People outside of Malaysia think I'm just using it as an excuse to avoid updating the site, but I really had a problem with stable Web connection since the last month. And finally, stupid crappy Malaysian ISP finally comes clean about the reason: they are throttling P2P bandwidth.

If they want to throttle P2P bandwidth because they don't want to spend money to increase their already too-small bandwidth, fine. Many ISPs in many countries are doing that. The thing is, these ISPs reduce the bandwidth by, say, 50%. Being a Malaysian company and therefore by Malaysian law run by idiots of the nth degree, TMNet however "throttle" P2P bandwidth by doing...

I don't what they do, to be honest, but they have succeeded in making my connection to hosts and servers outside of Malaysia completely FUBAR! If the connection is not as slow as a tortoise on its last legs, I cannot connect at all. It isn't just P2P that is affected - every kind of international connection is affected from simple browsing to using MSN to chat to someone outside of Malaysia! I don't know what the babboons in TMNet did but I suspect that they must have hired, as the norm, failed MARA scholars who couldn't read the English manual and just used the eeny-meeny-mo method to determine what buttons to press.

At least other countries have options. In Malaysia, there is only one ISP, which explains why it doesn't give a damn about the quality of its service.

My 1MB broadband connection is pretty much the pits, but the joke is, TMNet is offering now a 2MB broadband service. When they already admitted, after pressure from many people to come clean, that they could barely provide the bandwidth currently needed by the 1MB broadband client base. If this doesn't prove that TMNet is run by spastic babboons from Planet Dumb, I don't know what will.

Streamyx has violated the "Internet Access Service Provider (IASP) Sub-Code for the Communications and Multimedia Industry Malaysia" http://tinyurl.com/yh797n

In multiple areas:-
From part 2.
3.5Any changes in policies developed by the Service Providers should also
be communicated to the Consumers as soon as practicable.

(nope didn't tell me about any policy changes)

4.1Service Providers will provide services and products in a responsible
manner, ensuring that the services that they provide to their Customers
meet the service levels as contractually agreed between the Service
Providers and the Customers.
4.2Service Providers shall endeavor to provide consistent and reliable
access to the services.
4.3Service Providers shall give adequate notice to their Customers of any
planned interruptions of service.
4.4Service Providers shall not discriminate unduly between persons or
classes of persons in the provision of their services or any related matters
and shall provide equal access to all Customers.

(All of the above not done and not doing, they are not meeting contract requirements ie "best effort", they are not providing a constant and reliable service, they haven't given any notice of this interruption to my service, and I am being discriminated against as a P2P user.)

nice comments!:o

No wonder my office Streamyx connection is so unstable and slow down on its own. Our supposely 1MB download speed can go down to 256KB without warning.

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