Mobile Broadband User Testimonials

[YorYor]

Good or bad, please contribute to this thread so that new/jump-ship subscribers can have some reference to base their decisions upon.
I will (try my best to) update the first post as often as I can, but the focus will be more on adding new areas rather than 100 good reviews for a specific area.
Entries will be sorted by area for easy lookup.

Biggest Piece of Advice: Always subscribe starting with a lower plan that is one or two notches below your target.
i.e., if you're looking for 4Mbps, start from the 1Mbps or 2Mbps plan first. If it works well in the area(s) where you predominantly use the mobile broadband, then consider upgrading.
REMEMBER! It is ALWAYS easier to upgrade than to downgrade.

Please provide:
1. Provider (M1/ST/SH)
2. Plan (in Mbps)
3. Area used (be as specific as possible)
4. Max speed attained, and (optional) roughly percentage of time attained
5. Rating (1-10)
6. SpeedTest link (optional)
7. Any comments

Format of table below:
Area / Plan / Max speed / Rating / Nickname / Comments & SpeedTest Link
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M1 Mobile Broadband (most reviews lifted from the M1 thread)
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Aljunied / 1Mbps / 1Mbps, 80% / 8.0 / YorYor / Typically used from 9am - 5pm
Aljunied / 2Mbps / 2Mbps, 60% / 8.0 / YorYor / Averages 1.2-1.5Mbps most of the time... set office server to run continuous ping to ensure connectivity
Ang Mo Kio / 2Mbps / 2.08Mbps / ? / Asus80 / -
Ang Mo Kio / 7.2Mbps / 6.48Mbps / ? / racerguy / Link
Bedok Reservoir / 7.2Mbps / 3.26Mbps / ? / afrovillain
Boon Lay / 7.2Mbps / 1.50Mbps / ? /babykyoko / -
Braddell / 4Mbps / <1Mbps / ? / crapp0 / -
Bras Basah / 2Mbps / ? / ? / joelchan / -
Bukit Gombak / 2Mbps / 2.04Mbps / ? / whaleshark87 / -
Bukit Merah / 4Mbps / 0.33Mbps / ? / JuNz-V / -
Bukit Timah (Upper) / 2Mbps / 2.47Mbps / ? / westside_lch / -
Central / 1Mbps / 1Mbps / ? / Kyururu / -
Changi Airport / 7.2Mbps / 6.98Mbps / 7.0 / koren / Able to hit upload speeds of 1Mbps; on Sunsurf Link
Changi Expo / 1Mbps / 1Mbps / ? / aaur4man / -
Changi General Hospital, CGH, Simei / 1Mbps / 1Mbps / 8 / YorYor / Link
Choa Chu Kang / 2Mbps / 1.92Mbps / ? / missotah / -
Choa Chu Kang / 1Mbps / 1Mbps / ? / aaur4man / -
City Hall, Funan / 2Mbps / 1.95Mbps / ? / DaYellowDuckie / via Huawei E960 router Link
Commonwealth / 2Mbps / 2.10Mbps / ? / Asus80 / -
Commonwealth / 7.2Mbps / 5.xxMbps / ? / Unclemun / Link
Depot Road / 1Mbps / 1Mbps / 8.0 / MarineX / Link
East Coast / 2Mbps / ~1Mbps / ? / weap0nx / -
Geylang / 2Mbps / 2.3Mbps / ? / akita16384 / -
Hillview / 1Mbps / 1.04Mbps, 90% / 5.0 / Yat / Frequent server not found error is irritating. Also, perpertual disconnection during download from Megaupload and Rapidshare
Hougang / 1Mbps / 1Mbps / ? / SuperDecker / -
Hougang / 4Mbps / 3.82Mbps / ? / saggydog / Link
Hougang / 2Mbps / 2.13Mbps / 8 / stephen30 / Link
Hougang / 1Mbps / 1Mbps / ? / outer92 / via Aztech 3G router
Jurong West / 4Mbps / 2.70Mbps / ? / |XcElLeNcE| / -
Jurong West / 1Mbps / 1Mbps / ? / xd3vilx / -
Jurong West / 2Mbps / 2Mbps / ? / travelmate_king / Slow down from 5pm - 11pm
Jurong West / 1Mbps / 1.06Mbps / ? / ks2005 / -
Katong / 1Mbps / 1Mbps / ? / czheyuan / -
Marina Square / 2Mbps / 2.60Mbps / ? / joelchan / -
Punggol / 2Mbps / 2.13Mbps / ? / RSKeisuke / -
Queenstown / 2Mbps / 2.12Mbps / ? / invisible01 / -
River Valley / 1Mbps / ? / ? / dead_duck / Slow, sometimes can't connect
Sembawang / 2Mbps / 2Mbps / ? / Asus80 / -
Serangoon North / 2Mbps / 2.32Mbps / ? / joelchan / -
Suntec / 7.2Mbps / 3.xxMbps / ? / WestGuy / -
Tampines / 1Mbps / 1.03Mbps / ? / Sambuca78 / -
Tampines / 1Mbps / 1Mbps, 70% / 7.0 / YorYor / Sometimes used from 8pm - wee hours
Tampines / 1Mbps / 0.8Mbps / ? / ktee / -
Tampines / 1Mbps / 1.03Mbps / ? / Sambuca78 / -
Toa Payoh / 7.2Mbps / 5.xxMbps / 7.0 / koren / Able to hit upload speeds of 1Mbs; on Sunsurf
Woodlands / 2Mbps / 1.13Mbps / ? / Asus80 / -
Woodlands / 2mbps / 1.3Mbps / ? / afrovillain / In Republic Poly
Yishun / 7.2Mbps / 6.7Mbps / ? / hsm1user / -
Yishun / 1Mbps / 1Mbps / ? / jazlirocks / -

