QUOTE(seejayel @ May 17 2016, 12:52 AM)
Guys, I just returned to Malaysia recently and everyone tells me I'm fortunate that my area is within TIME coverage. Happily, I signed up with them 7 months ago, and have called CS for approximately 15 times, and finally tonight, I discovered that someone else encountered the same issue, 2 years ago! They keep asking for me to email them my speedtest while connected to LAN, when I don't even connect any devices on LAN and well, see above (encountered everything above)!
With decent speed on LAN, they proceed to ignore my issue stating that they don't guarantee speed on wireless. And keep convincing me to buy a booster (FYI, my apartment is under 800 sqft!), and the cycle repeats everytime I call them. I wasn't even aware there's a 1 year guarantee for hardware, because I have suggested they send someone to come have a look, but they insisted not because speed on LAN is "acceptable" according to CS.
I was initially convinced that the router they gave me was poor (ZXHN H298N), but found out from my friends recently that they are using the same model in Europe (supplied by their ISP), and coverage is fine. I don't understand why won't TIME send someone to have a look at my devices, or perform a check/configuration, or at least guide me over the call instead of just asking me to restart my devices, suggesting I buy a booster, or requesting I send speedtest on LAN.
Sincerely hoping to get some assistance from some experts here.
Thanks!
I feel for you, CS overall in Malaysia for any company is extremely, poor, I suffer the frustrations regularly.
But at the same time ..Time (pardon the pun) has to assess the bandwith provided to you from a wired option. Wireless introduces way too many variables, and just by connecting via wifi alone will already include an immediate speed drop. That's just the nature of how wifi works, angle change, slight room change, slight obstruction to the wifi signal that will just amplify the speed loss. So rightly or wrongly Time's CS is setup to ensure that their bandwith promise is delivered to the main wired point, and once that's determined, they don't really make much effort into helping you beyond that.