folks those who are using the Biz68/99 or legacy data plans and have the simcard placed into smartphones and use it for wifi tethering to other devices i have made a bad discovery.

maxis is throttling your data speed once it detects that your smartphone is tethering to PCs or laptops.

i have done numerous speedtest after a fresh reboot of my phone w/o tethering and avg out the speed. I get abt avg of 1.2mbps due to my location and timing of test

the moment i turn on wifi tethering and connect my pc to it, then get the PC to load 2 pages of any website and once the website fully loads and stops i run speedtest on my smartphone again.

guess what, speedtest gives me communication error or the speed drops to 0.05mbps. i've done repeated tests and its the same avg speed

if i reboot my phone or switch to airplane mode then on again and also turn off wifi tethering the speedtest results go back to the earlier speed.

i've also got a 2nd line which is a surfmore 50 on a huawei e198 modem and the speed is the same as my smartphone without tethering switched on

once wifi tethering is on, somehow maxis is able to detect and throttles the speed

you guys can try this out and feedback