After  a few email exchanges, the Singtel rep has got this to say

1 September 2010

Dear Mr Lim,

We will forward this matter to our Engineering Department for further investigation and they will be diligently working on a solution. A site survey will be carried out to identify the situation there and appropriate action will be taken where necessary.

Meanwhile we seek your kind understanding and patience during this period.

For further enquiries or feedback, please call our hotline at 1688 or +6562351688 from overseas (IDD charges payable.)

Thank you for your support and have a pleasant day

Yours Sincerely

xxxxxxxxxxx

Customer Care

Singapore Telecom Mobile Pte Ltd

Company registration number: 199406031E

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I have written a formal letter to singtel reporting the problem as well as working with them to narrow down the problem. They have been very responsive to my emails and took only 1 day to reply.

The solution to solving the lack to reception seems to switching off 3G and using the 2G network as highlighted by a few of my friends.

this can be done easily on the iphone. settings->general->network->use 3g OFF

I and a few others have tried this and it seems to work, the trade off is that you dont get 3G speeds when using the internet on your phone. You can switch back on 3G when you leave SMU.

Possible Problem

The increased popularity of singtel as well as the use of 3G enabled phones with 12 GB plans seems to be putting the 3G network of singtel at the breaking point. Especially in the area of SMU where there is a disproportionately large number of 3G users. The solution works as the 2G and 3G network exist separately and switching from a crowded network to a less crowded one will definitely improve performance.

The important question is  how long will singtel take to rectify the problem and will other service providers experience the same problem once users start to use the 3G network infrastructure more heavily.

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1. ONLY connect your linksys modem to your computer and connect to it. (try 192.168.1.1)

2. Use this setting under the adv section of your router.

set the RIP to lan and wireless

3. Disconnect your computer from the router.

4. Connect the Lan port of your linksys router to your modem. (do not connect it to WAN port of your linksys router)

Thats all! (pray that the router mode in your linksys router can auto detect and config ;D)

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A few months ago, many local stations stopped streaming their programs online due to copyright problems with the recording industry.

Today i found a way to listen to all of them again online for free!! (and many other stations worldwide)

http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=singapore

the volume is alittle soft didnt notice the speaker icon could be used to increase vol. but its the only way (as far as i know) you can listen to the local stations online!

woohoo!

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I received an email recently from Daniel who is in China that reminded me that you can do wonders with SMU’s VPN or any VPN for that matter. What makes SMU’s VPN much better than the rest is that it is free (you paid school fees lol) and very fast.

Connecting your iPhone/iTouch/Laptop to SMU’s VPN while in countries who block (using national security as an excuse to protect their local versions of the same website) all your favorite services will enable you to use them as if you were still in Singapore.

In a time where many are overseas, this little trick could save you loads of headache, also to note is that using a VPN in public areas or hotels will increase your security as the data is encrypted when passed from the school’s vpn to your computer

Check here learn how to connect to SMU’s VPN

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Although i love macs and apple, due to the number of plugins and tweaks you can do with it, my fav browser is still firefox, . I wont go into detail to that but i will teach you how to make it faster than ever.

Download optimized 3.51 firefox for Intel Macs

http://www.latko.org/downloads/

Optimize MYSQLite tables

to make bookmarks and overall actions faster and more responsive. My bookmarks took 2s to load and now it is instant!

Scroll down to OSX and run the command on terminal

http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/07/increase-firefox-3-perormance-by.html

Get Fasterfox (not compatible with firefox 3.51 for now)

for network tweaks

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269

Get a download accelerator! (this really works)

downloading at super speeds on normally slow sites

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201

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