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Experienced The Indosat 3G

02.25.08 | 23 Comments

These days I liked to surf on the internet using my 3G handphone. As you have noticed, I use Indosat IM3 for my SIM card. Want to know how it was going? Well, let’s find out!

First of all, I would like to tell you how to get Indosat 3G service. All you have to do is sending an SMS. Type 3G<space>your handphone’s brand<space>your handphone’s type, and then send it to number 3000. For example, I have Sony Ericsson W950i, so I type “3G SE W950i”. It’s easy, right?

After you send it, you need to be patience waiting for the reply. Indosat will send a reply in 24 hours. In my case, it didn’t take so long. After a few minutes, I got a reply. It said that I was given a password to activate the 3G registration. Then, I got an SMS which had an auto-setting function within. When I accepted that SMS, it automatically set up my handphone’s configuration, so I could use my 3G handphone’s features on the 3G network. Yeah!

At first time, I tried it to browse on the internet from my handphone, not connected yet to my computer. Whoa! I got a faster connection than before! That was nice. Then, I tried to connect it to my computer as a modem. My web browser ran fast when opened up websites on the 3G internet access. Last night, I downloaded an 11 MB software. It took about 13 minutes with more-less 14 KB/s of speed access. Pretty good. But, when I tried to download more softwares, while still downloading one, its speed access dropped down. It was only 3-5 KB/s. Quite slow!

Ah, I almost forget to tell you about the Indosat mobile internet services. I use Time-Based Indosat mobile internet service. It only costs IDR 100/minute. To get Time-Based service, just put “indosat@durasi” in as username and password for your internet account in your handphone’s configuration. If Time-Based service doesn’t suit you, you can switch it to Volume-Based service. Volume-Based service costs IDR 1/KB. Use “gprs” for your username and “im3″ for your password to get this service.

So far so good to me. Unless, about the speed access problem when download massive softwares. I can’t count on Indosat 3G for it, better go out find hotspot area. But, the ultimate problem is the 3G network itself. I don’t always get on 3G network all the time. To get on 3G network, I usually go upstair on 2nd floor, in my house! What a troublesome. Okto told me that 3G network’s coverage area is different from general GSM network. But, I don’t know the details. That’s why 3G network is not spread evenly. This is a minus point from me. Hopefully, Indosat will solve this problem, so it can cover more areas.

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