Just had to reply to this one; and after an hour of looking up ISP's in my home town (US) I realized that it's not discussed cause it ain't happening (not in my old country anyways). Here is a quote from my last ISP whom I dearly miss (they can keep the rest)
"All of Avvanta's Qwest DSL services include the following standard features:

* The ability to make and recieve telephone calls while online
* Avvanta.com email service including antivirus and Avvanta's Advanced Spam Protection
* Multiple computers may be connected to the Internet at the same time with no additional service fees
* Unmetered transfer (this means literally; in, then out. No filtering; port blocking; shaping; throttling, etc.)
* Personal Web Space
* Secure Instant Messaging"

I can speak of them (Blarg now called "Avvanta") due to the many dealings I had with them; I actually had about an hour long discussion with one of the owners about "Unmetered Traffic" when it was found that a competitor at the time (Qwest) was "capping" connections. Capping, shaping, throttling all kind of fall into the same boat to me. I pay for xxx/xxx connection; I expect xxx speed without question etc. I believe that most (like 99%) of amerikans whom are INET literate would not accept an ISP "limiting" their ability to do whatever on the connection package they've paid for; I also believe this would be true of the Euro-pee-ons and the Aussie's as well (they'd have a fit). Working for an ISP (not in Malaysia) now I can say we do "shape" connections. But only because our "upstream" provider couldn't sell us anymore bandwidth as the nation is in a holding pattern right now. I believe TMNet is in a similar situation about buying from their upstream provider more bandwidth, etc. Bottom line is streamyx=incompetent (the "why's" and "whatfore's" are well documented all over the LYN forums) at the end of the day and is a poor reflection of Technology in Malaysia on the whole.

This post has been edited by lucky206: Nov 24 2006, 01:38 AM

Being from the "so-called" #1 First World country I can assure you; "unlimited" download means exactly that (and 99% of ISP's have an "unlimited" package). And anything short will have an ISP looking at "Civil Suits" (i.e. try capping, shaping, throttling an amerikan, oh boy. monetary gains for the winner; big gains). The key is to get out of this damn first world/third world "mindset". Are you "third world"? or better yet "what is the definition of third world"?... and further WHO created the definition of "third world". Bunch of bullshyte, really. Bottom line is the network is overloaded by users (TMNut incompetance); the network will continue to be over saturated as the CEO's are buying the latest Merc's and the CallCenter workers are struggling to get rm1500 a month. Fukers are greedy laaa... Need to cut the fat back; starting at the top. Re-enforce the infrastructure and bandwidth to meet the current/future demands. Since I've been here I've found a "first world" peoples trapped by a "third world" government. You'all have all the same benefits/problems that we have back home. Now we just need to overcome the mindset and some of these folks whom continue to live mentally in the past (my Umno brothers should be ashamed of themselves... not even going to go there)...