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Moving house

bobbobagan — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:21:47 +0800

Later this year my household is moving from Selangor to Sabah (KK). We are looking for a moving company that can move some of our stuff (car, computers, dining table).

We don't need a lot of stuff moved, but what we do want moved is quite large in size. Most of our stuff will stay in the house bcoz we are renting it out fully furnished.

Anyone have any experience with moving companies? Who is good? Who should we avoid?

Game Servers about to become a whole lot cheaper

bobbobagan — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:44:56 +0800

If the new picture displayed on Hypernia's website is anything to go by, it looks like owning a game server in Singapore or Malaysia is about to become a lot cheaper.

I already own a few (7 CS:S - 2 TF2) game servers hosted by Hypernia, but all are hosted in Sydney. How ever today when I logged onto the Hypernia website to log a new ticket with them, I noticed a new world map (see below) they are displaying showing about 10 new hosting locations for game servers, including China, Japan, Amsterdam and of course Malaysia and Singapore.

With current providers in Singapore, slots can cost SGD$4-$5 per slot, Hypernia (which uses USD) slots would be about SGD$2 / RM4.70 per slot (depending on the exchange rate). This assumes prices will stay the same no matter where you decide to host, in the past this is how it has been.

The only downsides to Hypernia hosting:
- The only method of payment requires a credit card or paypal (not sure which methods SG hosters accept)
- You have to pay in USD
- There are no discounts given out for hosting many servers with them (no clan sponsorships, which some SG hosters offer)
- While you do get FTP, you can not upload .dll files... all custom plugins need to be approved by the Hypernia technical team and are made avaliable under the game CP if allowed to be installed. This is a kind of dumb thing I think, but they always approve all popular plugins like Mani-Admin, SourceMod etc...

You get to choose from hundreds of game servers with Hypernia which is one thing I like about them. And all EA game servers hosted by them are ranked servers, free of charge.

Anyway, I am not trying to advertise... I am just very excited to see cheaper game servers about to be made available to everybody living in Singapore and Malaysia! Yay!

Does anybody else host game servers in Singapore or any other parts of the world? Would you consider changing providers if its going to be cheaper?

I have looked at the order page for Hypernia, and Singapore or Malaysia (in fact none of the new locations are listed yet) aren't listed. So I think they will be coming soon. I am certainly going to keep an eye out.

Business broadband in Cyberjaya

bobbobagan — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:57:31 +0800

Hey all,

I was hoping some of you would be able to help me out. I am looking at setting up a small business in Cyberjaya, and will be needing an ISP that offers decent speeds. I know Streamyx is in Cyberjaya, but I am not sure if there are any others... Since this is the "technology super-highway" I thought there would have been more selection?

Are you able to get more than 2.0mbps plans for businesses with any ISPs? If I need more, would it be better if I phoned the ISP?

Does anybody know of any other ISPs in Cyberjaya? It seems very strange to me that you can buy a 4.0mbps package for home, but they only offer 2.0mbps for businesses, where there is likely to be more computers connected...

I've found CityBroadband which only offer internet services in Cyberjaya, has anybody had any experience with them? At least they offer a 4.0mbps package.
http://www.citybroadband.net.my/packages.htm

I have searched the forums already, but the latest topic was from like 2007 or something lol.

Thanks for your help anyway!

Bobbobagan

Jaring any better?

bobbobagan — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:14:48 +0800

Hey guys,

I am using Screamyx... as most of you probably are also... When I was setting up my new WAG160N modem/router I noticed it had an option for setting up a Streamyx or Jaring connection.

I was just wondering if anybody else has had any experience with Jaring, and is it any better then Streamyx. I think I read somewhere on here a few weeks ago that Jaring uses Streamyx equipment or something?

If people tell me that Jaring is better than Streamyx I think I might change ISP, because I have only been with Streamyx for less than 1 month and I am already sick of the speeds that I am getting.

bobbobagan

High pings to Singapore game servers

bobbobagan — Sat, 30 May 2009 19:39:38 +0800

Hi all,

I was just playing Team Fortress 2 and I was getting like 250 MS pings to Singapore servers. I live in KL (Cyberjaya) and my ISP is Citybroadband (but my father said something abot Streamyx) I think.

This is really unusual... My ping should be like 50-60MS. I was asking some of the other players and they said that "Streamyx is bad" and that some other people they knew had similar connection problems and told me to ask around to see if anybody knew of any fixes for this problem.

I get about a 60KB/s download and upload speed (because I live in a condo). My router is WRT54G

Does anybody know how I can bring my ping down?

Regards,

Bobbobagan