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Hyundai Elantra 2015 or Toyota Camry 2.4V 2010?

chungf1 — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 17:43:47 +0800

New Hyundai Elantra F/Lift 2015 or second hand Toyota Camry 2.4V F/Lift 2010 both are almost same price.

Just want to hear all cars sifu here give best advice which better. Thanks in advance.

Facebook co-founder Saverin renounces citizenship

chungf1 — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:51:09 +0800

Why not Malaisia our country so bad meh.

tomato sos

SingTel admits its wireless is slow, vows changes

chungf1 — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:42:24 +0800

(Reuters) - Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, Southeast Asia's biggest telecoms firm, on Thursday acknowledged mobile Internet speeds in the city-state are slow and said it is introducing plans that offer more reliable connections.

Despite being a major Asian business centre with a tech-savvy image, Singapore is among the countries with the slowest mobile Internet speeds, according to checks by Google (GOOG.O).

Using a mobile device, a typical page takes an average of 12 seconds to load in Singapore, Google data shows.

That is far slower than the 4.6 to 6 seconds in Hong Kong and South Korea. Singapore's mobile data speeds even lag Vietnam but are faster than Malaysia and Indonesia.

SingTel (STEL.SI), the biggest of three mobile providers in Singapore with just under 50 percent of the market, said it has addressed the problem by offering higher-end plans - for a price - that promise narrower fluctuations in data speed.

More plans will become available as it rolls out its fourth-generation or 4G network. SingTel has also stopped offering unlimited download mobile plans to reduce network congestion.

"We've done a lot of research and surveys in that area and we're very confident that as we start to give a better quality network and less variations in terms of speed, customers will value that a lot more," Allen Lew, chief executive of the Group Digital Life unit, said at a media briefing.

But James Sullivan, head of Asia telecom research at J.P. Morgan, said improving the network will only partially address the problem in Singapore as the biggest bottleneck for users involves accessing content that is hosted overseas.

Mobile Internet speeds on wireless packages apply only to locally hosted content.

"Seventy percent of content Singapore users access is offshore - some people would put it at 90 percent - and that is equivalent to an eight-lane highway leading onto a one-lane highway," Sullivan said.

Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority, the industry regulator, said last month it was speeding up the roll-out of its 4G networks. Part of the plan includes reclaiming the spectrum in the 1.8 gigahertz band now used by second-generation mobile services.

SingTel now offers "Priority Pass" services that start at S$40 per month, which is about a third higher than its basic mobile data plan, according to its website. Such services give priority access when there are many users in the vicinity.

SingTel and rival M1 (MONE.SI) offer 4G services in Singapore, with coverage limited to the central business district and several other high-use areas. StarHub (STAR.SI), the third provider, plans to launch 4G services later this year.

Singapore slowpoke our Marehsia already launch P1 Wimax 4G since when ahh.

Google liported Malaysia ternet speed in top 10

chungf1 — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:15:50 +0800

Internet search giant, Google, has just confirmed what most Malaysians have suspected for the longest time - our Internet speed really does suck.
Malaysia was listed among the slowest countries in the world for loading Web pages on desktop computers as well as mobile computers, according to a study by Google.

Malaysia, with an average Web page loading speed on desktops of 14.3 seconds, was named the world’s fifth slowest, even more plodding than the connection speeds of nations like Colombia, Argentina and Peru.

The only countries that performed worse, according to a Bloomberg report which cited Google's study, were Venezuela and India as well as Asean neighbours Philippines and Indonesia, which came out rock bottom.

The country deemed to have the fastest loading speed was a surprise. Averaging a blazing fast 3.3 seconds, the Slovak Republic outraced developed nations like South Korea (3.5 secs), Netherlands (3.9 secs), Japan (4 secs) and Denmark (4.3 secs).

However, the Koreans still set the best time in loading Web pages using mobile devices with an average loading time of only 4.8 seconds.

However, if phone browsing is your thing, stay out of the United Arab Emirates, where it takes a glacial 26.7 seconds to load an Internet page.In the category of the 10 slowest countries for mobile web page loading, Malaysia was the best of the worst, with a loading time of 12.7 seconds.

Here’s the complete list of the top and bottom 10 countries both in desktop and mobile speeds for loading Web pages according to Google:

Top 10 in Desktop Speeds (in seconds)
Slovak Republic (3.3)
South Korea (3.5)
Czech Republic (3.7)
Netherlands (3.9)
Japan (4)
Denmark (4.3)
Switzerland (4.3)
Sweden (4.5)
Belgium (4.6)
Norway (4.8)

Bottom 10 in Desktop Speeds (in seconds)
Chile (10)
Colombia (10.2)
Peru (11.7)
Brazil (11.8)
Argentina (12.8)
Malaysia (14.3)
Venezuela (14.9)
India (15.1)
Philippines (15.4)
Indonesia (20.3)

Top 10 in Mobile Speeds (in seconds)
South Korea (4.8)
Denmark (5.2)
Hong Kong (5.9)
Norway (6)
Sweden (6.1)
Estonia (6.2)
Czech Republic (6.3)
Japan (6.4)
Romania (7.5)
Slovak Republic (7.6)

Bottom 10 in Mobile Speeds (in seconds)
Malaysia (12.7)
Indonesia (12.9)
Singapore (12.9)
Mexico (14.1)
Brazil (15.8)
Argentina (16.3)
India (16.4)
Thailand (17.4)
Saudi Arabia (21.2)
United Arab Emirates (26.7)

The report noted that the United States was somewhere in the middle. “On the desktop, it took an average of 5.7 seconds. On a mobile device it took 9.2 seconds to load, which for many folks here, feels like an eternity,” it said.

However, before you begin looking up immigration options, consider this. According to the Bloomberg report, Google measured Web page load speeds on desktop computers and mobile devices in 50 countries with the fastest Internet connections.

So, it's probably fairer to say that Malaysia isn't slow, but merely among the less fast.

sos tomato: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/malaysia-among-th...tion-speed.html