I got a flash deal on the Maxis app for home fibre, 1Gbps for RM249 RM159/month with 24 months contract. I'm not sure if the price stays even after contract ends, it is a tempting offer. Should I make the switch or just opt for the Stay with Unifi plan?

This post has been edited by Slyke: Dec 23 2024, 10:21 AM

My suggestion is stick to Unifi if staying landed

Service recovery is much faster than Maxis if there's a fault as TM's contractor work 7 days

Condo doesn't matter as service fault is rarer

only if you really need 1gbps at that price point or else it is just funfare.

Stick to unifi FTW.

I took up the deal, with 8 mths free subscription, so far so good, it's about 5 months now. The price will revert to Rm249 after 24 mths as per contract. My fiber infra is under Allo, so far didn't had any issue.

What I liked is easier to configure the DNS over TLS, and no connection issue to europe / international sites especially at night which was prevalent with unifi, and smooth IPTV streaming.

TIME > all

The price is for 24 months only, after which you can shop for another attractive offer. There is also ongoing Maxis fibre offer, Rm99 for 300mbps for 2 years.
Fault recovery depends on area, even Unifi also cannot always guaranty 24 hours recovery for any downtime esp weekends and public holidays.

True, Unifi pretty slow at night when I'm browsing International Website particularly when I'm reading Manhwa and Manga. These include faster loading on my TIDAL, Prime, Crunchyroll and other stream apps. Since I'm also an existing Maxis Postpaid user, me and all my family member (as supplementary) got unlimited 5G Data.

I would go for Maxis deal.

After 2 years, look for other telco plan.

Unifi>Maxis>Unifi, waiting to switch again user here
I subscribed to Unifi during MCO, switched to Maxis because of bad routing till my contract with Maxis has ended.
The only reason for me to choose Unifi is because of the 6 months free bill, however...if you get the transfer ID from Unifi and go argue with Maxis, they will give you the same free bill offering as well...

I will switch back to Maxis again once my contract with Unifi has ended, because their routing is equally bad like 4 years ago...

So if Maxis counter you with the same free 6 months, you will stay on?

They counter me with 8 months
I declined them as I need public IP but they said I still need to pay for it
Also, I asked them about the 1Gbps RM159 promo...they refused to give it to me
After I moved to Unifi, that promo showed up in my Maxis app lol

To be honest, if given a second chance...I would stick with Maxis
Be missing out plenty of free speed upgrade that's for sure
But at least the international routing is better, cant browse twitter before bedtime is just sad

Currently on my 3rd month using Maxis Fibre after switching from Unifi. From what I’ve experienced so far, a bad day on Maxis gives you higher latency and slightly lower download speed (I experienced this for 3 nights) but doesn’t impact browsing or streaming much (gaming might be a different story), while a bad day on Unifi (virtually every night since backdoor-govt/MCO days) would render the internet almost unusable for me because of packet loss. Obviously this is just my own anecdotal experience and ymmv.

This post has been edited by dev/numb: Dec 26 2024, 03:17 AM

Agree. Public IP is non negociable for Maxis promo currently. I am lucky to have move away from Unifi otherwise have to consider upgrading to avoid their CGNAT which is terrible.
I use Maxis 100mbps on their private IP which is good enough for my use case.

I can still do streaming and downloading during night time with decent speed. Hopefully Maxis can maintain it this way. Unifi during its bad day is almost unusable.

Yes, Maxis consider public IP as an added service hence the extra charge
I need the public IP for my VPN because TIME's routing to China is bad
Guess there's not a single ISP that gives you everything in Malaysia...

Either bad routing, bad pricing, bad coverage or bad upload speed...

why your so special need public ip to connect vpn?

connect vpn no need public ip , unless you hosting vpn itself

I hosted it on my router, AX88U+wireguard

My decision is leaning more towards Unifi, but I do like that way of switching every 2 years once contract ends. I think I'll wait until the new Stay With Unifi package before making my final decision

Here is latest SWU plan. Have a look and decide if it is worth it.
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...ost&p=111177389

This post has been edited by YoungMan: Feb 13 2025, 04:27 PM

Unifi for sure