Malaysia WiFi Broadband Internet
There was a news report on Malaysia internet penetration that caught my interest. Not much of percentage of penetration rate (that rate is for urban area anyway) but because of statement by Datuk Seri Rais Yatim:
"The Kampung WiFi broadband facility gives minimum benefit; it's not very fast. We think the speed is around 4 megabytes per second in Merlimau Pasir. If there are many users, it will be slow. This is normal."
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What? 4 megabytes per second is not very fast? The facility gives minimum benefit? What Rais Yatim talking about? Does he has any idea what average Malaysia home user internet speed is? If 4 megabytes is not that fast how about 0.7 mb I'm paying almost RM100 per month now? Anda that just about the internet speed and we haven't yet talk about Fair Usage Policy, realibility etc.
When an Information Communication and Culture Minister made a statement like that, it does make me worry. Worry that he doesn't know the 'suffering' Malaysia internet home user has to endure.
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Thank you Tan for taking the time to point it out. I corrected a few of the ‘mb’ but the whole point of the article stays. After some calculation, 4 megabytes refer to by Datuk Seri Rais Yatim is equal to 32 mb. What’s so slow about that.
Yes, agree with you on the speed. I think, at this moment to go much higher shouln’t be the priority, The priority shoud be to provide the optimum speed (with increased bandwith), I think if most user can get over 3 mb, that is very good already, can watch youtube smoothly. Infact what most user with say 1.2 mb need is not higher speed but more bandwith, check out the bandwith quota provided by ISP. There a lot to say about speed and bandwith – next time in another artice. For a start there no difference surfing blog with 2.5 mb and 42 mb – the webhoting server speed become the weakest link.
Many people mixed up Mb with MB…. usually the speed of internet published in the ads is megabit…. you shall not treat is as megabyte…. of course slow.
1byte = 8bit
even first country only got 100Mb connection for normal user (not dedicated line), i think singapore and hong kong are the only places got 1Gbps line for normal consumer.
Even though 100Mbps also a thru put number means highest speed, usually can never achieve that figure.
Just imagine speedometer in your car is 200km, but all of us can hardly go to that figure, traffic jam mah.