Hey all, new here.

Before I start, I am not here to point fingers at anyone cause I think all of us are guilty of some parts of what I say below at some point. This is my general opinion so please don't get all worked up over it.

I really cannot understand what you guys are complaining about. This CAP structure is being used in other places too. I worked in Sydney for close to 4 years. I had an Optus (Singtel jv) 20Mbps link which I had for as long as I lived there. I always had full speed and probably only 2 outages in 4 years. Guess what the CAP was 20GB peak and 40GB off peak.

I worked a lot from home using VPN to various sites. I always found the time to game and did so quite a bit over the weekends. I also downloaded quite a bit of stuff every month on my media centre rig. With the exception of 2 months I never hit the CAP otherwise.

As bad as TM is I am happy for this new launch. Sure the prices could be better (who wants to pay high prices for anything) but I think the CAP is not such a big issue as most of you here are complaining about.

Lets admit it you can't be expecting to download the entire Internet into your local desktop. For every one you there is 10 casual users out there who wont hit the CAP (if they do I stand corrected). We are meant to share the bandwidth not hog it. One of the reasons Streamyx is slow is because of all the P2P hogging out there. You can't set of 10 BT downloads and go out with your GF while some poor bugger in a different part of town is trying to download a 1MB file from Windows update. How is that fair? Sure TM should probably get more International bandwidth but the likelihood of that happening is small at least not anytime soon. In the meantime we should learn to be fair to fellow users.

Honestly think about it for a second, there is 2 many users hogging the line which affects everyone else. I have a Streamyx 4Mbps and at most times its run fine but on weekends during peak hours it can get really slow. Now I wonder why??

On a side note while we ponder about this CAP issue, I am sure there are plenty of applications for Unifi already. Do not underestimate people's need for more Internet, most people just going to close one eye and ignore the CAP.


Cheers!

I beg to differ on that. Sure sometimes it can be slow but not all the time. I game online, most recently I play COD2 and C&C4 beta. I did not experience any lag. I support several customer sites in Sydney and normally use VPN and RDP, I never had a problem with lag.

The international bottleneck is not limited to TM only. My office is trialing a leased line by a different provider who happens to use a different peering partner than TM. Access to sites in the region is superfast but when you start accessing sites in Europe its slow, US not too bad.

Btw I dont work for TM, infact I got a bone to pick with them about one of the links my company ordered but they still have not delivered on yet. I registered today to take part in this thread thats all.

I always bought games from EB rather than download online. Just preferred to have the game box with the disc and all.

Absolutely I am all for capless Internet but until that changes we are stuck with it.

You are right we can't hang all the abusers, we would have a lot of dead Internet users then.

I can't remember the exact figure but its no where close to 500ms. I never checked because I never had issues gaming online from home.

I would hope all the big telcos should get their act together not just TM. I have tried, TM, Maxis, Celcom and I know too many ppl who used P1. All of these providers have issues and in the wild west, these Telcos would have been out of business 10 years ago.

I am hoping that technologies like the one below together with faster global links will help but I wont hold my breath. Cause new tech costs money and yes we all know where money goes to around here.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-...outer/19389673/