Maxis Wireless Broadband: Come with tiny USB Modem

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April 15, 2008

Me and my wife go to Maxis centre located at Ampang yesterday. I’ve been looking for some alternative for my internet connection, since we has terminated our Streamyx account and has to pay RM500 for the penalty because the 12 month contract is ended on this july 2008.

Anyway, i decided to register Maxis Wireless Broadband with 3.5meg speed package for RM118 per month. Don’t be fooled by the 3.5meg connection because you will not get that connection ever… :), but, it is enough for me to upload files, update a website and getting things done. This package come with a modem, which is very small. I guess the modem Maxis used is same with Celcom, which is HUAWEI.

I have tested the connection at my home and office. i got average 40kb and 80kb respectively. not sure where the rest of connection goes… . The downside of Maxis Broadband is, they limited the total bandwidth to 3gig per month. As quoted on their T&C:

5.3     Excessive Usage
5.3.1     Each customer’s total usage per month shall NOT exceed 3GB of data volume transmitted (total upload and download usage). This is to ensure that no individual hogs the bandwidth at all times.
5.3.2     If a customer wishes to use more than the volume permitted, a written request should be made to Maxis.
5.3.3     Maxis reserves the right to reject the said application or charge for any additional data volume transmitted from what is already allocated.

Looks like i need to write them a letter.

Link: http://www.maxis.com.my/personal/hsdpa/index.asp

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