Suck with TM Net Streamyx connection speed? It is way too slow? No worry. Here is a little help that can improve the Internet connection speed.

Set HTTP Proxy on your browser ~ Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome or Opera…

HTTP Proxy 1 == cdn-jrc-c2100-01.tm.net.my and Port == 3128
HTTP Proxy 2 == cdn-kmr-c2100-01.tm.net.my and Port == 3128

I face slowness when I connect to China website. However, with this proxy setting on. The website loaded in seconds. By the way, be sure to turn off proxy when connection is okay.

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I got the best Malaysia bank to deposit US cheque rate from LowYat website.

Hong Leong Bank:
RM50 + RM10 (courier) + USD75 (Citibank Delaware)

Maybank::
RM25 + USD10 0.1% of the cheque (min: RM25.00, max: RM100). USD15 + unknown charge from the overseas bank

Public Bank:
0.1% of cheque amount (min: RM20, max: RM100) Postage: RM5 Stamp duty: RM0.15

HSBC:
RM11

EON Bank:
RM10

CIMB:
0.1% charge (min: RM5, max: RM100) Postage: RM5 Stamp duty: RM0.15
Note: You can deposit your check to the home branch only. But, you can mail your check to your BCB account’s home branch for bank-in.

RHB:
Postage: RM5.00 Stamp Duty: RM0.15 Commission: 0.1% of your cheque amount (minimum RM 10.00 and maximum RM 100.00)

Standard Chartered Bank:
0.01% of cheque amount OR min RM 50.

Bank Muamalat:
RM5

Alliance Bank:
~RM70

Southern Bank:
RM30 + RM0.15 stamp duty.

Some of the process fees are cheap while some are very expensive. I have 3 bank account from the list above, Public Bank, Maybank and HSBC. Among 3 of them, HSBC processing fee is the cheapest ~ RM11. Why do I need to find the cheapest rate? I have a USD 20.63 cheque to clear. And I don’t want to waste the money for bank fee.

I bank in the US cheque in HSBC. It took exactly 1 month to clear the cheque. And charged RM 11.65 as processing fee. Hmm… I still prefer Western Union or PayPal payment. It is lot faster and easier. No need to show up at bank to get the payment. And no processing fee also…

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Yup. Jayce Ooi’s Paradise manages to get itself to top 50 of top 100 Malaysian blogs. It is a list of blogs comes out by Adi Wong. You can check out the lists at here.

49th of top 100 Malaysian blogs

The ranking is based on Alexa and Technorati. Personally, I don’t like Alexa because it does not reflex the actual visit or page view. Some websites which have very low traffic but have very high rank in Alexa. Technorati is about the same. If the blogs does not clawed by Technorati spider, there are not counted. So you will have low ranking if most of your incoming links are from non-technorati clawed blogs.

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Yeah… I received an email from Kontera. I can get pay at $75 when I select Domestic ACH payment. But I cannot find Domestic ACH payment in my account payment setting. Wish that Kontera able to give the same benefit to PayPal payment too. I might switch back to Kontera from Infolinks then. I have around USD 40 in Kontera if not mistaken. Kontera does not allow me to check back more than 6 months earning.

Kontera earning

I could not stop myself from testing Kontera again when I see low performing earning from Infolinks. Therefore, I tested for 2-3 days. How is the result? Bad…

Infolinks earning

Staying with Infolinks is a right choice to make. I can get more than USD 1.00 per day with Infolinks while I did not get it with Kontera after using it for more than 6 months.

Which in-text advertising are you using right now?

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How to payback PTPTN loan online? It is much easier to pay PTPTN repayment now. We can pay it online using FPX service. There is lot of Internet banking that we can select from like Maybank, Public Bank, CIMB, Bank Islam, Hong Leong Bank, RHB… The entire PTPTN repayment process takes less than 5 minutes to complete using online method. Isn’t that great? Note – RM0.50 charges incur for FPX service.

How to payback PTPTN loan using online method? No worry. Just follow the steps given at PTPTN E-FES website. It is as easy as ABC. But you need to have Internet banking account first. Then, you don’t need to go to bank to pay PTPTN loan repayment already.

Of course… The better is that we don’t need to pay it back at all.

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