Penang Watch

When the going ons in national politics get heated up the vital connection to get updates from the nation capital ie the internet is giving trouble. I have been experiencing trouble to keep the connection steady for the whole of last week -so finally I called a friend's computer shop to see if my modem is screwed up. I was told that I better complain to the help line. So I did-and the assistant on the other side want me to go through the trouble shooting routine of disconnecting the fax/phones sharing the phone line etc. I told her that it is strange that both my home and office line experience the problems simultaneously. And it is not a total disconnection -but on-off-on-off fickleness that gets on your nerve. After I complained about the senseless routine she agreed to file a report and gave me a report number. 

The next day a familiar Telekom guy came. He used his own computer and modem to test the line. When he encountered the same problems with his unblemished tools he disclosed that the migration of  internet lines to  Putrajaya  from KL caused the problem. All users in Penang suffer from it as well. It will take another week before the situation will return to normal. Now the truth is out: why didn't they come clean on it? When I called the help lines there are always all kind of announcements about service conditions-yet they miss out the big one hitting Penang. Why? Are they going to discount the 1-2 weeks of unsatisfactory service to the subscribers-afterall we pay the Telekom by the days? 

So I should put my paranoia to rest -they are not disturbing the internet to shut up internet and the vital info link to the world wide web -they are just exposing their incompetence to the whole world. They are going out of the way to substatiate Sharir Samad's contention that that BN government is not competent enough to hatch any conspiracy against anyone. Certainly not the country's millions of internet users. So : minimsie your internet use when its service is confirmed to be slow and unsteady.YOU ARE WARNED-even if Streamyx doesn't announced it in their public announcements. This is a public service announcement from Penang Watch.