Mine has been spazzy past few nights nights, but mostly it affects latency (eg: Maxis Cyberjaya speedtest server ping goes up to ~80ms, usually it’s <10ms) and actual speeds were still okay except for one instance I posted above. I never browse bareback and am mostly connected to a VPN though, so I can only speak for the connectivity to my particular SG server.

Interestingly, I noticed last night that port 4500 wasn’t affected by this spike in latency I was experiencing (although jitter levels were still a bit worse than normal), and can only assume it’s because whatever traffic shaping Maxis are using is giving priority to IPsec connections. I’m guessing it’s for corporate sector staff who log into work networks from home. So I just set the WireGuard client (running on router) to use that port as well. Still need to do more investigating, so nothing definitive yet.

This post has been edited by dev/numb: Dec 16 2024, 01:08 PM

Mine shows 14 hops as well. Maxis Fibre on TM infra.
Possibility of your work connection being on Maxis own infra?

If not, I can only assume that it’s more hops early on in the traceroute (before it reaches google owned IPs) results due to the switches and load balancing for residential connections. It’s normal for enterprise connections to have more optimized routing in many countries.

The only risk comes from electrical surges in case your house is directly struck by lightning. In most homes the breakers will trip first, but it’s always prudent to have those surge protection multi-socket strips (APC, Belkin, etc) for any sort of sensitive electrical equipment. Aside from that no need to worry about detaching/unplugging anything.

This post has been edited by dev/numb: Jan 31 2025, 01:03 PM

Added one of ControlD's free server DoH address to browser. This is what I get. Singapore servers. Ignore the high ping at the bottom. That site is pinging from a different location. Cloudflare speedtest reports 17ms.

So far so good, but maybe I’m not the best person to ask since my main browsing devices are connected to a VPN server (server in KL, I’m in JB) via router full-time. Sometimes latency might go up a bit at night compared to day time, but still comfortably around 20ms. Occasionally might drop a few packets, but doesn’t affect anything I do. Not a gamer so cannot comment on gaming latency. Also disabled IPv6 (to prevent VPN leaks) so cannot comment on that either.

This post has been edited by dev/numb: Aug 27 2025, 09:35 PM

For my needs, no contest. Maxis ain’t perfect but at the very least it seems like their network engineers went to school. My only regret was not switching sooner. All the blood I vomited from TM’s nightly international peering nonsense, I will never be able to claim back.

Have you tried a VPN provider with MY servers? Based on my past experience with Unifi, a lot of the congestion happens at the SG internet exchanges. Maybe if you find a provider with a few different MY servers you can bypass that bottleneck. There’s still the matter of your online course provider blocking VPNs or not, but it’s still worth a shot.

This post has been edited by dev/numb: Aug 30 2025, 09:19 PM

Any updates from Maxis on this?
I didn’t even notice because I’m always on a VPN (peers via SG Equinix so I wasn’t affected), but today I switched one device to Warp Plus and noticed it was really bad. My traceroutes show the same results as yours.

This post has been edited by dev/numb: Oct 11 2025, 05:56 PM