well, ur modem is capped @2mb so even ur acc is 4mb, the speed won't go up even to 3mb and so ...better call them up regarding this matter, i also from Kuching and currently on 4mb acc, capped @5mb and max speed is 500+kbps

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Added on September 19, 2011, 9:09 pm

urs is 4mb? can do the speedtest?

well, hopefully ur case will be solved soon..and yes, usually when they see u as a tech-savvy personnel then it will work fast, i usually talk to the TM helpdesk & tech in terms that they can understood me well , so my line rarely got problem

My youtube streaming stops halfway, no incoming data though I can still browse other websites, youtube included.

Same thing happened if I download anything from fileserve etc. 10-12% then download interrupted.

Is it streamyx or my modem/router is dying?

I don't think it's my modem coz I still can browse at full speed.

?? I thought when someone wanna upgrade to 4mbps , the technician have to come to his house to check whether the line is suitable to be upgraded to 4mbps or not , after that it will have to do some setting at our home in order to upgrade the speed??

Just want to verify here, is there anything such as:

"Oh, our server has ran out of IP's to be allocated that's why you could not connect to the internet, please wait for a few hours while we ask our server personnel to increase the pool of IP .. "

This is what the TM people told me through the phone .. been happening for a week liau ... and it's starting to get annoying.. usually happened from 8pm onwards FML 

Fella from the 4mb department (or so she says) even told me the server code at fault ... it's like I'm booted out and I couldn't connect at all liao .. until it randomly came back maybe a few hours later =.=

I call till I feel a bit annoying liao .. and I have no other alternative!

I've just come back from Australia after finishin my degree, and I'd almost forgotten just how bad Streamyx is.

The house I was living in had a 'mere' ADSL2+ line, and you know what download speeds I was getting? 500kbps to 1mbps regularly. Of course it was capped at a 120GB limit per month, and only after exceeding it did our speeds drop to about 70 to 100 kbps.

And now I'm back here, using Streamyx's 1MB line, and my average speed is 40 to 50 kbps...

Their throttled speeds are better than my average Streamyx speeds...

And now I find that Fiber is slowly coming up, and after asking around my friends report speeds ranging from 100kbps to 700kbps.

Our Fiber connection... is worse than their ADSL2...

I'm sick of living here... I want to go back to Australia.

I'm sorry, but I will have to interrupt you guys..

First, I will state the connection I had in Australia. I had ADSL 2+ as well... I had a SNR of 6dB +/- that allows me to connect at 18-22 mbits to the servers which was considered very good. With that, I got about 300-500kb/sec download speed often via torrents, with the few rare moments where I got 800kb/sec - 1mb/sec.. the only time I saw speeds of 1mb/sec or more was when I was downloading from an Australian file server..

Not to mention ADSL 2+ you're limited to 1mbit upload.. so you can't seed for nuts, leaving those private tracker sites which requires you to have a good upload ratio out of the question..

Secondly, vanchrian, what ISP were you using in Australia? Most ISP shapes your connection to 128kbits or 256kbits after you pass your quota.. meaning 10-20kbytes/sec download speed..

Thirdly, I have no comment about your friend's fiber connection, but my UniFi VIP10 hits 1.2mbytes often when downloading via torrents.. often and stable.. after being impressed with that speed, I upped my package to VIP20 and now am able to do 2.4mbytes..