Pardon me, its use my money too, even i maybe 0.001 percent, but khazanah and kwsp do taken money from my salary every month every year.

ready carefully before shooting bro.

What can we do.. we live in a country where bribing and markup-ing are considered normal here..

I will have to partly agree on this. For a project of such scale and size, you can't just award it to any company on the street. It'll have to be a company with the resources and track record in handling such projects.
The government is trying to push broadband to the whole country, be it rural or urban. If they had awarded it to a chinaman company (I use the term chinaman very loosely here, I really just mean a non-GLC profit-motivated company), the company would probably have pushed to rollout HSBB in the urban areas only and neglect the rural areas as they're unlikely to be too profitable, thereby completely disregarding the NBI and penetration targets.

If I recall correctly, the government only funded less than half of the amount required for HSBB rollout - TM had to fork out the remaining (RM6bn or so was it?).

But I don't like how they force you to take IPTV and voice as well. I guess there's no way else they would've persuaded anyone to take up those plans as the current HSBB-ed homes would probably have Astro already.

Just my humble 2 cents. If I'm wrong on any front, feel free to correct me

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Added on April 2, 2010, 10:42 amEPF take your money every month but it's a savings la, you'll get it back in the end with interest one bro

This post has been edited by Chinoz: Apr 2 2010, 10:42 AM

it seems you're using seedbox service

Don't have to use a VPN anyway nothing is throttled at the moment

how to record unifi's iptv broadcasts onto pc?

easiest way use video in/video capture.. difficult way..

"hack" the video feed and save it

You'll need a video capture card. I'm not sure if you can digitally capture it via a direct hookup. When you hook up a device to the IPTV VLAN port, you're given an IP on the 10.3.0.0/255.255.192.0 range and can basically ping other STBs on the network. But to access their content you need a username/password combination which lets you download their custom firmware and digital smartcard. If I'm not mistaken they also filter by MAC address so even if you have a software which can utilize their IPTV protocol and you have a valid username/password, you will get an 'invalid STB' error upon connection.. then there's MAC address spoofing. It's really not worth the trouble, just record via HDMI output lol

It would be better if we can utilise this IPTV VLAN to have a local sharing ring...

8mbps up/down without interrupting internet connectivity... not a bad idea overall

best of all.. its really UNLIMITED

Even if TM is a fully private company, as a consumer, we have a right to tell them that whatever we think. It's called end user feedback.

As much as I don't like it, I have to agree that TM is one of the best candidates to deliver and handle this project.
I am not blaming TM for getting the privileges. I was pointing out the fact that they are abusing this right given to them, by behaving anti-competitively.

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Apr 2 2010, 12:51 PM

Woo Hoo

HSBB is here.

No need to be pessimistic.

I got bad international speedtest ratings ~3Mbps

But simply using a downloading program / rapidshare account, gets me a full 8Mbps connection on my 10Mbps


IPTV has nasty video compression / boring content - but interestingly enough they've got volume working through the HDMI cable

The phone....

This is the biggest disappointment. I may have to keep the old phone line. The phone works, but it unfortunately has crackling. Distance from the receiver doesn't change anything so I don't think it's a wireless reception problem.

I just downloaded a 1 hour episode of SD television in less than 10 minutes.

Yeah

Bundling IPTV into different field like broadband service, its like Microsoft bundling IE explorer into their Window. Just look at what Microsoft got themselves into after doing that. If there are anti-trust law here, Astro would have been suing them already. But oh wait nvm... we are in a country that run by a failure government for over 50years.

We can but they can block it easily :/

You are both, quite simply speaking, wrong.

If the government opened the project for tender, you'll see a lot of companies fighting for it. Any company is always willing to put money into a project as long as there are returns. Maxis rolling out their own fibre is evidence of this. You really think Maxis can't find investors to bring out more money to tender a project that would connect the whole of Malaysia?

The problem is things aren't planned out properly. You want to increase broadband penetration, that's fine, its a commendable goal. However is it really the right idea to spend unnecessarily and hook up the rural areas with fibre which most people can't afford or want to use? I do like the idea of connecting rural areas with fibre, but if the price is at what it is now, it simple isn't affordable for those people.

If cost is too expensive, hook them up via ADSL first or something, I'm sure there are many cheaper alternatives to hook up rural areas with sparse population.

Wonder why the government never looked at awarding it to few ISPs to make it a "Joint effort" between the ISPs... lol!

Any Unifi users who are not using their IPTV willing to help me test some stuff out? Send me a PM please

Because their intention from the first place is to make sure TMnet is no1 by far from any competitors.

Paid so much taxes and money, but at the end what we get is an unacceptable capped internet.

"you paid gold but what you get is peanut service or no service at all"

This post has been edited by cshong: Apr 2 2010, 03:38 PM

actually, they don't just look at how much money a company has. they do a background check on which company has the most experience in broadband/internet service. does maxis has that long history in implementing internet service compared to TM? is Maxis wireless broadband service on par with TM's Streamyx? why give the tender to some1 who doesn't even have any experience in ground line cabling for internet connection? it's just like hiring a rich boy with a law degree to work in an O&G company..as an engineer!

btw, Maxis is already implementing their own FTTH in bangsar. we'll see how do they go after this.

This post has been edited by SHOfrE3zE: Apr 2 2010, 04:11 PM