Celcom Wireless Broadband Service 2nd Review

After few months using Celcom Wireless Broadband, here is my second review on the service.

Honestly the service is getting worse. On my first review, the service to me is very good compared to other wireless broadband service providers at that time in my area. Now I’m not really sure.

The Speed

Here are the speed test results that I tested recently.

At Home

First place that I’ve tested is at home (Pandamaran Jaya). Below are the results:

The speed is a lot slower than before, the speed before is 1.23 Mb per second but now, it is only 0.20 Mb per second. That is more than 1 Mb per second difference. The connection is still strong. The indicator showed 4 bar of HSDPA connection out of 5 bar. Just imagine that I have a nearly perfect connection and that is the speed for it. The opposite thing happened to the upload speed. It is a bit faster than before by 0.03 Mb per second.

Kampung Raja Uda

Compared to before, the data transfer speed in Kampung Raja Uda (my parent’s place) is very fast… The fastest from all the places that I’ve tested the service.

Before the speed is 1.82 Mb per second. The speed change according to my location in the house.

Jalan Young

As for my in-laws place at Pandamaran Jaya (Jalan Young), the speed is 0.18 Mb per second which is the slowest among all of the places.

I hope that Celcom will improve their service or their customers might change to other service provider as it is a lot easier now to subscribe with any broadband service provider compared to before.

Conclusion:

For the time being, it is still OK with me (just give them a bit more time) and I’m hoping that they will improve their service in the near future as more and more competitor in the wireless broadband industry are coming in. The price and the broadband limit is affordable to me (RM98 for 3.6Mbps with 5GB of bandwidth) compared to other service providers that provide less broadband limit at a higher price.