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P1 wireless broadband, it’s damn slow!
11Dec2007 Filed under: Computing Author: Kitkat
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Yoyoyo, today is a public holiday, instead of resting at home or go patoh, I decided to test out the new kid in wireless broadband in Malaysia. It’s none other than P1 Broadband which I have signed up at the recent PC Fair in KLCC. Take about fast service, I received their password the next day. All good.
I am now at one of the dedicated hot zones in Bandar Puteri, Puchong for this purpose; Simply Penang. The other two dedicated hot zones are Hai Siang Kopitiam and Min Xian Restaurant. Check out the coverage map in Bandar Puteri below.
Simply Penang has a few power sockets which you can use for your laptop. The first socket I tried didn’t work out as the socket was I little loose. Luckily the friendly waitress… who by the way is pretty and quite a looker, helped me with another socket. For my whole 1 hour plus here, I totally enjoyed looking at her. Wahahaha…
I ordered myself a glass of ice blended chocolate… looks nice, tastes even better. Cool and refreshing. Ready to give the much hyped P1 a spin!
The P1HotZone ssid is detected without any problem at all. Although the wireless signal is damn low at 1 tiny bar only, I managed to connect to it effortlessly.
You do not need to provide any WEP to connect to the network because it’s unsecured. Different from the wireless network you use at home or in your office, eh? 
Make sure the IP address and DNS server settings are set to obtain automatically. This should apply to all free WIFI services such as those at Starbucks.
Once the above is done, fire up Firefox and it will automatically redirect to P1′s website for you to login. Ah… now that’s where we make use the username and password they sms to us!
Problem started here… the login page itself was very slow… and so did the login process. Took me more than 10 minutes to finally login. You thought after this it should be smooth sailing but no… the speed was so slow I couldn’t even load my blog even after I waited for 10 minutes! Damn!
Gave up after waiting patiently for 10-15 minutes. I don’t get it. How come the speed was so slow… remember, Simply Penang is one of the dedicated hot zones in Bandar Puteri. Could it be due to I was seated at the far end of the restaurant? But this is a dedicated hot zone!
In the end I have to switch to Simply Penang’s WIFI. Got the WEP from the pretty waitress. Their WIFI is so much better as it’s not only easier to connect, it’s lightning fast too. Now, in order for broadband providers like P1 to succeed, they really have to double up their services especially with more and more restaurants offering free WIFI these days!
p/s. P1 broadband, worry not. I will test out your broadband at some other hot zones and give good reviews at some other time.
keeyit
December 12th, 2007 at 9:11 am
Hahaha.. only enjoy looking at pretty la.. kekeke
lilian
December 12th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
For a while I thought you are reviewing the Sony Ericsson P1i. I have the phone and Celcom unlimited broadband. Speed also slow… but I can blog from anywhere! Nice lor. RM68 per month for Celcom. Haven’t try to use it as modem for my laptop yet.
Kitkat
December 12th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
keeyit,
My purpose was to test out P1 broadband, but at the same time enjoyed looking at her lor.
lilian,
I see. Is the Sony Ericsson P1i good? The HTC Cruise looks very tempting, but the price is too expensive for me. Touch screen, wifi, HSDPA, 3G, EDGE, GPRS, Windows Mobile 6, … Are you not getting one?
MerDuriaN
December 12th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
KitKat, you got an iPhone already~~ you still need to try P1 and HTC huh? @@
Kitkat
December 12th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
MerDuriaN,
That iPhone belongs to my colleague, I only owned it for 30 minutes.
Are you looking at HTC, O2 or maybe iPhone also?
Wing Loon
December 13th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
Kitkat, among all the Wireless AP you detected on your notebook, did you do a check on the Wireless Channel numbers for each of the Wireless AP? I suspect is a wireless interference.
Kitkat
December 14th, 2007 at 12:40 am
Wireless channel numbers? Nope, I didn’t… and I have never thought of that. Anyway, how do I check for the channel numbers?
