Good Speeds
May 10th, 2007
After a 4-hour downtime two nights ago, it seems that my ‘net connection has improved, somewhat. I’ve been getting decent downstream speeds for torrents and http downloads. Made me wonder if it had anything to do with the green light for building that new undersea cable network.
Aside from MMU Hostel residents [my heart goes out to you for suffering ass-crap slow 'net connections), how's the downstream over at your place? Consider external factors, such as sharing one modem with four other PCs, for example. I don't play online games, nor do I join PVPGN servers to play Warcraft 3 anymore, so I'd like know how the latency is like.
I've been hearing things about some Cyberjayers [more specifically, Cyberia residents] have been getting approximately 100-150 KBps total downstream for their torrents. Is that really Streamyx or some other hi-speed [read: very expensive] ISP?
In other news,…
There seems to be yet another glimmer of hope for the future of Malaysians.
PETALING JAYA: Most parents are wary about doing away with the Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) in Year Six and the Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) in Form Three.
Responding to a proposal by the Malaysian Examinations Syndicate that both public examinations be abolished in 2012 and 2015 respectively, parents said that the UPSR and PMR were still needed.
The MES has proposed five forms of assessment for students – school assessment, central assessment, psychometric tests, physical activity tests as well as a central examination, but only for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia.
[source]
I am pleasantly surprised that this is something that is actually proposed by the very same body that made and ran all the previous examinations. Does this have anything to do with the upcoming elections? XD
Principal Tengku Azuan Tengku Mohamed from a pioneer cluster school, Kolej Tunku Kurshiah in Seremban, said that the time was right for a change.
“I support school-based assessment as the present system has led to too much stress and competition among parents, students and even school administrators.”
Thank you, oh dear esteemed principal, for seeing the big picture. I’m sure that you, too, felt victimized by the education system of your time, speaking from experience and eventually leading you to that belief. I personally have had enough of seeing our pitiful school children studying their asses off for that meaningless streak of A’s instead of really learning things about life and growing up.
I have posted this particular messenger status by a friend before, but I think there isn’t a more suitable time to quote it than now :D
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My line here is kinda random. But definitely before the tenants at my place moved in, I was alone enjoying the 100 – 150 kb/s on torrents as well. Now it’s as slow as rear end in the top hat now.
Now I’d get lucky if I ever reach 40 kb/s during the day. And the line tends to go down during mornings (which I don’t know what the gently caress TMNut is doing and I’m kinda pissed off because that time is the time my line is having the best downstream speeds), and my router logs kept reporting about DoS attacks on it.
P/S Psst, don’t think it’s appropriate to disclose someone else’s Y! details on the Net. At least blur it out, completely or partially. :P
Silences: Done.
Cyberia depends on the community load. Durring busy hours its not only slow (3-10k.sec) for international, but the latency can reach up to 2000-3000ms for resolution.
However things start to change drastically once it gets to the non busy period (somewhere around 11pm till 9am), this time, speeds are at peak. My unit’s mere 512k line can cough out 70k/sec peak. :D
Silencers: Community load, huh? Does each apartment block count as one community or the whole Cyberia? Funny you should say that 11pm-9am are non-busy hours, I thought students are most active at those hours, lol. Although I think it’s offpeak for the main pipeline that runs through Cyberjaya.