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224 Mbps for $1.58 a Month!

computerworld.com.my — “This project will offer 60 million users unlimited high speed Internet connection of 224Mbps (megabits per second) at a cost of only around RM5 (US$1.58) per user per month, which is the fastest and cheapest in the world, ” he said. BPL modems use existing electrical power lines to deliver high speed Internet access and data transmission.

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  • jp12380, on 04/04/2008, -32/+72What a ripoff!
    • Me1000, on 04/04/2008, -15/+1[/sarcasm]
      ??
      • elfprince13, on 04/04/2008, -1/+16did you really have to ask that?
        • jp12380, on 04/04/2008, -1/+14LOL, I thought the folks at digg appreciated sarcasm but I guess not.
    • CIAVT, on 04/04/2008, -2/+12Maybe in 20 years it will be considered as such.
      • santa7, on 04/05/2008, -0/+7Have phone bills got any less ridiculus?
        • sl123000, on 04/05/2008, -1/+2Yes, it's called VOIP, and um... I pay 10 dollars a month for it from my cable company.
          • gameforge, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1No he means the phones that keep working even when both the Internet and power go out, while not requiring an Internet connection to begin with.

            Cell phones may have been a better argument, though still not quite a replacement for POTS lines (not that I like POTS...)
    • rlbond86, on 04/05/2008, -3/+21I like how nobody on digg understands sarcasm. I would digg you up 100 times if I could.
      • jp12380, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1You will probably never see this but thanks. Yeah I tend to notice the people on digg don't understand sarcasm even if it is obvious to me.
    • linagee, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1Is that 224Mbps per user, or 224Mbps total backbone bandwidth?
  • OmegaNine, on 04/04/2008, -2/+183In my wildest dreams. Are we sure this isn't a bad April Fools that came late?
    • AlexFinn, on 04/04/2008, -1/+9Wow .. I'd hate to see one of your less wild dreams, i hope it would come with some nice euthanasia !
      • trogdor282, on 04/04/2008, -0/+25In the dream he's downloading Backdoor Sluts 9.
    • addiktion, on 04/05/2008, -2/+9I'm drooling. I'd like for once not to have a bottleneck on my end of the system. After all my 1,000 GB ethernet card should be maxed out by now :/
      • HonoredMule, on 04/05/2008, -0/+29Hey, when did nearly-terrabyte ethernet come out? I thought we had only recently gotten gigabit ethernet.
    • gregmo, on 04/05/2008, -0/+3Updated: Mar 28, 2008 10:45 AM
      KUALA LUMPUR, 27 MARCH 2008

      Technically it would've come early
    • Nudar, on 04/05/2008, -1/+12The trick is that all 60 million users are sharing the same 224 Mbps connection.
  • KnifeOrSpoon, on 04/04/2008, -0/+48nope, there is a trial for this in Tasmania at the moment =) It is quite fast apparently
    • spanglegluppet, on 04/04/2008, -0/+16What? I'm Tasmanian. Give me details about this. Now. Telstra sucks.
      • garionw, on 04/05/2008, -0/+5I'ts really expensive though
        http://www.tastel.com.au/
        • spanglegluppet, on 04/05/2008, -0/+3Ah. Thanks for the link. It actually seems pretty much about the same value as the Bigpond plans.
        • secondwheel2, on 04/05/2008, -0/+3Dude for australian, that is freaken cheap. Im paying $60AU (aprox $66US) for 1,5mbps and 20gb dl
          • otatop, on 04/05/2008, -0/+4$60AU is $55US.
          • Smills, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1I am paying $150AU (~$140US) per month for 120gb download limit and 8mbps ADSL and my companies logo is goatse... I really feel like I am being screwed there but I can't find a better deal.
        • Daniel15, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1secondwheel2... I get 50 GB (30 GB peak, 20 GB offpeak) at ADSL2+ speeds (up to 24 Mb/s) for AU$60 per month, with TPG :)
  • advertboy2007, on 04/04/2008, -2/+41is this for real?
    • heypetray, on 04/04/2008, -0/+10f'real.
    • Coded1, on 04/04/2008, -2/+5It's Derek Foreal
    • mirzmaster, on 04/05/2008, -1/+7Oh God, let it be real... and coming to Canada soon. I NEED an alternative to Rogers and Bell!
      • funzo, on 04/05/2008, -2/+1I'm actually not being throttled with Bell
      • Spuy767, on 04/05/2008, -0/+2I assure you. The big telcos will ensure that such fast cheap technologies are denied us and put us even further behind the tech curve.
    • impedance101, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1I'm glad for this but what will become of wifi then?
      • polywaffle, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1what do you mean? its not going anywhere. its wireless. this is wired.
      • impedance101, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1I meant that wifi will operate at 56/108kbps, (ie the max. speed of the network card).
        If wired is so much better then wifi market will plunge like a torpedoed submarine.
  • kupa, on 04/04/2008, -4/+144oh come on! now Malaysia has better isps then we do, wtf. verizon, please deliver fios unto thee soon :(
    • jingwei, on 04/04/2008, -0/+20“This project will offer 60 million users unlimited high speed Internet connection of 224Mbps (megabits per second) at a cost of only around RM5 (US$1.58) per user per month, which is the fastest and cheapest in the world,” he said.

