Depends on your area demographic and residents.Why they are not choosing areas in your island such as Jelutong, GeorgeTown and the rest but Prai/ Bayan Baru?

Even in the Klang Valley, places where there're high internet usage and lots of people, they still don't have any signs of UNIFI coming to them let alone the infrastructure set up. Places such as some parts of SS2, Tmn. SEA, etc.

TM has some other kind of definition of HIGH ECONOMIC IMPACT based on my understanding.

Just like where they are willing to set up a fiber cabinet in a Malay kampung close by behind my house but not the switch which serves my housing area.

My 4mbps is just operating at the tip point of the allowable SNR/attenuation value just as all my neighbours are.

Long it more dude. KK would only be covered partially by end of 2012.

Unifi will still be very limited by end of 2012.

Only 2 exchanges will be available by end of 2012.
Why are 3 very important exchanges in Ipoh left out?
Ipoh Central(05-25x xxxx), Pasir Putih/Pengkalan/Station 18(05-32x xxxx) & Gunung Rapat(05-31x xxxx)?

Georgetown is also out, Seremban/Seremban 2, Malacca-Alor Gajah, Malacca City, Alor Gajah, Kelantan - Kota Bahru all not covered.
Kuching, Kota Kinabalu, Miri,



Those left out you can wait for Phase II which would take another 3 years? 2015 perhaps?
All those in Phase II, SKMM states that the BBGP(broadband for general public) aim is just a mere 2mbps. This clearly shows the disparity of speed differences Malaysian public would be discriminated with between high impact areas and the rest.



This post has been edited by iipohbee: Apr 5 2011, 09:13 PM

Well if that's true, then it might be using other tech than FTTH.

Most recently TM has been placing new ZTE cabinets around Ipoh beside old copper switches and they are labelled with "V xxxxx X"

Could the 'V' mean that those boxes are meant to be VDSL DSLAMs?

It couldn't be FTTH because September is just 5 months away and you should have fiber cables laid by now with grey boxes up on poles waiting in this short period.

Jelapang there got big settlement village called Manjoi and Meru.
Like they say it's one of the largest settlement of people inside there.
There's a need to do NEP and bring development in there.

A whole different definition of "richness". Not monetary related but... you and the rest have the idea.

As long as the copper loop is within 500m it should be good for upto 50
The new ZTE cabinets which pop up around Ipoh having codes such as:

<Area> Vxxxxx V
Example:
For Ipoh area: IP Vxxxxx V
For Tasik area: TSK Vxxxxx V

That's if earlier forumer said it's true that Unifi will be made available by September this year as told by phone operator. VDSL2 is more sound since the short timing involved.

Considering ZTE VDSL2 equipment is good anything but I wouldn't recommend Huawei VDSL2. I think some forumers have been complaining about them too.

The better VDSL2 solution being Zyxel but not sure TM would consider using them. They have lots of experience deploying VDSL2 in large scale projects around the world.CHT Taiwan has Zyxel supply all their VDSL2 equipment with the smaller share snapped by Dlink.

This post has been edited by iipohbee: Apr 7 2011, 02:41 PM

Where's the location, DannyChen?

It looks like one of the kampung suburbs in Ipoh such as Pasir Pinji and Manjoi area. Some of those houses from atap roof to renovated ones like fortified castle.

Not yet.

Maybe another 3 -4 years time.

Ipoh ranked 6th in terms of population size also no Unifi yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_citie...a_by_population

Ranked 4th in terms of metropolitan size after Klang Valley, Singapore-JB, Penang State.

http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&m...l=dhoq&msz=1500

Lol High Economic Impact Areas...



This post has been edited by iipohbee: Apr 9 2011, 05:22 PM

If it's VDSL2 then it should be fast. Minimal changes need to be done on customer's end just touch up and make sure the copper switches are in good conditions as well as your end.

Proof that VDSL2 is so much easier to deploy in UK. They made a pilot run VDSL2 trial available in a small village called Iwade.

Installing the green FTTC cabinet


New Cabinet Beside the Road


This post has been edited by iipohbee: Apr 19 2011, 04:29 PM

Ipoh people better nope put much hope on Unifi.

My area(Pasir Putih/Pengkalan/Station 18/Jln Pasir Putih/Jln. Bendahara and Lahat)
05-321 xxxx, 05- 322 xxxx, 05-323 xxxx, 05-328 xxxx, 05-253 xxxx, 05-254 xxxx, 05-255 xxxx, 05-259 xxxx all have to wait beyond 2013.
That's more than 3 years from now.

Hoping for some other fixed line provider to make available their service here.


This post has been edited by iipohbee: Apr 20 2011, 08:41 PM

Penang will have fiber for residential through Time Fibre Broadbad/ASTRO IPTV.

It'll be available in GeorgeTown, Bayan Lepas and Batu Feringghi.

That wraps up the 1st phase of HSBB as we enter 2nd phase in year 2013.

This post has been edited by iipohbee: Apr 20 2011, 11:02 PM

How about 6mbps ADSL2+ for only RM60 per month?

Still want Unifi VIP5 for RM149 per month?

There are more reasons to that decision.

Contract awarding opportunities, job opportunities, masuk pocket opportunities, etc.

