At long last. Long long last. I can finally download in peace at home! From the comfort of my laptop, I don’t have to whine about slow connection – at least for the time being now anyways.

And why?

Let me tell you the story called “Bad Connection”.

It all started when I bought the Belkin Wireless Pre-N Router. That expensive piece of equipment had caused me a real headache with the setup. Whoever said that it is just plug and play, was lying! So yeah after a number of nights with bad luck on no connection, finalyl I had to call my friend Jay from Viewnet at Low Yat to come over and fix it. Seems there was a number of settings that I had to take care of. Ngeh!!

Then we went to the PC Fair at KL Convention Center, which was where I met with the people who were introducing Maxis Broadband. Woo hoo the first ever other broadband service, other than streamyx. On one hand this was great, plus it’s 3g and all (peh… that wasn’t much of a help, if anything it’s super unstable). Let me clarify, when I first started with Maxis 3g Broadband, they had a 30 day trial plan. Those 30 days were beautiful! Loading websites was uber fast and playing Guild Wars was a dream.

Then came the first month, it was still going swell.

Then came the second and third month…

That was when things started to get a bit shaky. It was not at all stable! The connection fluctuated from HSDPA, to UMTS and down to EDGE. Oh my gosh, EDGE is the slowest thing ever! EVER!!!! Plus I’m paying for what RM87 a month for this. Sigh I’m paying the high end broadband too, but there’s a catch to this package from what I heard from a technician that came to my house to fix my connection problem. Yeah because I was having so much of issues with it, I called Maxis and they said maybe it was my modem so they changed it. The technician then told me, that the thing with Maxis is that within a certain area, they only allow a limit of 35 people to receive high end connection. Those 35 people are random. So basically, when Maxis got more people under their belt, they couldn’t handle it, causing the connection to be way slow.

Mister G and I even considered Izzi, Celcom and even U Mobile. Did I mention there is also now such a thing as gamers broadband? I found that such a laugh really. All new competitors in the broadband market, you can take a look at the long list here at Planet Low Yat. Then i just for the easier method of getting Aztech’s Homeplug.

Which is a device that converts your powerpoint in your house into wires for you internet. Like so.

There is a wire sticking out at the bottom, which is my Lan cable so now I can have internet as well upstairs in my room. See my house is a real mess in terms of the architecture (as much as i love it). This is because of all the wires that are shoves in side the walls, wireless connection can be a bit of a prob in receiving the signal.

Originally I was told I could get th eAztech home plug for RM210… imagine my glee when i got it fot RM170 at Sri Computers in Low Yat. That said though I still want to cry because i took out money from my pocket yet again to fix some stupid net issue! Sigh. Sigh sigh…

Oh but my internet woes doesn’t just end there..

To be continued…..