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I subscribed to Maxis Wireless Broadband, the USB one about a week ago and here is my review on it. I paid a one time fee of RM100.00 and charges are RM118.00 per month (with my maxis postpaid account) - please be aware that there is a 5% government tax on it or was it 10% service fee - please check. I will update this site when I get my first bill. My review on Maxis wireless broadband - It sucks big time. Forget about connecting it to P2P and online games - just dream on. I get HSDPA connection throughout in Sri Hartamas - just surfing online could be a pain at times but you get the occasional ok connection - then again my Steamyx connection also sucks big time. Is every household downloading movies on bit torrent sites?

Overall my take is that if you are just the browsing type with occasional emails to send out or need to surf that website on the go, then it is not a bad buy - if you are a bandwidth hungry kind of user, I wouldn’t recommend Maxis wireless broadband. Cancellation after the 7 days trial period - there is a penalty of RM200.00.

I did a fair share of my research on “how to boost your wifi signals”. If you are looking at a wireless router and is in the midst of purchasing one, I would highly recommend the LINKSYS WRT54G. From there, you could also invest in high gain antennas or install your router with a 3rd party firmware called DD-WRT. This allows your router to boost signals of up to 400 meters or more.

For more information visit http://www.dd-wrt.com

I have tried on Belkin routers, the signal really sucks and I have read a lot of bad comments on it. Eventhough it gives you that life time warranty shit, I will still stay away from it. Besides it is much costlier than Linksys. A Belkin router G+ is about RM299.00 while a Linksys WRT54G is about RM190 at Lowyat or PJ IT Mall.