Stupid excuses. If subscribers are porting to Unifi many would have abandon their DSL ports at the exchange freeing up slots for new subscriptions.

But the way they put it,"Tak ada slot, semua habis", it means that Streamyx is still going stronger than Unifi at this moment?

I won't be buying the optical fibre hype because it comes with a huge bomb just waiting around the corner. Soon when they build enough install base, they'll kick in the monthly quota and milk people kaw kaw. Speed also not much difference and there's always a catch. They can't be investing so much with expensive installations without raking in the returns.

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Added on August 24, 2011, 11:20 amShut down Streamyx? Then what're they going to do with all the copper cables left aside and infrastructure?

Sell them to competing isps and telcos and allow a open network?

Good, then we'll be seeing 10mbps ADSL2+ packages with FREE self install packs for consumers priced 1/2 of what Unifi charges monthly.
TM can keep their new FTTH network to themselves because they are just offering nothing much better than what copper can deliver today.

This post has been edited by Ahn3hn3h: Aug 24 2011, 11:20 AM

Not worth the risk. If you are still using Streamyx and your contract has ended, hold on to it until better deal comes along.

Seeing that TM has now started to become desperate with monthly caps, it could be that their Unifi isn't taking off as planned. They might be losing money with fibre optic such as lessons learned from US, UK and Australia.

TM sales people would argue with you that you can achieve NEAR what you subscribe but they didn't tell you THESE things:

1) They always do speedtests with LOCAL servers or those in neighbouring countries. This is fair if you're offering a generous 50-100mbps connection but at 1,2,4 mbps? Even neighbouring Thailand has 10mbps packages on average and lowest tiered package at 6mbps.

2) They expect you to strain your downloads with AT LEAST 8-16 parallel connections.

Yup, it's pointless when international connections only get you like 1/4 of your subscribed speed.

Your VPN, FTP, HTTP downloads with single connection with major servers, antivirus updates and important downloads would sometime crawl like snail.

Only way is to pump multiple connections and pray that your speed can get as near as it allows by forcing your download manager with 8, 12 or 16 parallel streams. A good connection will get you the same result even with lesser parallel connections such as 2-4 maxing out.

TM is selling people a 1mbps local connection. It's ridiculous when other countries can sell 100mbps connections with international speeds hitting over 10mbps with servers across the pacific. Those connections in SG and Thailand can do close to 20mbps with West Coast US server speedtests.

It's pathetic to see our 1mbps or even 4mbps can even get close even at 75% of subscribed speed to LA/Tokyo Servers.

What do you think?

This is provided by your apartment management, correct? Macrolynx usually partner with apartment managements.

2mbps symmetrical wifi link or LAN(ETTH).

Their bulk bandwidth comes from Asia Net Com(Pacific Internet). Route to US is via SG-->JP-->US(via Unity Cable)



Upto 4.8Terabits or RAW capacity while TM has no access to this.
The other isp in Malaysia which does the similar routing is Time.

The recent slowdown had many Streamyx and Unifi users affected even with 1/2 of the 70gbps cut off.
Talk about 4.8terabits of capacity.

Singapore has access to 3 of such BIG pipes to USA.