QUOTE(Quanta @ Dec 16 2016, 04:04 PM)
i believe we are not able to saturate 100Mbps LAN port unless he has 100Mbps package. Somemore Maxis Thomson,
only wifi sucks, but not the entire router. LAN connection is good to to be used.
I don't understand why do u state that the Thomson router will bottleneck Maxis fiber. If Maxis gave u 30Mbps, you will get 27-29Mbps on LAN. If Maxis gave u 10Mbps, u will get 90% of BW due to additional header (VLAN tag). Same goes to other 3rd party router.
Rather putting XM router unused, why not use it as WIFI AP?
No no, please don't get me wrong there. I did not say Thomson router will bottleneck Maxis Fibre. Maxis is only providing 10Mbps, there is no way it will be bottleneck the low speed of 10Mbps. What I am referring to is the Intranet speed. I got all those setup years back. Thomson router only provides you with a slow Intranet speed even when you connect via LAN. The Xiaomi router has a Gigabit port while the Thomson router only has a 10/100Mbps Wired. Above that, you cant connect a personal cloud on the router. There are many more disadvantage of the router on terms of features.
The Wifi is really bad on those routers. If you are just a normal user and doing things like gaming, web surfing, etc, then there is no issues with it. If you like to setup a WD cloud, a personal server, storage, having file transfer within your home or office, then you will feel the pain cause the transfer rate of the router is horrible.