first impression using 3G Indosat Broadband Unlimited

A week ago, i registered to an offer from Indosat for internet connection solution called 3G Indosat Broadband Unlimited. Like the name implies, this offer using broadband technology and work on 3G network. There are four types of this offer, depended on the speed connection you prefer and your budgeting cost of course. Check out this page if you wanna know the detail about it. As my mom said that i should use my money wisely, i chose the cheapest one (called ISAT eco)…  From its promotion site, it is said that I`ll get speed connection up to 256Kbps for downstream, and i`m not sure how much it gives for the upstream.

It`s really an easy process to apply on this offer. Just come to any Indosat Gallery nearest to your place and have a talk to customer service(CS) you found there that you wanna apply to 3G Indosat Broadband Unlimited service. She will ask for your identity card, your real mother name, to give your sign on here and there, and that`s all!! Easy, rite? Oh btw, if you are living in Depok, Indosat Gallery can be found near the entrance of Pesona Kahayangan residence. I`m not sure how long it take to activate your subscription so that you can start using this service, but as for me, the CS promise me that it will take not more than four days. It was kinda surprise me actually. I thought this process just take a couple hours or a day at worst. But never mind, i`ll wait patiently . Furthermore, the CS ensure me that 4 days is just a worst case. I guess she means that usually it doesn`t take that long.

But it seemed like expectation ain`t in accord with reality…

On the third day after i registered, my internet connection doesn`t up yet. Actually, a day after I registered to this service, i tried to use it wished that it already up. But it didnt` go well and i got a report message “SIM card registration failed”. I felt uncomfortable with this message. I asked my friend, who already used this service, and he said that it is because my submission hasn`t been activated yet. I remembered the CS saying that the activation doesn`t take more than 4 days. So, guess I`ll just wait.. it still one day left anyway.

Disaster came!! after waiting for 6 days, my internet connection doesn`t up yet.

I visited Indosat gallery (again) to complain about it. And guess what the CS said, “sir, your registration failed.. You need to reregister”. I was so so surprise and feeling annoyed of course. But soon he calm me down, “tonight your internet connection will up, don`t worry sir”. And he was right…

On the night of that day, finally i can use this service . First thing i do is to check its speed out. I opened some homepages, and they opened quite fast. Next, I watched some video on Youtube.com to see its connection capabilities toward required-much-bandwidth-sites. The result was good. It just need a couple seconds to start streaming a 2-minutes-duration-video. After that, I tried to download the latest chapter of One Piece scanlation (sssttt!! my favourite anime & manga here ). Just see how it goes on the picture below,

downloading one piece manga scanlation ch 508

Can u see the speed above :surprise: ? Wow!! it`s been long time since i saw the download speed that exceeds 100KB/sec. At least since my colleague limited its internet connection speed about 2 years ago

To measure its speed more precise, I used speedtest.net site that can calculate both my connection download and upload speed. Here is the result test,

first try on speedtest.net

That was really impressive result. But wait a second, i tried that test at noon (1.30pm). When i tried again on the night (10.44pm), its result made me down

second try on speedtest.net

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Now, it`s been 3 days since i use this service. I did several test at different time (morning, noon, afternoon, night, midnight) to check out which time period this service gives its best performance. So far, at noon (between 12.00 to 15.00pm) and early morning (between 04.00am to 06.00am) are the period time when this service shows impressive performance. Its performance downs a bit at night. Here are the tests summary that I`ve been conducted till now

summarry of the speed test

Overall, i`m quite satisfy with this Indosat`s service. It really help me out doing my daily activities particularly that related to my study.