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The Official Maxis FTTH Thread

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The Official Maxis FTTH Thread

toofriggingslow — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:07:59 +0800

*** UPDATE *** Maxis FTTH SUCKS big time !!! 40Gb quota strictly will be in force even in their 1st month of operation, the speed will be throttled to 10% which is only around 0.6Mb !!! BOYCOTT - don't sign up, cancel your interest registration !!! Let them dig their own grave !!!

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Maxis FTTH (Fiber-to-the Home) already launched 1st Sept 2010 in Bandar Utama Phase 11 & Phase 12, and I am using it now !

I stay in Bandar Utama Jalan 12/7, on 1st Sept, a team technical crew came to install the new fiber broadband from Maxis.
Another crew of relations officers also dropped by my home, with a hamper of gifts, a video shooting team & a carricature artist.

The installation process does take up quite a long time, as they are all on a sharp learning curve.
At one point, there were more than 10 techincal people from both Maxis & Huawei in my house, doing all the necessary checks.

There are 3 sets of equipments after the installation. A Huawei-Echolife ONT terminal, a Maxis-Thomson RGW residential gateway & a Maxis-Aztech DECT cordless phone.

There is only 1 package on offer at the moment, 6Mbps.
They say later will have upgrade packages from 6Mpbs, up to 24Mbps.

There is no IPTV included in the package, it will be added later, as they are still doing vigorious testing.

The offer price for the 1st batch of early-bird subscribers is RM118 per month, free for the first 2 months, and free installation costs.

The DECT phone also come with free :

i) unlimited calls to a Maxis fixed line number
ii) 500 minutes per month to a Maxis mobile number
iii) 200 minutes per month to United States, Singapore, China or Hong Kong

For time being, I am still not sure about the FUP download limit.
Guess I will find out soon, as I try to use & download stuff.

I believe this Maxis offering will be a strong competition to TM Unifi 5Mbps package of RM149 per month.

I have attached some pictures.

That's all my report for now.. going to enjoy more high-speed broadband now !

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Want faster broadband? Try Mozambique

toofriggingslow — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:11:24 +0800

Want faster broadband? Try Mozambique
By Lee Wei Lian
May 26, 2010

Tests have shown Malaysian broadband subscribers achieve download speeds much lower than most neighbouring countries.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 26 — Malaysia ranks a lowly 102nd out of 152 countries in terms of its average download speed, according to analyses by leading internet speed testing website speedtest.net.

The tests showed that Malaysia’s average download speed was 1.88 Mbps as compared with 1.92 Mbps in Mozambique.

Malaysia’s broadband speed ranked behind 101st placed St Kitts and Nevis (1.89 Mbps), Albania (100th, 1.91 Mbps) and Mozambique (99th).

The nation’s download speed was also about 18 times slower than the top-ranked country, South Korea, which had an average download speed of 34.14 Mbps.

Among its Asia counterparts, Malaysia placed behind number one Korea, 4th placed Japan (20.29 Mbps), Singapore (31st, 8.51 Mbps), Taiwan (36th, 6.95 Mbps), Thailand (63rd, 3.78 Mbps), China (76th, 2.94 Mbps) and Philippines (90th, 2.3 Mbps).

It, however, came ahead of number India (121st, 1.33 Mbps), Indonesia (132nd, 1.01 Mbps) and Cambodia (134th, 0.81 Mbps).

Malaysia is trying to catch up with more advanced economies in terms of its broadband quality and penetration, and has embarked on several initiatives such as rolling out a fibre-optic cable network and WiMax wireless broadband.

Critics have long complained, however, that the lack of competition has hampered the nation’s broadband development.

Incumbent broadband service provider, Telekom Malaysia, launched its high speed broadband service, UniFi, in March.

Random tests done by The Malaysian Insider, which subscribes to the 20 Mbps UniFi package, on speedtest.net showed download speeds ranging from as high as 67.86 Mbps for servers located in Singapore to as low as 0.93 Mbps for servers located in San Francisco, US.

Other server locations tested by The Malaysian Insider include London (8.16 Mbps); Hong Kong (3.15 Mbps); Reston, Virginia, US (5.07 Mbps); and Balikpapan, Indonesia (1.89 Mbps).

Most Malaysian traffic is international as content in popular websites such as Google and Youtube are located mostly on servers outside of Malaysia.

SentralFON broadband

toofriggingslow — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:23:09 +0800

Anyone is using SentralFON fiber-optic network broadband?

Reviews and comments please.

It seems that not many people heard about this service before, but when I called them they told me they have been around for 4-5 years.
They are the same company which started the PenangFON broadband network in Penang.

Their website : www.sentralfon.com.my
Telephone : 603-7680-8008

The advertised speed is 2Mbps, unlimited access.

Would really like to know more the fastest average download speed, especially for P2P BT, stability, and also any P2P blocking or throttling...

Feeback PLEASE....