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What is Fair Usage Policy...as layman would understand it is something that cause the internet speed to be throttled or capped..and why is that?

this is taken from the streamyx website...

TM is committed to ensuring our customers receive the best broadband service at the most competitive price. To achieve this goal, we provide a contended broadband service. This means our Internet bandwidth (capacity) is catered to be shared by all our customers at any one point in time, to ensure we provide a satisfactory and acceptable performance on an equal basis to all our customers.

However, a small number of customers use more than their "fair share" of the Internet bandwidth provided by us. On average, about 10% of our customers are using a disproportionate amount of Internet bandwidth. These customers degrade the performance of our broadband service by taking bandwidth away from other customers, who use the service fairly.

For example, some customers use P2P or file sharing software, which constantly sends and receives videos and other types of very large files, throughout the day. These activities (download and upload continuously) use a lot of bandwidth and can significantly reduce the connection speed, which other customers are getting to access the Internet during peak hours. We don’t believe this is fair to the vast majority of our customers.

We wish to bring to your attention our traffic prioritization policy with regards to P2P and Fair Usage Policy. We would like to reiterate that the P2P throughput is subject to peers (seed) availability and their throughput as well. Kindly note that TM does not have any control over peers’ availability or throughput.

The Fair Usage Policy automatically identifies the extremely heavy users and manages their bandwidth in order to protect the service of all our other customers. This traffic prioritization policy will protect the quality of service for the majority of our customers when they use the service, while at the same time, still allowing the extremely heavy users to continue to send and receive files with certain restrictions. With this policy in place, we will prioritize Internet activities like web browsing, live streaming, messaging applications and VOIP access while traffic to P2P sites will be given lower priority, due to the high bandwidth consumption of such services.

We wish to also highlight that as an Internet Service Provider (ISP), TM only provides access to the Internet and does not guarantee content delivery and performance where it is not within the domain of TM as an ISP. In fact, our international traffic management policy is designed to cater for all our customers so they have an optimal surfing experience within the normal limits of Internet usage.

As our priority is for all our customers to have a positive Internet experience, we wish to emphasize that it is important for all our customers to practice responsible usage of the allocated bandwidth based on normal usage.

We would like to reiterate that we are not against the use of P2P but we would like to educate our customers that the usage of excessive P2P does impact the overall service availability to our other customers.

TM does provide every customer with an allocated bandwidth, where other customers may use when not used by the others. Unfortunately, the nature of P2P more often than not, takes more than their allocated bandwidth, thus causing undue setbacks for other users when they want to use the service.

As a responsible service provider, we believe it is our responsibility and commitment to educate and encourage responsible usage of the infrastructure we provide.

Read it? well,thats Tmnut fair usage policy..see the bolded word...acceptable performance and yet they didn't state what is the speed of the performance that is acceptable...and to whom it is acceptable? to them or to us? if it is to us, not enough data is provided for the customer to judge whether it is acceptable or not..so is the whole thing acceptable???

The policy allows Tm to identify heavy users and MANAGES their bandwidth..ok,what does manages really means here? how would they manage our bandwidth? capped our speed to 512 or 256 or 56k??? even if we paid for 1mbps UNLIMITED subscription? is it fair?

and Tm says those heavy internet users are still allowed under certain restrictions...what is those restrictions? why don't they state the restrictions? based on my experience,there are no certain restrictions...it is a COMPLETE restrictions...proved by the speed of my torrent application where under 1mbps connection im supposed to get a 100kbps++ speed but while using TM im able to get as fast as 0.01kbps.....fast isn't it?

practice responsible usage of bandwidth....when we applied for streamyx,we applied for 1mbps bandwidth connection right? and which part is irresponsible when we are trying to maximise our usage of the bandwidth that we has paid for? and who is really should be responsible here? Tm should be responsible by providing us the bandwidth we applied for which is 1mbps WITHOUT any restriction...the package states UNLIMITED usage...so why now they limit????? or is it that all this while Tm doesn't provide us the bandwidth we paid for? we share the bandwidth we other people who also paid the same amount for 1mbps bandwidth? are Tm robbing us in broad daylight??

"we are not against the use of P2P but we would like to educate our customers that the usage of excessive P2P does impact the overall service availability to our other customers"- how do you educate? by blocking p2p access to the net? in that way,u are blocking the freedom of users..and this means the unlimited plan u provide are limited actually and u r cheating the customers...

