TM-intranet bandwidth is free for TM. 1TB, 2TB, 1PB, whatever bandwidth, as long as they got the hardware to support it, its free.
The trouble is the bandwidth to overseas.
I am very interested to know how much they are paying for 1Gbps.

The reason:
Unifi Caps and pricing are almost like Australian pricing. Australia has to charge so much because they have to lay cables to Guam, somewhere in the middle of the Pacific.
As for Malaysia, they lay cable to HK/Taiwan/Japang (my guess), and this is far cheaper that Australia. So why are we paying as much as Australia? To cover the cost for Fibre optic cables?

People who uses 4Mbps are mostly downloaders. 5Mbps has a 60GB cap. You can breach the cap if you fully utilize the line for 48hours, how nice is that. 4Mbps can go ~1TB a month

Andohbtw, the HSBB will start with a 2 year contract. Pretty nice to tie you down.

Currently the IPTV I checked out just now has very little channels. Was told there is currently 2 HD channel, 1 is Luxe TV, another is Fashion TV or something. Pretty much channels that nobody watches. The Video-on-demand seemed interesting.
They do have rather new shows. However, it is in SD format. When they start playing it, the video quality was worse than IPTV version of TV1. Imagine that, what could be worse than TV1 broadcast?


PS: now that it has been launched, should the name goes to 'Official TM Unifi Thread" ?

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Mar 25 2010, 01:13 AM

I used their 50Mbps line and streamed 1080p on youtube. It finished loading before i finish watching.
The speed on the Wired Network Meter reached 44Mbps.

Thats unthrottled speed for you

I'm surprised at the amount of buttock hurt the cap has caused, was expecting less, among the heavy downloaders only.

60GB on 5Mbps, thats like the bandwidth cap of 3G internet services, I think TM is trying to cover their wiring cost by charging so much and spending less on international bandwidth. While I admit I am a heavy downloader, 250GB across the board would be nice.

TM marketing fail.

RM199 for 5Mbps, unlimited + 10GB web hosting. For the business package.
If they ever implement any caps on streamyx, i ma gonna subscribe this package tqvm

Web Hosting 10GB I googled is Rm100 per year
Discount that from the business package, that's an average of Rm185 for 5Mbps line. W00t, thats cheap.
On the next malaysian quarterly report, "Small business growing in Malaysia!"

As to the loophole, I bet the marketing team realized this. Just that some Manager that become manager because he knows how to kiss asses decided to do something "different"

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Mar 25 2010, 01:35 PM

In terms of internet, we cannot compare Malaysia to Australia.
There's a reason why the internet in Australia is expensive. They have to take their undersea cable to Guam, somewhere in the middle of the pacific.
How far is that if you compare Malaysia-Hong Kong or Malaysia-Taiwan.

I bet if you put australia where Malaysia is, you'd see them implementing US style caps.

plus, in australia, they have caps for Business broadband. Here, we can go unlimited if we choose the business package.
TM only knows how to copy people, but they don't know what to copy and what not to copy.

Most certainly there has to be a cap since this is consumer broadband, not dedicated lease line. But 60GB for 5Mbps? That is comparable to the 5GB cap on 384kbps line on 3G.
Heck, the bandwidth-cap ratio is even less. 3G is limited because it use radio waves, and there's a limit to the bandwidth on the waves. My guess to overcome this is to build more towers. However, the less knowledgeable unker and aunti will protest to this implementation. Same goes to Wimax. Even Wimax has better bandwidth-cap ratio than this stupid Unifi.

Malaysians, being Malaysians, I'd bet that some part of the money used to buy bandwidth has gone to you-know-where.

Because in lionpura, all the invested money goes to the proper places. In Malaysia, the invested money goes to Football Clubs. Thats why TM can't afford to buy more bandwidth

Since so many people are boycotting due to the cap, what happens if they implement caps for Streamyx as well?

Its not like there's an alternative fixed line that can cover Malaysia.

I'd rather choose 4Mbps for Rm160 per month tqvm

Shows on Astro keeps on repeating.
If you went to the launch and try the IPTV, its rather no interesting. Currently only 2 HD channels, 1 is Luxe TV another is Fashion TV. Channels that nobody bothers to watch. If I want to watch something, I'd rather go to Teluk Lanun

Probably cheaper to obtain. Phone? It's currently a Rm10 add-on for the blockbuster deal, so thats how much it cost.

It's current 1:25 for streamyx. They gonna probably keep the same ratio.
3 to 1? Sounds like bull to me

Hence it explains the unreasonable cap
60GB each house.
So 25 x 60GB = 1500GB

For a fully 'utilized' 5Mbps
5*3600*24*30 ~ 1200GB

Technically, 1:25 is barely enough to cover.

Andohbtw, why supply internet at speeds that normal copper line can cover?