I am using a Celcom 3GX on my iPhone, which should give me, in theory, download speed of up to 3.6Mbps. I do not have a Maxis 3G, as well as Digi and U-Mobile 3G accounts. However, I am certain that Digi 3G not reaching my area, same to U-Mobile.
Of course, besides the 3G networks, we do have Jaring here. Jaring is offering fixed wireless service similar to Streamyx, but my consideration is to ensure that the connectivity is portable thus it can be our travel companion, I mean both my wife and me.
So I started a simple test today, on the 3 ISPs, i.e. Streamyx 1Mbps ADSL by Telekom. Although Telekom does offer 2Mbps and 4Mbps ADSL respectively, it does not cover our area.
Equipment I used as follow:
1. Sierra U8775 Mini Card OEM edition
2. Apple iPhone 3G
3. Macbook with 4GB RAM running Safari 4.02 browser.
Measurement was taken using Speedtest.net web-based application.
I choose to test at local time 03:00 to ensure that there are least people on these network at my area.
First, I tested Maxis 3G SIM with the Sierra U8775 MiniCard OEM version, followed by Celcom 3G SIM on iPhone 3G.
Then I swapped the SIM cards and tested again.
The average result is as follow. Depending on what you are looking for, i.e. speed or monthly commitment, Maxis is attractive in price but urgly when comes to facts where as Celcom 3G is comfortably out-performed Maxis.
| | Streamyx (base) | Maxis | Celcom | Winner |
| Technology | ADSL | 3G/HSDPA | 3G/HSDPA | N/A |
| Monthly subscription | RM88 | RM68 | RM98 | Maxis |
| max D/L speed (Mbps) | 1 | 3.6 | 3.6 | |
| max U/L speed (Kbps) | 384 | 384 | 384 | |
| max data volume (GB) | 5 | 3 | 3 | |
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| distance from nearest cell tower (m) | N/A | 140 | 860 | |
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| Speed test results | | | | |
| Latency (ms) | 72 | 225 | 251 | Maxis |
| Download (Mbps) | 0.79 | 0.88 | 1.63 | Celcom |
| Upload (Mbps) | 0.29 | 0.06 | 0.11 | Celcom |
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