It was initially TNB's intention to expand their Allo Fibre coverage to housing gardens which were deprived from TM Unifi coverage for years up until 2020 without directly confronting TM head-on.

But as you can see, TM was caught with their "pants down" when they found out that TNB was actively expanding into their comfort zones. Only then they started waking up recently and did quick expansion and placed minimal numbers of FDPs around these areas as well as pulling new fibre cables into these housing gardens trying to deter TNB from entering there.

For all you know all these "EXCUSES" of port shortages and not enough demand for expansion are dirty corruption practices by TM.

They wanted to create fake demand telling people there's not enough of ports because of high demand in the area, those who wanted ports availability must either bribe their way to get those ports through agents by paying undertable fees, making excuses to minimize rollout commitments then telling the customers/developers that if they wanted it so desperately, they must jointly pay for the expansion to wire up their projects/homes.

Miraculously though when a competitor such as Allo came into the picture, they suddenly got shook and quickly pulled fibre cables into these areas without complains.

My advise to TNB Allo is since they initiate this challenge, go ahead and face their confrontations. They're at the losing end anyway. They try to beat you to getting these housing gardens to sign up and locked them down for the next 2 years, you can send out your brochures earlier too to make the people aware and educating them that your plans are much cheaper with symmetrical 100Mbps for only RM99 with a much more ADVANCE network then theirs.

Tell them about TM's unfair practices that requires 2 years lockdown contract with remaining months penalty for early termination. Tell them the cheap minimal installation works they provide compared to yours which covers wall sockets in your standard installations and the lousy equipment they're supplying now to their customers.

As you know the Chinese community in Ipoh will not easily commit to things. We know our stuff, the value we're getting for what we're paying for.

TNB Allo can come to my area too at Taman Sinfar, Medan Pasir Saujana and Mandarin Garden closed gated community here at Pasir Putih.

Homes here costs millions and the Medan Pasir Saujana Semi-D housing project here is a new greenfield project with no telco infra yet just located in between Menglembu and Pengkalan.

We're one of the first areas in Ipoh to get Unifi through the HSBB Phase 2 rollout.

Take my money, I don't want to have anything to do with TM.

I'm skeptical about the demand thing, but if they continue not to be not agressive in confronting TM by overlapping existing coverage with them their project might not work out as intended.

Also just like yours, my housing garden also has these fibre cables running in front which aren't TM fibre cables but green striped ones own by Maxis on TNB poles. They're either using their poles to carry the fibre to designated areas instead of burying them underground or using them as backhaul fibre to wire up mobile base stations which is what Maxis is dong in my area.

Before TM beats Allo to it with signups better be quick throw in the pamphlets and use sales people to go around the area meeting up house owners to inform them who you are.

This post has been edited by Candy12: Aug 9 2020, 09:40 PM

Maxis's fixed line exchange is located somewhere in Medan Ipoh, behind the Aeon Jusco there nearby the PLUS highway exit.

In Ipoh, Maxis serves a few exclusive housing gardens with their fixed lines such as Pakatan Jaya, Bercham similar to that of Sierramas.The fibre which runs on TNB lines are used for mobile backhaul, not for consumer last mile.If you take a drive straight in from Mun Choong@ off Jln. Pasir Putih, the ending stretch of Tiger Lane you'll see TNB poles also with fibre optics but these fibre cables are green stripes one by Maxis.

About the pamphlet distribution and awareness idea, IMHO do make a difference if you target it with the right portion of audiences like the younger and tech-inclined middle age groups. Just look at the signups and interests at some of the housing gardens such as Tmn. Arkid and Menglembu, the response was quite overwhelming right?
Moreover the unique views on this topic was just about 14k today it's close to 16k already almost 2k views over the weekend. People are actually aware of this lurking here reading.

In Thailand, 100M/100M by AIS Work From Home promo only costs 399baht(RM53) per month.



They are also using the same fibre modem(ONT) as TNB Allo.

Fair competition with many competing ISPs using their own fibre network.
In Thailand major cities, if you live in landed the poles in front of your house can have more than 5 different telcos delivering their service on their own separate independent fibre lines.

Got AIS, TOT, True, 3BB and CAT.

In Malaysia TNB want to pull another 2nd line into TM area already making so much noise.

Bangkok costs of living already surpassed KL now with Chaing Mai also catching up.

Their MNCs over there are paying more than Malaysian MNCs now.

Active optical network not really cost effective today's world. The number of strands needed to pull from the nearest switch will incur much more investments which isn't really worth it other than doing backhauls and corporate leased lines.

Also passive optical networks can deliver in excess of 10Gbps upto 40Gbps bonding upto 4 lambdas today.
Home fibre subscriptions won't need that kind of speed for years to come.

The Maxis staff got told me before he says not enough spare fibre strands to do fixed broadband services. They're more into preparing 5G deployment in future with fibre backhaul. If need to deploy fixed line fibre services need a new cable with extra dark strands to deploy FTTH.

Current fibre is on active optical network node for mobile backhaul. Port to port 1:1 based back at the exchange.

