Thanks for all your “useful” knowledge info. What I know is, I cannot fully utilise the internet broadband to carry out my work effectively. FYI, my speed is 150kb/sec. Besides waiting for my email attachment to download slowly everyday, what else you think I can do with this Malaysia Broadband??

Mr. Lim Kit Siang’s reports is very true based on worldwide statistics. I guess you know very clearly WHERE WE STAND in this report.

Lots of improvement is needed in this area. This is my only conclusion.

monkey in parlimen/meeting= no.1
corruption in mega project = no.1
crime rates up = no.1
fight to be kampung hero = no.1
talks cocksss = no.1
project IC at sabah = no.1
low quality road & construction= no.1
alibaba & nonyababa project = no.1
internet sucksss all times = no.1
import players such as toyo = no.1
proton car quality from back = no.1
F1 from back = no.1
buying voters = no.1
send astronauts to space = no.1
internet quality from back = no.1

so…..we must be proud…cos we always NO.1
maybe that’s what the PM thinking……….
NO.1 from behind is still numberer UNO
number satu, number one,…haha…….

malaysia boleh…….?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_cap

I think a 1Mbit/s Internet connection, maxed out continuously, you could download about 10GB of data per day, or 300GB per month. Network providers work on the basis that not all downstream users are transferring data non-stop, so they can share one connection of the same bandwidth between many users in the same neighbourhood. This is the ‘contention ratio’ you hear about, and is roughly equivalent to the ‘quality’ of 1Mbit/s you can expect.

In the UK, contention ratios for consumer broadband are typically between 20 and 50 to 1. If 50 consumers in your neighbourhood are continuously downloading data at a shared 1Mbit/s, they will get 300GB / 50 = 6GB each. Arithmetic can be a blind and brutal force, but it is fair. It doesn’t actually work like that. Although networks have features built in to ensure ‘graceful degradation’ of service, many applications will just start failing when the network becomes congested, so the average total download on a congested network may well be much, much lower.

Nearly every ISP sells ‘premium’ connections with lower contention ratios / higher caps, but these are obviously more expensive. When I realised the quality of my Streamyx connection, I enquired about renting a dedicated line. A 512kbit/s dedicated line was RM42,000 per year (plus the dig / hang to my house), although they did say there was some ‘discount’ available. That price is pretty much what they could expect to earn from 50 512kbit/s Streamyx deals.

I had a BT (British Telecom) broadband connection that charged extra (in 2003/4) for going over a 4GB cap. That seemed reasonable to me. People have different requirements from the Internet. I think the only fair scheme is to charge for amount of data transferred. That is difficult to do precisely, so charging in blocks of 5GB or so shouldn’t be seen as unfair. What happens when you exceed a TM 5GB cap? Do they charge or throttle you?

I agree with ‘raverz’ – the market should be opened up. I think you’d see a ‘Fair Usage Policy’ of some sort being a common feature of any deal you could get. If I ran my own ISP, I would sneak around at night shooting P2P leechers, or Internet surfers who didn’t use AdBlock. That too, would be a kind of ‘cap’.

However, the so called 3G speeds that I am currently getting, if I even do get a signal at all, are appalling. My streamyx home connection is by far, superior compared to the 3G connection on my mobile phone which should not be the case.

I called telco M a few times to report the issue and they told me it’ll take 7 days for the technical team to respond to me. Then I called them again and asked for a rebate since I pay a monthly fee but I’m not even getting a data connection. It’s intermittent. They called me back after an hour, and get this, they told me that they’ll offer me the rebate. However, they ‘advised’ me to terminate the monthly data plan should I not be satisfied with it.

Is this what our telco’s have come to? Just because they have monopolies, they can tell us to go fly kites? What’s MCMC or whatever organization in charge doing about this? If they can’t control the telco’s, then open up the market please!

Pls do something for our shameful BROADBAND infrastructure in Malaysia!!! We really cant stand anymore after so many complaints to MCMC!! Pls abolish the Govt policy of “Fair Usage Policy” of 5GB, etc.. 5GB is so so so pathetic. Its NOT going to let Malaysians to fully utilise the internet, be it in business or personal.

I would prefer TM – or anybody with an uncle in the current government – “bu yao dong” the infrastructure for a while, while small ISPs are encouraged to offer innovative local services on new, (locally) high speed networks. There’s no reason at all why even moderate-sized settlements shouldn’t have free local video calls, integrated ‘neighbourhood surveillance’ schemes, groups of collaborating digital arts companies. You don’t need an expensive office to provide information services! TM prevents those kinds of industries starting with its out-of-date ‘centrally planned’ control of the networks.

