ISPs especially TM Net can't charge for their services using this pricing structure as it makes revenue earnings extremely unpredictable. Meanwhile, the international links cost are fixed regardless of more or less been used. TM Net will go bankrupt if they did this and this pricing structure discourages the use of internet as well which is 100% against what the government is trying to achieve.

You fail to realise that price is after adding a factor of most probably 200% for profits because they (TM Net) are charging a company which makes profit from the use of the internet. Whereas we do not make any profits unless we open vcd/dvd stalls or sell thru the internet.

This post has been edited by TC_Boy: Oct 25 2006, 04:05 PM

Yes, this is absolutely correct. This is why the BSA only go after companies and not home users because companies earn profit from the productivity gained thru the use of illegal software.

This is a joke. I can get a news server service providing me with 30GB per month for RM37 and yet the ISP service cost twice as much? excit3, you really need to think again and not use rapidshare because they are ripping you off. I can get UNLIMITED news server service access for RM55 per month and download at 1Mbps 24/7 easily.

TM Net should have no problems at all providing for an unlimited internet service at 1Mbps for double the price (RM110) of an unlimited News Server service.

This post has been edited by TC_Boy: Oct 25 2006, 09:39 PM

It's because he loves Australia. Hopefully he will leave us to deal with TM Net and go and stay there. Last I remembered, USA whopped Australia's A$$ in the USA - Australia war. (A little GTA3 humor. What? u don't know? Listen to the radio in GTA3)

It's like this my sis in USA woks for about US$1000-2000 per month and she pays US$10 for cinema while most around here earn that in Ringgit same numbers range and also pay 10 for cinema but in ringgit.

I'm paying phone rent and streamyx as well. What! RM100 not enough for my 512kbps connection?

That is so local internet traffic don't have to go overseas then back to local just to connect within malaysia. For bittorrent, most of our peers are from overseas so it does not apply.

This post has been edited by TC_Boy: Oct 30 2006, 07:29 AM

Ok, I am now at Shaw website. They are a canadian ISP that throttles P2P and from the forum ( http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,12015375~mode=flat ) there is a guy complaining about his XTreme package ( http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServices/...ghSpeedXtremeI/ ) from Shaw being throttled till 16kb/s.

Mind you his XTreme package from Shaw says Download Speed Up to 10 Mb with a Data Transfer Limit 100 GB/month and yet they throttled his bittorrent.

The average speed appears to be 2.0-2.5 megabits downstream and 400-480 kilobits upstream.

What is to stop TM Net from doing the same to us after they implement download caps?

This post has been edited by TC_Boy: Nov 1 2006, 01:20 AM

Yes, they'll cap it at 110GB per month. Why? Because 100GB is the standard for the most premium package so 110GB is already more than most ISP willing to provide. TM Net marketing style.