M1 Broadband is now unlimited!
Singapore December 7th, 2007
I’m not sure how late my news is, but apparently, M1 broadband has now gone unlimited! That means people can now download all they want, watch youtube all they want, and make as many Skype calls as they want! =)
While this may be good news to most, there is only one thing that I am worried of - reliability. With everyone not caring about how much they can download, everyone will just download at will and this may result in congestion!
This was what I had been getting for the past few weeks - download speeds of 12kbps. Yes, that’s quite pathetic and I had to wait till the cows came home before my gmail starts appearing.
Anyway, as Ridz and Mich were mentioning - it’s only a matter of time that M1 will jump into the unlimited data bundle bandwagon, and the reason they won’t is to provide a service level agreement of a certain download speed. Now that M1 did join in the rat race, it’s likely that the quality of surfing will be affected.
What luck. Wireless@SG is unreliable and now, the other alternative is going to be flooded soon. =(
More information can be found here. Thanks to reader JC for letting me know. 
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since Dec’07, network is very very very super slow.
Anyone made complaint to m1?
i is still super slow. i took me 5min to fully load the m1 speed. whad a shame? how can personal broadband take off with this kind of service?
yeah. total shame.
they call this broadband!?
they’re happily AND IRRESPONSIBLY telling everybody about their “broadband” service in their ads. Blatant scam.. right here in s’pore. Companies should learn to be more responsible, walk the talk, and put customers as their top priority instead of just claiming what they offer is good.. with their little terms and conditions, and those clauses nicely located somewhere not obvious.
i just bought the M1 1.8Mbps. for the past one week ever since i started using it , the line has always been intermittent. the speed? i go to speedtest.net evrday …it can never go over 250 Kbps. this is a rip off!!!!!
I’ve just got the 512 service and its OK but not great.
Is there any performance difference between the services or is it just download speed affect ?
I dont download but i’d upgrade if the perforamnce improves.
Thanks
Ytd , I just bought the M1 1.0Mbps, i did a speedtest.net but the speed was only ard 247kbps (10pm).
I did a speedtest.net at Sunplaze M1 shop (the display set outside for customers to hand on) the speedtest was around 600+ (7pm) .
Today , my speedtest is ard 268kbps (6.30am) So far , No even half of 1Mbps.
hi
i got 2 mbps in my home. its working on 11.00 am to 5 pm rest of all other time it hang.
please improve your signal with anti virus scan.
Regards
I have the 1.0Mbps, morning is “quite” fine. But night time, it keeps disconnecting ever though the MobileConnection status is still on. I stay in Aljunied. Maybe got no good coverage in night or the traffic is overloaded?
I use wireless@sg (512) and the speed is much much better than M1’s 1.0Mbps. Gosh, I still have 11 months contact to go and no termination or upgrade is allowed.
Hi WIl,
I am about to subscribe the good offer 1.0 Mbps but on
hearing what you have encountered, hm I think I need to
drop the Idea.
Anyway, thanks for the information, otherwise I never known you had paid for 1 M but getting only one third of that speed. Thats what I heard from others and now
you had witness that.
Thanks
Teo
Should anyone suggest inviting M1’s Staff to check at
this blog? So be it for feedback and may helps the
customer in future?
Hum
Hoe
In fact M1 broadband isn’t as bad as you guys claim.
You can see some of the numbers posted at this link
http://my.ocworkbench.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=77826