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The 4Mbps Streamyx has been up and running at my Penang home since yesterday. Fingers crossed.
It costs me RM160 per month.

I have also made redundancy redundant.

Finally, I have to retire my first-generation, 16-month old Maxis HSDPA broadband account, a saving of RM138 per month. My locus standi to complain against Maxis is now limited to voice account. (I am returning the personal signal repeater soon. It enhances the signal quality, but I was always hit by Error 619 -- Authentication failure.)

With that, I am also retiring my 15-month old Celcom HSDPA broadband account, a further saving of RM98 per month. My locus standi to complain against Celcom is now limited to the Blackberry account (from which I mobile Twitter), still paying RM128 per month.

DiGi Wireless Broadband (read: Likely Average Speed of 700kbps, but I do get 1.4 to 1.8Mbps in Penang) will now have to carry out the mission critical and always-on tasks whenever I travel as a road warrior. A further commitment of RM108.00 per month.

Current Internet subscriptions: RM268.00

Terminated Internet subscriptions: RM236.00

Net additional Internet costs: RM32.00, for a reasonable enhancement of Internet speed for fixed/Home WiFi and mobile wireless broadband. That's excluding the eat-all-you-can Celcom/Vodafone Blackberry package.

Yeah, freedom to information does come with a cost.

I hope to switch to the 4Mbps Streamyx package for my Subang Jaya home, soon. It's only 1Mbps right now.