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I’m UNIFI’ed!
211 months ago
As of now, I’ve been using Unifi for almost one month. How good is it so far? I would say AWESOME! 
For those who do not really understand what is Unifi, it is basically another broadband service offered by TM. As opposed to Streamyx which operates over copper, Unifi works over fibre. Therefore, technically less latency and higher access speed can be offered. Unifi is available two main packages; Home and Business package. For every package, they are three sub packages, namely VIP5, VIP10, VIP20 for Home, BIZ5, BIZ10 and also BIZ20 for Business. , Literally, VIP stands for Video, Internet and Phone, a triple play service that TM offers on their fibre line. As for business package, it is a dual-play service, therefore the VIDEO (i.e. IPTV) is not included. Plus, the local calls not chargeable and not free unlike VIP packages. Too bad! 
However, the difference becomes apparent when we start to discuss on the Fair Usage Policy. VIP packages come with quota, 60GB, 80GB and 120 GB, respectively for VIP5, VIP10 and VIP20. And as you can start guessing by now, the business package is UNLIMITED, with no data quota/cap and no FUP. Hence, being myself who usually consumes 200 – 300 GB per month, I choose BIZ5. If you feel that you can live with the the given quota, I suggest you to take the VIP package. Not only that you can get faster access speed, there are also added value services bundled together with the package; phone and hypp.tv service. As of today, the data cap/quota is yet to be implemented but rumors say it should be up by June/July 2011. 
Next is on the installation part. I submitted my online application for Unifi on Monday, and managed to reserve the installation date 4 days after that. Frankly, it was quite fast since most of the forumers @ LYN were complaining on the late installation date. I was very excited considering that I have been waiting for it to reach this area since last year (you guys can ask my wife for the story, haha). Anyway, coming back to the story; on the D-day, I received a call from the TM at about 830 am in the morning, to confirm my availability. I was surfing the internet when suddenly my DSL light started blinking, sharp at 930 am. Just 2 minutes after that, I received another call from them that they already started working on the installation. Overall, the installation took less than 3 hours, since Im staying at high rise building. However, I was expecting shorter installation time since based on my understanding, only small modification and configuration are required at the telecomunication room in my apartment. Generally, for landed house, it usually takes up to 7 hours, depending on the difficulty i.e relative position of FDU unit to your house, where do you want to put the equipment, number of drilled holes, etc. In my case and also other high rise bulding installion, no drilling is required. In fact they will convert your current telephone jack to become the port for Unifi. However, in my case, they took slightly longer due to some small technical issue at the cabinet.
One and half hour later, they came to my house, with a medium-sized box. They later started unpacking the equipment and began the configuration. In terms of number of equipment, it is similar to Streamyx setup, where you require one DSL modem and a router. For Unifi setup, there are two main equipment; VDSL modem (Huawei HG655a) and wireless router (D-Link DIR-65). The pictures below could better describe the difference in setup.
My OLD setup (Streamyx)
My NEW setup (Unifi)
Referring to the Unifi setup (above), the black unit located to the left, is the Huawei VDSL modem and to the right is the Dlink DIR-65 wireless router. And the standing unit the cordless motorola phone
Since Im subcribing to the business package, TM gave the business card holder (as shown below) as the complimentary gift. I like it, thank you TM.
The configuration took less than half and hour. They showed speedtest result and also tested HD streaming from youtube. Both were running fine and smooth. Overall, the TM technicians were very warm and attentive to my enquiries. I would rate them 5/5 for the installation services. I didn’t manage to do much of testing since I promised my boss to come back right after the installation finished. Just managed to carry out one quick testing by downloading nVidia latest driver, and you may check out the download speed below:
Whoaaa!! It was downlading stable @ 570 KBps. My 1Mbps Streamyx can only do between 120 to 150 KBps (shown below), and I’m getting quadrupled speed with Unifi! Very satisfied, I am. Will do more comparison test and share with all of you later. Stay tuned!
p/s: Operation ‘download-the-internet’ begins…..
My take on… DLNext
01 year ago
Pheww!! It has been months since I posted something here.. Obviously, nothing interesting has really happened, hence the hiatus (pretty lame reason, huh?)
Anyway, in few post backs, I shared my personal experience with Torrent, and the alternative to get around its weaknesses. Here, I am planning to share on something that I just recently signed up. But before that, let me share on the incidents that led me to this. Who knows, you might be having similar scenario as we speak.
It all started when I was desperate, looking for this particular file from the internet. Thanks to Pakcik Google, I managed to get a working link, but I was turned off when I discovered the file was hosted by HOTFILE. What makes things become even worse; there was no other mirror link and I don’t have the premium account for Hotfile >.< One knows that it is VERY expensive to maintain several premium account at one go. Just thought of sharing with you the fee for one month;
Rapidshare – €6.99 – RM 30
Megaupload – USD10 – RM 33
Hotfile – USD 9 – RM 30
Netload – €8 – RM35
Storage.to – €7.99 – RM35
To simplify thing, you will need to pay roughly about RM 130 per month to maintain the premium accesses to all the filehosting site. That is madness! There is no way that I am going to set aside that amount of cash monthly! Absurd!