What TM should be doing is concentrating on managing its national bulk network to ensure that consumer service providers have reliable access to the international Internet. Their greatest problem, I suspect, is that they don’t know which business they’re in: national infrastructure / consumer service provider / foreign telco speculator / government charity basket case.

What we ask is pretty simple:

Upgrade the infrastructure in major cities such as KL, Penang etc, then only to other cities.

P/S: Do we need a reality check of public transportation as well? All these can help to improve Malaysia’s productivity, in fact.

With the same bunch of idiots are running TMnet and MCMC, Malaysia position in broadband will be slipped further to lower 10 in the world by 2020.

What MCMC know about is to investigate Malaysiakini.com for a non-issue article.

Fibre is expensive, but not nearly as expensive as incompetent management of it. I don’t want to sound stupid – but what is the argument for FTTH (Fibre To The Home)? 100Mb/1Gb ethernet seems to work very well, and DVD quality video is only 5 Mbit/s or so (I might be wrong). Other countries have managed to get 5-8 Mbit/s out of much of their existing ADSL infrastructure, and I have read that 24MBit/s is possible – and see the Wikipedia article on the 250Mbit/s VDSL2! (Actually scroll down, I see the Malaysian Wikipedia editors are contributing with their usual humour – unless they’re serious…)

I see FibreComm’s website now invites resellers – do you know of anyone that has tried? Distribution from their access points to areas with high concentrations of customers will probably be the sticking point. I wonder if that’s why FibreComm is now offering access and nobody is mentioning the already-existing fibre project when they talk about HSBB?

The other day I went to Jalan Pasar (KL) to get some optical fibers for my students to do a final year BSc project in optical transmission of data. The shop assistant said they did not have optical fiber cables but only optical fibers (raw fibers without the PVC protection cover). So I asked for 10m which cost RM38.

To hook up the signal source to a PC with the fiber, you need to have an electrical-to-optical converter and an optical-to-electrical converter. Both devices cost RM800 in total. So we decided to make our own. After the system was completed the optical fiber could only deliver data (text characters) at a rate of no more than 1kbps due to poor quality of the fiber.

The students had contacted http://www.farnell.com and had placed an order for 10m length of optical fiber cable (RM90). However, farnell said currently they did not have stock in Malaysia and we had to wait for the cable to be imported from US.

Having tried my hand on fiber optics, I believe the government will have to rely on foreign experts to put up optical fibers which can deliver data at speeds of several hundred mega bits per second.

A lot of questions need to be answered on the two DNA
samples found on Teoh Beng Hock’s clothes.

1. Is it normal that DNA samples are done for each and every post mortem especially that of Gopala Muniam [matched] and also L Jeganathan [not matched]? Since this is 50-50 chance of matching
more work on this other unidentified DNA must go on.

2. Since it is a 99.9 matching for G Muniam, we have to know who is this G. Muniam who was alleged to have
died on 17 July 2009. What does G. Muniam do for a living? Could he be in the same building as TBH prior to his alleged death? We need to see the bio data of G M and his death certificate and other burial details. Can he be involved with the death of TBH?

3. Who was the officer of MACC who had initially refused DNA examination? What happened subsequently? Has this officer called to the witness stand?

4. Can it be that GM was killed mysteriously on the
day TBH’s death was revealed belately? Where is the Police Report on GM case? Who are the other family members of GM? Where is the hospital’s report on GM?

5. Is it true that the condition of the hospital concerned was cramped?

6. Is it possible that the drama has moved to the hospitals concerned against several other identified behaviour at MACC on 17th July?

Joshua Kong
PM for IGGG

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/114040
Mystery DNA: One revealed, one still unknown
Oct 2, 09 10:50am

One of the the mystery DNA samples detected on Teoh Beng Hock’s clothes was identified by forensics expert Dr Seah Lay Hong as belonging to a deceased male by the name of Gopala Muniam.

pw: tadle Bltd

UNESCO has recognized batik, a wax-resistant dyeing technique, as part of Indonesia’s distinct cultural heritage.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/KJ03Ae02.html

You know when shit comes out from the chicken backside, it is very warm but will cool off very fast leaving behind an offensive stench. Our Bolehland government comprising half-past-six ministers is the same-’hot hot chicken shit ( hangat-hangat tahi ayam )

Truly Malaysia Boleh! Yeah, I bet someone will come out in the open and deny the validity of the Oxford/Cisco study.

“Sound like fast broadband, packaged like fast broadband, look like fast broadband”… but definitely not fast-broadband!