Higher bandwidth does allow opportunity to more application and sites. However, can we really use up 40gb if it's for browsing, gaming and Youtube? Unless it's use for illegal downloads, where 40gb can be done in one day time. Also, private accounts is not supposed to be use for hosting or any business purpose.

I do agree that the 40gb bandwidth cap is tad too low, but asking ISP to provide real unlimited bandwidth is like asking for a highway to guarantee 24 hours no jam regardless of how many cars get in. Our "highway" (bandwidth) is like a road where everyone wants to drive with max speed just because they pay the toll. International bandwidth are not free and it's very hard to compare with the countries on the west where most of them are accessing local contents. Same applies to Japan and Korea.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Good luck with your 40Gb caps per month for the next 24 months of contract tied up.

Now RM108 for a symmetrical 6mbps seems too questionable right?

With so much bandwidth TM is already struggling so hard to keep up with their growing Streamyx and Unifi customers.Let alone Maxis?

I beg your pardon Vapeace, but in countries like good ol' Australia they're offering 1TB packages on nearly every major ISP they got.

First Iinet did it, then Iprimus then Internode.... all at ADSL 2+ speeds of up to 24 Mbps..... for the residential customer....

Granted they cost over 140 Australian Dollars on average, but customers are still given the option.... so yes in a way you are right... They provide up-to speeds that are only reduced the further you get from the DSLAM due to line distance, but they mainly sell quotas.. from the lowest 25GB to 1TB packages....

Here not only do we get the limitations of speed, but also quota... double whammy FTL...

That's an unfair calculation for Maxis or any ISP.

You could take something like 10% of your speed for non-stop downloading as the data cap. So instead of 1.6TB, around 160GB per month is actually very good. My Guess is that they used a similar calculation, but instead of 24 hours a day, they only considered 8 hours, hence 160GB / 4 = 40GB

Someone can do the maxis HSBB boycott, Bloody cap so low. Worse than TM

The boycott won't be effective as in reality only very few can get Maxis HSBB to begin with lol... and it's not like they can switch to UNIFI if they want to, the areas of coverage are mutually exclusive.... Maxis and TM have done a most beneficial thing for themselves, carving up the market like that....

So to those on Maxis wired ADSL... stick to it for now, and enjoy the 24/7 uncapped 2 Meg speeds.. don't take the HSBB plunge yet!!!

I do see the reason why Maxis wants to impose the cap, but I personally feel 40Gig is a too low.

It is too low.

At this point of time, we have seen slowly the emergence of online TV (eg. Google TV), online Radio station, which I believe will slowly take over the terrestrial set up.

If one is to use online streaming, it is very easy to use up the 40GB without even need to surf anything at all.

Lets face it, if one just need to surf, do we still need the 5MB internet line? I think a good quality 1MB should be enough anyway. I uses both Time Dotcom and Streamyx 1MB line now at different work places, i can really see the difference betw the two.

So I think the Cap may have to be relax to fully harness the internet data in due course.

After u exceed limit max charge is RM 250 like 3G usage LOL

I'm facing some problem one week after the FTTH installation. Everytime I go to a website (facebook.com, yahoo.com, ebay.com, twitter.com or any other website), I get a 404, page not found. I have to refresh the browser a few times, then it will be successful. Is it because the proxy is down or what? It's maddening!

Once connected - it is very fast. Just the first try is always unsuccessful. As such, some app in the iPhone or in the PC (iTunes for example) always fail authentication because the first try failed.


This post has been edited by belfong: Oct 10 2010, 01:50 PM

I am having the exact problem! it just started yesterday or the day before. Aside from having to refresh multiple times, even now I cannot load the google home page, however when i use my browser toolbar to googlesearch, it goes to the search result page fast. Similarly I cannot load main pages of a lot of websites, having instead to google a particular page from that website and then clicking on that link

Had the same problem when going on wifi through my nokia, having to keep refreshing, but today it stopped working on my phone all together.

This is really terrible.