General Comments
- YorYor: Very much improved since I first used their 1Mbps service from Feb 07 - Aug 07
- YorYor: Now employs image proxies which can sometimes cause lags in loading webpages
- YorYor: DNS servers response a bit erratic at times
- YorYor: Getting the occasional "problematic days", but not often at all, usually Mondays
- WestGuy: Poor upload, poorer overall performance compared to StarHub
- koren: Although M1 provides one of the fastest download speed.. its not very stable.. my MSN keeps disconnecting when i open >5 tabs in Firefox.. some pages need refreshing to be loaded properly..
- weap0nx: But for surfing it's perfectly alright not blazing fast but really acceptable. Get 2mbps if you need to surf and do a bit of downloading.
- whaleshark87: M1 throughput is much much more lousy than starhub. Webpages can't load on M1 while it loads smoothly on starhub.


Format of table below:
Area / Plan / Max speed / Rating / Nickname / Comments & SpeedTest Link
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SingTel Broadband on Mobile
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Admiralty / 7.2Mbps / 5.62Mbps / ? / Octopuz / Link
Aljunied / 1Mbps / 1Mbps, 90% / 9.0 / YorYor / Typically used from 9am - 5pm
Ang Mo Kio / 1Mbps / 1Mbps, 90% / 9.0 / komatineni / -
Ang Mo Kio / 7.2Mbps / 3.37Mbps / ? / dao / -
Bedok Chai Chee / 1Mbps / 1Mbps / ? / angcsbenny / -
Bedok / 7.2Mbps / 2.38Mbps / ? / liangtam / -
Bouna Vista / 1Mbps / 1Mbps / 9.0 / komatineni / -
Bukit Panjang / 1Mbps / 0.8Mbps / ? / komatineni / -
City Hall / 7.2Mbps / 6.50Mbps / ? / westwest1 / Link
Jurong West / 4Mbps / 2.7Mbps / ? / FireHobbit / -
Kovan / 2Mbps / 2Mbps / ? / xthene / It is fast in the morning, download speed can be as fast as 240kbps. However, in the night, can be as slow as 800 bps....
Newton / 1Mbps / 1.73Mbps / ? / angcsbenny / Link
Orchard / 1Mbps / 1Mbps / 9.0 / komatineni / -
Pasir Ris / 7.2Mbps / 5.81Mbps / ? / dao / Link
Queenstown / 1Mbps / 1.75Mbps / ? / silvestz / Link
Sembawang / 4Mbps / 2.31Mbps / ? / marixspl / Link
Sengkang / 4Mbps / 1.25Mbps / ? / carverstone / -
Serangoon Garden Market / 1Mbps / 0.9Mbps / ? / komatineni / -
Tai Seng / 2Mbps / 1.42Mbps / 8.0 / stealth0128 / Stable, no disconnections
Tampines / 1Mbps / 1Mbps / ? / cyberian / -
Tanjong Pagar / 1Mbps / 1Mbps / 9.0 / komatineni / -
Toa Payoh / 7.2Mbps / 2.85Mbps / ? / dao / -
Yishun / 4Mbps / 1.60Mbps / ? / marixspl / -