Wing Loon
December 15th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
You must use your wireless client adapter’s software to check it. Or, you can use this cool product NetStumbler -> http://www.netstumbler.com/downloads
jam
February 27th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
i guess the wifi signal penetrate from the entrance. you should get good signal if you are situated at the front half of the premise.
boss
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Hey dude I am using p1 in ss15 area in my room which opposite sSubang square and it is damn FAST.
Seriously I can download a movie within a day =.= i think either your laptop sucks or connection that is too poor.
Zainul
April 18th, 2008 at 9:54 am
wow… thank god I found your website! I was thinking of buying it today! I hope that you can test it out at uptown, maybe at the coffee place. If the speed is good, please post it again in your blog! =)
James Bond 007
August 25th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Kitkat,
Are you using built in laptop wifi ? Or Wimax PC bus card or USB Wimax doggle ?
If you want to get throughput for wimax speed 2.4mbps, you need to hook up wimax devices and not the wifi…dude.
Study the techology before blah blah blah !
fred
February 17th, 2009 at 9:19 am
I used p1 for facebook, youtube and others online video. no buffering time like TM Nut. P1 very fast. I think this review is a bit outdated.
Here is some other review:
http://prasys.co.cc/2008/12/p1-wimax-review-part-two/
mryosh
September 14th, 2009 at 12:50 am
p1 wimax is slow for me.
my contract with streamyx is already over, so i sign up for p1 wimax promotion valid until 19/9/2009 and there is a 7 days trial period, which you can get yr money back within that 7 days. im definately asking for refund.
p1 wimax is okay if u just want to log in friendster, check emails and browse around the web. since im doing business online, uploading files and pictures in my webbies, uploading a product in my website that ganerally take seconds for streamxy, 25 minutes still havent upload yet with p1 wimax. cant get a single work done with p1 wimax. now utopia also still cannot login. i stay in tmn kinrara puchong and work in sunway. not some kampung far away.
quite disappointed, but im glad i havent cut my streamyx yet
so streamyx still better la wei . just my experience as customer.
lawrence
September 19th, 2009 at 4:36 am
yes i agree P1 is like snail hard to connect can’t even send files out of outlook. sad to know a new technology is worst than 56k modem days hey got a suggestion to P1 pls just close it down. i pay for few months sad i should have cancelled it is the worst i ever experience.
To P1 user pls cut off the service is more expensive than streamyx yet worst than it. all kena con. P1 is like a con job pls tell the reseller to pack up their booth and stop cheating consumers.
a truly disappointed user. and my complaints through email no response since near a month guess they just don’t know how to apply.
P1 sucks bad. going down the drain soon…
Ps. i can’t believe i take an hour to post this comment stupid P1
P1suks!
January 24th, 2010 at 3:04 am
P1 is the slowest in all test. Heck even at times HSDPA outperform it. 3 days out of 7 it would connect very very slowly. 1 day can’t connect at all despite FULL bar. How could they justify the dis-service we are getting?
Have you ever had to deal with the call centre? They take 24 hours to reconnect you. TWENTY FOUR HOURS! TM took 1 hour. Even paying by credit card which should be instantenous took 24 hour because of their Credit Control Department “is taking care of it” and have no knowledge whatsover on how they are processing it.
So you have redtapes where the Customer Dis-service department saying the CC department is processing the payment. Then reconnection by another department. Truth is I think they wanna wait for the money to be safely credited in their pocket by the bank before doing anything.
Yeah right Micheal Lai, P1 sucks! I hope YTL/HSBB can beat P1 to a pulp and see you wipe that silly grin off your face.
Alex Leow
January 29th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
I am very pissed off with P1.
In August I signed up for P1 Wimax. I test runned it and within the week I found that it is not suitable for my purpose. I signed the cancellation document and told them to write the cheque to my wife or company because I do not have a bank account to deposit the refund cheque. Despite the cancellation procedure, I still get billed. I wrote back after a few billings to tell them off them up regarding their inefficiency.
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syyyy
June 25th, 2010 at 10:18 am
P 1 so sLOW ..can not be woking 5kbs/scon …lag so much