      I'm just too skeptical. It's like he's saying 224mbs is shared among 60 million users at RM5 a month.

      I remain skeptical until I try it.
    • PlutoPrime, on 04/04/2008, -17/+2FIOS rocks... downloading porn has never been so fast... 2 mega Bytes a second downloads is like 1080p streamed easy... think hair follicles of the cooch kinda detail
    • bingobongony, on 04/05/2008, -16/+5Check hte population densities to see WHY they are able to do this and the US is not. It would make ZERO sense for an ISP to lay the infrastructure to do this when a VERY tiny percentage of users don't give a ***** about speeds beyond what they are already getting.
      • PlutoPrime, on 04/05/2008, -0/+8I think you meant.. a very tiny percentage of users DO give a *****.
      • theaceoffire, on 04/05/2008, -0/+14How come even our biggest cities can't even get consistent, fast coverage?
        How can Canada, which is even LESS dense population wise than us, be faster, cheaper, and with more options?
        There is more going on than just the number of people per square mile my friend.
        • Furkle, on 04/05/2008, -0/+3faster and cheaper maybe but the traffic shaping is so severe it's basically irrelevant.
        • bingobongony, on 04/05/2008, -6/+1Ahhh...the Canada weak argument. Go up to the northern part of Canada and get back to me on their speeds nad cost. Almost ALL of Canada's population resides in about 5% of the land mass of the country. THAT is where they get faster speeds.

          Nice try though. But again, being simple minded is not a good way to go through life.
          • Light11, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1A lot yes but not "almost all".
          • bingobongony, on 04/05/2008, -1/+1Yeah...almost all. Maybe not quite just 5% of hte land mass, but definitely within 10%.

            And the point is that using Canada as your example of a sparsely populated country with better broadband is ridiculous. The areas that have better broadband in Canada are MUCH more densely populated than the US. You go north of the densely populated area and Canada's broadbandis non-existent.
          • kfedZ, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Bingobongony_Trolls_all_ ...
            The people who leave personal attacks against the B are people who have LOST arguments with Bingo - he is a brillant intelect
      • rolf, on 04/05/2008, -7/+3640k ought to be enough for anyone. (640k down that is.)
        • grimward, on 04/05/2008, -2/+2Nice gatesing there , dugg!
        • bingobongony, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1According to Whom? (Hint...not Bill Gates, who never said that.)
      • ThreeDee912, on 04/05/2008, -0/+2STOP FEEDING THE TROLL.
        http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Bingobongony_Trolls_all_ ...
      • djbon2112, on 04/05/2008, -0/+2How about major cities which barely have decent cable speeds? You're argument doesn't hold water when cities like New York and Los Angeles can't even get decent coverage.

        And no one is arguing for laying FIOS in rural South Dakota. They're arguing for it in POPULOUS CITIES and areas.
      • Dwebtron, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1*sigh*

        you again?
    • RyeBrye, on 04/05/2008, -2/+5"thee" is old-time english for "You" - which means you are asking Verizon to deliver FIOS to themselves soon.
    • MasterThief117, on 04/05/2008, -1/+17THEY'RE CHARGIN' MALAYSIA great prices for Internet.
    • foofightrs777, on 04/05/2008, -2/+2That's what you get when you spend all your time building other nations instead of your own; the infrastructure stagnates and deteriorates.
      • spuddly, on 04/05/2008, -0/+2"building" other nations?
        haha good one
    • seanc6610, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1i guess one of the perks of living in a huge city is the FiOS. it's pretty ***** awesome, i can't wait to get 20/20.
    • flyzzx, on 04/05/2008, -0/+3I'm from Malaysia. I knew it sounded too good to be true.

      FTA: "Velchip Sdn Bhd has formalised three major partnership arrangements in Kuala Lumpur to advance its major broadband powerline (BPL) project for 60 million users in Indonesia."

      From the look of it, the agreement is SIGNED IN MALAYSIA but the services will be made available to the INDONESIANS.

