Yang Amat Berbahaya Rajan Seri always sulk about his lousy internet connexion in his markas tarbiyyah in Bukit Dukung, Kajang, which takes him an hour to get connected for just 5 minutes. On a bad day, perhaps when the hormone imbalance is acute, he drops from the line every 3 minutes.

Yes, we are talking about Telekom Malaysia TM Bhd’s TMnut Streamyx. The only affordable and receivable broadband service available for most of Malaysians, especially those outside those wireless internet coverages of Time Webbit, Jaring and Maxis.

However, not every TMnut subscriber is getting such a bad deal. I rarely experience such a bad flu for my connexion either, whether when I was using Starhub CableTV’s MaxOnline back then or my SingTel’s SingNet 512 kbps now.

This prompted me to find out the actual speed of my line. So I found a site, a fast server that gets very few hits. It’s SingSingapore, a site built by National Arts Council that stores past National Day theme songs in their music video archive.

You may wish to try to play one of their music video streaming. I just tried with Stefanie Sun’s We Will Get There of NDP 2003. The 256 k version gives satisfactory result, but the 500 k version had a lot of hiccups and laggings, eventhough the initial buffering was smooth. The Mandarin versions 一起走到’s 256 k version and 500 k version offered results that are similar to their respective counterparts. The stupid line is surely a major setback for this nice song. One of my makwe’s favorite.

Enjoy the line songs. Copyright of Ministry of Information, Communication and Arts. How does your line fare ?