Well looks like Maxis infra not ready... from the sounds of users....
FAIL for now

I think 100 GB cap is more generous.... and not as threatening as 1 TB cap......

First month of operation, not only no IPTV, the main feature of broadband service sucks big time. Impose 40Gb quota strictly, frequent slowdowns, webpages cannot be loaded, etc.

Bad infrastructure to begin with, totally not orientated towards consumers.

Maxis FTTH - Fails Totally To Hatch

Considered yourself warned...

experience this since yesterday, area - BU. Gateway reset back to default, the SSID and WEP I put in was reverted back to Thomsonxxxx

Unifi is not that bad after all! (I am subscribing to both at two different houses)

Well, I disagree to a certain extent. The way I see it, it is growing pains. After all they didn't charge exorbitantly .. in fact, it's the same price as my current maxis ADSL+phone rental - so I'm pretty ok without IPTV. I just hope they fix that slowdown problems fast!

why is it the loudest complaints often come from people who enjoy such benefit? In my place where edge is the fastest speed, I can only dream of one day able to enjoy choices and options for internet. You guys staying in Klang Valley, are you spoilt for choice that you must gripe on anything given to you?

It just further proves that why TM is deserve to be best ISP in Malaysia and why TM deserve the monopoly. The thing is we got those joker ISP in Malaysia. If you ask me I am sticking to TM until some other ISP can provide consistent performance during the entire contract period. It seems it is a rare event to be happen in Malaysia.

because @ the same time we pay... it is not free

I will auto shut myself up if it is a free WAN even if it gives 1GB quota per month

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Added on October 11, 2010, 6:12 pmbtw I used both wireless n wired broadband...
can u imagine? so call 3.5G network coverage in my area are slower than edge most of the time....

This post has been edited by AhBoy~~: Oct 11 2010, 06:13 PM

Uh-oh, I think they hate me now, because my connection was down since yesterday noon, with the LOS blinking red.....
I think they're going to track down my house and burn my PC oh noesssssssssssssssssss
/drama

Awwww damn Can't I abuse that "customer's always right" myth just that one bit ? but yeah it's fine, I'd settle for 160GB p0r...uhh I mean, "Understanding human anatomy and reproduction" videos per month... still OK la.... but preferrably, they can come up with the proper option to lift the cap and state clearly at what fee as they've stated in the FAQs that there IS such an option. All we're getting now is - no, you're capped, deal with it for the rest of the month.



Yes, seems to be a common problem since my first day using it... please do log a case and pressure them to fix such problems... yes it's annoying. It's best for user base to be in sync when logging such cases and log them together, or else they might send an engineer to your house to troubleshoot on the problem ( a single user problem ) and end up without any solution - because the problem is actually on their end. Would require me to clean up my room, which is a hassle ya know... tissues everywhere and all.... the smell... you get the idea...

But then again, we have ourselves to blame, when signing the 24 months contract blinded by the 6Mbit coloured glasses they put on us, ignoring the warning on brochures stating clearly it's a 40GB download limit... but lets look forward how we get out of this, rather than lamenting on the time when we so eagerly signed the subscription without giving it much thought ^^

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Added on October 11, 2010, 10:19 pmUmmm..... I don't understand why we have to compare to Data Centers when it's there in black and white offered by TM Unifi-Biz5 line ( oh my friend subscribed to it, and no, no company registration, he used his IC, and that's all he needed ). Umm they installed it at his home btw, he ain't running a data center...

http://www.soyacincau.com/2010/03/25/
Forgive my laziness on looking up the flash-ed Unifi site... so please be happy with the above link ^^

Reads unlimited usage. It's more expensive than VIP5, but you see, there's the option. It's not so 'impossible' as described ^^ So I'd say, data centers world wide are falling behind my friend's Unifi BIZ5.......


This post has been edited by aricat: Oct 11 2010, 10:19 PM

All i am asking for is just NAT2 on PS3! as of now their still working on it... it's been almost 2weeks now

This post has been edited by xomanowar: Oct 11 2010, 10:28 PM