This is what I had shared. 🤪

But to be fair, all the free wifi 6 mesh given by telcos all the same. The mesh wifi 6 router I got from unifi also same especially they are all dual-band.

ideally, if one can put in a mesh node inside their rooms where PCs are in, connecting them to the mesh node via wired, one can get full speed also even wifi cannot.

i am referring to mesh node (wireless backhaul somemore). of course between the mesh parent and child nodes must be within good coverage...

u should just simply separete ssid for both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz, then only connect ur devices to 5Ghz, then no such prob...

unifi has actually treated the old customers better. they have the SWU programme for existing customers who recontract to get higher speed with lower price. and with the two free speed upgrades and price reduction so far... many users had benefited a lot.. which most are paying as low as rm119 for 500Mbps plan... some special cases even paying cheaper...

ic.. ya i know... friendly version...

but seriously unless one really does it 24x7 then can fully utilise the speed... and if one really 24x7 download at such speed, u need a lot a lot a lot of storage to keep those stuff. ended up higher cost on storage instead...

yeah... speed is just one factor, more importantly latency and stability...

actually not exactly becos they are famous... actually unifi is also more attractive and the network is actually better than time also. only advantage about time is that their upload speed is higher than unifi on the same speed of plan.

so if one has both time and unifi coverage, also can consider to switch to unifi.

for my case, i am stuck becos the apartment i stay only has time as option...

This post has been edited by westlife: Feb 23 2024, 12:56 PM

haha... i know that becos i was on 1Gbps plan before... download is super fast... a linux ISO image download is only within seconds...

most of the time i was dealing with storage issues... so i had many many TBs of hardisks i had brought..
but i had quitted from it... else the money to buy new storage will be endless.. plus the fact that unless i am buying SSDs which are even more ex... else if using the mechanical one, the chance for it to fail can be high too..

Since it is common practice for unifi, I find it a prob.

If time follows the rest to charge remaining months of subscriptions instead of rm500 fixed penalty only I wlll be more worried.

Speed on wifi 5 mesh…

I think I will stick to my 500Mbps contract for 2 years before I consider to switch plan. After all the lowest plan I can switch to is rm99 100Mbps. Which my 500Mbps is average at rm129 per month for 2 years.

Rm30 difference but 4x speed although I did not really utilise but seems to be ok. Anyway nowadays, rm30 is really nothing and so small that one cannot do much with it.





This post has been edited by westlife: Feb 24 2024, 09:32 PM

U must see if ur apartment support 2Gbps plan I think. Not all apartment support it. If supported, once they come to install for u it will be up almost immediately.



This post has been edited by westlife: Feb 25 2024, 09:23 AM

already no more contract. does not make sense to have termination fee what...

go to time portal, under manage plan, u can choose to downgrade, since ur plan is more than 6 months..
do note that there will be contract renewal of 24 months again.

maybe i can consider to do so after 6 months for my current plan... since first 6 months is rm99/mth (discounted price with first month free)... just nice on 7th i will be paying rm139/mth, i can switch to 100Mbps at rm99/mth to see if i can really survive with it (which likely i should be able to since previously i am on tm 100Mbps unifi plan before i upgraded to 300Mbps and free upgrade to 500Mbps also.

so do it after 6 months for contract renewal is still not too bad... at least first 6 months i already enjoyed price discounted.

being said so, i probably should have signed up rm99 100Mbps at the begining to just enjoy first month free also. since also same, paying rm99 per month...



This post has been edited by westlife: Feb 25 2024, 08:29 PM

contract over.. no need to do anything just continue to use...

but just to note if after contract over, whethere the previously discounted price will be reverted to normal price or not.. (if applicable)...

1) u have no more contract or still under contract? i believe ur previous downgrade should have caused u to be on 24 months contract again?
2) As existing customers, if one is eligible for any recontract over, normally time will send u the offer via email i think.
normally these are for no contract customers, or customers who have contracts that are going to end soon..
3) for ur case, if u manage to recontract for another 24 months, after 6 months, u should be able to downgrade ur speed by recontract another 24 months.

for those who are on 500Mbps or below only, seriously wifi 5 vs wifi 6, one should not feel much difference, although wifi 6 should still get u faster speed when ur distance to the wifi node is further away. however, if u are within coverage of the main/child nodes, and both ur main and child nodes are having strong signals between them, it should not make a difference.

if u are looking to get the free wifi 6 mesh routers from time to improve ur wifi signal/coverage/speed, u can forget about it... the wifi 6 mesh they give is dual-band which is trash... if ur current wifi 5 is working well, forget about it..

unless ur current wifi 5 is not mesh and is dual-band, if so, yes, maybe the free wifi 6 mesh dual-band will improve a bit...

i dun know... haven't tried. u can try to do it. if there is a penalty, it should indicate...

but i doubt so, since ur contract is renewed for 24 months. routers for sure no need to return...

icic. thanks a lot for the sharing. then i should prepare to downgrade on 15 june 2024.

besides, do u mind to share ur experience after downloading from 500Mbps to 100Mbps now?

lion city has 10GB plan with wifi 7 routers given at no additional cost.

lion city....

how u know? u went to their website to sign up but ur apartment is shown as not eligible to sign up or?

I tried mine, i can go all the way to the last step before submitting.

besides, just notice that u mobile fibre rm79 promo price only lasts for 24 months... after 24 months will be back to normal price of rm99.



This post has been edited by westlife: Feb 27 2024, 09:35 AM

any discount in the monthly subscription? Or just free 2 mesh? Anyway the mesh is trash.

today? i tot u had upgraded ur speed sometime back from ur previous post?

yeah... the huawei mesh given by time is just trash.. dun expect too much that it will improve the speed comparing to ur existing devices (even they are just wifi 5).

best solution is to go with FTTR... actually in long run it is not bad investment if u are not moving house anytime.
i just wonder the FTTR devices by time, can it be used with other ISPs next time? or just purely can be used with time only.