4mb-5mbps is more than good enough actually.

I've discussed this before. Unless you rely very much on in house servers which resides on the isp's own datacentres your international site surfing is limited to around that speed even at the most off peak hours.This comes from my experience of using many fiber and cable connections around the world.

Unless you live in a country where they mostly surf their native language and surf during off peak hours, rarely you can achieve high speeds with international connectivity.That is also because they are unused.

Once the foreigner population increases in a particular area, the international bandwidth which they have will quickly be used up resulting in the same slow effect. There's no free food.

I've tried doing speedtests from many countries like Europe, US, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia.
The people there told me don't waste your time getting anything over 10mbps because you'll rarely achieve such speeds if you're the typical internet user. So you might as well save up the extra money because it's like when you go for a buffet meal and the organizer pretty much know how much a regular can eat.

If some alternative isp is able to provide 4-6mbps average access speed in my area, I'll gladly take it up even if it were to cost similarly to Unifi VIP5 even if it's slighly slower by 1-2mbps.

Have you all heard that Starhub's 100mbps DOCSIS 3 cable modem service is not getting enough responses?Many think it's a waste of money unless you share your home with many tenants.

If there're high takeup in your area rarely you will get even close to that with international sites.

It won't be much difference between a 4mbps, a 20mbps, 50mbps or a 100mbps line.
Save your money for other things.

A stable and dependable line is more of your interest.

My friends from Japan, US, Taiwan, HK and even Singapore often tells me that they are more than contented with their isps entry level packages which starts around that kind of speed.

VDSL2 and ADSL2+ are backward compatible.

Both standards can work alongside and are compatible to each other.
Most modem manufacturers have VDSL2 modems which can fall back to ADSL2+ if the distance exceeds the requirement.

TM doesn't have good planning.They should have started replacing the copper wiring to the roadside switches with fiber many years ago.

If they've done that, changing the equipment to support speeds of upto 20mbps can easily be done with FTTX.

They can even have the option to extend it further into homes with FTTH if they wanted to.

Japan started their fiber roadside switches during the early 90s.

IPTV bundle will probably be one of their main selling point to utilize the available extra bandwidth.

Internet surfing will probably just be a lil faster than your Streamyx for foreign contents.

The funny thing is that they don't even know where are their IPTV audiences are and rolling out their services to other irrelevent areas.

You know it's sometimes hard to share the allocated volume because they don't provide a detailed breakdown. Your neighbours might go and overuse it yet deny doing so.If you try to throttle him on your router, he might get suspicious of you..

This router has been on my desk for almost 2 years already.

Wireless N is kinda weak but does the job.

The original color of it is black with silver front.

Old stuff anyway. The last time I got it was like under RM200 that time. The box is orange in color under the DLink N Series routers.

Then I upgraded to the DIR-655 with tri-antennas. Never failed me till today.

So when is digital terrestrial tv starting?

I hope we can get the same free international channels on digital terrestrial too since it'll be some time before we can get fiber into homes.

That DIR_615 already existed for over 2 years and it's only pre-N.

TM should have been more generous by supplying us with the 2Wire HGW just like what Singtel and AT&T U-Verse did.

Why do we always get cheap stuff?

I noticed that the STB does not have DVR function as well.
It's a matter of time people will hack the iptv and get free tv with it.

If they were to go with RF overlay by sending cable tv over another frequency they could have adopted the same smartcard security with the STB just like ASTRO with the only difference being the cable signals being sent over cable instead using a satellite.

This post has been edited by iipohbee: Apr 10 2010, 10:24 PM

Put the jokes aside.

Did you know that in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea the isps there are sometimes using porn to promote their packages?
They promote with ideas like "view your porn movies smoother with our high end packages as such.."
If you surf to their isps sites somettimes you see very interesting banners.

When will we have such kind of openess?

Harem No Jyutsu~

Taiwan's MOD IPTV via FTTX



Uuummm choose me uummm~

Censor?
Mmmm you want some adult movie action?

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Added on April 19, 2010, 10:54 amWhat?
Cronies get together and the epic continuation of monopoly?

This post has been edited by iipohbee: Apr 19 2010, 10:54 AM

LMAO. Even Ipoh Central and its major suburbs also no news how to even expand to small towns like Taiping and Kuala Kangsar?