Celcom Wireless Broadband Service Review

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.