Clearly, the towers at your areas are down. I got that as well and I gave them very difficult time. What I did? I only tweeted and being the infamous notorious one, they straight away called me after saw my tweet.


*HSPA is better than HSDPA

I am staying nearby you and I got the same issue. I am gonna cancel it should there be no improvement after 1-2 weeks from now.

HSDPA is a component of HSPA
Just that HSPA covers HSUPA together.

It's just a protocol, don't worry about it.
As long as H or H+ is okay.

Yeah but so far my experience tells me HSPA is better than HSDPA.
Good upload speed makes the page loads faster.

Of course, HSUPA decreases the latency as well as increases the throughput on the upload side to initiate the connection.

But I think the maxis tower sometimes purposely drop you off from to HSDPA to release the upload for someone else. :S

Oh, got that, HSPA better than HSDPA. You stay near sg dua... haha, then everytime can go tesco "shopping"... lol...

I thought e353 only can do 3G and above only? Read in some other forum that it cannot connect to 2G or GSM connections...

It's, UMG1831, a T-mobile branded device, some people 'upgraded' it to be 28.8mbps by installing another device's firmware in it, but inadvertently screwed up the modem.

That's why I suggest to just get the e353, if you can find the e372 is better.

The E353 in Msia, most of the time is 3 branded, product code is e353u-1 or e353s-1

It only has UMTS2100 for the 3G band.

I'm not sure of it because when I was in front of Jayamas 200 or 300 meter away from my house, I can get quit decent DL speed of around 2M.

I'm becoming insane now cause wherever I go and stop by, I'll take out my phone and do a speedtest. It really disappoint me a lot when compare the DL speed to at my house DL speed.

bye the way E353 does support 2G,. most of my friend did get it and they say is stronger signal than current E1762,.. and even KKW here is using it too with his TL -MR3420,..

Maxis CS just call, they said that some sort of TM or TNB underground cable had burn and caused the problem. It'll take 3 to 5 day for fixing it. Let cross our finger for it.

Maxis network got any relation with TM huh?

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Added on March 28, 2012, 8:36 pmBtw, my speed back to normal ald:



well, not very fast, but at least it is in the average. ok for that... 3G network system upgrade done ald i think. Satisfied with it ald.

This post has been edited by leoo: Mar 28 2012, 08:41 PM

Just noticed that my area has H+ already. Must be part of the pact to share towers since um the first with H+. Don't like it at all cos Galaxy Note kept switching between H and H+. Seem worse than few months ago when using prepaid.

Just only COD with Andrew Speed mmg kaw2 Ping also

The band limitation only for US carrier. For Malaysia, all ok

glad it works for you bro, all my fren who have this E353 modem they all say is superb, better than any other usb modem they ever used, i guess the reason is due to the newer Qualcomm 3G chipset...

glad to hear the PING also good, man,.. looks like i need to get one for myself too,

anyone know performance comparison between e353 and umg1831?

for the E353 i just receive it today ..
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If put in u mobile sim:
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and signal is super duper stronger,... compare with any other usb modem i ever try,... and the signal hold super stable 99%

and it does solve the problems of i have in my area stuck with UMTS2100MHz WCDMA issue, and now is back to 100% normal,.. when there is internet traffic it auto jump to UMTS2100MHz HSPA+ and it wil down to UMTS2100MHz WCDMA when no traffic detect!!

overall is a superb duper worth for buying modem!! compare to my icon , i LOVE E353 now!!

This post has been edited by chuahcs79: Mar 29 2012, 02:02 PM

I'll get the Huawei E353 too, I was late and Andrew has sold off all the demo units. Now waiting for next batch to arrive, probably next week...

the RSSI signal super amazing stable and never move at all

like glue stuck at -73dBm,.. super amazing,. dont need to wait for night time to get high speed anymore,..

Don't tempt me anymore la... I can't get it now, unless I pay full RM 200 for 1 year warranty. How to convince myself?