APIIT shud get Unifi

APIIT structure is more complicated than that. ._.

They tell students during orientation that they have >20mbps balanced over multiple lines but in reality we're only allowed to utilize 10mbps at most (probably even less nowadays).. then they have HTTP traffic shaping in place for certain MIME types. There's also the technical staff that are arrogant yet know nothing who work for them. Lol, did you know that 3 years ago in my foundation year, I broke into TECHDC04/05, ZION (old file server) because they enabled remote desktop on every single PC (including servers) and set every TA account to 'Domain Controller' privilege status in active directory? They only found out and fixed it because I told them to do it.. can't even set the desktop resolution on those brand new lenovo PCs correctly so I can't expect them to be aware of these things.

These assholes also monitor + log heavy HTTP traffic. One time they captured the HTTP login for my private server and started downloading files from it. Up till today, you can take down their entire network with a single click if you wanted to because their three main d-link managed switches are open for access.

Least they could do for us students is get 2x Unifibiz 20mbps lines and let us utilize it for basic lab work .. but nah, they don't give a rats arse about us <_>

Sorry if you're a TA or something I just bloody hate everything about that uni
Probably because Jaring is just down the road from them

Custom routers will work now if you have VDSL Unifi, a smart switch with vlan tagging or you use the DIR-615 as a smart switch by putting it into VLAN bridging mode. Fiberhome can't support custom routers.. I tried to get it to work but all it could do was untag traffic.. couldn't re-tag it.
Linux boxes will work as long as you have the 8021q module loaded + vconfig installed.

I can see enterprises using that for Unifibiz but not home users. For RM700 you can have a brand new intel atom based firewall running pfSense or some other router/firewall distro. Combine that with a wireless AP for excellent routing performance.. that would be the system I recommend for users who have 5-10 heavy p2p users at home on VIP20 (even though it would still be overkill with those system specs).

Not to mention you would be able to plug it directly into the fiberhome without using the DIR-615/smart switch as a VLAN bridge since those distros support VLAN WAN interfaces.