My frustration led me to Service Noticeboard @ Lowyat. And this is where I got my solution to this problem; DLNext service.
DLNext service started several months back and I knew it since I was selected to become the beta testers. I found the speed was very stable and lightning fast. However, since I did not have any pressing reasons to get one, I just simply quit after the trial expired. Looking at current scenario, where the uploaders have started to upload somewhere else, there is a need for me to find alternatives to this.
Taken from DLNext page:
DLNext is a transfer/storage script for use on various popular download sites
Supported: Rapidshare/Megaupload/Depositfiles/Hotfile/Netload/FileFactory/Megashares/Storage.to/Uploading.com/Easy-share at the moment.DLNext transfers files from Rapidshare/Megaupload/Depositfiles/Hotfile/Netload/FileFactory/Megashares/Storage.to/Uploading.com/Easy-share to our servers and dumps the file on our server.
Premium users may then download these files from our server anytime later.
They got some pretty good server too..
Server Specification (SV1 & SV2)
# Processor – Phenom II X4 810 (4 x 2,6 Ghz)
# Memory – 8 GByte DDR2 800
# Hard Disk – 2 x 1 TByte SATA II (RAID0)
# OS – Linux Debian 5.0 (codenamed Lenny)
# Webserver – Lighttpd
# Network – 1 GBit onboard
# Traffic – 100 Mbit unmetered
# Server Location – Europe.
And the T&C ( I suggest you to read all of this, before signing up)
Guarantee below : -
# Can download any things, 100% privacy
# No storage days limitation, keep as long your account still active
# Support Forum
# Either HTTP or FTP Download.
# Server is open for public and everyone can join
# Chinese characters are supported
# Pass protection Megaupload can be downloaded.Supported Filehosting : -
# Rapidshare, Megaupload, Netload, Hotfile, Depositfiles, Filefactory, Storage.to, Megashares, Uploading.com, Easy-Share, MediaFire.Traffic Limit : -
# Rapidshare 7GB/Daily Individual
# Filefacotry & DepositFiles (12GB/Daily Shared among all user)
# Megaupload, Netload, Hotfile, Storage.to, Megashares, Uploading.com, Easy-Share, MediaFire (UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD)Range of speed (FILEHOSTING to SERVER) : -
# We cannot guarantee it’ll be HighSpeed.
# Range 300KB/s – 7MB/sRange of speed (SERVER to PC) : -
# Max speed.
# Max concurrent connection: 24 including surfing DLNext & Downloading to PC.Terms and Conditions: -
# No refunds.
# Shared account is allowed. (Not more than 2 user including urself)
# No remote-upload (Permanent BAN)
# No sharing links to non-subscriber (Permanent BAN)
And finally, the package:
DLNext Premium Service PACKAGE
Inclusive: 20GB Storage , Unlimited download to PC , 24 Max Concurrent.
7 days premium account – RM10
1 month premium account – RM30
3 months premium account – RM80
6 months premium account – RM150Additional storage 10GB = RM10/month (At least 10GB)
Why I chose them?
1. He is a reliable service provider; the thread has already reached 142 pages loonoooog…
2. Based on the comments from the users, he has been providing very fast service!
3. There are lots of positive feedback on the server uptime and reliability.
4. For a start, 20GB storage is HUGE!
5. You gained premium access to SEVEN file hosting under one account; that is RM100 cheaper (and will be way cheaper if we talk about monthts of subcription)
6. Fast transfer speed from Server to PC, i.e. I maxed out my access speed to 1.5 Mbps
7. My good experience during the beta test
8. It uses the famous rapidleech script, which I have been using for quite some time already on my shared server. So, there is almost no learning curve for me
He took about 5 minutes (from the moment I made my payment) to configure my account. Was it fast? ABSOLUTE YES! He then gave me the login server details along with my login details. Without hesitance, I logged into the server:
The login page looks very simple and neat, so you could expect the loading page to be extremely fast.
Above, is the main page of DLNext. Simple, yet informative. And, you doesn’t need to be a TechG33K to get around the interface, as it is very user-friendly and pretty straightforward. Just head to AutoDownload section to dump your links for downloading purpose.
I decided to give try, i.e. downloaded several files from HotFile server. It turned out to be really good; downloading at 6.5 Mbps speed. Very impressive!
And finally, the ultimate test, download speed from the DLNext server to the PC. Let`s see whether it lives up to expectation..
NICE! It almost maxed out my access speed (1.5Mbps).
The Conclusion: The only drawback of this service is you could download one file at a time from RS/MU/HF to the server, but this setback is counter-balanced with lightning downloading speed. So, I have no issue on that. Overall, I am very satisfied with the service. I believe I may terminate my RS premium account later and add 10GB to DLNext storage space to provide some breathing room (buffer). With this sort of speed, coupled with responsive and excellent customer support (did I tell you, he added me into his YM so that I can just ask him question straight away), I believe DLNext is here to stay. I hereby recommend to those who are looking forward to subscribe to any of the filehosting server, to stop and look at what DLNext has to offer. I bet you it is really worth it!
p/s: Oh crap, my 1.5 TB of harddisk is almost full…