Would it have made sense to wait and start thread v3 after the end of this flurry of one-line replies like "boring lah" and "unifi lol"?

If it's going to be in the newspaper tomorrow, then a lot of people already know. The ad had to be at the newspaper office today (Wed 24) or earlier, and many people there would have seen it before it went to the press this evening.

1) Because Streamyx 4mbps for RM160 was already very expensive compared to Thailand and Singapore

2) Because HSBB is rumoured to come with a less-than-generous bandwidth cap, whereas Streamyx has none.

To cover the cost of launch ceremony featuring an endless succession of boring bands, and then a fireworks display that woke up my baby sleeping halfway across town.

You cannot even begin to compare.

With FIOS you can actually use the high speed for international destinations. I have a client on FIOS who needs to access one of my servers in Europe. She consistently gets close to full speed in transfers to and from that server. With HSBB, testers are getting international speeds to most destinations that are the same as I get with Streamyx (i.e., dog slow).

Now, the "value-added" services.

TM IPTV includes what, 20 channels? Of which maybe two or three I would ever even consider watching. Then look at the FIOS TV lineup: http://www22.verizon.com/Residential/FiOST...annelLineUp.htm (enter zip code 20812, just as an example). Can you even count all those channels? And how many are HD?

FIOS includes unlimited free phone calls throughout the country plus Canada. Last I saw, TM was charging RM0.15/minute on their VoIP line.

How?

DMCA takedown notices can only be sent to organisations that have filed their contact information with the US government for this specific purpose. Those organisations may then pass the note on to their client, if appropriate.

TM doesn't have a filing. And DMCA doesn't apply outside of the USA anyway.

Only in Aus/NZ and Africa, both of which are severely bandwidth-constrained regions.

Almost nowhere in the rest of the world will you see charges after the cap is reached. Either there is no cap, or the connection is just slowed down.

Believe it or not, you're wrong. The IPTV box has its own IP address in a different VLAN.

It lets you access TM wifi hotspots. I think they have them at Kenny Rogers and Delifrance or something. I used many years ago while waiting for Streamyx to be installed, and it was really slow. Maybe better now.

Call them again and I bet you'll get a completely different answer.

Of course there is. It has nothing to do with "different technologies", it's just because TM didn't develop a procedure for transferring the numbers.

Anyway, what happened to the boycott thread?

(my rant deleted)

Edit: Never mind, I see it's been merged with Extreme Unifi Slowdowns - http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1367918


This post has been edited by rajulkabir: Mar 25 2010, 10:43 PM

It shouldn't be affected. VDSL2 can go much higher (ten times higher) than 20mbps.

Yes, that means you are signing a 2-year contract and don't even know what the cap will be and how it will be implemented. Big risk if you ask me, I wouldn't do it. I am not opposed to caps but I am opposed to mysterious and potentially wide-reaching changes to my terms of service.