Mobile broadband - Starhub or Singtel?

[Lala81]

Deciding between the 2. Mainly for surfing, facebook, talk to fiancee on MSN while at work

 

Anyone with any negative/positive feedback regarding their experiences?

 

I've tried my colleague's starhub ? 3.6mbps (that's what it said when connected), found it decent.

Using SNBB 10mbps at home.

 

Is 1mbps very slow? or good enuff in most of your experiences?v

 

Singtel

1mbps $13.50 for 2yr contract, $22.5 for 1 yr

2mbps $18.5 for 2 yr, $ 26 for 1 yr

 

Starhub (only 2 yr contract)

1.2mbps $14

2mbps $19.4

 

Singtel

starhub

Edited January 10, 2010 by Lala81

[Albeniz]

I have been on Singtel mobile broadband for a few months.

Used mostly during off-office hours and the weekends.

So far no problem encountered.

 

[Lorinser]

starhub works badly in punggol.

i gave that up and change to singtel.

check with someone that stays same location as you.

starhub is not broadband... it's shareband.

the more ppl use starhub in your area, the slower it will get.

for your requirement, as long as youtube can play smoothly.... it's good enuff for you

 

on the safe side... dun take starhub

[Jman888]

iPhone with data plan? can surf, msn, facebook... now am doing this fr bintan (using wifi lah)...

[Blackyv]

starhub works badly in punggol.

i gave that up and change to singtel.

check with someone that stays same location as you.

starhub is not broadband... it's shareband.

the more ppl use starhub in your area, the slower it will get.

for your requirement, as long as youtube can play smoothly.... it's good enuff for you

 

on the safe side... dun take starhub

 

i can vouch for M1 too that works badly in punggol... was using M1 mbb in sengkang with no problem but the moment i moved to punggol, no signal, disconnect, ..until i dont bother to use till contract end and have it cancel... change to st on the same day and working fine from day one.....

so, the rule is whichever telco signal is strong at your area, that is the one that most likely work well since it's all about signal when come to mobile bb.....

 

[Lala81]

iPhone with data plan? can surf, msn, facebook... now am doing this fr bintan (using wifi lah)...

 

me no smartphone. i dun really like to surf with a small screen.

 

I was considering it. but probably mobile BB suits my needs more. There is a pc at my workplace. I can just plug in the usb modem to it to surf with normal screen

[Lala81]

i can vouch for M1 too that works badly in punggol... was using M1 mbb in sengkang with no problem but the moment i moved to punggol, no signal, disconnect, ..until i dont bother to use till contract end and have it cancel... change to st on the same day and working fine from day one.....

so, the rule is whichever telco signal is strong at your area, that is the one that most likely work well since it's all about signal when come to mobile bb.....

 

Do the 2 use different technology in their mobile BB?

[Lekkie]

No, the 2 same tech. For home than they are different. 1 using phone line, 1 using SCV cable point.

[Geminik]

me no smartphone. i dun really like to surf with a small screen.

 

I was considering it. but probably mobile BB suits my needs more. There is a pc at my workplace. I can just plug in the usb modem to it to surf with normal screen

 

U can use iphone as a portable modem and connect to a laptop and surf, like wad i'm doing now, mine is starhub, kinda fast in woodlands area.....my area maybe....

Edited January 10, 2010 by Geminik

[Pratakosong]

I have both starhub (comes free bundled with my home maxonline) which i use solely at home and a singtel BBOM which i use when i go out. I personally find that singtel speed slightly slower but its much more stable (ie can use on mrt, CBD, ulu areas) without any problems...

[Raining]

used all 3 services on their mobile bb...

 

in order of stability (most impt imo for mobile bb) 1)singnet 2)starhub (the coverage some bro mention is true, as mobile bb is basically ur hp network) 3) m1 (bad experience despite having supposely better mobile coverage)

 

in terms of hardware, most of them uses huawei, which is pretty stable so far, no crashes or funny funny stunts as far as i can rem...

[Raining]

starhub works badly in punggol.

i gave that up and change to singtel.

check with someone that stays same location as you.

starhub is not broadband... it's shareband.

the more ppl use starhub in your area, the slower it will get.

for your requirement, as long as youtube can play smoothly.... it's good enuff for you

 

on the safe side... dun take starhub

 

nope, you are wrong, all 3 telco's mobile broadband are essentially your mobile network. if starhub's mobile bb is shared, so is singtel's.

 

on the home bb i suggest you read up DSL vs Cable broadband

 

cheers

[Booboon]

U can use iphone as a portable modem and connect to a laptop and surf, like wad i'm doing now, mine is starhub, kinda fast in woodlands area.....my area maybe....

Wat aps did u use for internet sharing. i thou iphone got no internet shharing, only wm ph can?

[Will_I_Am]

I have both M1 and SingTel Mobile broadband.

Don't bother with M1 - signal sucks big time. Always kenna disconnected or super slow speed. Think worse than 14.4kbps modem era.

Singtel signal quality still acceptable and consistent. At 1Mbps, cannot complain already.

 

[Duythangos]

I stay in West Coast garden and i used to try starhub and M1.... just two word : very bad. signal drop every half hour, then i switch to singtel, it's better

[Myrl]

Wat aps did u use for internet sharing. i thou iphone got no internet shharing, only wm ph can?

 

I think he is referring to iPhone's tethering ability.

 

Check it out here.

[Devilac]

Using Starhub 2mbps mobile bb. So far so good.

[Tkseah]

The speed for my Singtel mobile BB is not consistent.. can be pretty fast in the morning & afternoon.. but crawls in the evening.. guess it's due to congestion..