I'm the first Time Fibre subscriber in my building and I decided to share my experience with Time from my first inquiry right to installation and activation.

So if you guys have any questions, feel free to ask in this thread so everyone else can be informed

Equipment used :

Linksys E1000 Wireless-N Router - very basic wifi-N router
Huawei HG850a GPON - the same as unifi

Photos :

Fibre distribution terminal


Supplied ONU and Cisco WiFi N Router


this is my own router, Netgear WNDR3700 Dual Band Gigabit Router.





Speedtest taken with Boost activated and using my own router as the E1000 was giving me only slightly above 30 Mbps.
i need to do further tests to conclude that the E1000 is giving me slower speeds

This post has been edited by ezinger: Sep 6 2012, 10:22 PM

speedtests continued...






i've also added 2 photos of the fibre terminal and apparently has a maxis sticker on it.

I haven't discovered any limitations so far and most of the websites that are blocked by unifi are accessible(eg: rapidshare, megaupload, fileserve, etc)
There is a FUP policy but I have downloaded about 20GB in 3 days so far and my speed, as you can see is still at 100% throughput.

Damansara Perdana, i'm paying RM219 a month.

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Added on January 14, 2012, 5:39 pm
just quick screen cap of my download speed. as you can see, no throttling

This post has been edited by ezinger: Jan 14 2012, 05:39 PM

i'm not sure what you meant by "same lines" but afaik Time runs their fibre entirely on their on infrastructure and has different routing table as compared to unifi. As far as latency goes, i ping 15-20ms on most singapore gaming servers, 80ms to japan, 40-50ms to hk and 70-150ms to australia. (tf2, bf3, quakelive)

what *i think* goes on here is that maxis leases their equipment to Time.

i am pretty sure once IPTV hits any part of Malaysia, you will get to experience true fibre optic connection. as unifi is still on vdsl.

you're right!

do you know how AAG compares to EAC-C2C?

i get decent routes across Asia and Oceania in terms of bandwidth and latency.

i browse US sites regularly and youtube, so far i'm able to stream 1080p without a hitch

there isn't any VLAN settings, only PPPoE. VoIP is configured on the GPON.

iipohbee may have a point on better hardware because i'm getting slower speeds on the stock cisco e1000 as compared to my own netgear router. i will have to do further tests to confirm this.

here is a screenshot of my flashed cisco router that was given to me by TIME


there are not caps. it is unlimited and there are no plans for caps.

i'm currently pre-loading diablo3 via torrent at maximum speed(refer snapshot)

just let them be with their unibad and maxshit

no need to saturate the TIME network with more users...

PPPoE is on my netgear/cisco whichever i use. plug in your time capsule on the cisco or your personal router.

v24 preSP2 build 14896 on my WNDR3700

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Added on August 6, 2012, 10:51 pmRouter Specifications

CPU: AR7161 680 MHz
RAM: 64 MB
Flash: 8 MB (16 MB on v2)
Switch: Realtek RTL8366SR
Radio (2.4 GHz): AR9223
Radio (5 GHz): AR9220
Antenna Type: Internal
# Of Antennas: 8
Antenna Gain (2.4 GHz): 2.8 dBi
Antenna Gain (5 GHz): 3.9 dBi
Max TX Power (2.4 GHz): 17dBm
Max TX Power (5 GHz): 24dBm
Antenna Chains (TX/RX): 1+2/1+2

This post has been edited by ezinger: Aug 6 2012, 10:51 PM

i've been getting lags and timeouts for the past two weeks. anyone else having this problem?

Tracing route to 203.116.80.207 with TTL of 32:

1 0ms 0ms 0ms DD-WRT [192.168.1.1]
2 13ms 12ms 12ms cktn-r1-a1.time.net.my [203.121.50.1]
3 11ms 8ms 12ms 10.200.203.49
4 3ms 2ms 2ms 211.25.27.93
5 32ms 33ms 35ms ae-2-0.er-01-glsfb.ni.time.net.my [211.25.27.114]
6 76ms 73ms 89ms xe-0-1-0-0.cr-02-glsfb.ni.time.net.my [223.28.2.1]
7 75ms 77ms 88ms xe-1-0-0-0.cr-01-csfcb.ni.time.net.my [223.28.2.50]
8 100ms 111ms 116ms ae-2-0.br-01-csfcb.ni.time.net.my [223.28.5.126]
9 112ms 110ms 108ms ae-1.edge-gw-2-cyberjaya-pip.my.globaltransit.net [124.158.234.21]
10 105ms 93ms 76ms ae-5.cr-gw-2-sin-pip.sg.globaltransit.net [61.11.212.30]
11 77ms * 108ms ae-2.br-gw-1-sin-pip.sg.globaltransit.net [124.158.224.190]
12 309ms 314ms 285ms 116.51.26.69
13 295ms 351ms 309ms ae-2.r20.sngpsi02.sg.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.142]
14 283ms 288ms 286ms ae-2.a00.sngpsi02.sg.ra.gin.ntt.net [116.51.16.250]
15 310ms 301ms 281ms ge-0.ntt-inet-peer.sngpsi02.sg.ra.gin.ntt.net [116.51.17.10]
16 130ms 134ms 140ms ge-1.starhub.br001.sgp02.ntt.com.sg [116.51.3.22]
17 135ms 136ms 130ms gi8-1-0-an-ats-loc04.starhub.net.sg [203.118.7.11]
18 129ms 129ms 138ms 203.116.80.207

Traceroute complete.

