Celcom Broad Band after 4 Month of use

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If you have the PATIENCE, the Celcom Broadband Basic for RM68 a month (3g speed), is adequate for your simple online needs most of the times. That is my basic comment after living with a Celcom Broad Band (3g speed) from Nov 2009.

My Details comments are

1. Web Pages do take some time to load, and when it get really get slow, you cannot even do a speed test – that with the modem blue light on (3g connection), When the Modem Green light is on, it time to go to bed.

2. Many times web pages do not load properly and fully, eg facebook, and even G Mail may have problems from time to time.

3. The Mail (text message) that you get with the subscription comes from a wide verity of people selling XXX flicks, celcom pushing their wares and now what is channel c and channel X - and are very entertaining and boredom relievers

4. In this Multi Tasking Days, please do not multi task, open one web page at a time.

5. I can still blog, thank to finding a photo resize, it’s slow though, been waiting 5 min for blogger to open.

The Good is the 5gb allocation, (much more the other service so you can do some downloading) may consider going for a streamyx connection, but that not portable you know.

I am Lucky, I still get 3G speed, and most of the time the HSPDA Sign is on. My co worker, in December he gets 3G speed at his house, in March He is getting EDGE.

Celcom Broadband Installation and First Impression.

The neighbourhood computer man gave me a call at 4 pm this Monday evening as promise informing me that the Modem (Huawei E1550) have arrive, I drop by after work at 6pm, and he was kind enough to install the Broadband for me.

The Modem (Huawei E 1550) come with a short extension cable, a very simple manual in good English.... (see picture)



We connected at the computer shop which have HSPDA speed but as my subscription is only RM68 a month I am basically limited to 3G speed any way. Not much problem there.

I headed home and after my bath, started to play around with it. The software say that I have HSPDA connection at home, even though the celcom map (on line) say I will only get 3G signal. So I will have the option of upgrading to RM 98 package fro faster speed.

I did a speed test – Result see picture

As today at the office we have some problems with streamyx connection, I log on to gmail and started surfing.

First Impression - Well at 3G speed it’s definitely not as fast as wifi or with fix line connection, my surfing style will have to change, and I have to be more patient for the pages to download especially with the pages with photos. Overall it ok.

Secondly down load speed is Ok at around 30 to 50 kbs per sec on my down load, which is almost as good as the wifi / fix line I use.

However I do get dropoff / cut off starting at around 8.30pm at night, and have some problems in downloading some web page at that time, congestion I believe .

Overall on this first day, satisfactory, i feel that it is no worst then fix line in terms of broadband service in Malaysia.

I am now going to post this on my post using celcom broadband.

Registeration for Celcom Broadband.

I pop into the Neighborhood Computer store to register for the Celcom Broadband, Unfortunately they are out of modems! Details take, payment made, they say the modems will be in on Monday.

Ok Let see how it goes! With this I will have use digi, maxis and celcom services.