      Broadband internet access in Malaysia is under the monopoly of TMNet, a subsidiary of Telekom Malaysia, due to the fact that there is no local loop unbundling. You can pretty much get the picture of how bad it can be when there are little competitions between ISPs in the broadband internet market.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Malaysia

      Even if they DO provide a 224Mbps connection, they will probably throttle P2P and Bit-torrent traffics like they currently do :(

      ***** the TMNet.
  • Lucas123, on 04/04/2008, -0/+63Where do I sign?
    • dsn0wman, on 04/04/2008, -13/+5At the closest Indonesian Masque.
    • alfitzhugh, on 04/05/2008, -0/+3Check your local power company. I signed up several years ago to beta test if they ever decide to implement this technology. Actually had forgotten all about it, need to call them...
  • Simonft, on 04/04/2008, -7/+47$1.58 is a lot more in Malaysia, but still...
    • Gusbob, on 04/04/2008, -5/+10Not really, with the massive inflation going on...
    • gottadiggit, on 04/05/2008, -0/+3At the current exchange rate, if this is how they are pricing it, it would equal $5.04. I think that's doable for me.
    • 0xception, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1As gottadiggit stated it's not...
      hell i've got that much RM sitting in a jar left over from my last trip to KL.
    • Batiu-Drami, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1Uh, no it's not. Malaysia isn't a third world country or anything. Average GDP per capita (I couldn't find avg wage stats in 5 mins of Googling, so GDP'll do) is around one third of that in the US so this is the equivalent of $4.50 per month, assuming equal income distribution (which isn't the case in either country, but I'd say it's more uneven in the US).
  • caramba420, on 04/04/2008, -25/+240For what we've spent in Iraq, we could have gig-e to the curb of every house in America. I guess blowing up brown people on the other side of the world was more important. Glad to see we have our priorities straight.
    • JMSantos, on 04/04/2008, -9/+69If I were to make a list of "Top 20" things the US could do with the money spent in Iraq, providing high speed internet for everyone wouldn't make the cut.
      • H0tKarl, on 04/04/2008, -5/+32I'd put it at about #8.
      • m0tbaillie, on 04/05/2008, -2/+15Considering the fact that the US - one of the most developed nations in the world - only falls in the middle of the road in terms of our overall country-wide broadband penetration, I'd say it most definitely should be a priority.
      • DigDugDigger, on 04/05/2008, -1/+16"If I were to make a list of "Top 20" things the US could do with the money spent in Iraq..."

        I'd digg the story. Plz don't use Wordpress, though.
        • grimward, on 04/05/2008, -1/+6I would also digg said story, I'm amazed that the american nation has spent so much money accomplishing some mission.. which isn't accomplished, whose parametres are lost and whose purpose was dubious to begin with.
      • caramba420, on 04/06/2008, -0/+0We also could have stacked pennies all the way from the sun to Pluto
    • bingobongony, on 04/05/2008, -11/+3Great...except that 99% of Americans don't give a ***** about this.
      • theaceoffire, on 04/05/2008, -3/+5Sad, but true. But I don't want to wait until every grandparent knows what a computer is to have good, reliable, secure and fair internet access.
        • bingobongony, on 04/05/2008, -6/+1Holy *****...are you actually under hte impression that the only people who don't want (or need) more than the current 5-6 Meg down speeds are old people who don't know any better?

          MOST people don't want it. Because they HAVE LIVES! I hate to break this to you, but your life is SAD if you spend more than an hour online every day, outside of any work. THAT is why most people don't want it.
          • arcticblue, on 04/05/2008, -0/+9"I hate to break this to you, but your life is SAD if you spend more than an hour online every day, outside of any work. THAT is why most people don't want it."

            I'm assuming you live in the states and if that's true, you're sitting at home on a Friday night telling people on Digg they have a sad life. Wow...

            I honestly didn't know how big of a troll you are until I saw this: http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Bingobongony_Trolls_all_ ... . You seriously have problems.
          • jcm267, on 04/05/2008, -0/+8I have to say, that is some projection on bingo's part. This guy spends more time on digg than I do!
          • robschraer, on 04/05/2008, -0/+5But bingo think about it with those kinda speeds you could spread your message of hate even fast and i know how happy that makes you.
          • bingobongony, on 04/05/2008, -5/+1I love how arcticblue thinks that using some ***** site as proof oif something somehow validates his sorry ass life.
            I love how you all think that I ***** care about what any ofyou thnk. You are hte people who ate lunch in the bathroom in high school. The ones who stay at home all night on a Saturday. One who piss their pants when a girl comes around. Ones who NO ONEW will care if you died.
          • kfedZ, on 04/06/2008, -2/+3http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Bingobongony_Trolls_all_ ...
            The people who leave personal attacks against the B are people who have LOST arguments with Bingo - he is a brillant intelect
          • arcticblue, on 04/06/2008, -0/+4Well Bingo, by YOUR OWN logic, you have a sad life. I don't need any site to prove that since you said it yourself. If you don't care what any of us think, then why do you keep coming back? Why do you comment at all?
    • m0tbaillie, on 04/05/2008, -0/+5Sorry, not trying to link spam, but here's a link to a graph (+ source) that backs up my previous statement.
      http://img.waffleimages.com/16a3bcdb834e2f58100943 ...
    • gooberguy, on 04/05/2008, -6/+2i hate the war as much as the next guy, but I'm surprised you could take an internet topic and relate it to the war.
    • birdmanrush, on 04/05/2008, -9/+1Seriously? You libs need to stop with all the unwarranted hate on Bush, Republicans, etc. This article is about high speed Internet and you all still mention the standard " I hate Bush. America sucks." Get the ***** over it.
      • otakushark, on 04/05/2008, -1/+5" I hate Bush. America sucks."

