It took me a long time to do this, but I finally felt enough was enough. It was next to impossible for me to work or do literally anything without connection to the internet. For someone who spends nearly half of his day working on a laptop, staying connected is no more considered a ‘luxury’ good for me. I feel the amount of money which I am forced to fork out at a coffeeshop for a cuppa just to use the internet is not justified. Besides I need to find such a coffeeshop JUST to connect. Also, while travelling or staying at locations where access to internet is extremely limited…damn you sure wish you had internet access!
As I mentioned before, because of my dependence on my laptop, I decided that it is high time I have wireless broadband. So without wasting much time today, I decided to sign up with Celcom. Believe you me, I had thought long and hard whether I should go for either Maxis or Celcom. Since I was already a Maxis phone subscriber and my phone had 3G connectivity, I felt going for maxis would be a waste. Without trying to sound biased, I personally found their 3G service to be rather poor. Even in prominent spots in PJ, the 3G connection seemed feeble.
And so I felt convinced that probably Celcom would be a better bet. After all they did ‘boldly’ claim that they are the number 1 wireless broadband service in the country, so I guess I can’t go wrong with them.
So far I am quite pleased with their service. Though it’s been only a day, I find that I’m able to surf significantly faster as compared to my streamyx connection. However I plan to conduct a real vis-a-vis network connectivity test to really see if there’s a significant difference between the two. I need a quick test below and this was the result, definitely more tests need to be done to validate the statistics.