I guess time has started to oversell and reaching beyond capacity...

Sigh..


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The lag usually starts from 9pm to 1am

Looks like I am not the only one affected. If you notice my graph that I have posted, the lag spikes and high pings starts around "peak hours" 9pm to 1am. Sometimes it will have from 3pm to 6pm.

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Added on August 13, 2012, 7:03 pmlooks like Time has started to throttle international bandwidth too..



in my earlier post, i got 17 Mbit to SF

another tm nut in the making...

This post has been edited by ezinger: Aug 13 2012, 07:03 PM

ok TIME is really starting to become a huge joke now



they claim to be the first and only ISP in malaysia that uses 100% fiber but offers a bandwidth slower than the cheapest tm nut adsl package

I can't stream anything without waiting for half an hour to buffer (i usually give up anyway if i had to wait for it to buffer, who has that kinda "time" these days?) or i won't be able to connect/load any webpage/server probably before my international bandwidth is at full capacity.

the biggest joke of all is when you ping 60ms to your ISP from first hop to last



for anyone that is thinking to switch to Time, i'd highly suggest you put that on a hold until this issue is fully resolved for over a month.

this issue has been going on for about 3 weeks now and its not even intermittent, its a constant ongoing issue.

you need to read up on my posts. this happens at peak hours like 8pm to 1am occasionally 3pm to 6pm.

my attachment shows 6:30pm to 12:30am..



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pretty sure someone else made a trace route had the same issue as me during peak hours

also i did a speed test at a non peak hour(8:30am) my speed was still quite horrible at 2.6 Mbps.

get anyone with Time to do a speed test to SF if you want to find out if its an isolated issue or now

i have been emailing time cusc back and forth for about 3 weeks now

You guys need to understand that at every time.net.my node, your latency is suppose to be below 8ms and not 60ms and above. Even at ADSL, your first few hops are below 25ms.


Tracing route to ir1.fp.vip.sp2.yahoo.com [72.30.38.140] with TTL of 32:

1 0ms 0ms 0ms DD-WRT [192.168.1.1]
2 49ms 49ms 53ms cktn-r1-a1.time.net.my [203.121.50.1]
3 49ms 48ms 44ms 10.200.203.49
4 39ms 37ms 38ms 211.25.27.93
5 47ms 54ms 52ms ae-2-0.er-01-glsfb.ni.time.net.my [211.25.27.114]
6 52ms 53ms 62ms xe-0-1-0-0.cr-02-glsfb.ni.time.net.my [223.28.2.1]
7 57ms 50ms 50ms xe-1-0-0-0.cr-01-csfcb.ni.time.net.my [223.28.2.50]
8 48ms 51ms 49ms ae-2-0.br-01-csfcb.ni.time.net.my [223.28.5.126]
9 42ms 42ms 43ms ae-1.edge-gw-2-cyberjaya-pip.my.globaltransit.net [124.158.234.21]
10 259ms 264ms 268ms ae-5.cr-gw-2-sin-pip.sg.globaltransit.net [61.11.212.30]
11 260ms 268ms 268ms ae-2.br-gw-1-lax-pip.us.globaltransit.net [124.158.224.18]
12 266ms 271ms 260ms ge-0-1-0-0.pp-gw-1-lax-pip.us.globaltransit.net [124.158.250.9]
13 267ms 267ms 282ms yahoo.com.any2ix.coresite.com [206.223.143.195]
14 272ms 269ms 274ms xe-5-1-1.pat2.sjc.yahoo.com [216.115.96.46]
15 277ms 269ms 270ms ae-0-d161.msr1.sp1.yahoo.com [216.115.107.59]
16 272ms 273ms 274ms et-18-1.fab3-1-gdc.sp2.yahoo.com [98.136.16.25]
17 278ms 273ms 270ms po-12.bas1-3-prd.sp2.yahoo.com [76.13.244.11]
18 291ms 343ms 304ms ir1.fp.vip.sp2.yahoo.com [72.30.38.140]

Traceroute complete.

Below is a network graph of a time lapse between 4pm and 10pm. As you can see the network is stable from 4pm to 6:30pm, after that it gets unstable for awhile. As per usual, Time starts lagging again every night 8:30pm onward to 1am. I am fairly certain the entire Time network are experiencing this issue. Just that most of us don't have the networking understanding to file a complaint so that Time can actually take this seriously. I have been emailing Time CSC for the past month with all my network graph time lapse and nothing has been done to resolve this issue. Not to mention our international bandwidth(especially US) has been throttled quite badly.

Please raise a complaint on TIME CSC. their CSC works around the clock and mostly friendly.