Not true, all the developed countries are moving away from caps(except US and Canada)and maybe only got traffic management.Read my post a few page back for the article at stopthecap.com.

Even this http://stopthecap.com/2011/03/16/south-afr...y-party-ruined/

So you telling me we are worst off than south africa?

If the direct cable is problematic as described its likely to be over-heating.  Try placing the router away from the modem .. say 20cm or more.  Also check if the router feels warm to touch or hotter.  I had seen wireless routers randomly disconnect and the cause was traced back to over-heating because other equipment were close by.  Check by turning off wireless when you test with direct cable.

Once you find direct cable is ok and the problem arises for wireless only its likely network congestion.  In my area its like around 10 or more wifi running at any one time.  With 2.4Ghz having 3 effective radio channels and it does not help with some D-Link routers using dual-channel for 802.1n (some vendors for example only use one channel for 2.4Ghz to prevent over-crowding) you will see lots of latency and wifi disconnects.  I run both 5Ghz for my gaming systems and 2.4Ghz on other stuff like PS3 and iPhone.  The 2.4Ghz shows plenty of drops even though the signal is quite strong - prove of network congestion.  And this usually also shows a much much lower speedtest probably because of packets retransmits.  Turning on the "network robustness" option on my router helps a bit at the expense of throughput though.

new VIP5 at Puchong. 1st time dump the Dlink & IPTV device & replaced with microtik RB250GS with Asus RT-N16 on DDWRT

my house is the only area in the whole housing area without unifi.. i wonder if they have 'forgotten' about it...