Wao, thanks for your photo..
By the way, your technical can allow you to take photo of this box?

How to see which one is the main cable?
That means the rest of 10 ports cannot do anything?

You can see main big cable enter bottom of box then only one fibre from there is used. The other fibres continue exit the box on the main cable and loop to the next box. The one that is used is spliced to the yellow fibre which then goes to the 1:8 splitter and become 8 yellow fibres with plugs. These plugs are then connected to 8 of the 18 connectors. In this box there is no subscriber connected yet. The subscriber lines will be black wire and plugged to the other side of the connector to connect to the yellow fibres. So the other 10 are just empty connectors with nothing connected on the ports on both sides so is useless. That's why usually one box only can support 8 subscribers then TM say no more port. If want support more they need add more fibre cables and redistribute.

Also since one fibre is split to at least 8 subscribers or even more (the box on the roadside may have splitters too), each subscriber cannot get the full 2.48832 Gbps download and 1.24416 Gbps upload of the fibre capacity. So a box that has full 8 subscribers and all downloading at same time will likely not reach subscribed speeds if all subscribe over 100Mbps. Can read on Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) for more info.

This post has been edited by AV_2018: Aug 26 2019, 06:47 PM

No tm agent or tm people can help push for coverage? Kuching/Samarahan area... The nearest place got unifi just across road which is totally so close.

This post has been edited by GameSky: Aug 28 2019, 04:54 PM

still better than my sis house, neighbours behind her house 10m away has unifi and she doesnt even have telephone pole, cant even apply normal phone line

This post has been edited by squall0833: Aug 29 2019, 12:11 AM

then cites "no demand" for sure.

wei, no agents wanna earn some commissions eh? a lot potential customers here

This post has been edited by GameSky: Aug 29 2019, 09:45 AM

Dear Sabah, Sarawak users.

I live in Sabah and we have this 100/50 subscription.

The good thing is to KL we actually get 100/50 Mbps

The bad thing is, the moment we leave Malaysia our bandwidth goes down very fast!
To India it's already 30/20 and to US or EU it's 20/10 or worse.


yes, yes, I hear you saying:"well if that's how it is"

Well that's the point, it isn't!!

I asked 2 of my friends living near KL and have a 300/50 connection and they get
250/40 to EU/US

In this post https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?act=ST&f=301&t=4805456
a user criticizes me claiming he gets 40+ MBps (that's 300+ Mbps) and I believe him!

Because

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=4787223&hl=

a user living near KL also reports he has 200 to 250 and 35 to 50 Mbps to EU servers

Meaning in KL they actually get very high speeds to the outside world!!

That's amazing!

So these are 2 online sources claiming they get fast speeds to the outside world.


but I asked also a few friends living here locally, some of them have Unify, to test these servers
and ALL of them get the same speeds like I get:
appr. 100% speed to KL (so that is NOT the bottleneck!!!)
but when we go to EU/US our speeds are all 20Mbps download and 10Mbps Upload

We all have 100+ Mbps fiber internet connections.


So if we can get 100+ Mbps to KL
and from KL to the outside world people get 200+ Mbps speed

How come we here in Sabah dont get it?

Are we throttled in KL?
Are we filtered?
Is our traffic from Sabah going through "servers" checking us and thus the capacity of
these servers is the limitation?

Why do all of us here in Sabah, to the outside world through KL, have 10 times slower connections?

Again:
KK to KL we all have the speed we booked!!!

KL to the outside world has amazing speeds 200+ Mbps

But KK - KL - Outside world very slow like something is filtering/throttling our connections.

Could other users from Sabah/Sarawak confirm these speeds or do you elsehwere in Sabah/Sarawak to
servers in EU/USA also have these amazing 200+ Mbps speeds?

Location: Sarawak

speedtest.googlefiber.net result:
>270Mbps down
>100Mbps up

speedtest.net results:

Malaysia:


Singapore:


Korea:


Japan:


China:


Australia:


US:


Norway:


This post has been edited by AV_2018: Sep 1 2019, 01:19 PM

From Sarawak, using 100mbps Unifi. Here are some of my speed test to outside Malaysia.
Paris:


New York:

Hey hey people, is anyone having slow upload speed in Kota Kinabalu Sabah now?

Thanks for the posts friends!

So basically from Sarawak to USA speed also goes down below 20Mbps..

That's very weird as several contacts reported to me from KL to USA they still have 200+ Mbps.

