Lowyat.NET: Latest topics by tangent709

YES SIP Settings

tangent709 — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:13:12 +0800

Does anyone know the SIP configuration settings for YTL VOIP service?

I can use the YES Life android app with no problems, but would rather use a 3rd party SIP client like Bria, because I have other SIP accounts and Yes Life really drains my phone battery.

Free Upgrade to Windows 7

tangent709 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:06:19 +0800

Microsoft is offering a special deal for notebook buyers where you can get a free or very cheap upgrade to Windows 7 if you buy your machine after 26 June 2009.

Dell Malaysia seems to be the first to offer the free upgrade

Dell Win 7 upgrade

Updates on the other brands

Asus Win 7 Upgrade

Sony Win 7 Upgrade

Acer Win 7 Upgrade

HP Win 7 Upgrade

You can also order the free upgrade DVDs direct from Microsoft if you receive the Microsoft Offer Form when you purchased your machine. It should look something like this:

Microsoft Win 7 Upgrade

Venice Project - LIVE P2P TV!

tangent709 — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 22:33:15 +0800

Check out veniceproject and sign up for the beta testing. I have been using it for about a week now, and this application is definitely the future of broadband P2P video.

http://www.theveniceproject.com/

It's P2P live TV by the creators of Kazaa and Skype and it's a killer app. Right now, there isn't much content available since they're still running the closed beta. The good news is that it works despite the TMNET throttle. Popular shows seem to have better stream quality, but overall quality is SUPERB!! It's not quite as good as downloaded XVID, but considering that it's being streamed live very acceptable. Similar to SDTV in fullscreen. I think bandwidth demands are about 250MB an hour.

TMNET better sort their act out and not block apps like this in the future. When they officially launch and there's a lot more content available, bandwidth demand from their customers is going to shoot up.

EDIT : Sorry ! I didn't realize they closed sign-ups. I don't have any invite tokens at the moment. Will post when I do have some to give away...!

Upload Throttled for LOCAL Peers Now?

tangent709 — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 20:32:27 +0800

Just started noticing that my Utorrent 1.6 seems to be throttled on the upload speeds to LOCAL peers. Previously, the local leechers easily maxed out my upload speed (about 45kb/s). Over the last few days, the upload seems to be flatlined at about 10-15kb/s. I cannot exceed this speed even with locals of local peers who I want to seed to.

Anyone else noticing this, or is my torrent client messed up??

I am on 60.50.*.* IP address at the moment

Digg Post about TMNet throttling

tangent709 — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:58:17 +0800

hey guys

already mentioned elsewhere, but I think it deserves its own thread

digg this post about TMNet throttling NOW!! Get it on the front page so the whole world knows what a shitty ISP Malaysians have to deal with...!

Digg - TMNet Throttling

[POLL] Monthly P2P download before shaping?

tangent709 — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:51:09 +0800

Just curious to see what how much everyone was downloading before TMNet started throttling P2P traffic. Whatever your favorite means of obtaining P2P files was (eg BT, emule or others), how much were you downloading per month on average.

Don't include http downloads or streams. Just P2P files

Revamp of Streamyx Packages Required

tangent709 — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:20:12 +0800

TMNet should consider revamping their current Streamyx packages from an 'unlimited / best-effort' basis to a 'user pays per GB downloaded' basis.

With the current situation, the international bandwidth that TMNet has at its disposal is insufficient to cater for the over-sellling that is occuring with the Streamyx service. As a result, most customers are experiencing less than satisfactory broadband speeds.

A shift to a 'per GB' broadband package should be accompanied by full unthrottled speeds (i.e. 8Mb/s DL / 1Mb/s UL or what the customers DSLAM is capable of ) and no P2P traffic shaping.

My suggestion is the following:

Streamyx Lite - up to 20GB downloaded per month (about RM 40 per month)

Streamyx Mid - up to 50GB downloaded per month (about RM 70 per month)

Streamyx Max - up to 100GB downloaded per month (about RM100 per month)

Streamyx Xtreme - up to 200GB downloaded per month (about RM 160 per month)

PLUS EITHER OF THESE OPTIONS:

Option 1 : RM 1 extra charge per GB downloaded beyond above-mentioned package limits

Option 2 : When package download limit is reached connection throttled to dial-up speeds until following month

I think that user-pays pricing is more fair than what they have at the moment, and would fix a lot of their bandwidth issues.

How to bypass TMNet torrent shaping / throttling?

tangent709 — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:24:18 +0800

NEWSFLASH
TMNet has recently installed hardware that is able to control P2P via deep packet inspection of the traffic passing through its network. These devices are able to detect and limit / throttle P2P data transmission - including encrypted torrents

The application of this P2P shaping is being carried out on a rolling basis across all Streamyx users in Malaysia, and results in severe speed degradation for bit torrent users and most other P2P protocols.

As a result, many Streamyx customers are experiencing difficulty in using bit torrent - an internet protocol that is both a legitimate and highly effective means of data transfer

You may have luck bypassing TMNet's throttle with one of the following methods:

VPN / SOCKS Proxy
Use a free or paid VPN service (e.g. SecureIX, Relakks). Forum member 'virtual' is currently offering VPN service as well

Edonkey
Some users have reported good speeds with protocol obfuscation encryption enabled in Emule 0.47c

Newsgroups
Not free, but you will get good speeds with reliable news providers

Torrentflux
Setup an offshore torrentflux box and FTP your files into Malaysia. Shared boxes are available from several forum members

Tuotu
Not particularly well coded, but this Chinese BT client seems to bypass the shaping hardware

Rapidshare
Rapidshare and similar sites have a lot of popular downloads available