Yes 4G Router Review

I’ve got an opportunity to review a new router specifically design for Yes 4G. Right now I’m staying in a college. Yes 4G coverage in UTM Skudai is quite good. In fact UTM is the first local IPTA that been chose by Yes to launch their product. All UTM student get a free Yes account with a free usage up to 300mb. Yep, it’s only 300mb per month. Ones could ponder what to do with 300mb? For me, easy! I could finish it within an hour. Hehh

This is the router that I received to review. Thanks to ceedtec.com who sent to me the router for testing. FYI information there’s no router in the market that support 4G usb modem yet. The official name for Yes 4G usb modem is ’4G dongle’. We do have a 3G modem supported router in the market now. But we can’t use Yes dongle on regular 3G router. It wouldn’t work. As 4G is totally a different protocol. So guys at ceedtec has developed a new firmware I supposed, for this particular router to support Yes 4G dongle. Just plugged in your modem in the usb slot. Setup your username and password in the administration area and you are good to go. An active Yes 4G connection with auto redial function.

Let focus on this router shall we.

Tadaa! This is the outlook of the router. Slick isn’t it? No brand yet as this router is still in testing phase.

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This is main view of the router administration. There is a couple of field there that you need to fill up before you can use the modem. And just below that you can see there is a signal bar. Your Yes 4G signal strength meter. Right now the meter didn’t work yet.

Others are identical as usual as we found in normal administrative router page settings. You can set DNS etc

Here is the speed test that I get while I’m using Yes 4G connected to this router.

Local server

offshore, not so bad

Impressive speed right? That is Yes strong point, low latency and high speed download speed which is top in its category compare to other wireless broadband like celcom, maxis and digi.

So far the experience using this router is good. But you can’t always keep it on due to Yes mechanism of charging their user based on prepaid basis. You have to disconnect it if its not in use. It would be good to see a quick switch on and off button for this router rather than switching it off through the main plug.

There is no way to disconnect it, you just had to unplugged the modem from the router which is a bit harsh to me. The dialer on the router interface will only do good on auto redial and get us connected. Disconnect button doesn’t seem to work

Well that’s all for now. Enjoy more pictures of the router below.

There’s new broadband provider in town. This broadband is relatively new and not many places in the coverage yet. So far, UTM has been chosen the first IPTA to enjoy 4G speed. Each student has been granted free 300Mb each month. Yep, it’s only 300Mb, if you’re thinking you gonna leech the network with heavy downloading just be prepare your wallet to be thick as ever. Cause this is a prepaid broadband.

Right now, YES has covered Johor, Penang and Klang Valley. So, few of my friends already bought the modem at Lot 10 in KL. Priced at RM99. Yes you gonna need this modem to access the network. You can’t use a normal 3G modem.

Once you bought the modem you are entitled another 300Mb free for the next 10 month. The 300Mb will be credited to your account respectively each month. So for fellow UTM student they gonna enjoy 600Mb worth of bandwidth each month for free. That sounds reasonable for your google needs right?

Here’s how the modem looks like. Pictures courtesy of my roommate. Thanks Nizam

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I borrowed the modem for a while and do some quick speedtest. Here are the results,

Local server speedtest shows some tremendous result. Reasonable ping times and the upload speed really caught my attention.

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After that to make the test neutral I do a couple test on the overseas server. The ping took much longer as expected but the download speed remains stable.

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Overall its still a new network with low amount of subscribers. From my point of view Yes should offer a better speed as this is a 4G network. They are utilizing a very small percentage of what 4G network is capable of.

However, who can predict years to come, is Yes gonna be reliable and stay on top and fight for the best broadband spot? Let’s see.