P1 vs Streamyx

Recently, P1 Wimax is having humongous advertisement around Malaysia, and it attract my eye with the very nice and trendy look modem, and of cause, the lowest price(RM49) with 400kbps amound all the service provider.

l I have been a loyal fan to Streamyx since few years, but serious, the service is very bad and the speed, well, most of the people who using streamyx should know, SUCKS... I had changed my package for many time from 512k to 1mb and back to 512k again, because the speed gave no different. Until last year, after streamyx claimed to upgrade the facilities around my Penang house area(Chai Leng Park), the internet drop from acceptable speed to slower then dial up. Lots of complain made, and the speed only reclaim to 100k plus.

I tried Maxis 3G 384k broadband, but not much to say, the speed DAMN SUCKS, and the connection always drop or unable to connect at all.




So, last week, i made up my mind, given P1 a chance to convince me, i brought back the 400kpbs package. plugged into my house wireless router, with some setting for sharing the router tables info, and switched to no dial up needed, immediate i am getting my connection.
i did some testing with different site as below coming from different service provider to make sure the result is consistent all around.

http://www.speedtest.net/
http://speed.p1.com.my/
http://219.93.175.234/


Well guest what, my 400kbps package are actually getting exactly 400kbps of download speed, or sometime even higher (430kpbs). well the cons is that the upload speed is very slow ( around 80kpbs), after all, who need to have such a high upload speed. Impressive, video call, youtube, etc, and the performance are fairly good compare to streamyx on value of price.

So the first thing i do the second day is rush to TMpoint to cancelled my streamyx account, they want me to go meet up with the manager discuss on why i want to cancel it when i say the QOS is so bad, straight i say no need and change the reason to financial problem. I am sick of complaining.

Lets hope P1 wont let me down again.

Pros -

1. lowest range price (Rm49 for the lowest package with 400kbps include modem for 2 years contract)
2. portability
3. speed claim in package are exactly the same( for me)
   
4. trendy modem with very low power consumption (less then 18W) and produce very low heat
   
5. get month 13 free when sign for autopay using credit card

Cons -

1. 5GB threshold ( acceptable for normal use), the speed might drop after 5GB with priority on area to other user without any charge
2. low upload speed ( not important for normal household use as well)
3. RM160 for the first bill ( Rm100 for registration and RM60 for activation)
4. No port forward allow
5. distorted when raining or cloudy day