Then what's the point of the free 1GB internet anyway?

It's depend on your area...my housing area YES is second best after Maxis...worst is "U" know who

I'm not sure whether that 1GB FOC data will be counted as part of the FUP 50GB quota, if it is not then it does make a different otherwise I would agree with u no point having that.

You may be right, the 1 GB Daily might be different from the FUP quota, in which case it makes sense to have it separate. Because you were right, the speed is the exactly the same as my HUP35 speed, which is 3 Mbps!

Last I check few weeks/months ago, 8pm-12am SocMed (YouTube/etc.) throttled to 3Mbps (as announced by Maxis end-2020). Others still on best effort and depends on your area coverage/signal strength/congestion/etc. which I can get 10-30Mbps at that time. Maybe I'll monitor again this few days.

Note: 1GB Free Daily quota finish for the day.

so how is the line now?

Just run some check using Maxis Business Postpaid sim card in modem for comparison 8pm-12am

Can go beyond 8Mbps but my area is congested, hence download is slower than upload. But during non-peak hours, I have seen my download peak at 70-80Mbps but normally constant around 30-40Mbps.

Urban area, high density/people. Tower distance roughly 300 metres.

So I guess the Hotlink Prepaid throttle does not apply ?

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So, the super-richer Maxis Business Postpaid subscribers are not throttled or are throttled less severely(= 8Mbps.?) daily during MCO 8pm to 12am while all other poorer Maxis non-Business prepaid and postpaid subscribers are throttled more severely.

Seems the poorest Maxis prepaid subscribers are throttled to 500kbps/0.5Mbps while the poorer Maxis non-Business postpaid subscribers are throttled to 2Mbps.

This is bad customer service. Imagine paying Maxis RM138 per month for 2Mbps from 8pm to 12am daily.
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I did another test again, cause previously in 2020 during MCO even this Business line is also throttled to 3Mbps YouTube between 8pm-12am. From the monitoring graph, I can really see it flat out at 3Mbps at exactly 8:00:00pm onwards if I'm streaming YouTube.

Today I did a test again since curious. Looks like they remove the cap for YouTube. I can get 25Mbps+



I do another test to compare with last night 11pm+. This time at 8pm+ congestion is not that bad. I can get peak of 50Mbps download (green line) and 30Mbps upload (red line). Also speed average 20-25Mbps download and 20Mbps upload
Just to share here







Again, the 1GB daily free quota is finished (0MB left)

Sorry I don't get why you say RM138/month for 2Mbps between 8pm-12am ? My business line is downgraded from RM128 (60GB) to RM98 (40GB) now.

I have my personal Maxis MOP98 which I can test also over the weekend but need to swap SIM card around phone and modem. I also have a hotlink prepaid as backup but never use for data.

I believe if you are under plan with quota maybe you will be less "managed" by Maxis as for sure they want you to exhaust your quota fast, compared to "unlimited" plan such as hotlink 3/6 mbps or so called unlimited Maxis One Go plan

Here are my speed test today with my maxis One Go plan, I am not sure how Maxis "managed" the speed is it according to how congested the network in the area?? But hey it better than 460 kbps I got few days ago

This post has been edited by reymura99: Feb 5 2021, 09:33 PM

At first thought of getting hotlink unlimited then suddenly 8pm-12am news out then scrap the idea

my maxis RM98 speed got so worst at night, very unstable, sometimes 1Mbps then shot up 25Mbps++ then back to 6/7Mbps. Location Ukay Perdana/Bukit Antarabangsa

bought 2 new sim card (digi and xox, both using esim)

tested in 2 locations

1Utama
Digi 50Mbps ++
XOX 40Mbps ++

(Ukay Perdana/Bukit Antarabangsa)
Digi 40Mbps ++
XOX 40Mbps ++

Both using esim

Unlimited with FUP up to 50GB. But I think the discussion earlier above was even before reach FUP, already throttle hotlink 3/6Mbps between 8pm-12am. Probably from data analytics, the number of users are much higher and hence they need to restrict somewhere, somehow.

I suggest try do more monitoring on other hours/days. I am considering various Maxis package to sign up or not such as Maxis One Go, Maxis Home Fibre, etc. as well as from other telco such as Unifi Bebas, DiGi unlimited 150, etc. I believe Go should not restrict as per hotlink now. Let me see if I have time to test my MOP98 and will share the result if there are difference between business line and MOP for 8pm-12am.

Note: Check my last night 11pm+ I'm getting below 1Mbps download as well, but quite good upload.

do u guys experience slow loading of instagram medias?

Walao.. The hotlink app for almost 2 months can't download the eStatement anymore!

mine can. no problem

Porting out Hotlink. Anyone wanna buy credit? RM100 for RM 80

Android can...


iOS...?

Android too... Yes, it does display the list, but can't downlaod

just downloaded. no issue. did u give permission to the app to save files into ur phone?