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Hope for Streamyx Bittorrent/P2P Users?
by Josh Lim
January 29 2007 || 1:35 pm
News Articles Service Quality Broadband Providers TM Net Streamyx Consumer P2P Taiwan

According to a very reliable source, we got to know the following about the current P2P blocking issue facing Streamyx users:

- TMNet is currently in the process of testing their “Volume-Base system”
- As its still in the development phase, the call center won’t be able to tell you much.
- The block is implemented from 6AM - Midnight.
- The P2P block was implemented after the Taiwan earthquake because they noticed that “p2p downloading was adding to performance degradation on their network”
- “Weather permitting”, the block will be lifted at the end of January, when the Taiwan circuit is fully restored

Based on the above information, and bandwidth usage starting to show up on bills, we speculate that TMNet will release new packages to cater for heavy broadband users. To be fair, this should result in cheaper packages for light users - and not more expensive packages for heavy broadband users, presumably. As for the throttling, well - let’s hope its really lifted when the Taiwan circuit is restored, and maybe too, it’ll all get settled in the next two days.

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January 29 2007 || 1:35 pm
JohnLai said..comment

Volume-Base system? How reliable is that? I am wondering if the system can record the upload and download size correctly. Is the system easily to tamper with? There had been case in other countries that some personel in the company tamper with the system and make some of the customer bill very high…Just a point though…

January 29 2007 || 1:35 pm
Andy said..comment

Best news I heard all day. Thanks for the update. As for John Lai, query.. from what I know, bandwidth is about upload and download, since you occupy the space in the pipeline (simply put)

So midnight to morning it’s lifted? Strange.. I find the block extends past midnight.. I’ll try again tonight.. anyway it works better that way, since in US, they’re probably at daytime or evening, which is good news for skype users.

January 29 2007 || 1:35 pm
clement said..comment

damn, they already have been trotting it way before the earthquake… only some tricks have to be done to improve the connection, the taiwan thing doesn’t have any connection with this

January 29 2007 || 1:35 pm
azlan said..comment

Yes the earthquake does have effect to the internet connection , look around the world try finding news , singapore philipines all got problems , even korea , they cant even connect to internet even to their local connection on that current day … they have the worst damage, think about their stock market , what if their stock market rises when they are about to sell then connection down

as for the news i have made some possibility… do you guys notice the 8mb/experimental , i think they will use that as of the 4mb/s said earlier in this blog

January 29 2007 || 1:35 pm
Notorious said..comment

It was a slow connection for all P2P and torrent, I can’t even get a 300MB file for 2 weeks 24/7. Today however torrent was totally blocked, can’t connect to any trackers now, this is crossing the line..

January 29 2007 || 1:35 pm
intermilan said..comment

bottom line is we pay rm88 every month for a best effort, unlimited 1Mbps line. Best effort in reality is ‘ikut suka TMnet la, either you take it or leave it but still must paid or TM will suspend your account’. Now, with the earthquake as excuse, TM best effort is to effectively block P2P and they excel at doing it (easy ma..). They should increase their capacity as P2P is real world demand. Rather than deny / regulate this market segment, they should capitalise by offering specific package long long time ago. Why supress your customer? TMNet don’t have strategic management department overseeing future or current trend of customer demand ka? Btw, i cannot recall experiencing slow connection browsing the Internet (when all is ok).. so at which instances does P2P usage, by a segment of their customer (20%*) deny or impaired the Internet-use-only customer (80%*) of bandwidth?
* TMnet publicised figure.. right or wrong I don’t know.

January 29 2007 || 1:35 pm
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January 29 2007 || 1:35 pm
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