2MB it’s obvious who’s the clear winner. Speed test can vary but no matter how you see it, Streamyx is just pure congested and nearly twice as slow for me.
Winner = P1 Wimax
Test #2 – Download a file on the web
64MB Apple iTunes download at http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
P1 W1MAX 1.2MB | 8 min 23 sec |
TMNet Streamyx 1MB | 35 min 25 sec |
Consistent with Test 1, the P1 download was over 4x faster.
Winner : P1 WiMax
Test #3 – Streaming on youtube
Loading a ~5 minute clip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHO1JTNPPOU
P1 W1MAX 1.2MB | 1 min 29 sec |
TMNet Streamyx 1MB | 2 min 37 sec |
Youtube streaming on Streamyx has often been choppy. So much so that it’s common practise among my friends to press pause, make coffee, fry an egg and take a bath before streaming the vid. Your results might vary but i have to say streaming on the P1 line was great.
Winner : P1 w1max
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2 Response to P1 WIMAX (W1MAX) 1.2MB vs TMNet Streamyx 1MB Review
yala.....i also agree wif it....no p1 coverage here sienz
as we all know,streamyx sucks
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