QUOTE(Fiber@Home Urban Network @ Sep 8 2013, 09:21 AM)
Celcom First Fibre is not using TM Unifi infra in Sg Petani, they are using Fiber@Home City Network. TM Unifi infra is based on GPON and Fiber@Home is based on Active Point to Point (AP2P) a different FTTH technology.
For online games like Dota2, Counter Strike and many more, the resident can play within community via Fiber@Home LAN network with the speed up to 100Mbps and speed to Internet based on what package they subscribe.
So no torrent cap or download speed cap since this is a Symmetrical Active Point to Point Network (AP2P). Unifi infra is a GPON network where there are using splitter to split the bandwidth to 32 or 64 homes. That why users face slow speed when more users are using. A lot different between GPON shared and AP2P dedicated infra.
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Thought i should quote this and correct some things.
TM uses GPON technology which is used in many places like japan. GPON can provide more than 1Gb/s bandwidth however the problem with tm isnt backbone or cables, its the equipment they use.
TM need to upgrade their equipment and pppoe servers/gateways as they dont have enough, server always have high load. Its even worse for maxis as maxis is using tm infrastructure but providing their own gateway (likely maxis gateways are inferior in hardware to tm).
TM is also a T1 ISP, meaning they are an international ISP too connecting other ISPs and countries together, they could prioritise their own ISP for international bandwidth over other ISPs. That is why people are having problem with maxis, they are capped by TM.
Some ISPs in other countries have multiple PPPOE servers or gateways per area unlike in malaysia where all ISPs have 1 gateway per large area. This server is your everyday x86 server or a device like the mikrotik CCR1072, however while cisco do have their own cisco's own one also uses x86 hardware. if you dont know x86 is the pc architecture that your everyday desktops and laptops use.
ALL ISPs have their strengths and weaknesses. With TM they are starting to follow the dreaded US cable iSPs (slow uploads, faster downloads) rather than google fiber. Thanks to some higher ups complaining about caps, throttling and limits tm unifi remains unlimited.
So TM uses PON at the edge, essentially allowing GPON and fast speeds, but speeds also depend on equipment. Thankfully its fiber optic as copper has crosstalk issues. So the famous dreaded coppers (VDSL, cable -DOCSIS) all suffer when many in a small area subscribe to them as its not the backbone bandwidth but the more subscribers on copper the more crosstalk and interference issues you get. While malaysia has better cabling they still do poorly in offering good speeds.
Currently i place uploads as a very important factor because more and more products are coming out for homes that require uploads, from security IP cameras, consumer NAS, cloud services, online backups, smart home products, microsoft and apple spying on you, all these need upload to be useful. Hence TM unifi's base package of 5Mb/s upload is too little to be of any use in this day. If you arent limited by technology, dont limit the bandwidth too low to be useful, at such lower bandwidth you might as well just use adsl.
Even the active network also requires the equipment to support the speeds. From the sounds of things GPON is actually faster but at current landed property internet availability, the active network allows cheaper implementation on the equipment side for 100Mb/s, however for 1Gb/s GPON is currently cheaper.
This post has been edited by System Error Message: Sep 7 2017, 11:37 PM 
May 22 2013, 11:31 AM, updated 13y ago
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Oh! Someone, mention that Celcom does have in certain area that Unifi no coverage. Slowly, work like TIME.. 
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