While the technology can support speeds up to 24mbps and above, it still has to put up with real world physical limitations.

If you live <100 meters from the TM exchange then I'm sure you probably could get that speed but not others who live further away and may have damaged and old copper wiring along the way.

I would have to agree with vandread86 from my own experience with TM. Early adopters will reap all the benefits like free installation and other freebies.. but when TM finalizes their cap, because the T&C states they can change it any time.. these people will be subject to the same T&C that you would get even after they increase the cap and maybe reduce the pricing. Uncapped bandwidth for 3-8 months because they're still testing, free 3 months access till July 1st, 5-20mbps link and potential customers holding TM ransom for better deals also meaning less users on the network. You even get your whole place wired before everyone starts rushing to sign up for it so you don't have to wait 2 weeks for an install appointment. It's a win win situation for them.

I took 4mbps Streamyx as soon as it came out, whenever I call their support I get transferred to a special VIP support line and I'm even placed on a special IP range for 4mbps users which has amazingly fast download speeds and better routing. Even when international routing is screwed up.. as long as I use the right tools (download accelerators and such), I get guaranteed 4mbps speed unless the port or wiring is damaged.

I wouldn't say screw them.. it's because of these people that they lifted the cap in the first place.

How does the IPTV box hook up to the network anyway? To the dlink router via cat5 cable?

Midway through my installation now. No drilling was needed, they just pulled the fiber cable in and set it up. Install has been delayed for 1 hour+ cause IPTV is f**ked up for some reason (ignoring user/pass) but so far speeds have been good. 2.4MB/s download and upload locally with normal torrents maxing out at 2.2-2.4MB/s

12-14ms response

If you just want wireless range, you can use your own router as a WiFi access point by connecting it to their d-link router. However the dialup session will still be managed by their router.

Hosting games should be fast. I pinged some fragnetics SG servers, its 12-14ms while I'm torrenting at 2MB/s. Local server ping is only 3-4ms.

I just picked a random server from the US. I'll post more later if I have the time.

Speedtest.net is not reliable at the moment, their msian server is maxing out at 16mbps down for me and 2mbps up.. but when I tested on my own tmnet and jaring server, its 20mbps both ways.

They gave me exact date and time for an appointment.

I'm from DJ near KDU Blitzone

Same prob as mine? I had this 'Invalid STB' error even though the IPTV username and pass was correct. They kept calling HQ but same error all the time until I told them to take a break and SMS me when its fixed. 4 hours after the problem started the IPTV got fixed.

Username : admin

No password by default

You guys should know that regardless of what speedtest.net says, it's not the *actual* international browsing speed. Even from my US servers, when I run NX desktop (vnc software) and run speedtest.. the values range from 1-10mbps even though my server normally operates at 10-100mbps. Sometimes the speedtest.net servers are just overloaded. Even my local speedtest with the KL server is screwed up.

In terms of 'real world' testing, on youtube.. so far I've been able to stream almost every 720/1080p video flawlessly. The video buffers and loads up 2-4x the speed of which it plays. With standard definition youtube vids, it takes just a few seconds to fully download the clips. Every time I load a new video, my bandwidth monitor indicates it's downloading between 1.2-2.3MB/s.

On standard rapidshare downloads and direct downloads, with 10-15 threads I easily max out the line at 2.0-2.3MB/s. Same with torrents..

Best part about this is I can download and play FPS games like bad company 2 at the same time because the download does not saturate the upload speed (which is also capped at 20mbps) so there's no effect on gaming latency

There is a sticker underneath the orange Dlink router with the heading 'PIN'. That was set as my default wifi key, maybe your tech set it as your admin pass. Try username 'admin' with the PIN number as the password?

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Mar 30 2010, 07:23 PM

Yeah but DC++ isn't as good as torrents cause it doesn't allow for multi peer downloading if I'm not mistaken? Need something that can support multiple sources, is a closed network and runs on multiple OSs.

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Mar 31 2010, 11:44 AM

So local and international bandwidth is counted, yet a cap will only affect international link? :S She sounds a bit off. Regardless, we should get some local p2p stuff up More people seem to be signing up for unifi now anyway

Torrents are harder because some people don't know how to make torrents, port forward and seed them appropriately. DC++ automatically hashes files and shares them.

I agree that DC++ is slow because its single connection downloads but there are other clients such as ApexDC++ ( http://www.apexdc.net/ ) which support multi-source downloading like modern P2P protocols.

Yea that was their solution to counter TMnets international BT block. If I recall it was just a forum with some torrent modifications (seeder/leech/grab count) and tons of .torrent files posted on it. After a while TM blocked BT connections within the country too so it didn't really work out anymore. This is not the case with Unifi (at the moment) as nothing is being throttled.

Even if there was a guide up, every single file would have to be .torrent'd and seeded 24/7. Lowers the amount of content the P2P network would have whereas in DC++ any file that you search for would be available for download if its listed.

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ONLY FIVE PERCENT OF MAH SUBSCRIBED SPEED LUUUL. Speedtest.net is inaccurate as heck.

Edit : Sorry I'm a little burnt out and bored at the moment, I literally have nothing left to download anymore. Unifi has spoilt me

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Mar 31 2010, 06:45 PM

Got half a TB of that, not much HDD space left lar

I'm getting 20mbps on all torrents and HTTP links. 200-500KB/s from peers in Japan, US peers are 100-200KB/s.

At the moment, no traffic caps, no bandwidth issues.. no real need for a local p2p system. The only people it would benefit are Streamyx users but then again they'll all be leeching since their upload is 50KB/s maximum. Installs just started on 29th for retail so maybe if we wait a month or two, there will be a Unifi users thread then we can organize a new system. It'll probably help reduce the impact of p2p on our international links and keep the surfing speed up.
1.5GB in 1 hour? 4mbps Streamyx can do that. Unifi is like 1.5gb in 10 - 14 minutes

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Mar 31 2010, 09:40 PM