You're working for Asiaspace ka?

You're working for Asiaspace ka?

The Asiaspace Wimax Sdn Bhd (Amax) website has the info on coverage, packages and pricing: www.amax.my 
Note - no 'com'.

The Amax T&C don't have the Fair Use Policy. P1's have the policy which limits total download per month to only 20GB (where got enough!  ) , while Celcom, Maxis and U limit to -worse- 3-5GB per month, all for roughly the same price of about RM99.00 per month.

I put the question on the absence of the Fair Use Policy to Mohd Zamri Salleh, the Chief Technology Office of Amax. He told me they had gone thru that and deliberately decided that they shouldn't limit the amount of download for Wimax users.     

On the downside, for the cheaper (RM99.00) package, only the USB dongle modem is provided, which means one can't use it to wi-fi the house, but the advantage is it is entirely portable. If wanna the modem with the RJ45 to plug into a wireless router, one gotta take the RM138.00 package - that's 40% more pricey with slightly higher speed, and needs a mains powerpoint. The modems are provided free with a 12-month contract.

P1  provides only one type of modem which needs to be plugged into a mains powerpoint.

On sign-up, Amax is cheaper by RM100 as it doesn't charge the activation fee, which P1 does. Actually, why should ISPs charge those nonsense registration, activation or connection fees?    Monthly subscription enough la!  

No. Am a prospective customer considering signing up and have done my homework on comparing the ISPs, and went to the Amax 1U roadshow to ask questions. But am held off by the Amax USB dongle thing coz wi-fi-ing my house is important, so that I can terminate Streamyx and the house phone TM line. Will wait till its economical package provides the solution to wi-fi.

z3171600 & Ketamine,
Why're you making this kind of assumptions? It's irrelevant to the topic at hand, and it shows your deduction skills are wanting.

Good Info 

Depending on the user, majority users don't really go beyond 20GB per month imho, to me to have the fair usage policy or not actually doesn't really matter. If the ISP decides to throttle the P2P and HTTP like TM, even you have 5 Mbps connection basically will be useless too.

Anyhow, the way I see it, the USB dongle is for outdoor usage as the output power and antenna gain will be smaller than the indoor CPE. What if I want to use indoor and outdoor? Then I would need to pay for both?

It's good actually we have one more WiMAX ISP emerging, I foresee when YTLE comes up later, we will have three ways battles and then the price will be cheaper for all of us. So my advice is, be patient and wait if you want to sign up for a better deal. Actually, the way I see it, those fees and CPE cost will be eventually beared by the ISP when competition becomes HOT! ... so ...  let's wait and see ...

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Added on September 1, 2008, 11:03 pm
You still can wire the Indoor CPE to your wifi router to provide wifi coverage in your house. If you look at the package, it's still cheaper than your streamyx and fixed line combined together. Both Amax and P1 actually purposely adjust the price to counter Streamyx on this.

pretty lame speed..1mbps and 1.5mbps lol

The rated 1Mbps speed will better than the "best effort" speed offered by TMNut.

Better has a very wide meaning 

However you define better, it would still be better than TMNut. 

On the latency, I doubt so, others I think should be ok 

i have no problem with my 1.5mbps streamyx, always 160kBps download
so i guess what im getting from streamyx is over the top?

Sorry I don't get what do you mean by over the top. 

As you've mentioned that streamyx's best effort has given you 160kbps DL speed. Shouldn't it be 1.5Mbps as you've subscribe for 1.5Mbps?

here we go again. 160kBps = 1.25 Mbps

The rated 1Mbps speed will better than the "best effort" speed offered by TMNut.

I put the question on the absence of the Fair Use Policy to Mohd Zamri Salleh, the Chief Technology Office of Amax. He told me they had gone thru that and deliberately decided that they shouldn't limit the amount of download for Wimax users.

Ahhh.......... my bad......... i didn't see the B.

I haven't experienced any where near those figures with my streamyx. Anyway, that's another discussion