StarHub upgrades MaxOnline Premium to 100Mbps for local surfing
As of 17 July, 2009, StarHub customers on MaxOnline Premium will get a speed boost up to 100Mbps when accessing locally hosted online content. The changes are done purely at StarHub’s end and no configuration or reboot of equipment is needed.
Obviously, you can only get the full 100Mbps if you already have a DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem. Customers with a DOCSIS 2.0 cable modem – that’s me – will get a speed bump of up to 32Mbps instead. Internet access to international sites will remain capped at 12Mbps.
According to the official press release that came in to my mailbox last week:
Ms Ong Bee Lian, StarHub’s Vice President of Home Solutions said, “As an award-winning broadband player in Asia-Pacific, we continue to push the envelope in delivering more value on our service offerings to our customers. This new upgrade will empower our MaxOnline Premium customer base to experience true next-generation broadband speeds now.”
This is a free upgrade, I am certainly not complaining about the additional bandwidth. You can see the test I did above with Speedtest.net; below is my download speed as recorded by StarHub’s own speed measurement applet.
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