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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.
My P1 W1MAX Wireless Broadband Review
Feb 19th
Just tested the wireless broadband service of P1 W1MAX at home and my parent’s place.
Thanks to my brother’s friend who willingly let us borrow his modem to test the wireless broadband. He got a RM49 Home Lite package that comes with a WIFI modem as well. The maximum speed for the package is 400kbps which what I think quite slow compared the package that I took for my wireless broadband service.
Check out the screenshot on the speed of the wireless broadband service at my parent’s place (Kampung Raja Uda):
That was full speed…
Now, check out the wireless broadband service speed at my place:
The best part is that my house (Pandamaran Jaya) is outside their coverage area when I checked in their website for the area coverage.
Anyway, the coverage at my house is only available at certain area which to me it is fine as the modem comes with a WIFI capability and I can still connect to it anywhere in the house. Both places, I’ve got a nearly full speed wireless broadband (to which he subscribed to) and to me it really good.
So should I “potong” my current wireless broadband service provider? Let me think about it. hehehe… My brother definitely will change to P1 W1MAX anytime soon. The one that we’re currently subscribed to is expensive for the speed that we’re currently getting. The speed is nearly the same as P1 W1MAX (check out the review here). The fair usage limit is 4GB and it is quite OK as well.
Will wait for PC Fair this April to see whether they have better offer and I like some freebies…
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.
Digi Wireless Broadband.
May 26th
Recently Digi launched their new product, Digi Wireless Broadband. The packages seems competitive to me.
The Digi Wireless Broadband have 3 type of packages and you can choose either to take it with a modem or without (if you already have a modem). The packages are as follows:
- Discover :
- With modem: RM58 + RM15 = RM 73 (Package + Modem Installment)
- Without modem: RM53 (RM5 discount for 12 months. Will be RM58 after 12 months)
- Speed: Up to 700Kbps
- Usage limit: 3GB
- Explore :
- With modem: RM108 (Modem is FREE)
- Without modem: RM98 (RM10 discount for 12 months. Will be RM108 after 12 months)
- Speed: Up to 700Kbps
- Usage limit: 10GB
- Extreme :
- With modem: RM188 (Modem is FREE)
- Without modem: RM168 (RM20 discount for 12 months. Will be RM188 after 12 months)
- Speed: Up to 2Mbps
- Usage limit: 20GB
Cancellation will be charge a termination fee. The fee is “Normal Monthly Modem Installment” + ”Remaining Months of Your Modem Tenure”. For example you’ve used the service for 6 months, you will need to pay RM30 x 6 months = RM180. For Discover & Explore package, the modem normal monthly installment is RM30 and for Extreme package, it will be RM50. The modem design is the same as the modem from Maxis.
You need to pay RM100 in advance and the modem comes with 18 months warranty.
Summary
My opinion, the price and the usage limit is quite OK. The problem with Digi to me might be the coverage. I’ve checked from their website and my area only have EDGE connection and from my experience using Celcom, when it is connected to EDGE it is rather slow.
Compared to Celcom Wireless Broadband in terms of price and speed, Digi should make their packages cheaper. Even P1 W1MAX can give a better offer. I hope that Digi can widen their coverage as they always says that they have the widest coverage, but you should have better 3G coverage instead of only voice. Anyway, I predict that in the future the price of the broadband, not only wireless will be much more competitive as more and more service provider like Digi is in the arena as well.
For more information, please visit Digi Wireless Broadband website at digi.com.my/broadband.
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.
