Posting here to say thank you to riz and tentris for representing us. What I would like to comment about the caps is that most of us are very well aware that TM has publicly stated the traffic is undergoing an "exhaustive study" to implement a reasonable cap. The questions proposed earlier was not about the current issue and time from time I've been seeing the same answer that the cap is not in effect yet. Of course we unifi users know very clear that it is not in effect yet, but what answer we are looking for is the FUTURE. And a lot of suggestions have been made to them, but I skeptical that they would take those into consideration.

Q4 will only serve Tasek exchange which only covers just a quarter of what Ipoh total area.

Ipoh has other areas such as Ipoh Central, Pasir Putih/Pengkalan/Lahat, Gunung Rapat, Menglembu & Jelapang suburbs.

It will take years to reach other towns outside if they were to expand fiber.

Most of all, thank you Tentris and RizvanVP for forwarding the questions to TM.

2012 is another 2 years from now which is still a very long time.

Hopefully they'll reach the smaller towns in at least another 5 years from now. So your better bet will be wireless for the time being.

EDIT:

He totally avoided answering about the daily slowdown for the Streamyx 4mbps plan which only takes place only in the day.

I did ask about their local switching capacity and whether they could support wire speed 100mbps for local connectivity (initially) as it might save them some bandwidth in the long run due to the nature of P2P applications. The person who I was talking to seemed to agree that it was a good idea and told me that they were in fact aiming for 1gbps connectivity. They do want Malaysians to come up with their own content and he agreed that allowing us to have 100/1000mbps links with one another would probably help with that a lot.

Like I mentioned earlier, TM hasn't started capping yet. The impression I got was that the cap values were just placed there as a legal safeguard against heavy downloaders.. nothing has been finalized at the moment so you can probably enjoy unmetered 5/10/20mbps for quite some time on Unifi at the moment.

If Unifi FTTH is a horrible service, Maxis FTTH must be the worst? : http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1550786
Apart from the technical issues most of us Unifi users have been facing since the start of the service (basically what I talked about in my earlier post), the service has been pretty decent so far.

And that's funny.. why? To use over 200GB month you would have be constantly downloading at 1mbps 24/7. I'm on VIP20 myself and this is my monthly transfer so far :



Your package throughput doesn't determine your monthly bandwidth usage, it's user behavior (which is what they're monitoring now). I know a few Unifi users who pull 800GB+ a month. All I can say is that no Unifi user has complained about being hit with any caps so far and I've attempted to address the issue of the low 'advertised' caps with them by providing some suggestions.

What I do find funny on the other hand is people complaining about a 120GB cap (which is admittedly low) that may or may not be implemented when :

1) They're not even using the service
2) There's already an ISP providing FTTH services which has already started a 90% bandwidth reduction cap @ 40GB/mth in their first month of offering the service but people want to fully address the issue of a 60/90/120GB cap which has not been implemented since April or even finalized yet

I agree that the 60/90/120GB caps are too low but posting comparisons and making irrelevant comments honestly does not help us at all.

And the rest of us Streamyx users have our speed throttled at 10-20KB/s every weekend and every night 8.00pm to 02:00am to accommodate users such as you.

Where can you find 1TB of new porn every month?

Seriously though, do you even have time to watch 1TB worth of shows everyday?

Seriously, I don't see how my post is trolling as much as yours. You forget that Asian refers to more than just Singapore, Japan, Korea, etc. Malaysia can't be compared apple-to-apple with Singapore, because we are just not there yet. While there might be reasons for the high price in Malaysia, pointing out that in Singapore it's cheaper RM-wise is a straw man argument.

I don't really want to argue when people already have a preconception on the state of broadband, but I'll bite.

1) Australia is a developed country
2) The map below shows ADSL coverage in Australia (for 2007, sorry I can't find any newer ones). As you can see coverage is limited to cities, where the 22 million population are concentrated
3) Broadband in Australia are of course capped
4) Some of the "cheap" price for broadband is only for bundled packages. In the case of Telstra, you would need to subscribe to their other products to enjoy the cheaper rates, e.g. mobile, telephony, etc. If not the price for the quoted 200GB cap plan is around AUD 100 (~RM 300)

Note that this is just a quick & dirty comparison. I might be wrong, but it's better then just putting up generalised statements.