Maybe some of the users misunderstand the xgb/day thing, but some of us understand it well enough that it's not a daily cap tha we can only use 2gb per day. It's just a way to make a point against their monthly cap.

Yes, bandwidth cap is a must since bandwidth ain't free. But their cap ain't reasonable at all for a lot of us. Some people may not use that much bandwidth, but there are others who would. They should offer different type of packages of the same package to cater all the groups and not just satisfy the 'browsing only' people.

Please understand that bandwidth ain't free. And if you want unlimited, go get a dedicated line. There are reasons why they cost so much for those type of lines. Maybe in some other country it's cheap, but it's obvious from the beginning that it's not in Malaysia for whatever reasons. TM just need to make the cap bigger.

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Added on March 27, 2010, 1:05 amCrap. Just read the previous page.. daily cap? Now that's shit!

This post has been edited by Wan: Mar 27 2010, 01:05 AM

TM said themselves that FUP will be implemented across all type of services they offer. They just don't know how much to cap us yet. They're trying to get peoples feedback by saying they would have caps on the current Unifi packages. Even streamyx won't get away from it. Goodbye download 24/7 I guess soon.

4mbps combo=RM160(before they introduced Unifi)
5mbps(download and upload), iptv ++=RM159

Seems reasonable enough to me. It's still expensive, but what the hell was people thinking it was going to be hover around the RM100 mark. Was never going to happen especially since they just roll the thing out. You spent a lot of money on something, you would expect some return from it. It's not a free service.

And the cap thing was a long time coming. I don't like it, and in a fantasy world, I would not want the cap at all. But we have to give and take in this case. For whatever reasons, with 1-4mbps connections, it was already crawling. Just imagine having some of those users converted to 10-20mbps packages.. everyone would suffocate. If you need the bandwidth, go get a dedicated line. Why do you think they offer it so high? Bandwidth isn't free. If it was cheaper, we wouldn't have to pay expensive prices for streamyx all these years.

What TM need to do is be a bit fairer with the cap limit. Offer different quota for the same packages that would cater to all users and not just the 'normal browsing' group. That would be fair IMO. They just need to make sure we still get acceptable speed once we go over the limit and we won't have to pay extra for the remaining month. Even better if they come up with a cap that says only international bandwidth would be counted towards the quota. I would love that to happen.

As for the IPTV thing.. just view it as a free service currently. They could have offered the packages at a far more expensive prices, but as above, the 5mbps actually cost almost the same as the previous 4mbps package was priced at.

This post has been edited by Wan: Apr 1 2010, 09:46 PM

Why not ask for them to give us free. Free water, free food, free cars, no tolls, heck, we shouldn't even work to get money.

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Added on April 1, 2010, 11:51 pmI used to think of it like that as well. We pay for 1mbps unlimited, so we should be able to max it 24/7 But why do they charge so much for dedicated bandwidth(or those business users) if it's 'cheap'. That term can mean anything. What they meant by saying unlimited from the start was probably that you can stay online 24/7, not that you should hog the bandwidth 24/7.

Now billy, they offered the new Unifi with those caps in place right from the start. It's a new package from them. So whatever your argument about unlimited doesn't involve Unifi.

This post has been edited by Wan: Apr 1 2010, 11:51 PM

It was a mistake on their part, but the FUP thing was on their terms from dunno when. So it is there, just they didn't make a hoo haa over it too much.

Well not everyone is a heavy downloader. So to a lot of them, they don't care that much about the cap as long as they're able to have fast and stable connection.

Even streamyx will have capping in the not too distant future going by their tone. Better enjoy it while it lasts and download as much as your HD can hold. Just hope they don't be ridiculous like the ones they have right now on Unifi(haven't enforce it yet though).

Different country, different ball game. Maybe for whatever reasons we pay for bandwidth higher? It's TM we're talking about here.

IPTV.. free service.
Oh noes!

You meant 2GB a day(or 60 GB monthly, even they dunno what terms they wanted to put, now put on hold until they can study it again)? Yeah that was a crap move, but they haven't enforce it yet. I agree with that. We need bigger cap, and different price structure and cap quota of the same package. I would be so into that.. just make the cap bigger!

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Added on April 3, 2010, 1:45 pmChecking my daily bandwidth usage, with 4 people in my home on the 4mbps package.. we don't really use that much bandwidth. Less than a gb on most work days, and below the 2gb mark at other times. The only time I go above that is when I download stuff.

This post has been edited by Wan: Apr 3 2010, 01:45 PM

There were too many people torrenting back in the day I guess with stuff freely available. Right now to download stuff they have to pay for some sort of services(RS, MU, Netload etc) so to 'kids', it's a turn off. As for youtube.. it eats a lot of bandwidth I guess and as a temporary measure they slowed it down. We used to be able to bypass that by downloading directly, but that one have been throttled as well.

With caps on, don't think they will bother with those throttling stuff.. hopefully. You never know with them.