If this is the case, TM can easily add RM1 mil/month to greatly improve internet bandwidth and connectivity for their residential customers, which this will eventually benefit both TM and their customers. And even with that, it is just around 1% of their net profits (if they decide to maintain the existing pricing). Kedekut gila lah TM ni.

Double post

This post has been edited by shaun_kok: Jun 9 2021, 09:39 AM

This edit accurately shows the bad connectivity for TM. All traffic routing destinated to Malaysia(for Cloudflare or any other CDN) in Malaysia should be, at best effort, confined to Kuala Lumpur (MyIX) and Johor Bahru (JBIX) only.
Especially for traffic destinated to Southern Malaysia/Johor, it should be on JBIX only and not even routing to MyIX or SGIX, let along Osaka or Hong Kong. I had see the other ISPs (4G) routing to KL or SG on my location in JB.

Routing to Singapore is fine (many other ISPs in Malaysia do this) and I had see Celcom routing some of their Cloudflare traffic to Bangkok but however not optimal, since there are more preferable internet exchanges.
Routing to Hong Kong or Osaka, however, is absolutely crazy and disgrace, with frequent loadings for some streaming sites.

This is not to mention that TM already has some traffic congestion and routing issues even before MCO 1.0 (I remembered seeing Hong Kong for Cloudflare CDN while the server is down), which this can be easily solved by taking just 1% of their very huge profits for it + optimal settings for routing.

This post has been edited by shaun_kok: Jun 10 2021, 12:18 PM

Well, agreed with your statement since it is anycast. Especially when the main Malaysian ISPs peers mainly with SGIX and MyIX and even HKIX and not with JBIX, so this situation can happen.
At this moment, most of the traffic for Cloudflare are routed into SG/JB (for TM) in my area but some to ridiculous HK/Osaka (even when MyIX isn't rerouted) as MyIX is currently rerouted by Cloudflare.



This post has been edited by shaun_kok: Jun 10 2021, 12:44 PM