General Comments
- YorYor: Suffered only a handful of outages during my term of usage, from Feb 08 - Feb 09
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Format of table below:
Area / Plan / Max speed / Rating / Nickname / Comments & SpeedTest Link
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StarHub MaxMobile
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Aljunied / 7.2Mbps / 4.xxMbps / ? / helloicanseeu / -
Ang Mo Kia / 7.2Mbps / 2.68Mbps / ? / cyberian / Prepaid
Ang Mo Kio / 7.2Mbps / 2.54Mbps / ? / racerguy / Link
Balestier / 2Mbps / 0.15Mbps / ? / abuddlah / Link
Bedok Reservoir / 2Mbps / 0.47mbps / ? / squatt3r / -
Boon Lay / 7.2Mbps / 2Mbps / ? / of_rath / Average speed 1Mbps
Boon Lay / 2Mbps / 2.02Mbps / ? / WestGuy / Link
Bugis National Library / 7.2Mbps / 0.97Mbps / ? / FireHobbit / -
Bukit Batok / 1Mbps / 1.59Mbps / ? / ngbc / Link
Bukit Batok / 2Mbps / >2Mbps... 5Mbps! / ? / WestGuy / Using Singtel's Huawei E1752
Bukit Gombak / 1Mbps / 1Mbps / ? / whaleshark87 / -
Bukit Timah / 1Mbps / 1Mbps / ? / santaboi / -
Central / 2Mbps / 1.6Mbps / ? / Kyururu / -
Choa Chu Kang / 1Mbps / 1Mbps / ? / burger / -
Choa Chu Kang / 2Mbps / 1.76Mbps / ? / Klein / -
Clementi (SIM) / 7.2Mbps / 6.70Mbps, 8.31Mbps / ? / radiac / Link, Link
Clementi (SIM) / 2Mbps / 2.5Mbps / ? / HaNgHaNg / Link
Dover, Singapore Polytechnic / 2Mbps / 5.29Mbps / ? / Spartan118 / Link
Hougang / 7.2Mbps / 2.11Mbps / ? / cyberian / Prepaid
Hougang / 2Mbps / 2.04Mbps / 9.0 / stephen30 / Some disconnections during peak hours.
Jurong West / 7.2Mbps / 2Mbps / ? / lifeisaplay / -
Jurong West / 7.2Mbps / ? / ? / WestGuy / -
Jurong West / 7.2Mbps / ~1Mbps / ? / nomoney25 / Using it since last year 2008 june , connection was damm bad that it would auto disconnect or no signal every half hour.Now getting better but download speed is just 1Mbps.
Jurong West / 7.2Mbps / 2Mbps / ? / of_rath / -
Jurong West / 7.2Mbps / 1.24Mbps / ? / FireHobbit / -
Jurong West / 7.2Mbps / 6.70Mbps / ? / jonathan920 / Link
NTU, Hall 11 / 7.2Mbps / 4.75Mbps / ? / TheNGTV / Link
Macpherson / 2Mbps / 2Mbps / ? / zachmus / Link
Pasir Ris / 7.2Mbps / 3.33Mbps / ? / ashwOOtz / -
Pasir Ris / 2Mbps / 2.08Mbps / 1 / wizardoz / Only 0.53Mbps download at night.
Queensway / 2Mbps / 2.02Mbps / ? / cheekeong_7 / Link
Rivervale Drive (Near Rumbia LRT) / 7.2Mbps / 1.2Mbps / ? / Sambuca78 / -
Sembawang / 7.2Mbps / 4.09Mbps / ? / Asus80 / Sometime disconnections during peak hours Link
Sembawang / 7.2Mbps / 4.41Mbps / ? / marixspl / Link
SGH / 2Mbps / 1.16Mbps / ? / HaNgHaNg / -
SMU / 7.2Mbps / 4Mbps / ? / ashwOOtz / -
Suntec / 7.2Mbps / 6.xxMbps / ? / WestGuy / -
Tampines / 2Mbps / 1.2xMbps / ? / cyberian / -
Tampines / 7.2Mbps / 2.68Mbps / ? / spumpkin / -
Tampines / 7.2Mbps / 2.37Mbps / ? / oglops / BT Emule only 0.5k/s
West Coast Road / 2Mbps / 4.99Mbps / ? / Gogg3r / Link
Woodlands / 7.2Mbps / 2.xxMbps / ? / helloicanseeu / -
Woodlands / 2Mbps / 2.15Mbps / ? / hitme / Surflite
Yew Tee / 2Mbps / 1.03Mbps / ? / enrell69 / -
Yishun / 2Mbps / 1.63Mbps / ? / Techno Pride / -

General Comments
- WestGuy: StarHub better down&upload and performance overall, compared to M1
- of_rath: StarHub tech support claims, in Sep 09, to be upgrading the network for the Boon Lay area in 3 months time.
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[Devilsire]

Hope to see some m1 bbom reviews in YCK/AMK areas

 

[YorYor]

All the users busy squeezing in Comex.

 

[YorYor]

No ST/SH users willing to share testimonials?