        Well, you're half right.
      • michaelz92, on 04/05/2008, -5/+1why is this guy getting buried? he's right, digg brings politics into ***** everything. probably 80% of the front page stories are politically related now, even though this site started out with the intention of being a tech/cool news site.
        • rhoffer21, on 04/05/2008, -0/+4Politics are everything, especially in wartime. Dont like it? Kill yourself.
      • BeavisMcSleavis, on 04/05/2008, -0/+2Get off my Internets!
      • caramba420, on 04/06/2008, -0/+0Right, let's just all ignore the trillion dollar elephant in the room, shall we?
    • DiogenesJr, on 04/05/2008, -2/+5Really man...Do they kick you out of the club if you don't say something smarmy and insipid about the war so many times a day? Yes, there is a war on. No it has nothing to do with the story at hand. Saying such things under a topic that is so far removed from the war does not make you insightful or enlightened. It makes you look like a douche.
      • BeavisMcSleavis, on 04/05/2008, -1/+2Our countries money spent on a war, that is ruining the dollar and putting us in debt, has everything to do with this story. If you don't understand the connection you have issues. What if we spent those Billions of dollars on Healthcare, Medicare, Education, Homeland Security, Homelessness, Hunger, and maybe national Broadband infrastructure for everyone, and maybe computers for everyone who can't afford them? I don't know how much of that money it would cost to fund any of those projects but I think you get the idea!
        Thanks for playing.
      • caramba420, on 04/06/2008, -0/+0When the war comes with a price tag that is roughly 1/14 of our annual GDP, it's impossible to ignore. It is interrelated with ANY social concern that there is a monetary solution to.
        btw everyone knows douche bags get more pussy.
    • poopz, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1or we could have built hundreds of schools or fixed all the bridges in the country or something like that. then again.... I guess internets is more important
    • michaelz92, on 04/05/2008, -1/+2What? you act is if high speed internet is top priority
      • caramba420, on 04/06/2008, -0/+0It should be a top priority. Information exchange is the underpinning of the new economy. If we cannot compete with the rest of the world in this area, we are going to get left by the wayside.
    • dusanmal, on 04/05/2008, -1/+1Actually, Govt. HAVE spent a lot of our money (I know NY amount for Verizon: 200 Million!) for the exact purpose of bringing 200MBps Internet to all of our doors, despite Iraq & Co. What did the ISPs do? Spent the money as they see fit without providing what they promissed for the money. Exact example why Govt. can't do things properly. No rumors of anyone asking for the money back from the ISPs...
      • webtweakers, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1Source?
      • caramba420, on 04/06/2008, -0/+0So the private sector businesses squander the money, and that's an argument FOR laissez faire?
    • xtremdav45, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1Yes, the govt. could have done that for the money that was spent in Iraq.

      But they wouldnt have. So there isnt any reason to bring it up.
      • caramba420, on 04/06/2008, -0/+0But I did bring it up. So according to your logic, there's really no reason for you to post.
  • nightmare1228, on 04/04/2008, -8/+3Anybody have a mirror?
    • insanebrain, on 04/05/2008, -3/+11yes. . but .. do you want see your own image ?
      • gameforge, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1What if he wants to see behind him and to the left? Is that a problem for you & your "mirror"?
  • BarryChuckle, on 04/04/2008, -0/+21wow, with the current US exchange rate, That's a steal!
  • chingy1788, on 04/04/2008, -7/+5Whens this getting to Australia?
    I don't really care about speed right now (as getting 10Mbps is already not easy, limited by the server side and all the routers and what not the packets travel through)
    I just want unlimited High Speed Internet, High speed as in 10Mbps
    • IanPR, on 04/05/2008, -0/+3Residential High speed is typically 5mbps.
      And the bandwidth is usually limited by the line.
      • Ramzy, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1What are you talking about?

