Celcom Broadband vs Maxis Broadband

Feb 16th, 2010 by papabear

Last Friday, I bought myself a Celcom prepaid broadband. I have been toying with the idea of doing a comparison between that and my Maxis monthly subscription broadband services. Both are offering up 384kbs speed. For your information, both of these services are only used when I am not at home since I am still relying on the reasonably reliable broadband by Jaring at home… Orang selalu kata…”eh, masih ada orang guna Jaring ke?” Yeah… and the old somaport can easily give me up to 1mbps speed… Go and beat that…

Anyway, the main push to try Celcom was due to the fact that the Maxis broadband hardly worked at my home in Seksyen 9 Shah Alam and it would be totally dead at my mom’s place in Kuala Lipis Pahang… Maklumla… Hutan… A few friends recommended I go for Celcom and since there was the long break for the Chinese New Year, I calculatively squeezed RM25 out of my pocket…

The verdict….

In Kuala Lipis, where Maxis broadband had a flatline, Celcom broadband was alive. Although I could only get EDGE connection, it was a huge different compared to Maxis broadband that failed to even detect any signal…

And in Seksyen 9 Shah Alam, where Maxis failed most of the time and could only manage EDGE a couple of times, giving under upgrading process as an excuse, Celcom managed the max 384kbps like a breeze…

Celcom 2 – Maxis 0

As a result…

1. Thinking of severing my loyalty to Maxis and moved to Celcom. With MNP in place, that would not be such a bad idea.
2. Definitely throwing away the Maxis broadband after the 6 month offer period is over.
3. Might even considering replacing the old Jaring somaport with Celcom Wireless gateway…