Interesting.

Any plans for ViewQWest to come to Ipoh under TM HSBB and Allo?

My Maxis Home Fibre contract is due for expiry.Looking for plans under RM100/mth with less than 2 years contract.
Not interested in a home voice fixed line but an updated speed package.

Outside TM HSBB fibre coverage, VQ has very limited areas which they run their own network.

There's Bangsar South(Kerinchi), Setia development projects close by Cyberjaya as well as a few handful of condominiums in JB which they lease TNB's Allo fibre all for themselves so headend equipments such as OLT switches are by themselves that's why they'll supply their own fibre modem(ONTs) units to customers who are lucky to be on their independent network.

If you're that lucky to be on their standalone fibre network fully managed by VQ, then everything's good. No need VLAN, no need to pass through TM's overcongested edge routers and even use PPPoE accounts.Direct fixed DHCP assignment.

You can find these areas directly at their coverage section on their website.

VQ still have no FUP, IPV4 etc still remain, got asus zenwifi mini, anyway its up to your choice

This post has been edited by amirsubhi: Dec 30 2020, 08:47 PM

you can try register your interest at https://viewqwest.com.my/personal/internet/vqnetworks/ to see whether it can served or not

the question is do they have team at Ipoh will determine they can offer or not

though, for vq, the shorter the contract period, the more expensive per month, but atleast they got option for contract period

This post has been edited by amirsubhi: Dec 30 2020, 08:49 PM

Allo is available now in Ipoh. There's also V Telecoms which has now a datacentre based at Meru township which serves hotels upto 1Gbps.

http://www.vcsb.com.my/

Under tm. I think mine is 99 when they had earlier promo. No change onu, dont think onu matters too much tho. I changed isp from unifi, to maxis to viewqwest. They all using the same onu and that never failed. Yes vq infra is a lot cheaper and offer better customer service, if i ever interested in one of their high rise units, i wouldve moved there. Im not being biased, but for the past years i subbed to unifi, maxis and vq. Only vq really give u a proper satisfaction. My brother is using time at his house and still connect to my wireguard server to play online with his friends in europe and usa. Just saying.

VQ doesn't lay their own dark fibre cables, most of them are leased directly from TNB Allo for their own exclusive last mile use which means most of their premium coverage in Bangsar South, Cyberjaya and JB exclusive condo projects are already under TNB fibre infra but hooking up VQ's own OLT switching active equipments and supplying their own ONTs(fibre modems).

Remember that Allo says they're expanding in JB last time? They've already made their presence there.

Places like Icon City, Setia Eco Glades, Austine Suite, Setia Sky 88, and Suasana Iskandar in JB.

TNB Allo's City Broadband was actually Setia Haruman ISP before it was bought over. Also its HQ was previously at Bangsar South before moving to Cyberjaya.

So yeah Setia Haruman (now known as Allo Technology) has connection with VQ in Malaysia.

that's different that I configure my customer, simply use DHCP,
maybe PPPoE for under Unifi as per TM requirement?

Yea the installer said tm made them obey the pppoe over vlan rule. I would love to have it work over dhcp. But i dont see any major downside anyway, so im okay with that.

Well unless you're lucky enough to be under their exclusive coverage where the headend equipments is owned by VQ all for themselves(full Layer 2 control over physical/link network access) such as Time Fibre network, they'll have to follow the wholesale network provider which they ride on and even lease their CPE(fibre modem/ONT) for port access on the customers end.

That is why Time refused to join TM's HSBB until today. TNB's Allo is also following the same wholesale model which TM HSBB is based on Layer 3 wholesale. All partner ISPs who shares the same network has to use the wholesale provider's access switching equipment for last mile right up the to terminating CPE at customer's end.

PPPoE are very inefficient for long term high speed to begin with, okay with < 1Gbps throughput but not more it cause more CPU power and single threaded only and increase CPE cost to cope such high speed. Plus PPPoE will increase overhead waste. PPPoE likely stuck at 2.45 Gbps (One Way)!

I can guest that TM Unifi/TNB Allo wanted to prevent OMCI Hacking, that remove ONU Bandwidth Control gain full link speed, so L3 Bandwidth Control is logical and easy. There ONU sold have hacked /bin/gpon_omci that cause Full Link speed.

Having Full Layer 2 Internet is bless! not to worry about inefficient


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If the ISP is really serious and has full control over Layer 2 access for itself, they won't be selling expensive <100M plans today. All opened up no more speed plans for GPON. All getting 1Gbps. That way it makes no sense in hacking the line as everyone gets to buy their own hardware and just use the ISP's supplied GPON tranceiver to plug into the SFP/SFP+ port to configure their own just like in Japan and Switzerland.

Don't know why they die die want to monetize the whole idea and implement Buffer Bloat and make the GPON line operate unnaturally as it was supposedly designed.

Good news!

ViewQwest recently acquired Macro Lynx(a subsidiary of IGB Berhad) formerly known as Goldis.

https://www.businesstoday.com.my/2021/01/05...xpansion-plans/

They have big presence around Mid Valley, Bangsar South, KLIA, Pasir Gudang, Johor and have now openly mentioned their intention to venture into Northern region starting with their entry into Ipoh, Perak.

Some of the new condos and projects in Ipoh such as Upper East, Tiger Lane(nearby Ipoh Garden) all are built with open fibre infra.

XccessComm HSBB Sdn Bhd
http://thesun-epaper.com/Property/Septembe...publication.pdf

Not to forget TNB Allo's rapid expansion around the city's suburb areas.