Applied Unifi early may and was told i must wait till july for my area (Equine Park). Made a few calls to Unifi CS and confirmed that my area is fully booked and i must wait till July.

Suddenly a lady call me on last friday and say they opened up a new team and offer to install for me on Monday (yesterday).

came around 9.30am and done about 11.00+am. Despite the fact that they need to drill two walls and pull the fiber through rooms to get the equipment to my living room, they done it under two hours. Quite fast compared TM's claim of 5 hours. They patch up my walls, nailed all the cables nicely and even giving me additional few meters fiber optic cable so that i can have to flexibility to move the equipment around. Gave me some advice on how people broke their because they over bending the fiber and etc etc. Thumbs up for the contractor's service.

I did a speed test before signing the acceptance forms. Nice speed for local, and to my surprise, even overseas server from tokyo, seoul, taichung and hong kong managed to get over 4mbps U/D. Only US servers did not managed to hit over 4mbps. I however did not managed to get that kind of speed anymore after i signed the SAF form. LoL.

And service was down for whole day today till about 7pm just now. Hope this does no occurs frequently.

same thing happened to me. but i call and call to ask them slot me in if someone cancel their appointment and they indeed re-slot me into early appointment when they opened up new team

I'm better but still the speed is slow today. my DL constantly stays about 2mbps for whole day while UL was fine. I am at equine park on VIP5.

On a side note, I was tidying up all the cabling this noon and this two question came across my head:
1) To what extend can we bend the fiber optic cable? I remember the installer was telling me over bending can break the cable. To make my workspace tidy, i bent the cable 90 degree over a radius of about 3cm. Is that fine?
2) The ONT seems pretty hot. Mine is an Alcatel-Lucent unit. Is it fine to stack something else over the ONT? Anyone experienced failed overheated ONT?

Mine even worse, I have pet dog going freely around my house and might just bite the fiber off.
I read on the SAF form that we entitled for casing to cover those fiber cables as well, but my contractor did not even install a single inch of casing for me.

my alcatel ONT is not only warm, bare hand can feel that it is dangerously hot.

Fiber cable was never expensive. The raw material and manufacturing cost is lower than copper lines. It turns out to be a premium products due to low demand low supply, and insufficient technical people to handle them.

u mean optical modem? mine is white color alcatel-lucent unit. not huawei not ZTE

HSBB FTTH was designed to sustain over 100mbps bandwidth, and both IPTV and VOIP has dedicated separated pipeline from internet. It is technically unlikely that IPTV would affect internet bandwidth (not to mention internet bandwidth in your case is only 5mbps). That leaves the main suspect to be the shitty TM equipment.

That's how fast my unifi is right now. facebook takes ages to load.
And the test server basically located less than 10km right at my neighbourhood.

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Added on May 25, 2011, 11:00 pmcalled TM and i pressed to listen to the health message and there's bla bla bla about IPTV interruption in subang, bangsar, TTDi and few other areas from 12am to 6am daily. That might be the reason for what you guys complained about IPTV services.

This post has been edited by fx_53_xt: May 25 2011, 11:00 PM

stock is sufficient. just remember to reconfigure the setting to block remote management and change the password.
more details here:
unifi.athena.my/router_security.html

I'm quite confused as of how they actually calculated this. But since they charge me less than i expected, nevermind

Streamyx zone account is free for unifi user, but when i use my login and password at streamyx zone, i couldn't login with the given username and password at all.

i did select unifi, and i key in the username/password i set during application (which also happens to be the one they sent me in my conformation email) with no luck. I was trying to connect to streamyx zone @ perodua service centre puchong

WTF IS THIS

Dear Sir / Madam,

Thank you for contacting TM UniFi.

We are very sorry for your inconvenience caus. Referring to your request to terminate your Streamyx service, we would like to inform that termination can only be done at TM Point. Kindly visit to any of the nearest TM Point to proceed with the service termination. Please take note that for security and verification purposes, only the account holder can apply for the termination.

Again, please accept our sincerest apology for any inconvenience caused.


Regards,

MAZIAN ZAINUDDIN
Unifi email team
TM UniFi Centre
(Sales) : 1 300 88 1222 Mon-Fri (9am – 9pm) , Sat (10am-6pm)
(Customer Support) : 1 300 88 1221 (24x7)
E-Mail: UniFi@tm.com.my

sweet. Hope they would do the custom firmware to higher end model such as RT-16N and RT-56U as well.

Asus do have. RT-56U @ RM499. What do u mean by 2.4GHz only has 3 usable channels? i thought maximum up to 14? no?

they didn't install the casing for me though TM stated its included

what sort of rebate?

i'm more concern of the fiber as RJ45 is cheap compared to fiber. Anyhow, the contractor did not install single inch of casing for either of them.

You can use a USB hub, but a powered hub is preferred to prevent over-drawn power from the router. I'm more interested in RT-16N with 2 USB port and 300k connection session ability.

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Added on May 29, 2011, 11:31 pmi have used DIR615 to bridge to my own linksys router. Its been running a week or so and not a single connection dropped except few days ago when TM goes haywire.

This post has been edited by fx_53_xt: May 29 2011, 11:31 PM

My only disappointment with RT13 is the Ralink chip inside couldn't do custom firmware. But at the price of RM180 with 3G, USB storage, download station and Asus' effort to come out with custom Unifi firmware, i guess there's nothing to complain

i'm not talking bout unifi custom firmware, i do appreciate effort from manufacturer from Asus and TP-Link to come out with firmware that can support unifi natively. But open source custom firmware like DD-WRT on broadcom chips can unleash a whole new level of performance with those routers. But again, firmware like DD-WRT cant do VLAN tagging that render it useless as unifi router replacement

This post has been edited by fx_53_xt: May 30 2011, 05:22 PM

everything is here:
http://unifi.athena.my/router_security.html

Why not? Streamyx current offering is topping out at 4mbps. ADSL2+ standard allows theoretically 24mbps downstream. But what does this has to do with unifi?

Your speedtest was done with local server?
Download from overseas server?

A little off-topic.

I'm getting a NAS for downloading (fyi to all unifi user, viewnet lowyat selling seagate blackarmor NAS for RM299 only).

Now i would like a gigabit network but apparently all my routers on hand is only 100 base. Lets say i do not want to change the routers, can i just get a gigabit switch, plug it into the router, and my PC(s)/NAS connected to the gigabit switch so they get local gigabit speed?

I almost bought Asus RT-16N a while back but after i read the review/tests on the read/write speed these all-in-one router delivers, i gave up.
the RM299 is single bay with 1TB HDD installed (Model BlackArmor NAS-110). There is however two more USB port that you can connect additional external HDD to it. Or you can go for 2 bay (Model: BlackArmor NAS-220) with 2TB HDD installed for RM649.
Hooking up a atom netbook that i dont use to be a download station, this would be my poor man's NAS.

Synology way out of budget ><

HDD can be taken out. But that would void the warranty
DNS230 RM279 does not include HDD yet. I saw another single bay model DNS213 i think, going for RM99 only.

this setup require the PC to has 2x Gigabit port isn't it?
i'm thinking more like router -> Giga switch -> PC/appliances

price: RM189 from C-Zone
For unifi: short answer is NO at the moment unless you go through the DIR615 is VLAN bridge. But as pointed out by klseet, Asus is coming out with a firmware that can natively support unifi but the firmware is still in Beta stage and not released to public yet.

You can always just grab the asus straight and use it for the moment by linking it back to DIR615 and wait for the firmware release then just update it.