Either that or it was all those angry and confused phone calls they received

http://www.blogjer.com/2010/03/23/hsbb-vs-bgpp/

Surfing .txt files? There's so many flash ads and flash streaming video ads nowadays. Get a b/w meter and you'll see it maxing out when you load most pages.

Even if upload is not capped, uploading using TCP consumes downlink bandwidth as overhead. Uploading at 5mbps would use about 40KB/s of download speed.

The local data thing is just a rumour anyway, nothing is confirmed by them.

Besides, a lot of people will be getting these packages to share between multiple users. The fact that they're giving out a wireless-N router with the packages confirms they're aware of this fact. 60GB is barely enough for 1-2 people but definitely not more than that.

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Mar 27 2010, 04:42 PM

Just so you are aware.. each of TMs services are allocated a different amount of international bandwidth. 6% of Streamyx residential bandwidth is not the same as 6% of Streamyx business bandwidth or TMnet's MyLoca bandwidth. I'm pretty certain HSBB users will be placed on a separate link than Streamyx users.

In terms of hilarious analogies (cake, cookies).. they're paying to share a new cake not the rotting one Streamyx users are eating at the moment.

Yes, that's true. Streamyx users are probably given the lowest priority in terms of international bandwidth allocation. On top of that, you have to share that meager amount of bandwidth with other Streamyx users.. 6-10% of which (according to Zamzam) are using 80% of that total allocation.

I doubt, however, that the traffic will get routed to HSBB or other services. This is confirmed by running a latency test and tracert from a Streamyx line and a business line, both of which will have very different routing with the business line obviously being much better in performance.

Likewise, HSBB will not sap any more traffic from Streamyx's network. You can confirm this yourself by running an SNMP program and connecting to the main Streamyx gateway (219.93.218.177 for my area). You'll be able to see a 1000mbps port with about 700-900mbps of utilization. SNMP key is 'public'. There's nothing much left to re-allocate. This was about a year ago though they may have patched it up already.

If you're a Streamyx user and you're fed up with your low streaming speeds (youtube, etc), you always have the option to re-route all your traffic through Jaring or TMnets business network provided you have the know how and willing to a pay little more of course.

Sometimes I get tired of Streamyx users screaming that the international link is so slow for you. As long as you can get at least 80% from a local Malaysian server (or TM's speedometer).. they are giving you what you paid for. What you do with that link is up to you.. be smart and proactive

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Mar 28 2010, 05:43 PM

It could get re-routed.. or all the other people could have their international bandwidth saturated and be forced to write letters to the newspapers about how everything has slowed down

We do have ADSL2+ and it's used in 4mbps packages. But even with ADSL2+, most houses are too far from the exchange to go over or even reach 4mbps.. hence having to pull fiber directly to each house.

It's ADSL2.. I have it and I had to throw out my old ADSL modem when I got it because it didn't support the newer modulation.

8mbps is theoretical and limited by physical line conditions, even with newer tech (ADSL2/2+) it would be impossible to go over 4mbps for me (and most people) as I'm at the edge of my exchange coverage.



Even after rewiring my whole house, I only managed to scrape those poor SNR and attenuation readings. I used to be capped at 5mbps to get 4mbps after ATM encapsulation but I asked them to lower it back to 4mbps cause of constant disconnections.

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Mar 29 2010, 03:05 PM