Are you using 3G or HSDPA?

Are you bound to a minimum subscription period with Maxis 3G unlimited?

What I meant was, was he on 3G only when he achieved the speeds he mentioned, or was he on HSDPA? As far as I understand, when you sign up for Maxis 3G unlimited package, you are automatically HSDPA "enabled" if your data card or phone supports it. elfreakz may be using a 3G only card and not an HSDPA one, hence his "lower" speed.

And I further asked about whether there is a minimum contract period when you sign up for Maxis 3G

How true. Just short of miraculous!

Like I suspected, he is using a 3G enabled handphone only. Maxis HSDPA should give you much higher speeds than he is experiencing, based on the feedback I've read.

Lucky you! I wish I had the same luck!

If I am not mistaken, the nature of 3G is such that you will not be assigned an external or public IP number. I am always on 10.x.x.x on Celcom3G, which is an IP range reserved for internal use only (IIRC), so I am always behind a router/firewall and do not have a ping-able public IP. This makes port forwarding very difficult, if not next to impossible.

Is the 58.x.x.x range used by Maxis also reserved for internal use only?

SMS is enabled on my Celcom3G. I don't know about Maxis. SMS charges are extra. I've tested sending from my DiGi handphone to the Celcom3G data SIM, and it works. I haven't sent out any yet though, no reason to.

If you want itemised billing for sent SMS, it costs an additional RM3 on top of your unlimited package price of RM120. Add 5% service tax on top of that, and it can come to quite a hefty bill

Anyone know if there is Maxis HSDPA coverage in Penang, in the Gelugor area, next to the Penang Bridge and next to USM?

Here's the strange thing folks.

On a whim and fancy to try out Maxis' offering, I signed up for their Internet2Go package a couple of days ago. Got it activated in less than an hour. It's a data only package, no voice, since I am already a DiGi customer.

The funny thing is, my datacard shows HSDPA signal, signal strength excellent at -61dBm as reported by my Sierra 3G Watcher software. I get IPs in the 58.71.x.x subnet, and am connected to the unet APN.

But my speed has not gone beyond UMTS. I've tested with my torrentflux FTP server, also with a rapidshare premium account with 10 simultaneous download connections for a single file. It has not gone past 49KB/s consistently. I can see it spiking for a second to 100KB/s and above, but it comes back down almost immediately.

I've tested with two separate datacards, and two separate notebooks.

Some people have claimed that Maxis customer service told them that Internet2Go is limited to UMTS, ie. 384kbps. But I've seen users in this forum reporting more than 2mbps on their speed tests. Is HSDPA only available to Maxis voice customers who sign up for Internet2Go?

What gives? Am I capped wrongly in the system? Anyone has a number for me to call to report this apart from having to dial a KL number from my DiGi phone? A bit expensive talking to them from Penang

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Added on November 7, 2007, 9:43 amWell it appears that even though my connection is HSDPA in my connection manager, the base station wasn't able to support speeds exceeding UMTS. I've tested in KL, highest sustained download speed was 350KB/s from rapidshare.

Problem solved.

This post has been edited by wr6969: Nov 7 2007, 09:43 AM

I'm facing a similar problem. It's slower than usual. My sessions are also "hanging/freezing" more than usual.