SITEX 2009

I remember that i bought my MSI Wind in the previous SITEX. This year i went ahead to sign up for a new broadband plan. No more Starhub for me. I got sick of the shared broadband concept, read crowded access in my residential broadband. Every night without fail, i will scan and manage to detect at least 20 SSIDs out of which 2/3 are of the big fat green pipe. Whatever fat pipe also become chocked with traffic i guess.

Why not join the Reds? No thanks. Well to be honest i had no major problems when i was with them initially for their broadband (ADSL). But i am alittle peeved and annoyed with their Mio package. Sure you got many things for the price but nah. I just need a good fixed broadband.

In the meanwhile, i was contemplating on the decision to acquire a mobile broadband solution. A postpaid one was unsavoury but the prepaid alternative was plain dumb in my opinion. You accrue monetary values into your account which then unlocks the plan. Sounds reasonable. However the timing goes by the clock not by duration of usage. In other words, you pay to unlock 3 days worth of usage and not 72 hours of actual usage. Whoever stays up 72 hours in a stretch to fully utilise the internet?? Are you a server? If you are maybe you would but i am not. Bummer

On another note, my mummy was talking about getting a netbook for my sis in Korea. Sure she has a notebook, a Toshiba Satellite M300 but it is almost like a desktop replacement which means that it is virtually a PiTA to lug around. Probably a netbook will come in handy. For those of you thinking of a Macbook Air, i think you either are a badge whore or have too much money to burn.

So yala i chanced upon this broadband advert in HWZ and thought the pricing was excellent and went well with my intentions.

Hmmm so if you have followed what i wrote, you will understand that i am referring to the home broadband @ 8Mbps + mobile broadband @ 1Mbps which was going at $58.01/ month.

Sweet!

Oh i drove to SITEX and found a more reasonably priced carpark @ IBM which charges by the minute and is rated at $0.50/ half hour which is essentially the same rate as HDB carparks. Well anything is better than the puny carpark which charges exorbitant rates in Expo.

I bought a keyboard protector for my Wind too but i wonder whether it was expensive at $14. Hmmmm.

Almost forgot, just some background info. Apparently m1 is a reseller of bandwidth. It buys bandwidth in bulk (and cheaply obviously) froom both Singnet and Starhub. If you are going for the 8Mbps or anything lower than that, you are essentially going for an ADSL solution i.e. Singnet. Heavier plans utilises Starhub cable network.