QUOTE(Moogle Stiltzkin @ Sep 7 2024, 07:56 AM)
adsl days were terrible. latency was so damn high. also u paid a lot for slow dl/ul ontop of that. i don't miss those days other than lack of dns poison, but we had that even when ftth was available. it's only recently this became a problem

QUOTE(solarmystic @ Sep 7 2024, 08:12 AM)
Hear hear! Those of you who never experienced the pain of
EXTREME SCREAMYX SLOWDOWNS will never know how bad it was before Unifi expanded its coverage from around 2013 onwards. Unifi came into being in 2010 but coverage was extremely limited at first.
Here is the first very Extreme Screamyx Slowdown thread on this very forum, made in 2008.
https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/746285The late 2000s to mid 2010s (from 2008 to 2015) were horrific for wired ADSL internet costumers with no fiber alternatives, so desperate were people to escape the painfully slow TM network infrastructure that they resorted to subscribing to wireless alternatives like P1 WiMAX and YES 4G.
Remember the potong campaigns from P1 WiMAX which turned out to also be a POS once their towers and infra got over subscribed?
I member.
Been through Jaring, Streamyx 256k era... I consider those as the darkest day of internet service in Malaysia
TM sent people to my taman around January 2016 to collect names for pulling fiber, we waited till mid 2020 to actually use the service
My experience of using ADSL? Everytime a lightning strike nearby causes the internet to DC, it would also DC after heavy rain
Ping is super high, I get 120+ms ping playing BF3 in Singapore's servers
Downloading stuff took ages, highly likely you'll get corrupted files and when downloading stuff you cant use your internet for anything else
Yeah, I'm still not happy with Unifi now due to their bad routings and congestions at night...
But they are nothing when you compare it with ADSL era...
This post has been edited by QuantumEdge: Sep 7 2024, 08:59 AM