QUOTE(myremi @ Sep 15 2009, 11:42 AM)
Wah! So it's true then that Malaysians actually contribute a big chunk of Blizzard's revenue then. I was wondering about that when Blizzard started including Malaysia in their press releases. Legit customers and gold farming/account selling people as well, I bet.
Regulating traffic doesn't help the underlying problem of physical limitation though. And the rate of expansion that they're doing is not sufficient to keep up with demand and the changing trends of netsurfing. TMnet need new accounts for funds and yet aren't able to manage the capacity.
I suppose the branch manager probably wouldn't know much about the bigger picture of how TMnet intends to deal with the entire state of things? Because if TMNet doesn't do something about the physical bandwidth, the regulation of traffic during primetime will eventually effect even tunneling services. And reading through all the posts in the Broandband-2-user forums as well as the various blogs, I doubt if there's going to be much changes with TMNet. Unless suddenly out of the blue we get a charismatic and seriously organized leader to shift through arguments and really make a valid note to streamyx without all the emotional namecalling going on.
Added on September 15, 2009, 11:49 amAh okie thanks. And yeah, majority of the tunnel service providers are in cyberjaya but could also be in other places as well. I tend to avoid 23x like a plague from the time it started up.
Hmm..as for latency and restrictions, I get that too although I'm not sure whether it's also due to the housing location I stay in. Having met the Streamyx techs over the years, they do say that this area I lived in has the highest number of complaints in the city and that it also has one of the poorest connection in this large housing area. So they often have to reset the line regularly for their customers.
Had a casual talk with him regarding this. Most of it reflect my opinion and western influence thinking and observation.
#1 - yes regulation bad for Torrent and WoW users, BUT great for others who dont torrent or play WoW
#2 - Old Fashion thinking ... they already control the market, every provider still has to pay them for useage
#3 - Improving will cost TM Hundreds of Millions if not a billion, that times conversion rate to USD ... BILLIONS of RM
#4 - The only ppl who get rich in Malayisa are Business owners and executives. Why spread the wealth when they can keep all? Over the last few years in malaysia, prices nearly doubled to tripled, yet salary almost remained the same. And from what i've seen here you think Malaysia is going to invest into improving when they still consider ADSL NEW ?
I remember when i first came to malaysia in 2002, No ADSL, and they were trying to push me to buy IDSN .. I was like WTF??? ISDN? That crap has been obsolete in the US years ago..
Do you even recall the last time you went to a coffee shop and seen a lorry driver drive up in a MERC? Only ppl i see drive up in MERC are Business Owners, Politicians and Executives... nuff said ...
#5 - You will NEVER see any HUGE improvements for a while until TM has a competitor. And that will never happen because the size of the Ringgit and Malaysia gov would prob pass a bill to charge a HUGE TARIFF if any competitor is allowed to or decide to do it.
Added on September 15, 2009, 12:14 pmQUOTE(PsyCHZZZ @ Sep 15 2009, 12:01 PM)
That's the problem with TMNet... they got their priorities all wrong and if they spend as much money and time on improving the network and bandwidth capacity as they spend on trying to throttle and regulate the traffic; Malaysia will not have such crappy Internet connections.
Why pay for something that will cost them BILLIONS while the quick fix is to hire a low level entry, just out of school worker who CLAIMS they can do it? Cost them peanuts !
This post has been edited by Raichu: Sep 15 2009, 12:14 PM 
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