Try this:

http://www.gcping.com/

You can test CDN and DNS latency around the region and globally using this:

https://cloudharmony.com/network-3m-from-ripe

Try this one from CBB's own in house test site:

https://www.citybroadband.my/support/speed-test/

Today like the entire TM Pasir Putih exchange broke down.

My Maxis line only getting 2Mbps speed and the pings shoot up to more than 5X.
Dunno who itchy hands go and messed up the TM HSBB infra and cause everyone in the area to be affected including other ISPs on TM HSBB network.

My line latency now:



Last week's latency:



Really sucks man to use TM HSBB line.

Speed test also show getting like 2-3Mbps only now but upload seems fine for 30Mbps line.

My office at Jalan Pasir Putih Streamyx line also down since late morning today.Using Maxis 4G LTE as backup now full speed no latency drop issue, so this has nothing to do with Maxis core network.

This post has been edited by Candy12: Aug 12 2020, 04:39 PM

Apartment you're better off asking your JMB to write a letter to Time to invite them to your building.

The latency on Maxis used to be even better than that only 5ms to Subang Jaya from Ipoh.
Starting last weekend suddenly the whole thing went bad.



TM's dunno hand itchy go and touch something in their HSBB network now today the entire network like crippled.
Now I'm only getting like 1-2mbps on my wifi, the pings oh dear ~25ms with jitters that can spike over 225ms.

Regretted mentioning my area in this forum. You know really got nasty people lurking around that will mess with your area's connection.

I don't think it's due to wire cut or anything, more to do with the configuration messed up at their exchange switches/routers.

The fibre line is still up, just that connection now is like very slow 1-2Mbps only and the latency spiked up to several times than usual.

EDIT: Just turned on my ONT/router back again, speed returned to normal but ping still exceptionally high at ~15ms. Maybe Merdeka coming, Maxis network always like that approaching festive holidays their Hotlink will sell cheap on demand MU passes so the traffic will spike.

This post has been edited by Candy12: Aug 12 2020, 05:48 PM

Not surprising to read such statement.

TNB Allo will have a long battle ahead against a nasty rival out there. Be careful of fierce rivalry confrontation and sabotaging of infra in years to come. It is already well known among the public to expect the inevitable.

Thanks for the pictures.
The average latency from Ipoh to KL/PJ/Subang test servers is about 5-9ms on a good day.
To Singapore it's about 14-20ms

My area code is under ibusawat PPP(Pasir Putih/Pengkalan).

These 2 areas now in Pasir Putih, some even just metres away from Ibusawat TM Pasir Putih (PPP) until now August 2020 still no signs of Unifi or any other fibre broadband internet company.





About the coverage map of TM assets not really up to date till latest day.
Suddenly just last week a new FDC appeared. Just this month alone TM suddenly jump up from the bed and expedited their expansion after hearing TNB Allo is expanding in Ipoh suburbs.



This post has been edited by Candy12: Aug 15 2020, 11:00 PM

jcws87,

About TNB Allo expansion coverage, do you know Rose Garden(Taman Melor) where the famous Tenaga Kilat Club is located next to the airport?

That area also totally no Unifi coverage until now.

There's a big recreation park owned by TNB and behind there all the "flower"named gardens single storey homes no Unifi until today. Allo got consider expanding there?

The multi million bangalows opposite the park got many VIPs live there. One of them is Foh San Restaurant big boss.





Jalan Queen, Jalan Bunga Anggerik, Jalan Evergreen, Jalan Bunga Raya main road heading towards Jln. Theatre.
All until now ZERO Unifi coverage. Those multi million bangalow homes facing the main road all got large families living in them.

Merdeka promo only RM89/mth for 100M/100M.

Shame on TM and the other big 3 telcos in Malaysia for still charging RM129 for 100M/50M today considering they monopolize most of Malaysian FTTH marketshare and still cannot beat a smaller telco.

Worst they can't even provide proper standard installation and now resort to provide cheap CPE equipment to their customers while imposing REMAINING MONTHS early termination penalty on Malaysians.

How to determine the best 3rd party public DNS server to use for your internet connection?

Use the one which has the LOWEST latency result.

Depending on different OS platforms these are the recommended tools for you:



Android: DNS SPEED TEST
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...edtest&hl=en_US



Windows: DNSJumper
https://www.sordum.org/7952/dns-jumper-v2-2/
-You don't need to install the app, just unzip it to a folder(with your desired name) and run the .exe file.
-Click on Fastest DNS button on the left.
-SELECT only Google Public DNS, OPENDNS, Quad9, Cloudflare, Verisign Public DNS, Comodo Secure, Hurricane Electric & Freenom World.
-Then Click Start DNS Test

Any TNB Allo user can do a test on their network and screenshot it? Curious to know what is the BEST public DNS server for Allo. From my dig-up past Allo subscribers in Cyberjaya reported that the network does not have their own DNS servers and they configure Google DNS in their routers by DEFAULT. Can anyone confirm this?

Use this website: https://dnsleaktest.com/ to check which public DNS you're currently on.

This post has been edited by Candy12: Aug 17 2020, 02:10 PM