We have found from experience that the connections between ISP's and Malaysia's International gateways vary. Malaysia's ISPs do not co-operate very well with each other on getting the whole network right. Most users use dial-up lines and all will face the same problems of busy signals, line drop out and slow speeds especially at peak times. Malaysia does not have a truly open and competitive ISP market. ISP's need government licences to operate.
Licences are difficult to obtain and expensive.
There are less than 10 ISPs in operation for the whole country and well over 1 million users. This is not meant to be a recommendation of Time, I merely inform you of where we are co-located. Legal Network recommends that Malaysian users have at least two Internet accounts - in case one is slow or fails to provide access. These are usually busy. Important feature if you need immediate access.