Graduation

Hello hello!!

Masters has been dragging on FOREVER!!! But looking at schedule, I should be able to finish by June! WOO HOO. HELP UC now has this really cool online experiment site, where students publish their research titles and available time slots, and participants sign up online. It was really exciting watching people sign up for the sessions, kinda like watching the stock market! XD

But thank God, the numbers are rolling in, and my sessions are filling up. Thanks to Jenn Ming who helped promote my research to his classmates. Thank you thank you Ming!!! So come next Friday, I'll begin the first session of data gathering for the long awaited dissertation.

The thing is, I used to absolutely dispise research. But this time it's different, I am excited and passionate about my research! Goodness! Must be getting this from Justin.

So, watch out for my formal announcement on graduation some time in June =D

w1max update no. 4

To counter the problem of our modem router assigning IPs by itself, Justin bought me an Ethernet cable, so it's plug-in all the way. w1max has been superb, clear signals, fast downloads, but I have no idea how to find out how much of the 20Gbs I've used. Any ideas?

w1max update no. 3

Hmmmm.... Connection was ok la today. Fast but not as fast. speedometer showed 1.2Mbps. Not bad, but once I jab it into the router, it dies. sigh... So I've concluded, it's the router. We have a D-Link Modem router, the modem functions should be the problem. So, w1max has been performing well so far =D

w1max update no. 2

Just shy of 24 hours since I praised w1max, it failed me!!! Last night was horrendous! I took us one hour to log on, even with the direct plug in! Gosh =.= And when I could finally log on, only facebook and blogger was fast, other webpages especially google based ones, were dead slow!

But here I am now, and everything's back to normal, exceptionally high speeds, instant log on... =/ It's like a yoyo! sigh. Leon said the tower was probably malfunctioning last night.

w1max update no. 1

Sales person said activation will take 12 hours, we tried it last night at 10-ish, so that made it about 7 hours from sign-up. And we got connected!! Speedometer showed 1.5Mbps. =D heh heh heh. Had a slight problem with the router, but with some help, the all-wonderful, all-intelligent hubby got it working! And after using it since morning, my first impressions of w1max = VERY GOOD!

Only prob is the 20gb cap. But we figured, we never go anywhere near 20gbs anyway. So, for now, chances are pretty high that we'll be keeping w1max! =D

w1max

We just signed up for the much hyped-up w1max! Current promotion: 15 days pay nothing trial. Takes them about 12 hours to activate it, so we won't be able to tell how well it performs just yet. Shall update when we've tested it. Package is at 99RM per month for 1.2Mbps mobile broadband. Certainly better than our current Streamyx package. After testing it out for a few days, we'll have to decide to switch or not to switch. If we do make the switch, next decision: to keep or not to keep our current land line. Decisions, decisions, decisions. But on the plus side, the w1max modem looks real pretty. Hohoho.