Time is a no brainer choice, meaning if you dont have brains. I mentioned everywhere else why i use TM because for what i use TM for, TIME only gives me 1Mb/s and blames their routing. I dont want to call TIME everyday just to "Update routes" when really its just down to their traffic management and lack of international infra that TM is actively expending.

For 90% of your internet use, TIME is sufficient, for anything outside ASEAN, go with TM unifi, literally the only ISP in Malaysia that will give you good latency and bandwidth for traffic outside ASEAN. That means if you game on a US server or australia, TM is better, if you do file transfers, remote access and all that remote work stuff outside of ASEAN, TM is better. If you watch videos from some unknown site in some far away country, TM will load it faster while TIME will buffer loading a 512kb/s video.

I also used a very good and expensive router and regardless of my settings as best as they are still couldnt get more than 1Mb/s for TIME for international traffic, even for my game server on TIME players report lag and most of my players are outside.

People say maxis is bad, but really the reason is that maxis gives out a crappy router. Except with TM unifi you should get your own router, one that is really good to use with any ISP.

When i did load testing for streaming, i could only get up to 40% of subscribe bandwidth with TIME, with TM unifi i got up to 80%, and the test site even though further away used youtube and netflix streams, so i used a mixture of stream tests to max out the bandwidth when i was testing my router's QoS. The reason why i got 40% with TIME was because youtube has servers in singapore.

This post has been edited by System Error Message: Jun 9 2018, 10:32 PM

If you read what i usually write, for 90% of internet use i would recommend TIME or maxis or any other provider for their better pricing. However my use falls into the small 10% which relies a lot on international traffic.

I did have TM Unifi at 30Mb/s and it worked really well, the issue you had is if you use VDSL because that is actually very limited by cable length and VDSL version.

when i say ASEAN i meant singapore. You may think that the majority of heavy traffic comes from international waters but singapore is where most of them are located and cached with some cached by ISPs and local malaysian datacenters.

So when people go to facebook, it actually goes to facebook's servers in singapore, same with youtube and many other streaming sides like twitch, netflix, same with so many websites that use a CDN and cloudfare as well. Most of the websites malaysians visit get cached and located near with only minimal traffic from outside.

I really know what im talking about as i actually do cloud and distributed processing for fun. Hence why i said about my experience because i use the internet for my work and my traffic cannot be cached.

not isolated, i literally compared traffic from the same place. TM next building, unifi in the other building, both next to each other under the same developer. With TIME i get 100ms more overseas and a lot less bandwidth. Even to watch a 512kb/s video from far away it buffers and the reason is TIME's traffic management, unless you subscribe to one of TIME's business package (max of 100Mb/s) you will not get good international speeds, because 90% of content that malaysian's browse can be kept local or in singapore, even torrents if they use some sort of caching system. And ofcourse the daily calls to TIME to fix the issue.

I've had TM unifi at 3 places, all through fiber optics, 2 high rise, 1 house, all worked very well in 3 very different locations for my use. And while i hate that TM does not have symmetrical uploads it does deliver on advertised speeds even to far away places that it is the far away place's international traffic management that becomes an issue. With TIME its literally very slow, less than 1Mb/s per client which significantly affects ping and gaming performance too. And as i said i called TIME too many times.