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Added on May 16, 2011, 9:10 pmI don't see much problem with slower uploads for home users.
You can't even get your downloads right, you bother about uploads?

This post has been edited by iipohbee: May 16 2011, 09:10 PM

You upload so much nanti kena tangkap mang.
RIM/RIAA come after you..

Where got people upload HD content almost everyday one.

Now with Streamyx 512kbps upload speed. A 20mb shouldn't even make me wait for more than 20mins..

With TM's weak security and hidden remote management settings in place, it's dangerous to have a fast upload line in speeds of over 10mbps.
Your computer may become a bot or a distribution hub making file uploads in just a matter of seconds.

I've never said anything about slow downloads.

What I mentioned is that having an upload speed in excess of 10mbps would turn your machine into some distribution hub which could leak your files out to prying eyes thus it's a security weakness.

I mention this is because even though Unifi might claim that they are FTTH, countries like Thailand and Taiwan which both adopts ADSL2+ and VDSL2 widely are still performing better than us in terms of pricing and performance.

A good 2-3mbps is more than good enough for uploads. Thailand ADSL2+ upload speeds gives you 512kbps for the price of RM60.
For the same price of Unifi VIP5, you are given 12mbps/1mbps.
http://www.3bb.co.th/product/adsl/6mb.php

Here is their IPTV package which costs RM29 only per month.
Look at the number of channel offerings they offer for IPTV and HDTV. Even Allure 18+ Adult movie channel on HD.
http://iptv.3bb.co.th/th/home/index.php

As for downloads, in general very seldom international download speeds could exceed 20mbps. Give it another dedicated 12mbps for HDTV IPTV broadcast, 32mbps is more than enough a good figure which each home needs for the next 3-5years?

All that is sound with VDSL2 deployment which allows upto a dedicated 100mbps per twisted pair port.

The right speed packages for today's bandwidth demanding homes is 24mbps - 32mbps including a dedicated reserved bandwidth for IPTV.

Telco operators are now realizing it's a waste of money to deploy GPON FTTH when it's not promising anything better than the rest.

VDSL2 when line bonded and further improved with vectoring could offer upto 300mbps DEDICATED per port on copper.
GPON FTTH when spliced upto 32 people offers a max of 75mbps per user.

Tell me which technology is much proven, cheaper, easier and faster to deploy?

This post has been edited by iipohbee: May 19 2011, 10:10 PM

Those cabinets labelled with Cxxx are fiber distribution cabinets for passive optical networks.
They are used to organize and hold fiber optic cabling for passive optical networks which doesn't require any active power supply apart from the OLT at the exchange.

As for the 'V' labelled cabinets by ZTE, they are modern remote DSLAMs which are capable of VDSL2 services with just a swap of line cards inside.

Have you seen in the deployment map last time by TM? It mentioned that urban areas and capital cities of states would still get 10mbps broadband while high economic impact areas get 20mbps.

I'm guessing this is what they meant. To eventually offer 10mbps broadband packages sometime end of this year or in 2012 using this remote DSLAMs for such areas. Not sure whether it'll be ADSL2+ or VDSL2 but anyone living within 500m away from this cabinets are likely to be eligible.

Some telco companies in US and Europe already started switching their copper broadband users from ADSL2+ modulation to VDSL2 to take advantage of the extra bandwidth. All this with just a swap of a line card and a new modem at the customer's premise.

If you live within 2km from an exchange, VDSL2 gives better bandwidth and advatages such as higher uploads and download speeds.

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Added on May 22, 2011, 10:46 pmObserve this graph:



Anything above 2km, the performance of VDSL2 and ADSL2+ are the same.

But within 1.km, VDSL2 could provide upto 20mbps while ADSL2+ speeds drop below 20mbps if distance is above 1km.

This post has been edited by iipohbee: May 22 2011, 10:46 PM

I've went through ZTE's VDSL2 whitepapers to suggest this.

They have 3 ways for VDSL2 can be deployed depending on the telco.

1st: (30a Profile) Fiber to the Basement(FTTB) which Unifi uses in Klang Valley and other high economic impacted areas where there's need for symmetrical speeds of upto 100mbps. This would require the use of wider bandwidth at 30MHz which would use up the POTs portion as well turning copper cabling in buildings ONLY for the sole purpose of pure DATA.

2nd: (17a Profile) Fiber to the cabinet(FTTC) which is used in UK, Germany, NZ and many other countries to bring fiber nearer to subscribers. Offers assymetrical speeds of upto 50mbps but slower uploads.

3rd: (8a or 17a Profiles) Exchange based DSLAMs in replacement of existing ADSL2+/ADSL2 equipments to provide better services over the same distances below 2km. At ditances of over 1.2-1.5km speeds of upto 20mbps is still possible.

No the regular remote DSLAM has FOxx and Rxx prefixes.

This newer ones have V prefixes on them and they are ready for VDSL2 deployment with just a change of line cards inside.

Old ones are like:

IP FOxxx

New ones:

IP VxxxxxV

ZTE makes good VDSL2 equipments as well as Zyxel.

Zyxel leads in miniature FTTB switches for building basements.

ZTE has nice roadside cabinets for FTTC deployment.