Celcom and TM do peer with each other, but only public peering at MyIX's Klang Valley point.

As for Celcom Timur, the fact that AS132354 isn't listed at peeringdb says it all. Therefore the only way they connect with each other is via transit pipes.

Corruption and bad planning. The very least they can do is at least establish an iX to serve both Sabah & Sarawak or place one in each state for all ISPs to keep their bandwidth within Borneo.

Why force all of them to route to West Malaysia then back?

Also SACOFA has been around since 2016-2018, what have they been doing?

TM has a presence in MyIX Sabah and Sarawak I believe.

hello my fellow borneoan brothers (and sisters).

i have just recently relocated to kuching. wanting to get maxis fibre due to the crazy offer of a new 4k tv for RM1, however there is no port available.

I have not enquire about Unifi fibre yet, but is there a possibility that Unifi port will also be full if Maxis is full?

If so, what would my options be to expedite the process (for both Maxis Fibre and Unifi Fibre)?

I relocated from overseas so no appreciation of the process here...

Thank you in advance.

You might want to find out if SACOFA is going to provide additional ports in your area.

This port insufficient issue has always been TM's dirty trick to prevent other ISPs from using their wholesale agreement which competes directly with their retail Unifi brand.

They will put you down or place it on low priority to upgrade their number of ports if they find out that your area is highly popular with their other competing ISPs and not theirs.

No point building a network for other ISPs to enjoy riding on them right? Who would?

Would you pave a road to a shared house with you as one of the tenants when you're not the heaviest user of it?
Pay from your own for others to enjoy?

Firstly welcome to Kuching.
A practical solution since port is full, you can check with Unifi, Digi Fibre, or Celcom Fibre. Have to let go of the TV offer then and just subscribe to whichever that has port and suits your need. Politicking between ISP is going to take forever .

which area in kuching anyway? tried check with local bt lintang TM?

Thank you for a direct response bro, appreciate it.

Am I right to assume that SACOFA provides the ports instead of TM?

Or they can also provide ports, just like TM?

Sorry if I am getting all these mixed up!

Thank you for a warm welcome, it is nice to be back in Kuching after a lengthy period away!

I have indeed given up on the TV offer and is now just desperate for any Fibre I can get hold of.

Will take on your advice and grab the first one I can!


Jalan Astana in Petraja. Just recently returned and had to immerse myself into work straigthaway so have not managed to get myself to Batu Lintang TM. I have however approached a number of agents to identify available ports near my house, but they are not willing to help unless I sign up.

Kids and wife pestering me to get this sorted though so I might take a couple of days off next week to go to Batu Lintang TM and scour Kuching for DIGI and Celcom Service Centre.

Thank you for the input.

Good luck borneo

Hope yall get wider coverage soon

My house unifi is 4 years and still going strong

Made hell a lot of difference transitioning screamyx to fibre

Sending love from semenanjung

This post has been edited by skylinelover: Oct 28 2020, 05:09 PM

Similar to Allo by TNB in West Malaysia, they'll operate their own wholesale and alternative ISPs such as Maxis, DiGi or Celcom can sell their fixed line services on them.They don't have to rely on TM to provide ports to reach their customers.

TM will prioritize their own Unifi when providing available slots when a new subscriber approaches them. They feel that they built the fibre network in the country, they should have the first hand to sell their own consumer retail ISP brand Unifi lines before the leftovers are offered to other competing ISPs.

for sacofa sofia, afaik so far only available at some parts in samarahan

Possibly another major undersea cable fault starting around 9pm today affecting Sarawak and Sabah. So sites and services with local servers including Singapore are mostly unaffected



This post has been edited by Vyrnach: Nov 7 2020, 11:56 PM

I started a thread but also want to let everyone know im having the same issue with consistent packet loss.

Particularly SG valve server, Valorant Server and Mapleasea Server.

i live in very small kampung in sarawak also ada unifi

funny that in urban cities here some ppl still only got screamyx 1mbps

btw

sabah sarawak got slower connection to west, but still fast enough

always submarine cable broke one meh.. so fragile

This post has been edited by squall0833: Nov 8 2020, 11:26 PM

some padawan area also got unifi, but housing near town takda..haha

my town funny one

commercial buildings, bank, office, no unifi, still screamyx

then all housing area got unifi, almost fully coverage

industrial area got unifi

This post has been edited by squall0833: Nov 9 2020, 01:47 AM

sarawak unifi planning is weird.

some area up to river road, got.
housing don't have.

Anyone else unifi is downed??

Permyjaya Miri so far fine sir.

also whole sdk went offline just now. now back online lol..