        ADSL2+ from TPG is $70 per month, 150GB limit (110 off peak), with speeds up to 24MBits. My router is currently connected at 21MBits. I download at about 2MBps.
        • IanPR, on 04/07/2008, -0/+1I work at an ISP for a medium sized city.. we don't really have that much fibre or high speeds lines in the area.
  • pwnies, on 04/04/2008, -2/+142If you need me, I'll be crying in the corner whilst paying my $55/month bill for 2Mbps downstream. Call me when the US has better internets.
    • movd, on 04/04/2008, -0/+13same with me in germany! down the street they get 16mbps but i still only get 2mbps ....
      • andrew522, on 04/05/2008, -0/+2maybe that is 16mbps and 2Mbps... because that is essentially the same thing.
        if not, my mistake
        • iofthestorm, on 04/05/2008, -0/+2err, to be properly pedantic it would be 16Mbps or 2MBps, or even 2MiBps to be completely unambiguous and look like a complete nerd at the same time.
    • zgf2022, on 04/05/2008, -0/+9try $65 for 768k down. that should cheer you up. (Rural east texas)
      • nekochan, on 04/05/2008, -0/+2god DAMN IT, i'm getting that in ***** MADISON, WI. why is a STATE CAPITAL getting RURAL SPEEDS.
    • aussieNickuss, on 04/05/2008, -0/+17$99/month for 1.5Mbit here. Count yourself lucky!!!
    • benplaut, on 04/05/2008, -0/+39$11/hour to pay a sherpa to hand carry 5.25" floppys to the ISP and back. Kids these days!
      • Lutremi, on 04/05/2008, -1/+7ISP? I create my own internet and still have to pay for it.
      • iofthestorm, on 04/05/2008, -0/+3Comment of the thread.
    • garionw, on 04/05/2008, -0/+6or $70 for 1.5Mbps with 20gb of Bandwidth
    • Dantetheinferno, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1512k down for 50$ a month
    • likwidfuzion, on 04/05/2008, -0/+4I'm still paying for 9600 baud.
    • emanpa68, on 04/05/2008, -1/+215mb down for $29.00 with optimum tripleplay... because in my location we have competition with cable companies so we all really win big
      • dhl07, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1And where would this utopia that you live in be???
    • Aerandir, on 04/05/2008, -0/+2*****, that prices are outrageous!! I'm Paying 10 bucks for my good 'ol 1.5 Mbps no caps. In SoCal, the internets (and the Ho's) are cheap.
    • ThreeDee912, on 04/05/2008, -0/+11MBps @ $60 a month

      Only good thing is that there are no bandwidth caps.
    • kubedawg, on 04/05/2008, -0/+115Mbps down for $55 a month with Cox isn't bad by any means, but that blows it out of the water.
      • andrew522, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1yeah, I have 15Mbps for $55 as well but through roadrunner. but this is also the Time Warner-free Roadrunner because it is through Insight Cable!
    • rahulkolasseri, on 04/05/2008, -0/+2Here in Singapore we get 100Mbps for s$100
  • bernandoo, on 04/04/2008, -10/+2internets in the mosques? surely there will be protests.
  • massminority, on 04/04/2008, -0/+8Hope they don't block torrenting like Comcast....would it still be worth it though.
  • martinherrera, on 04/04/2008, -8/+22that's not fast....

    this is fast
    http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/
    • blorguehad, on 04/04/2008, -0/+7I was weary to click the link for fear of rick roll. but wow im jealous.
    • cyantist, on 04/05/2008, -1/+7"The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC."
      • ScottyWZ, on 04/05/2008, -2/+2"The most difficult part of the whole pro"--Oh dang! You beat me to it!
    • SLockhart, on 04/05/2008, -2/+5My God, she can download a DVD in 2 seconds. It takes me 3 hours to download a 355MB file from Pirate Bay. I'm so jealous.
    • Tatsumi2, on 04/05/2008, -2/+1HOLY *****, thats incredible. If that is 1020p movies in 2 seconds ima ***** myself. 720p, meh.
    • impedance101, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1Thats even faster than RAM from a 5 year old computer !!!
  • handler, on 04/04/2008, -0/+15Cya guys in Malaysia.
  • fuckingusername, on 04/04/2008, -1/+19Ill be dead before it gets to the USA , their are people here that only have dail up cause the rich bastards don't want to spend money to run lines..
    • bingobongony, on 04/05/2008, -9/+3Those bastards, not wanting to spend millions of dollars to get broadband to neighborhoods of like 10 houses who MAY then pay $50 a month, or $600 a year. Idiots! Who wouldn't want to spend millions to MAYBE get $6000 a year in revenue? It'd pay for itself in 160 years! (WEll, not realy...that is assuming the entire cost is profit.)
      • benplaut, on 04/05/2008, -0/+4The government has a bit of a stake in building infrastructure...
        • bingobongony, on 04/05/2008, -1/+2Laying infrastructure for a small handful of families (many of which don't even care about getting braodband AT ALL, let alone super fast...which evn people in big cities don'ty care about) is not a good thing to spend money on. Doesn't matter if it is an ISP or the governmnet.

