YTL Yes 4G Wimax coverage at Taman Merbau Indah, Sungai Dua

Since TMNet Unifi service not yet available in Taman Merbau Indah, the option for fixed line broadband is TMNet Streamyx. The maximum package speed for Streamyx is 4Mbps plan, the 8Mbps not available for TMI (acronym for Taman Merbau Indah).

If you only need high-speed broadband for browsing, and not the kind of activities like downloading RVMB / MKV movies, and PPStream, Yes4G may be another option. I personally borrowed Yes4G Huddle and Zoom device to test the coverage for this area.

For the red circle in map below, basically you able to get coverage if you stand at open sky area. If you are inside the building, example your house, you may get very weak signal for Yes Huddle device. You might need to position your Yes Huddle to close to windows area to get best reception, it due to Yes4G utilizing 2300MHz spectrum and the signal penetration to building structure not as good to Maxis & Celcom. For Yes Zoom, you got nothing to worry, it work for most place in building, except room at ground floor.

If you plan to subscribe YTL Yes Wimax and get the Yes Huddle device, and your main usage at Taman Merbau Indah, basically you can forget about it. Since the indoor signal is weak, you are advice to get Yes Zoom to ensure good experience with the surfing.


If you specifically need to know the coverage for certain Taman Merbau Indah's lorong, please do leave a message and I could help to check it with my Yes Huddle. No promise, but will try my best.

Since Taman Merbau Indah surrounding by a few schools (example: Sekolah Kebangsaan Sungai Dua, Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Datuk Haji Ahmad Said, Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Desa Murni, and Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Kai Chee), and the 1Bestari education broadband and virtual learning program until expansion, the coverage of Yes 4G may improve in future.


Rental for Taman Merbau Indah 3 storeys terrace house

Rental for Butterworth Penang area basically still lower compare to Penang Island mainly due to lower demand and less job opportunities. Although mainland of Penang state do have Bukit Minyak Industrial Park, Perai Industrial Park and Mak Mandin Industrial Park. The number of jobs, or total of hiring still consider low, compare to Penang Island.

Come across the rental post in local forum. The 3-storey Taman Merbau Indah Phase 2A, available for rental at RM800 per month. The RM800 stated in post include electricity and water utilities bill. I not sure whether this would limit the occupied from install air-con and other utility.

Below is the snapshot of the post for your reference.



Brief translate of content:
Location: Sungai Dua Butterworth, Taman Merbau Indah
House type: 3 storey terrance, 2 living room, 4 bed rooms, 5 bathrooms, 1 balcony
Rental: RM 800 (include electricity and water utilities)
Other:  Chinese, couple, working single, small family. On-time rental payment.
Number of person: 1 - 6
Move in date: Move in 2 months after confirmation. (For urgent case... yes)
Benefits: Good location, close to highway to seberang jaya, kulim and penang. Near to Raja Uda, Mak Mandin, and Jetty Butterworth.
Additional info: New house, OC pass recently only.
Reason:   XXXXXX (not necessary for this post :)  )

New Township at Sungai Dua Butterworth - Taman Pasir Indah

I blogged on this up coming new township in Sungai Dua Butterworth Penang previously (link). The show houses are open for visit, anyway, almost 50% of double storey terrace houses booked. From the trend, you able to observe how buyers picked the lot unit.

I got few photos on the price for each lot, measurement of lot, and selling price as of April 2013. Those early bird (Feb 2013) got RM10K (or more) discount, but now they sell without discount. The selling price start from RM365,000 for 20 x 60 standard lot size.

Project company: Jana Utama Sdn. Bhd. 
Developer:  Oriental Max Sdn. Bhd.

Click into the photo link to enlarge it so that you can see exactly which plot unit was sold.










Merbau Indah Phase 2 3-Storey Terrace House asking price RM630K

Come across this property sale page, and surprise with the RM630K asking price for 3-storey terrace house in Taman Merbau Indah Phase 2. The page listed on March 2013. At the same time, new unit of 2-storey terrace house at Taman Pasir Indah Sungai Dua sell for RM360K ++.

I not sure it might due to partially furnished that push up the price tag. Anyway, the reasonable price for this should be RM400K ++ only. I don't think this is corner unit, as the land area only 1400 sqft. Anyway, it has extra 200 sqft compare to basic lot unit.  




PDAZone - Convenient handphone and accessories seller stay at Merbau Indah Sungai Dua

PDAZone store owner stay in Taman Merbau Indah Phase 2. He had publish his house address for you to conveniently reach him to get your next mobile phone. 

He own the PDAZone Resources booth in Megamall Prai Penang (1st floor, in front of Popular Bookstore). Refer to his website for contact and home address:

A nice edited Google Maps from his page:

PDAZone Lelong.com.my store link: http://pdazone.lelong.my/
PDAZone Weebly URL: http://pdazone.weebly.com/