 

[WestGuy]

Here's my experience from just terminating my Starhub 7.2 and signing up for M1 7.2 recently.

1) Jurong West - Starhub gives better upload and download speeds. M1 extemely poor upload speeds e.g. 0.0x mbps

2) Suntec area - Using speedtest.net on Starhub, best i got was 6.xx mbps download. Using M1, best i got was 3.xx mbps. Using M1, my 2 attempts to download from rapidshare were terminated halfway twice(but connection still appeared ok). Never had any terminated downloads with Starhub before.

3) General - Starhub gives better speeds than M1 for me in almost all places. For M1, sometimes i need to refresh the page a few times in order for it to display

Summary - Big mistake for me to convert from Starhub to M1.

Would never consider Singtel, even though i have staff rate for it due to their 30 gb/50 gb data caps for their plans. What a turnoff.

 

[YorYor]

Where have all the SingTel BBoM users gone?
Keep hearing mixed references, some say good some say no good. Area dependent like M1?

 

[of_rath]

Dude I'm using Starhub 7.2mbps but I never get more than 2mbps! Staying near boon lay mrt. Kinda damn pissed off. Had 2mbps plan before but nowadays my speed average only 1mbps. I tried different modems but all gave me same results. Shud I change my provider?

 

[liangtam]

Where have all the SingTel BBoM users gone?
Keep hearing mixed references, some say good some say no good. Area dependent like M1?

Im here, but will not comment

 

[of_rath]

me too. Which street you staying at? I am at jurong west central 1. Rubbish speed

jurong west St 64. Called the service guy. Told it I was paying for something I can't use. Somemore under contract cuz of the modem. I was told that in 3 months they're gonna upgrade the service. Told him back I can't wait 3 months using rubbish speed and I want out of the contract. Dunno if it it will work or not. Haiz. Average ping 400+, download speed 0.8 Mbps. As you said it. Rubbish!

 

[YorYor]

Im here, but will not comment

Why leh? Good or bad, should share mah. Even if you're SingTel employee. ;p

 

[ashwOOtz]

I have just subscribed to SH MaxOnline Ultimate 7.2Mbps

Not too bad speed that I'm getting at Pasir Ris

 

[YorYor]

You mean MaxMobile?
Good to see a Pasir Ris review...

 

[ks2005]

jurong west St 64. Called the service guy. Told it I was paying for something I can't use. Somemore under contract cuz of the modem. I was told that in 3 months they're gonna upgrade the service. Told him back I can't wait 3 months using rubbish speed and I want out of the contract. Dunno if it it will work or not. Haiz. Average ping 400+, download speed 0.8 Mbps. As you said it. Rubbish!

1mpbs will be the good enough for bbom, cheap and good.

 

[of_rath]

1mpbs will be the good enough for bbom, cheap and good.

That's the prob bro. When I'm at work I will use bbom, and when I'm at home, I will connect the modem to a 3G router and use it at home. I can't even get 1mbps both ways either.

 

[YorYor]

Where's your workplace? Tried it at other areas yet?

 

[of_rath]

Where's your workplace? Tried it at other areas yet?

Raffles Place. Tried it at esplanade, bukit panjang and bukit batok. Mostly West side. What do you guys suggest.

 

[Yat]

Please provide:
1. Provider M1
2. Plan 1Mbps
3. Area used: Hillview Ave near MINDEF; River Valley Rd near Valley Point
4. Max speed attained, and (optional) roughly percentage of time attained: 1.04Mbps, 90%
5. Rating (1-10): 5 (because of reasons below)
6. SpeedTest link (optional)
7. Any comments

Frequent server not found error is irritating. Also, perpertual disconnection during download from Megaupload and Rapidshare makes me reconsider the option to cancel my ST FBB 3Mbps plan and sign up another higher speed M1 BBom for home use eventually. No use if i can't download stuff.

 

[of_rath]

Is M1 BBOM fast?

 

[liangtam]

Would never consider Singtel, even though i have staff rate for it due to their 30 gb/50 gb data caps for their plans. What a turnoff.

Err, can moi buy new phone from chiu n chiu gibe moi discount

Why leh? Good or bad, should share mah. Even if you're SingTel employee. ;p

i dun rly jus use st bbom only leh.
good or bad is subjective de. also, there are alot of factors involved, i.e. certain area has sudden spike of calls for specific days, new subscribers(and terminating users) due to shows like comex etc all which will provide subjective result even between diff seconds as u use.

while no comments will be dispensed, i can post speedtest results tho

 

[nomoney25]

At jurong west, near Pioneer MRT.

Me using starhub 7.2Mbps. Using it since last year 2008 june , connection was damm bad that it would auto disconnect or no signal every half hour.Now getting better but download speed is just 1Mbps.