P1's Wimax review

Yes, i did wake up VERY early this morning BUT not to watch football. I woke up long before it was time and i decided to check on my torrents, they were done again, YIPPIE! Refreshed livescore.com again and again and really forcing myself not to watch the Porto vs MU game as to not jinx the team. Seems like it worked and we are now in the semis to go against ARSEnal. Ok, enough with the crap talk, obviously this post is not about the game nor about me not being able to sleep again after knowing the result, not really because we have progressed but it really could not fall asleep again.

My sister have been giving it a go since the beginning of the week. To her, it was great because for her game when compared to being played using Streamyx was what gamers would call lag free. I guess she did use it alot since its her study week and she is just lingering at home and not really doing any studying.

So this morning i decided to give it a go, boot up of the router was similar to Streamyx, have to wait for quite a while before it is able to connect. I got a full bar signal (green light) in my room and that made me smile from ear to ear. So i was thinking, what and how do i test the connection? You can't torrent as the port is blocked. My mind was filled up with how we won so i tried to search for youtube but none have been uploaded, so i had to settle for the next best thing, the full time report. After i had my fill from my favourite football sites, my mind came back to my initial question, how to test Wimax?

Then i noticed that i had several files which i have not completed downloads from Megaupload and Rapidshare. Though excited i wasn't hoping much BUT boy was i wrong. I did the normal procedures of being a cheapskate and chose the non-premium aka free users and my downloads started. At first the symptoms of slow downloads was quite evident as the download was slow to start and i almost looked away in anticipation of disappointment but then at the corner of my eye, the download speed began to show and it surprised me to say the least, 100+kb sometimes but most of the time remains higher than 50kb ^_^

What amazed me even more was that right after a file finished i tried to continue my next file and therein my next surprise, i could do another download without having the warning of "you have downloaded so and so size therefore you cannot use our service for 'X' minutes more", this was for Megaupload and i only had 1 incident of waiting for 11 minutes before i was allowed to get the next file on Rapidshare. All in all, i got 5 files of 100mb in less than 2 hours WOW!

To my great delight, i now have another Korean movie to enjoice ^_^

The nice cube design with P1's logo.

Everything working fine with full bar signal

To my great despair, my testing time for Wimax is coming to an end, time for another friend to test it out before he considers signing up.

Food for thought on my test :

1) These speeds may only be achieveable in the wee hours of the morning? Yet to be tested during waking hours.
2) Seems to me the auto-update of IP for the router works great for leechers like me on sites like Megaupload and Rapidshare.
3) Although not perfect in packet sending but the almost lag free is really impressive.

I would like to thank my friend for allowing me to test out Wimax. For the time being, im giving it 1.5 thumbs up :p Yet to know what would happen is more and more users subscribe to its service.