Hmm, my house does not seem to have any wood in the way, but the wifi signal is quite hard go pass through. Once I am outside the door, the wifi signal goes to one bar only. The DIR-615 is used as a dedicated AP now, and even after using DD-WRT and bumping up the wifi strength it still feels weak. Maybe I need to do the tinfoil thingy as well XD

Oh I already have a router. But as I said, the DIR-615 is my dedicated AP since the router is too far.

Well if you want a cheap solution without breaking the bank, do it like me. I am using a Fast Ethernet Router (meaning 100Mb/s) but I connected it to a Gigabit switch (around RM60). All the important PCs are connected to that switch thus PC to PC transfer over LAN is usually as fast as a SATA2 write speed (around 60MB/s).

Also bye bye RT13U. It keeps overheating and hanging up on me that I decided to get new one. Thankfully even if the router hang the internet still works, hence I can delay the new router until the next pay day

yes

Should work, I saw someone did the same thing. Just that make sure you plug it directly into the wall socket without using any plug extensions.

This guy uses it: http://jasonong.blogspot.com/2012/02/enhan...ience-with.html

Nah,you don't need SSD just for that. Normal SATA 3 and Gigabit Lan combo will get you a fast enough speed.

IRL you don't need that much speed. 80MB/s transfer is fast enough for most people. The price vs speed ratio is too high to make SSD a viable option other than just a boot/Operating System drive. A normal SATA 3 1TB cost less than RM400, which at the same price, could only get you at most a 120GB SSD. While a Gigabit Lan might be bottlenecked by the HDD, it's a better option than using a Fast Ethernet connection where it's the other way around, in which your network is bottlenecking the transfer speed.

Successfully changed the layout of my home network using a normal router to dial Unifi

My old configuration


New one after the RT13U is showing sign of wear and tear

http://www.gliffy.com/uses/network-diagram-software/
I used that

Also the DIR615 is my backup AP + switch for the living room

The router was from my office

What modem are you using? If you are using the huawei you can reconfig the modem so that you can use any kind of router to dial UNIFI. I am using the RM47 TP Link 740N right now and my HyppTV is directly connected to the modem as well.

Yep, can still use Google DNS here in Mangsa Waju without any problem.

Actually it's minus 5 (channel 6) or plus 3 (channel 14). That is the international rule for non overlapping wifi channel. you are still overlapping (and in danger of screwing the signal anyways) if you only are shifting two channels

did you login the router and see if there is any connection?

Did you sign up?

There are only two companies in Malaysia that has fibre infrastructure, TM and TIME. Any other provider is piggybacking TM, since TIME keeps their line exclusive.

Also there are a few difference between Maxis Fibre and TM Unifi. For one Unifi comes with HyppTV, while Maxis does not have an IPTV service as of yet. And the reason WHY they don't have an IPTV is why they are cheap in the first place. You are not using a dedicated IP, but a shared IP among users in your area. That mean you won't be able to use direct connection to access your PC at home. Unifi gives an individual IP per user, which for me is quite important as I host quite a lot of stuffs on my home connection that i need to access from my home using direct connection.

Please do remember that internet penetration is still low in this country, and laying fibres is costly, considering the topology of Malaysia. Hence why the price won't go down much in 10 to 20 years as TM slowly replacing their old copper lines with fibres. Malaysia is not just Klang Valley as much as most people living there wants to believe.