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.
