Exactly - it can boost the economy

Its a stimulus package - you cut down on bandwidth , people are forced to pay RM 9 cheap dvds/blueray rip to watch p0rn thus boosting the country's economy

I lol'ed

Uber lol


Anyway , just to simplify things (I'll try my best to use simple lingo)

I to disagree (if they are going to give 4Mbps but cap at 20GB - they can just forget it and I'll downgrade back to 1Mbps or 512Kbps). However if they are going to upgrade their services , give us 8Mbps-24Mbps and umm say 40GB Of cap. THen I would say its great


Now , I'll just wait and see. If its true , we're dead. However even after capping people's bandwidth and such and there is still slowness , then we all do know who to blame. Currently TMNut blames us for downloading p0rn

If everything goes okay. THose who use the internet for R&d , would benefit because web-sites should take faster to load as those who are hogging iit will be punished (no , not even your RM 199.99 VPN solution is going to help you) , those who watch youtube would buffer from faster speed , those who play games should benefit as well (lower pings)

Folks that wouldn't benefit

1. VPN Sellers , etc - Forget it - once the capping thingy kicks in - VPN bypass becomes useless. You're capped per limit. Just like how 3G/GPRS charges for your phone !

2. p0rn downloaders - forget it - you can't even watch p0rn once you've been capped. 64Kbps and umm watching p0rn - think again

3. bit-torrent users - Again , 64Kbps (~7 KiloBytes/sec) to download your anime , HD movies. That would take ages !

For me , IF TMNet is going to increase speed by 5-6x and enforce data limit , I agree


Tech terms

Cap = THey enforce a limit. That means you can enjoy a maximum of xMbps untill u have reached a certain limit/volume. After that its going to be very slow

Throttle = simply make certain applications (i.e youtube , torrent) to be slow - to discourage people from using that.



This post has been edited by prasys: Jul 31 2009, 12:45 PM

u CANNOt download ur tvb at one go (for instance 9-10GB)

Surfing sites also consumes bandwidth , etc - so you gotta learn how to manage