For people whose internet usage is restricted to mainly porn downloading, 30G is definitely not enough.

This post has been edited by altie: Sep 30 2006, 04:26 PM

Porn downloading?

P2P downloading is my main interest.

Peer-To-Peer and File Sharing Software
5.2.1 Certain software/applications which is used by a small number of customers to send and receive files containing very large amounts of data (including without limitation traffic from peer-to-peer software/applications (such as Bit Torrent, eDonkey, Gnutella) or file sharing software (such as Limewire)). These activities may cause network congestion and can negatively impact the speed at which other customers can access the internet.
5.2.2 Maxis does not guarantee a service level and/or connectivity to users of peer-to-peer or file sharing software/applications.
5.2.3 The system that is used to provide the Maxis Broadband service can identify very high bandwidth users and Maxis seeks to manage the customer's usage by throttling their bandwidth to a much lower broadband speed to ensure fairness to all customers.
5.2.4 The customers are reminded that the software (as mentioned in section 5.2.1 above) allows the download of illegal content which Maxis prohibits, which is an infringement of copyright and/or intellectual property rights and rightful owners of such copyright and/or intellectual property rights may take measures to prosecute. Each individual download can be traced by the customer's IP address back to the customer's account with Maxis.
5.2.5 Maxis reserves the right to release customer information pursuant to any copyright (and/or intellectual property right) infringement if it is required to do so by any law, regulatory body or court of law.

5.3 Excessive Usage
5.3.1 Each customer's total usage per month shall NOT exceed 3GB of data volume transmitted (total upload and download usage). This is to ensure that no individual hogs the bandwidth at all times.
5.3.2 If a customer wishes to use more than the volume permitted, a written request should be made to Maxis.
5.3.3 Maxis reserves the right to reject the said application or charge for any additional data volume transmitted from what is already allocated.


No-no for P2P

This post has been edited by karhoe: Sep 30 2006, 08:01 PM

im using this kinda tech in france now.
wut i can say,eventhough p2p restricted,
i still can use skype...

anyway,its exp.
70euro/month unlimited time and bandwidth.

For those who only have porn in their minds, of course they willl think of porn to download.

There are many others legal things to do over the internet.

I managed the networks of my ex-company, for a software house with 8 persons, we consumed about 15GB per month, that was only normal browsing and internet findings, no P2P and porn download. I still remember we bought a DB file of marketing information over the net, that DB already 4GB, and we recieves updated DB quaterly. Imagine downloading 4GB files for business and get blocked by Maxis.

Well company can to write to Maxis everytime they want to download more things, and yet subject to their approval, see doing business in Malaysia is not easy at all. Hey bro, our competitors in India and China have reached the moon already, we are still talking to the ISP to get more bandwidth.


Maxis please provides more flexible packages lah

70 euro per month is really kinda expensive especially if someone is a student studying over there. What is the speed they offer there?

orange business by france telecom?

This post has been edited by maxguy: Oct 2 2006, 05:27 PM

Hey all!!

I just wanna know is this the package which can connect thru 3g thru handphone to surf internet?

You may use a 3G capable mobile phone or use a 3G modem.

ok but it will be caped at 3gb usage right if i am not mistaken and cant use BT ?

To make things clearer, the total 3GB bandwidth includes upload + download transfers.. that means if you upload as much as you download, you'll be able to download approx 1.5GB of BT data..

Yes ATI.Bob is right. So you must be careful of your upload too. You can still download through BT but the 3GB limit will be reached very quickly as there is upload going on there too.

Has anyone tried the Maxis's broadband?How is it?

Let me shed some light on the Maxis Wireless Broadband service.

First, the 3GB limitation is not strictly enforced. It is there to protect all other users should the network be invaded by a small group of high bandwidth users (read hardcore P2P guys). As such, if you are hardcore P2P, you are better off staying with streamyx.

Next, the P2P limitation is to ensure that everyone gets a fair share of the bandwidth. If you are streamyx user you'll appreciate what I mean especially when you are facing slow download speeds and it is cos 75% of the total 17Gbps international pipe is taken over by 13% of hardcore P2P guys. These guys should pay extra for their use and not be allowed to inconvenience the other 87%!

Because the 3G/HSDPA signals don't penetrate walls very well and the base stations are not installed in very high buildings, it only makes sense to limit the coverage to low buildings. I guess they just picked a number ... 5.

There should be no issue with running a router with the HSDPA modem but the bandwidth for the rest of the users might not be fantastic given that the speediest package is 768kbps. Perhaps better to think of it as your personal broadband connection, and have all users subscribe their own connection.

By the looks of it, doesn't sound very promising considering that many people now are downloading more & more stuff from the Internet. From MTV's to Anime to Videos to MP3's to freewares & sharewares to Wallpapers.

When more people sign up for this service, they would do enforce the 3GB limitation, if not, the node will come to a halt.

It would do no good if everytime i click here & there, and have to worry if i download this file whether its an update, shareware or just playing long hours of online gaming, i have to worry about would i hit the 3GB in half a month. That haven't even considering P2P files like Anime.

It looks like Maxis Wireless Broadband is catering for light online users? and people who are uses their computers "very near open area or wall to outside"


This post has been edited by xChaoSx: Oct 6 2006, 09:11 AM

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3gb cap is stupid

I just subcribed maxis new launched HSDPA wireless broadband. So far so good, but sometimes will down for one or two hours. But, seems no more BT download for me I checked their terms & conditions, they seems limit the max upload & download data volumn to 3G only, per month !!! Does anyone know what is this mean for?

Posts merged.

Well, we have a maxis subscriber here!

is it fast??
how's the ping to local servers like?

im not a heavy user..now im using 1mb package from streamyx...since i travel a lot so i decided to use my 3g phone ( 384kbps ) as my modem ( which is MAYBE maxis.. )..

in term of COST:

streamyx + fixed phone = rm99.00 + rm35 + prepaid ( rm100 ) per month = RM225

if i switch to maxis , im going to cut down my housephone line ( since im renting ) and streamyx..and take one of maxis package...

3g broadband (unlimited package RM 120 ) + rm75 ( package ) = +/- 200 and plus i can surf wherever i want..

so..i can save up to rm 25-30 or even more per month...

im not a heavy downloader and seldom use BT...just surfing and emails from clients almost everyday...

my question is...should i switch?what is ur opinion?