          A lot of hte places that don't have any broadband at all are streets that literally have like 2-3 houses on it, and neighborhoods where there may be 10-20 houses per square mile.
          • dudetaz2003, on 04/05/2008, -0/+2Well then why cant I get cable when the house across the ***** street can?
    • MaximusD, on 04/05/2008, -0/+2There.
      /end compulsive grammar correction.
  • Fragmatic, on 04/04/2008, -0/+5From what I've used of TMnets (one of the largest ISP's in Malaysia) services, all I can say is, if this works well, then they'll have a huge customer base for them, as everybody over there wants to get connected (wawasa 2020 lah!). Just hope they can keep up with the demand.
    • EvilMoose, on 04/04/2008, -0/+5lar malaysians speak like lolcats lar
      I still have no idea what lar, lah, lal, laj and lag mean but they seem to have no standard system for adding it to sentences.
    • dpierce, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1It's a Singaporean!
  • miamihotboy, on 04/04/2008, -13/+0I want it now!!

    http://www.ToughAcademy.com
  • j1ggy, on 04/04/2008, -4/+1As if they'd only charge $1.58 per month.
    • theaceoffire, on 04/05/2008, -0/+9If they charged $100 that is STILL a better deal than comcasts $150 for 50MB.
    • Ryosen, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1What is the monthly household income in Malaysia?
      • FastShow, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1The average is 1,631 Malaysian dollars which is about $510.
  • caleb4mj, on 04/04/2008, -7/+1nice, wow, how would you use 224 Mbps? :)
  • karl722, on 04/04/2008, -2/+12The current implementations of BPL are a bad idea. They interfere with many other devices and what's worse, at frequencies this low the interference can travel worldwide.
    • cshields, on 04/04/2008, -3/+9Ditto what karl said.. BPL is very bad for the radio spectrum... More information can be found at:

      http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/
    • SubjectiveC, on 04/04/2008, -1/+5That's what engineering is all about. Does anyone ever really think through their "It won't work. I'm basing this on current technology specifications" statements? Yeah, so?
      • karl722, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1Read the above link and then make a more informed comment. You can't change the laws of physics (sorry to sound like Scotty)
        • SubjectiveC, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1I did. I also read digged article. The entire project is based on the idea of making a better structure so that it works and will hopefully be standards compliant one day. Challenges and restrictions can be overcomed by good design, believe it or not.
    • eclectro, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1I really don't see them achieving the 224Mbs speeds either, for the same reason that it causes interference - the powerlines are horribly inefficient at RF frequencies because they never were designed for that use. I bet that it's even worde than DSL. It's great that they are doing this though, so the truth about this tech can come to light.
      • lrdntwnd, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1Unless part of the project is rewiring the infrastructure.... If you put up powerlines that are designed for BPL, then it's much more efficient and less likely to cause interference.... Considering where the project is being implemented and the budget ($14 billion) I don't think it's inconceivable for them to rewire the lines they need to get this working.
    • 007brendan, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1So, just shield the lines, or transmit on some other portion of the radio spectrum where interference doesn't matter.
  • JakeyG14, on 04/04/2008, -3/+4Wow!...think how many films I could download illegally with an ISP that fast! *sticks two fingers up at millionaire actors*
    • bingobongony, on 04/05/2008, -2/+2Which two fingers?
      • Dantetheinferno, on 04/05/2008, -2/+4Pointer and middle, we're going middle ages.
  • mehan, on 04/04/2008, -0/+14you'd think the U.S. wouldn't be so far behind in terms of the internets, considering that's where the ***** was invented...
    • bingobongony, on 04/05/2008, -8/+2Yeah..you'd think that if you were as simple minded as you and didn't consider population density.
      • SeekerDarksteel, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1Right, which is precisely why you can get 50 Mps in major cities, since they have high population densi....