So how come our connections in Sarawak and Sabah so slow?

Anyone an explanation?

@zioburosky13 your test to Celcom I can confirm! I tried using remote Desktop from Europe/USA servers I have access to to do the speedtest check back into Sabah and when I select TM/Maxis networks the speed is below 5Mbps but when I select Celcom the speed is over 200Mbps!

So I am still puzzled why this is so slow for us TM and Maxis users?

If the speed between Celcom in KK and Europe/USA is 200+ Mbps

Why can't Maxis/TM do this as well?

But TM/Maxis users in KL actually do get these high speeds also.

It just doesn't make sense to me.

Only explanation I can think of is throttles or filters because Celcom is using the same sea-cables.

I'm really without explanation..

Also a friend of mine here from Sabah is working in Japan many months per year and it's weird we get fast speeds to Japan..

and he says in Japan to USA he gets 500+Mbps to New York.

But from Sabah to New York we did the tracert and found it goes through Japan but all of the sudden the speed goes down to below 20Mbps

it just doesn't make sense.

Your speed looks very slow compared to mine. Look at my post above yours. Maybe try test with different server? Don't know if TM is giving lower International bandwidth priority to 100Mbps users or not.

Don't use that Celcom server. It is probably slow like Celcom Kuching server.

This post has been edited by AV_2018: Sep 2 2019, 12:44 PM

Same upload speed result which is supposed to be 100Mbps.


This post has been edited by zioburosky13: Sep 2 2019, 07:39 PM

If you're using Unifi 300Mbps, your speeds are correct according to the table here: https://www.lowyat.net/2018/168749/make-the...-turbo-upgrade/

edit......

This post has been edited by pakji: Sep 3 2019, 01:48 PM

Well the question really is:

are all users throughout Malaysia treated equal?

Are users prioritized because of contracts paying more?
This would be acceptable to me and I just change my plan, but I want to be sure before changing my plan this is the reason.

Or are users prioritized based on geographic location. Sabah & Sarawak discriminated?
This would be totally unacceptable for me for one and second changing my plan wouldn't change a thing.

Point is. I asked Maxis Fiber Team about this and they said:"changing plans doesn't change a thing, we don't prioritize users"

To my question if it's maybe they prioritize/discriminate based on geographic location they refused to give an answer.

And refusal to answer this specific question, starts some thinking processes:
-1) why they don't want to answer that?
a) they think the question is silly/insulting
b) because they know the question is valid, the answer is "yes" and they are not allowed to confirm this?

So I'm trying to find more users throughout Sabah & Sarawak to confirm whether or not users are discriminated based on their geographic location.

But if at least 1 user in Sabah/Sarawak can confirm to the USA/EU they also get 100Mbps or even 200Mbps then obviously there's no geographic discrimination and something else must causing it.

@AV_2018 has much higher speeds, and is a TM user right?

Meaning there is no discrimination going on. But then what is the bottleneck? Why are users in KL getting so much better international connections compared to Sabah&Sarawak.

I would understand it if the connection Sabah-Sarawak to KL was very bad already.. But that connection is actually very good. So we should get the same as KL users, right?

Yes, I am using TM Unifi 800Mbps and I am in Sarawak.

so you getting US: Los Angeles you got 200mbps+ for u using 800mbps

i Penang
i using unifi 100mbps

i see u using 800mbps

US: Los Angeles you got 200mbps+

i did speedtest for US: Los Angeles i getting 18mbps and 20mbps daam slow

i think i must get 800MBPS i will get US: Los Angeles 200mbps++

my turbo don't have because my area installed unifi since may 30 2019 my area almost delay fiber project complete

someone old user 2018 get turbo 800mpbs

i waiting unifi launch 800mpbs

This post has been edited by pakji: Sep 3 2019, 01:49 PM

The answer pertaining to your question is NO.

Not even Japan, US or South Korea.

Unless you live in a city island state such as Singapore or HK, the further you live from the major city or economic hub the higher ping or less bandwidth you get.

Same as in Japan for example: One lives in Tokyo the other in Hokkaido. There will be increased latency as your datacentre and international gateway distance increases.

The most optimal package for pricing and satisfaction would be the 300M which is the next closest package with speed tests conducted to USA and Europe.
Always take the best speed you can get from USA and Europe then choose the closest package that matches them. In your case 300M is the right choice for you.

Don't bother about local speedtests. You'll sure get FULL or close to your subscribe speed. USA and Europe speeds that matter most.