"TM does provide every customer with an allocated bandwidth, where other customers may use when not used by the others"- if they does provide us with an allocated bandwidth,meaning every customers have their own bandwidth to use..so how come another user using p2p might 'steal' another user's bandwidth when he has his own allocated bandwidth? and our allocated bandwidth is 1mbps..so when my torrent speed is 100kbps how it is stealing from my neighbours bandwidth when im safely downloading withing the 1mbps rate...and when my bandwidth is not used,other customer may use it...is Tm being generous by giving consumer more bandwidth for free.....or,the allocated bandwidth is not what we applied for and they need to take from other consumer's bandwidth when they are not using for us to achieve our supposedly 1mbps bandwidth?

"As a responsible service provider, we believe it is our responsibility and commitment to educate and encourage responsible usage of the infrastructure we provide."-as a responsible servce provider,it is ur responsiblity to provide service that ur consumers paid for and not give excuse when u cannot give the amount of service required...as a responsible provider,u cannot cheat on ur customer by not giving them the bandwidth they applied for..as consumer,we will use the service as how we applied for it the first time which is 1mbps and unlimited so we expect 1mbps bandwidth with no limitation when we without fail pay u every month the amount of money u required...

tol naik?

lately this has been the hot issue of the week..government is considering to increase the toll for 5 major highway in order to follow the contract they made with the highway concession...(though finally they decided to postpone the increase to an unknown date and announced that for the time being they are using they tax payers money to pay)...is there any difference if we pay the concession by toll increment or via tax payers money which is our money too? that's not the problem here..the problem here is,what is the concession between the G and the highways contractors that almost every one or two year,we need to pay more for the toll which they said the money is used for maintenance....seriously,to me,if the, money were REALLY to be used for maintenance,then its nothing wrong for me..we are using the facility,so we need to pay for it right? well...this not seems to be the case here..

last night after i went back from sending my sis to LCCT,it rains heavily...i drove through the downpour via the KESAS highway...right before i reach the RM2.20 toll,there was a roadblock..i thought it was the police...but nope,the roadblock was due to flood...yes flood! in the middle of the highway right before the toll outpost...how ironic isn't it? right after the flood,we were to pay rm2.20 each car for the maintenance of the road..so much for maintenance...i admit the downpour was heavy last night but,just FYI during a raining season in Manipal, rain would pour down non stop for about a week or two and yet, there were no flood to be seen...yes,the rain goes on and on for straight 1-2 weeks...last night,the rain was about an hour or two before it started to flood in the middle of the highway...yes,an hour or two..not a week or two..see the difference? eventhough Manipal doesn't have fancy highway with even fancier toll outpost to acompany it, they has better drainage facilities that prevent flood even during the raining season and they has no toll to acompany the road.......


so much for our highway concensus and the G.......

Perak Drama

These few days we've shown a confusing poltical drama occuring in Perak..All the big guns of Malaysia political scene are directing their attention to the state where BN is trying to take over the state government..this occur due to the return of Bota assemblyman back to UMNO and 3 PKR assemblyman quitting the party and become independance and announced their support for BN to be the ruling party of the state of Perak...but of course,the PKR government won't give up that easily..a lot of things they've said and done to prevent this from happening...they claim that the move organized by UMNO is unethical and is a violation of democracy in Malaysia as to them MP are voted based on their party.....PKR suporters claim UMNO playing cheap tricks to buy the assemblyman in order to rule Perak...

deja vu isn't it?

when DSAI announced the 16th Sept 08,the crossovers of MP...non of PKR supporters and component party claim democracy,claim violation of constitution..they even support him..is what he did the right thing? no doubt what UMNO did now(if it is what they did because Najib didn't claim anything about making PKR people cross over to BN) is not the right thing but why condemn people not the actions? when Anwar plan on buying MPs,its the right thing..no problem asked...if UMNO did the same thing its a no-no, a sin,an immoral conduct,violation of constitution..bla bla bla...
im not supporting UMNO here nor putting down PKR,im just feeling sick of the supporters which claim they support Anwar because what he did was right and for the rakyat...actually they blindly support him for his popularist concept of approach...no doubt he may did some great things during his time in the government..and some bad things too..but hey,don't be obssessed with a person..if what he did was wrong,its wrong..no person can make a wrong thing right just because he/she did it...if it is wrong,whoever did it is wrong...if this is how Anwar controlling the PKR,what makes you think it would be different with the current BN...much different? i don't think so...so to all extreme supporters of the political party in Malaysia,please don't be to extremist...be rational....don't blindly support something until you are blinded from reality..what wrong is wrong and what right is right...

helmet and serban....

A student of an Islamic school in Malaysia, Ahmad Nasir Darus was found guilty riding a motorcycle while wearing a serban...
The student was fined RM90 but he refuse to pay the fine,and went to jail instead..for the reason of defending the sunnah...
A lot of other religions has a same style of having a head dress to cover their head...be it Sikh,Islam,Hindu,Jews...Yes,even Jews....
If it is a religous practice why he was fine?
If Islam was a perfect religion, why could be such rules to wear this serban when it may be dangerous to someone when riding a motorcycle....
Well,don't blame Islam...Blame the student...Clearly he doesn't understand Islam....

