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Review on Maxis Wireless Broadband!
Aug 21st
Thanks to my colleague which able to lend me her Maxis Wireless Broadband for a review. This review supposed to be posted last month, but because of the broadband issue (I cut the subscription) I was unable to do so.
Anyway, I managed to test the Maxis Wireless Broadband at 2 places.
The Installation
The installation is quite easy, but you need to set it up before you can use it. This is because the modem that she got is a ZTE modem. Compared to the Celcom Wireless Broadband that I have, it is a bit harder to start using it. With my Celcom Wireless Broadband, I can just plug and play without need to set-up anything.
Kampung Raja Uda
Here, it is amazingly fast. Look at the screenshot of the testing that I did.
At Home (Pandamaran Jaya)
Here I managed to test the Maxis Wireless Broadband with my own Celcom Wireless Broadband simultaneously. The first speedtest is using Maxis Broadband and the second test is using my Celcom Broadband. Check out the differences. Nearly 1.5Mbps differences.
P/S: This review is done before I got my own Maxis wireless broadband. Do remember that the broaband speed depends on the area that you’re using it.
Celcom Wireless Broadband Service 2nd Review
Feb 8th
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.
Celcom Wireless Broadband Service Review
Apr 25th
After using it for a few weeks, this is a review for Celcom Wireless Broadband based on my purchase of the Celcom Wireless Broadband at the PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (I) and from the usage of my brother’s Celcom Wireless Broadband before I’ve purchased mine.
Installation:
It is easy to install the modem. Everything is plug & play nowadays. You just need to insert the USB Celcom Vodafone Modem in the USB port and follow the simple instructions of installing the driver for the modem.
Connectivity & Speed:
Connecting to the wireless broadband is very simple indeed. You just need to plug-in the modem if it is not plugged in and run the Vodafone Mobile Connect Lite. The program will scan for the device (Vodafone modem) and then try to link to the wireless broadband service that can be detected.
I’ve tested the service at 3 different places. First would be at home, then my parent’s house and my in-laws’ place.
At home (Pandamaran Jaya) have the 2nd highest speed among the 3 places that I’ve tested the wireless broadband. From the screenshot below you can see the download and upload speed of the service at my housing area.
At my parents’ house (Kampung Raja Uda) the speed is a little bit slower than my housing area and it is the slowest among the 3 places. The speed vary in different area in the house itself as when we check the coverage, that area is in between the HSDPA and 3G zone. So the connection and speed changes in different area within the house. Please refer to the screenshot below to see the average download and upload speed.
Lastly is my parent in-laws’ house (Bukit Tinggi) have the highest download speed among all. Refer the screenshot below. It reached more than 2 Mbps at times.
It seems that it a great service for me as all the area that I always go around have more than 1Mbps speed.
Usage:
The usage is limited to 5GB a month. They will tell you that the service is unlimited but that is all just crap. The only broadband service provider that gave unlimited usage is iZZi and Streamyx. If you are a heavy downloader than you better get a Streamyx line or other options (if any). It works fine with me as sometimes my wife like to watch some drama series that she missed at www.tv3.com.my and it still didn’t exceed the 3GB after a few weeks. I just use to blog and check my email and sometimes watch some YouTube videos.
Summary:
So far, I’m very happy with the Celcom Wireless Broadband Service compared to iZZi that I took last year. Hehe… You can check my review on iZZi. Maybe because of the Celcom coverage that is very big and I will try to test it at a few more places and we shall see how good Celcom Wireless Broadband really is.
Anyway, for RM98 a month it really didn’t disappoint me in terms of the coverage that it provide and the speed.
If you have similar or any experience using Celcom Wireless Broadband, please leave your comment.
Celcom Wireless Broadband Road Show!
Apr 7th
Last week I went to AEON Bukit Tinggi with my family and there is a Celcom Wireless Broadband Road Show. I think that is what it is called. By chance me and my family bump into my brothers and he wanted to get the Celcom Wireless Broadband for himself.
The road show is held from 17th of March until 30th March 2009. It gathered a few Celcom Wireless Broadband agent/ merchant at one place. So there are actually few stalls and every stall have a different pricing for the Celcom Wireless Broadband packages or modem price.
Some offered RM299 for the Vodafone modem if you subscribe with to a Celcom Wireless Broadband package. Some other offered RM250 for the Vodafone modem with no contract attached. I’m so concern about the contracting as we’re not sure whether our area have a good signal for the wireless broadband or not. So, if we have no contract attached, we can cancel the service and use other service provider. We need to make sure that the modem can support other service provider as well, but now I think it won’t be an issue as most of the modem support all service providers, but just to make sure, we need to ask.
After going around nearly all the stalls, me and my brothers managed to find a great deal which is for RM299 you can get a Vodafone modem with one month RM68 Celcom Wireless Broadband package. We just need to add RM30 for the RM98 (3.6 Mbps) Celcom Wireless Broadband package. For me that is a great deal and the best part is there is no contract attached to it. We can cancel the subscription whenever we like. My brother paid RM329 for the Vodafone modem and 3.6 Mbps Celcom Broadband Wireless Broadband Advance Package (one month subscription included).
I told him to take it first as I want to see whether the service is good or not at my housing area and the area that I always go around as well. I wanted too wait for PC Fair as I hope there will be better deal there. Hehe…
Below are some of the pictures of the Vodafone modem:
In my next post I will write a review on the service from all the area that I use the service.
Celcom Broadband Prepaid
Mar 24th
The first in Malaysia. Celcom have came out with prepaid broadband. You just need to buy the starter pack for RM25 and it is preloaded with RM20 credit.
No registration needed and no fixed monthly charges. Below are the plans:
Daily Unlimited:
RM6 for 24 consecutive hours of Internet access at speed of up to 384 kbps.
Weekly Unlimited:
RM20 for 7 consecutive days of Internet access at speed up to 384 kbps.
You need to activate the SIM before use and you need to send SMS to subscribe to the plan that you wanted. It can be reloaded the same way as the mobile phone prepaid. You can also SMS to reload your account.
For more info, you can go to www.celcom.com.my/broadband.
Note: To me, they should have a higher speed rate as 384 kbps is a bit low.
