I have just about enough of frustration to start ranting about the sorry state of internet access in my college labs…! 
And I always thought that colleges and universities (elsewhere, definitely not most Malaysian colleges/universities) have one of the best internet connection with fibre OC3/12/48 kinda speed… after all, some of the better universities around the world actually housed some file mirrors for linux distros and others…
And what the fuck do I get from Inti’s network? A fucking saturated 2mbps line that’s shared among thousands of computers around the entire campus… nice eh? Especially in the college brochures to lure in new students that boasted internet access for campus and separate links for hostels…
Even the hostels have intermittent internet access only, marred by the speed of access, the frequent (daily basis) downtime and the overzealous web monitoring/filtering software that is deployed for the the hostel network… as though the water supply problem is not enough for the hostel dwellers…
Currently, just trying to get ICQ2Go to work is a mission impossible… then I tried to download Miranda-ICQ, an alternative client to run ICQ, at 400kb the file is taking more than 20mins to download…!!!!!!!!
Oh cmon, even my 28.8kbps dial-up line at home can download much faster than that!! Which comes to my next point… since the house I rent in Nilai is of a new housing area, the area is laid with fibre optic cables and I can’t get Streamyx bcoz of that…. keep trying to bug Terrorkom to change my line to the adjacent copper network (which is like only 50m away) but they never respond to my request seriously… got to know from Suan (Bee San’s twin sis) that Terrorkom is starting to deploy pizza boxes to equip FTTC exchanges with ADSL capabilities….. I just hope that she could really help me speed up the painfully slow process that Terrorkom goes around to deploying anything!
Okay rant’s over… gonna go to class now… haih….