Narrated Anas bin Malik: In the year of the conquest of Mecca the Prophet entered Mecca, wearing a helmet on his head. (al-Bukhari, Book no. 72, Hadith no. 699)

Sunnah is like a tradition or lifestyle of the prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h) which us,his ummah should follow as he is our idol and prophet...and Muhammad(p.b.u.h) a prophet he is know the danger of not wearing a helmet under certain situation.....

Narrated Sahl: When the helmet of the Prophet was smashed on his head and blood covered his face and one of his front teeth got broken, 'Ali brought the water in his shield and Fatima the Prophet's daughter) washed him. But when she saw that the bleeding increased more by the water, she took a mat, burnt it, and placed the ashes on the wound of the Prophet and so the blood stopped oozing out. (al-Bukhari, Book no. 52, Hadith no. 152)

The bolded sentence above(for non muslim readers) are hadith or oral traditions of the great prophet Muhammad(p.b.u.h) which are important as a guidance of our way of life...now it is clearly shown how the prophet clearly asks us to to wear helmet in a certain situation demanding it....

the quote i hated the most,"ajal tu kt tangan Tuhan..kalau nk mati tu mati jugak x kire la mcm mane sekalipun"....
if it is like that,why look right and left before you cross the road? death is inevitable so why don't you just let life takes you all the way?
it is because survival is men basic instinct..all being,human and animal has the basic knowledge of survival..even God wants us to strive to survive..self suicide is a big sin in most religion...its true death is inevitable,but only after u tried so hard to survive....

frog...

Litoria nasuta, the Australian rocket frog can leap up to 2 metres....astonishing...maybe the scientist haven't heard of Malaysian politic frogs....can leap between parties....Bota assemblymen who recently crossed to PKR,and the latest one is news about two PKR assemblymen is going to crossover to BN...hm..what say the big people? i guess it's alright for the BN because that's what they did before to DAP assemblymen,buy them....ask Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan...how DSAI during his reign in UMNO nicely architect the defects on several MP in Sabah to win over the government....i think it's alright for PAS too...as Datuk Mustafa Ali said,it's morally right for BN MP to crossover but a sin for those from PR to cross...but what say the people?

im just a one person view..estimated value of one vote only...since majority is democracy,so my view means nothing except that im leaving in my own world where 1 is a majority...u can say bullshit about how a vote can make the difference..ever heard of anyone winning elections with one vote majority?

maybe i would have effect if this one vote can influence another one vote..and together,two votes can make a difference...not yet...we need more..and more....we need to influence..and how do we influence? we can lie...or we can lie..why lie? because we can never please everyone's desire..so to win over everyone,we need to pretend we can fulfill what they want....

who is assemblymen? person voted by people of an area to represent them....

first of all,why is he voted? for his party?for himself? or for the people...if it is for the people,why the party make a lot of fuss when the representetive changes party? or is the party has its own agenda to fulfill that it requires the MP...if that is the reason,then the forming of a politcal party is to pursue an agenda favourable to the party only...then who works for the people? so is the party agenda coherent with the people's agenda? if it is coherent then i can see no problem in hopping party because even if the assemblymen is in another party,he will still work for the people because the people's agenda is the same with the other party...or is the other party has a different agenda...and is it coherent with the people's? if it is not,then the other party has its own agenda which is not for the people..and why hope to another party? is it because the assemblymen no longer work for the people? then why become assemblymen?

ok,im starting to be confuse here....who's agenda is we working on anyway...the people's or the party?

people's agenda =party'agenda
party's agenda=party2's agenda(we assume party2's working for the people)
assemblymen's agenda remain the same
so nothing has change basically....

but what if the party's agenda is different...

party's agenda =/= party2's agenda
MP switch to party 2 because of its agenda...so there will be two possibilities....

1. MP's agenda = people's agenda = party2's agenda (therefore the switching)
2. MP's agenda = people's agenda =/= party's agenda (therefore the switching)

but intially the MP is voted under the first party agenda so we will assume.....
people's agenda=party's agenda

so which one has the same agenda as the people's?
if both has a different agenda then who has the agenda for the people?
if both party claim their agenda is for the people,then it will be like this....

party's agenda = people's agenda
party2's agenda = people's agenda
party's agenda = party2's agenda

so why political party?

am i right? hahahaha..the mathematical equation solves it all...


if only life is as simple as mathematical equation....