Ok, a question for those running SIP clients to call from your VOIP account... Can you make IDD calls? It seems to be barred when I try, although calling from the house VOIP phone is ok...

Unless your condo has more than 1 line from the incoming Main Distribution Frame (MDF) to your unit...

That's the angle which many users do not mention.

I signed up for the rm118 deal. For that, I got:

a) 10mbps up and down. I'm not much of an online gamer, so I have no complaints on the ping issue (although that has improved a lot since the early days). My downloads (unlimited so far) are super fast and upload (pictures, dropbox, etc) also no complaints.
b) I get 200 mins IDD to 20 countries, including places relevant to me like UK and Australia, so I save easily rm30-50 per month on that.
c) I get 600 mins for my house phone to call Maxis mobile phones. As many of my family and friends are on Maxis, that's a real saving.
d) There's also 150 free minutes added to my personal Maxis mobile line

I was on Unifi before this, paid rm150 fpr 5 mbps which included IPTV which I never watched, and got free calls to TM fixed line phones (how many friends do you know use that?). And calls to mobile were expensive.

So for me, the numbers were compelling. In fact, I paid the rm500 penalty to TM to break my contract. Though, I must say, there have been some hiccups along the way, but nothing so bad that I would want to give up the service...





This post has been edited by kkm: Jun 14 2013, 11:20 AM

The details appear correct. Is your phone line up and working yet from your home modem?

Mine is the old Fibrehome ONU. Anyone know how to access that?

Think it's the AN5506-04.

Same last mile, different back haul...

But still cannot connect VOIP phone?

It's useful, I have some people at home who use it to call friends, the monthly free minutes is a bonus. Plus the free IDD...

So you think the VOIP will be routed thru the TP Link? No one seems to have been able to route voice calls without the Thomson/Technicolor router...

Not entirely accurate, at least in my experience. Yes, browsing will not be dramatically faster comparing my 10mbps Maxis to my former Unifi 5mbps, but this is often dependent on the site that we want to go to. But for direct downloads (not P2P), I get dl speeds of 1.2 MBps consistently, which is the 10 Mbps connection. With Unifi, it was typically 500-600 KBps, which is again consistent with the 5Mbps service. So it is faster...

Only if you don't want to use the phone...

Then you can do it the easy way, i.e. route the Thomson/Technicolor (wifi disabled) as WAN into your own wifi router. Or you can setup your own router to replace the Maxis stuff (the harder way).

Sorry... just that we sometimes get so into modding a router to take over the Thomson function, when all we want is a more stable wifi connection...

Technicolor is what Thompson rebranded to, so it's the same thing.

I'm using the Mikrotik as main modem for internet and wifi, with the Technicolor downstream to carry the voip. Can't find a single box solution yet...

Nope. I'm on landed FTTH and upstream from my Mikrotik is my TM Fibrehome ONU which provides the WAN feed to run my PPOE login. Don't forget the Mikrotik just a router. Albeit a very good one...

So I gave up trying to connect my voip direct from my Fibrehome ONU as nobody here seems to know how. Instead, bought a Mikrotik to be the modem and put the Thomson downstream for voip duties only. You see, in my house I need a fixed line phone.

But the stupid Thomson is still so unreliable even in this reduced role, hanging every day or 2. So what to do, I bought an Obihai 200 and connected that to the Mikrotik instead. Now, happy days, no more Thomson issues...

This wasn't for my Fibrehome ONU...

Anybody passed their 2 years contract period? Any feedback from Maxis? Or sambung aje?