        ...waaaaaiiiit....
      • cor315, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1Considering Canada's average user has like 5 times faster internet speed then US users, you're way off
    • allahuakbar, on 04/05/2008, -3/+2Where's al gore when you need him?
    • foofightrs777, on 04/05/2008, -0/+4That's what you get when you spend all your time and capital building other nations instead of your own; the infrastructure stagnates and deteriorates.
  • AzraDarkness, on 04/04/2008, -2/+1would it not eventually be 224Mpbs / 60million..which would still be pretty damn good speeds for having 60million people downloading :D
    • Jeffler, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1dude, it doesn't work like that. If it did, it would run at 3.73 bits/second.
  • D14BL0, on 04/04/2008, -1/+4Yeah, good luck finding a residential-use modem that can process that for under $10k.
    • joesmeat, on 04/05/2008, -0/+3Like gigabit ethernet?
    • BaronVonZ, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1Sorry, but I need to ask...
      what exactly does A residential use modem for OVER $10k look like, exactly?
    • polywaffle, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1Hate to break it to you, but we dont live in the 80s anymore.
  • Coestar, on 04/04/2008, -16/+12Isn't "Smart Mosques" an oxymoron?
  • Seventus, on 04/04/2008, -1/+1If something like that were to pop up here Verizon would sue them and get the state to ban them. It happened once before, but that was just a rumor from someone in, I dunno, PA? Shame on competition. It's anti-American... wait a second...
  • playerdotca, on 04/04/2008, -2/+7that's a lot of porn >.>
  • future15tbd, on 04/04/2008, -0/+48Verizon and Comcast can't provide data streams that fast, because then they wouldn't be able to scan your packets fast enough to throttle your access when you use BitTorrent.
    They also wouldn't be able to pass the information on to the NSA or the Justice Department to prevent you from carrying out that terrorist attack you were planning and stop you in the act!
    • allahuakbar, on 04/05/2008, -0/+4Wow, I'm ***** leaving this ***** country.
    • seanc6610, on 04/05/2008, -0/+2i don't think verizon is as much of a jerk about it as comcast is. i have verizon (FiOS) and i get high speeds on all my applications all the time.
      i know you were being sarcastic, but there are definitely levels of privacy invasion that comcast has reached but verizon is still struggling to achieve.
  • Mutton, on 04/04/2008, -0/+9Hi, I'm American telecoms! Wage fixing and complacency > innovation. Wheeee!
  • Jenadae, on 04/04/2008, -1/+1Hey look how well this open market concept works!
    • hartley, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1Yeah, because its not private businesses that are paying for all of this....
    • 007brendan, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1Well, telecoms aren't really open market, it's probably the most regulated industry in the U.S. Regulation = Corruption = Not Open Market.
  • Danial, on 04/04/2008, -6/+1Malaysia still sucks, even as a Desi.
  • youMISERABLEpos, on 04/04/2008, -26/+0THIS IS THE SAME TYPE OF INTERNET SOURCE WHICH WAS TO BE TESTED IN THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH AREA OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS. IF SUCCESFUL, IT WOULD THEN EXPAND. THIS WAS ANNOUNCED ABOUT 5 MONTHS AGO ON ENGADGET.

    HEARD NOTHING SINCE, WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED?

    ALSO, F U TO ANYONE WHO MENTIONS CAPS LOCK.

    • pakakapa, on 04/04/2008, -1/+15WHA? PLEASE SPEAK LOUDER I CAN'T HEAR YOU
      • youMISERABLEpos, on 04/04/2008, -10/+0SO YOU HEAR TYPE? BETTER GET THAT CHECKED OUT.
    • ravage86, on 04/05/2008, -0/+8Stop yelling at me :(
    • insanebrain, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1remember the days without caps-lock . . .whow ... those days where really cool . . .
    • cyantist, on 04/05/2008, -0/+10Caps Lock. F U too.
    • knobidy, on 04/05/2008, -0/+5Wow, what an annoying little *****.
    • Tatsumi2, on 04/05/2008, -0/+3I use caps lock to be noticed too.
  • Androfire, on 04/04/2008, -0/+3That's my home country right there. And trust me, internet in Malaysia isn't so great, before this that is.
    • jingwei, on 04/04/2008, -0/+3I feel ya brother.
      • Fragmatic, on 04/05/2008, -0/+3I was stuck in Petaling Jaya a few years back with only Jaring dialup for company.

        Never again. :(

        Beautiful country though, hope to go back again sometime to get my durian fix. :D
  • Gusbob, on 04/04/2008, -0/+2As with everything in the country, the idea sounds good. But the execution would be questionable.
  • TomatoMan, on 04/04/2008, -0/+15Do the math, folks: that's less than ONE PENNY PER MEGABIT, PER MONTH. My 8mb Comcast connection would be about 5c/month at that rate, instead of the $60 or whatever I currently pay. So we pay about 30 times as much for 1/30 of the bandwidth.

    I hope Malaysians feel the same pity for us poor westerners now as we used to feel for them.

    Proud of yourselves, Comcast/Verizon/AT&T?
    • ricree, on 04/05/2008, -0/+3You're assuming that the final service will be even remotely as good as promised. Don't forget, it wasn't all that long ago that many cities were boasting that they would soon be providing free wireless. It really isn't reasonable to compare a promised service to one that is actually in place and doing the job it's supposed to do.
      • bingobongony, on 04/05/2008, -2/+4My city has free wireless. What is your point? Not even a big city. Or a well off city.

        I don't know of any city that promised free WiFi that didn't deliver. I know of COMPANIES like Google that promised it but didn't deliver. But no cities.
        • Ryosen, on 04/05/2008, -0/+5Philadelphia.
          • bingobongony, on 04/05/2008, -2/+1I would expect it more in a big city like Philly. I am talking a city of less than 50,000. They are paying for the WiFi by a simple start up page filled with advertising.
          • bingobongony, on 04/05/2008, -2/+1For the record, it is not super fast, or anything. When I tried it out, it was like 2 Meg down. But it was about 800 k up, which is twice as fast as Road Runner, which hasn't updated their service in my area in 12 years...Yup..we have had Road Runner for 12 years (first city in the country to get Road Runner) and from the very beginning it was 5 Meg down, 386 k up. Not one upgrade in speed in over a decade. I am fine with 5 Meg down. But 386 up is absurd.

