I have my unifi since April 2011, so far ok but I don't monitor the speed every day.

I am suspicious whether TM guys really uses fiber optic from the TM box to the house because in my connection they pull a black cable from the TM box to a "connection box" before connecting a white fiber cable.

I scrape the covering of some thrown black cable and found white metal inside.

see my picture attached: Pic1 is the black cable (sorry blurry, snap with my h/phone) and pic2 is the external box.

Does anyone know anything?

Of cos the fiber come with metal cable. if not the fiber can easily cut of.
btw what package and speed u got?

I can access it directly.

Huh, suspicious?
Just because it is black, already suspicious?

Normally, it is black fibre cable until your DB.
Black one got metal inside, and being used for external wiring generally, as you need some metal that enable to pull (can be stressed up) the wire along the pole.
The white one is "soft" as compared to black one.

It is really fibre cable lah.

This post has been edited by cherroy: May 19 2011, 05:39 PM

Any idea for me to change the router?
I found out that the orange Dlink Router not good, poor wifi, poor LAN connection.
Can't use NAS Storage, bloody slow transfer rate.
Any Router can support Unifi that have Gigabit Port & High Transfer rate like media streaming, gaming?

The vlan tagging is the same for both VIP (home) & BIZ (company) package, only think it's VIP home has additional vlan.600 for IPTV.

I don't think you can get the DIR-615 Gx at retail market except from TM, I guess that's the reason they are trying to protect their "business"

For me, I personally prefer to go with RB750 or RB750G (Gigabit) for some key reasons:
- the RB750/750G is really robust with tons of features & functions, Linux base, frequent firmware upgrade & it's really easy "drag n drop" through WinBox;
- can just leave it on together with BTU 24hrs permanently;
- use any existing wifi router or buy own prefer wifi to configure as AP, only switch on if needed;
- wifi upgrade may be inevitable, so moving forward only consider wifi bandwidth upgrade without the hassle of re-setup router gateway again, who knows by end of this end the 450~500MB become more popular and affordable ?!

Anywhere, just my personal preference, take your time to evaluate and choose the right combination base on your requirement

rb750 is the best.. maybe later will have new vlan for full wire speed for local connection whahahahahhaa

no la just kidding on this..

but rb750/rb750g is the best wired router u can get... and its cheap too ...

Yes, my RB750 never off since Oct'10, so far so good!

Yah, I'm still waiting for Riz to tell how to share locally through that vlan.xxx !

Worrying about our weather here, I purposely requested them to pull the hard casing all the way and installed the DB inside my house

guys I've got my unifi last tuesday when it was earlier scheduled for installation this july. after 3 days of using it I noticed that there's a frequent dc especially during the rainy day. is this normal?

the wire(metal) is use as reinforcement and also to tie the cable at the pole and also at the roof/building(like mine)

the fiber is very2 fine....



inside the white box, just connector only.... in fact the just can use the black cable directly i think, but not very practical....

both VIP and BIZ is just the same..

i got a customer apply for BIZ and port 4 is also tag to vlan600, the only different is the price and BIZ dont have iptv box!

i noticed one thing... for the past week or two, the router will dc and get a new ip every 2-3 days. i had my ip for 2 days and now it has changed to another one.

quite frequent eh the disconnection... is it normal?

Haha... that's my case also. The router got "auto restart" function which helps u to get new ip every 2-3 days. Awesome right??? LOL

3days ald unifi still down
say under maintance...
call them say reboot all router and modem also no use...now just have to wait
anyway i heard the router wife not that wrong is there any best modem to suggest ? :S

i finally applied VIP5 package.and appointment is on 31 May 2011.
hohoho.previously when i tried to apply online,they 'kicked' me to july schedule but i keep on reset the appointment date and rechoose.
however,they still schedule me to july date.after several days attempt,they finally gave me end of the may's appointment

Why don't you try asking the Landasan guys about it? IIRC there was someone here who said that the Landasan fellas went out of their way to help him set up his unifi with the RB750.. or was it Soliton?

2 days my line is ok
And now when i posting the phone line and internet connection on and off again FFS

it was landasan... but they weren't quite familiar with the rb750 as they are more towards wireless deployment.. so it took them some time to figure it out..

but all and all its was okie.. good experience for them as they can add another source of revenue heheheheh

last week unifi ppl came over my house but then they can't do it due to that TM gave them all the wrong detail including the login ID and password for them to setup the connection , which including address,
the only thing correct was name and mobile.

but then when they try to install the cable , the white box was kinda on the button of the pole, almost as high as a adult height.

they said the white box should be at the above the pole, it would be out of budget for them to pull the cable up then direct it to my house.

weird.

hey guys, im unable to downgrade dir-615 7.09 to 7.05.. please advice

load the firmware and error "The chosen file is not a valid config file."

This post has been edited by *Star*: May 20 2011, 10:05 AM