Complaints and migraines

October 15, 2006 at 12:06 pm (Life, Rants, Raves, Flames)

(1) Streamyx, what a load of turd. I thank TMnet for bringing broadband into our lives, it has done us a great service, but Streamyx has been riddled with inconsistencies over the past years. My basic 512Kbps packages sometimes has a download rate of 10KB or less. This only happens occasionally though, so it’s not much of a worry…. until now.

The following are two letters from TMnet, taken from lowyat.net:

First letter

Tuan/Puan,

Terima kasih kerana mengirim e-mel kepada pihak kami. Kami memohon maaf di atas kelewatan membalas e-mel ini.

Merujuk kepada perkara di atas, kami memahami masalah yang anda hadapi di dalam menakses sebarang aktiviti P2P. Kepadatan trafik daripada aktiviti P2P sebenarnya akan menyesakkan lagi talian internet di mana 20% pengguna sebenarnya menggunakan 80% daripada jumlah keseluruhan “bandwidth” pengguna yang lain.

Memandangkan jumlah pengguna jalur lebar adalah semakin meningkat, lebih ramai pengguna dijangkakan akan menggunakan perisian P2P seperti Kazaa dan juga Bit Torrent untuk membuat transaksi fail/data secara “online”.

Pada kebiasaannya, perisian/aktiviti ini akan dibiarkan berjalan sepanjang hari bagi tujuan muat turun data/fail dan berikutan dengan itu, lebih banyak  “bandwidth” diperlukan berbanding dengan pengguna yang hanya menggunakan internet bagi tujuan “surfing” mahupun “chatting”.  Negara-negara maju sekalipun yang mana mempunyai kadar penembusan jalur lebar yang tinggi akan menghadapi masalah yang sama disebabkan pengguna jalur lebar mempunyai keupayaan untuk menyalahgunakan
“bandwidth”.

Adalah dimaklumkan bahawa kami bukan tidak memihak kepada pengguna-pengguna yang menggunakan P2P tetapi ia merupakan suatu situasi yang tidak adil bagi kepentingan pihak minoriti memandangkan kami tidak dapat menaiktaraf infrastuktur bagi tujuan tersebut. Disebabkan itu, kami telah mengambil jalan untuk menghadkan penguasaan terhadap aplikasi berkenaan. Objektif utama pengawalan penguasaan pada sesetengah link adalah untuk mengurangkan kapasiti kepadatan dan pada masa yang sama membolehkan manstabilkan kualiti perkhidmatan untuk semua pengguna.

Pengawalan ini dilihat seperti suatu keperluan memandangkan sifat P2P yang mana menggunakan setiap bandwidth yang ada dan sekiranya dibiarkan tanpa kawalan, ianya akan menyesakkan talian dengan lebih teruk dan akan  menyebabkan gangguan pada aplikasi/talian yang lain pula. Malangnya,
mekanisma pengawalan ini tidak boleh membezakan jenis talian/aplikasi dan ianya akan mengawal segala-galanya termasuk aktiviti? e-mel, ftp, “web browsing” mahupun “video streaming”.

TM Net telah membuang penyekatan terhadap aktiviti “upload” bagi semua link, tetapi kami masih mengekalkan pengawalan untuk aktiviti “download”. Pengawalan ini akan dibuang sejurus selepas kami dapat menambah kapasiti “bandwidth” untuk talian antarabangsa yang dijangkakan sedia beroperasi pada penghujung tahun ini.

Kami berharap penjelasan yang diberikan dapat menghuraikan segala pertanyaan anda. Bagi pihak TM Net, kami memohon maaf di atas segala kesulitan yang timbul. Kami akan sentiasa memperbaiki mutu perkhidmatan yang diberikan kepada pelanggan kami.

Sekiranya terdapat sebarang pertanyaan atau maklum balas, sila layari laman web www.tm.net.my dan klik “Need Help? Contact our Customer Service”.

Kami berharap agar sentiasa dapat memberikan perkhidmatan yang terbaik.
Yang benar,
Narati Samuri
Customer Care Support,
TM Net Sdn. Bhd.

www.tm.net.my

(ICOMS#2857612-246085)

Second letter

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you once again for your e-mail to TM Net.

Referring to your e-mail, please noted that we do not block or throttle the speed of your connections. The right word to say is we control the usage as it may affect and jeopardize the whole customer’s base connection. We’re still in midst of rectifying the issue and we appreciate all the feedback especially from our respective customers.

Should you require further assistance or would like to submit any enquiry/feedback, kindly visit www.tm.net.my and click “Need Help? Contact our Customer Service”.

We thank you for taking the time to write to us and look forward to serve you better.

Regards,
Muhammad Jamil
Customer Care Support,
TM Net Sdn. Bhd.

www.tm.net.my

(ICOMS#2889857-247863)

Yes TMnet have admitted to THROTTLING our bittorrent speeds! This means serious headache to me. I won’t divulge what I download using utorrent ;) but suffice to say that it’s really annoying. My download won’t exceed even 10KBps, and most of the time it’s stuck at 1 or 2KBps. As I’m typing this now it is at 3.9KB. Outrageous stuff by TMnet. I pay for your service, I get what I pay for! To those avid anime downloaders, RIP.

(2) Classes on Saturdays, what on earth??? What I really hate about university life, whenever there’s a public holiday the classes absolutely have to be replaced on another day, mostly almost always on a Saturday. It is equivalent to not having a single day off for 3 straight months. So those Hari Raya and Deepavali holidays… they are really not holidays for me. More like a re-scheduling of classes.

(3) Horrid movies. Sometimes I don’t know why studios can makes such HORRIBLE movies. I just watched The Hunted and Man of the House, two films starring Tommy Lee Jones. What a waste of time, I want my 3 hours back.

Rants and complaints aside, I have to thank Fight Club, The Killers and Supergrass for making my life more bearable. Fight Club is one of the best movies of all time, and everytime I think of it it reminds me that my life is not all about perfection. I need to let go. Materialism is unneeded. Stop being an Ikea boy. Stop trying to be perfect.

“The things you own end up owning you.”

So true.

As for The Killers’ Hot Fuss and Supergrass’ Best Of albums , their music has filled me with (temporary) joy these few days.

4 Comments

  1. shane said,

    honestly if you didn’t say it, i wont really realise what is my online speed…same as yours
    10kBps
    how much is your package?
    if i am not mistaken, mine is 512kBps as well…
    but me only 44per month

  2. Kev said,

    Ya mine is also rm44. But the bill usually comes in at about rm100.

    Oh btw I think TMnet have stopped throttling torrents, my download speed is back to 50KBps. :D

  3. The real reason TMnet throttles P2P bandwidth « Zaim Bakar Blog said,

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