            So for most non-torrent people, the free WiFi is at least as good, if not better. Plus, all the towers weren't even operational when I ffor those speed reaings. It may be faster now. (Then again, not everyone knew about it yet either, so it may be slower do to more sharing.)
      • muldots, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1Dublin, Ireland
  • neomatrixj2, on 04/04/2008, -4/+1High speed yes, low ping very doubtful considering the amount of connections and the general route the signal would take using a modified original electrical grid.

    High speed internet (cable) runs over a laid out, planned, and structured cable grid enabling a minimum amount of connections and much shorter route that I would imagine could be possible using an existing electrical layout.

    In order for this to work I would imagine that relays etc would have to be set up to make sure the signal goes where it is intended to go instead of just branching out over the entire grid.
    • insanebrain, on 04/05/2008, -3/+2sooooo. .. . you are a expert who know's it all. .. cool .. finally somebody who knows what he is talking about .. .
      //yes . .sarcasm
      • neomatrixj2, on 04/05/2008, -0/+0No I'm simply saying cable networks were designed to give internet users low ping high speed access. Current electrical grids were designed to just spread the electricity as more and more neighborhoods and homes are added.
        Ping is based on the time it takes for your electrical pulse to reach it's destination and even with the speed of light that reaction can slow down the more it has to travel to get to the destination.
        Lets not forget electrical surges, I can just imagine having to pay a service fee for a new modem. Don't get me wrong I would love to have these speeds so I could share more freely with roommates but I'm a gamer so for me it's all about my ping.
  • CrackyJSquirrel, on 04/04/2008, -0/+23If it were comcast, they would advertise 224Mbps and deliver 782Kbps...
    • sum33t, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1For $1.58 a month thats still decent, no way you can find that in europe or north america.
  • richsketch, on 04/04/2008, -3/+1boy i hope we can get this in the uk soon enough!
  • phosphor112, on 04/04/2008, -0/+1I bet that the US can easily do this, maybe even cheaper, but you know what? They are getting money, and thats all those companies care about...I'm still stuck with my 32kbs download rates...and thats with DSL...
    • bingobongony, on 04/05/2008, -1/+2I'll take that bet. Because you are laguhably wrong.
    • BeavisMcSleavis, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1I just shed a tear for you!
      (sniffle) I'm sorry to get all emotional on you ; {
  • Exedous, on 04/04/2008, -5/+0WHO KNOWS WHEN I CAN FREAKING GET THIS?!?!?!?!
    • insanebrain, on 04/05/2008, -0/+3[looking into my crystal ball. . ] . . .. o *****. . . . crystal ball says 'dunno'
    • isiahwheeler, on 04/05/2008, -0/+3when u stop typing in all caps
  • youMISERABLEpos, on 04/04/2008, -8/+0IT'S THE GREEDY WHITE MAN.
  • dizilbdog, on 04/04/2008, -0/+5It's funny one day we may say that this speed is slow. I hope I'll be alive to say that lol.
  • oliviacond, on 04/04/2008, -0/+1keep in mind that this is available in Indonesia not Malaysia.
    "Velchip Sdn Bhd has formalised three major partnership arrangements in Kuala Lumpur to advance its major broadband powerline (BPL) project for 60 million users 'in Indonesia'. "
  • mattearle, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1If I have to read the sentence "Velchip Sdn Bhd has formalised three major partnerships to advance the world’s biggest BPL project" one more time, I'm gonna jump off a bridge. It's the title, description and first sentence of this article. No wonder they need all that bandwidth - information has to be downloaded three times in Malaysia. EOM
    • Ryosen, on 04/05/2008, -0/+2"Velchip Sdn Bhd has formalised three major partnerships to advance the world’s biggest BPL project"
  • Enron, on 04/05/2008, -1/+8Felipe Massa was testing out this new 224 mbps technology when he wrecked his Ferrari at the Malaysian GP two weeks ago. Apparently it was too fast for him, so they're calling in Michael Schumacher.
  • luseton, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1Hmmm..i was wondering how the heck Malaysia will be able to get 60 million subscribers since the population is only 22 million. Makes sense that they are doing it in Indonesia. But then again, out of the capital city how many Indonesians are really going to take advantage of this.
  • insanebrain, on 04/05/2008, -2/+3sounds good. .. but speed is relative. Your connection to the rest of the world is good. .. but if the speed of the rest of the world is crappy, then your speed is also crappy.
    • michaelz92, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1good point, while browsing the nets, your download speed is really just limited to the upload speed of the server. So itll probably feel the same as if you were on an 8 Mbit connection.
    • Tatsumi2, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1No it wouldnt. I used to have 10mb/s and now i have 30mb/s and it is much faster.
    • jameslhwalker, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1so true, in Australia downloading from state to state you can usually max your connection, however downloading from the USA or any where else overseas can be ***** because of the fact that we have limited backhaul to the rest of the globe
  • Jammerdelray, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1it was a typo
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