> My current setup is: HG8240H5 > EC230-G1 > Powerline adapter

what powerline adapter are you using?
- TP-Link WPA4530

> 1) What is the recommended setup to improve the internet speed at the yellow area?

1st one, dont even bother with that - Noted
2nd, can be considered but, just drop the EC230-G1 and go - Thanks for advice.

HG8240H5 -> Deco M4 -> another unit of Deco M4

but do also consider newer wifi6 routers
- Do you mean wifi 6 router or mesh wifi?

> 2) What is estimated speed drop if using mesh as compared to my current powerline adapter?

better, but best if you can run a lan cable between them or use an expensive tri-band mesh
- prefer wireless setup. Understand there will be internet speed drop, but trying to minimise it. Limited budget, so will drop the idea of tri-band mesh.

> 3) Do i need to upgrade my current router?

can consider wifi6 router/mesh
- Limited budget for wifi 6   

Yup, too risky to be over reliant on the useless India-Middle East war trouble makers.

80% dependent on them to reach Europe? That's a bit far fetch and pose serious risks in the event of war emergencies to trust them totally.

It's time to reconsider the security and risks for over dependence on them to reach Europe with this case as a serious lesson to learn from.

Shanghai/Hangzhou which is way at the Far East also can reach Amsterdam on the other end of Europe under 200ms malu only weh for ASEAN region being played out by both by Middle East and India.

Russia and Central Asia is now proven to be more reliable and dependable as an alternate route.

One example is the RETN TransKZ land based cabling network.



TEA-Trans East Asia Europe Terrestrial Cable

Hi all Sifu

I am using powerline adapter to extend wifi coverage for my house. In term of wifi coverage, not much a problem.
But there is a internet speed drop using powerline adapter. The internet speed is dropped to 30mbps - 50mbps at the yellow zone (my internet subscription is 200mbps).
My current setup is: HG8240H5 > EC230-G1 > Powerline adapter



I plan to upgrade the setup to improve to the internet speed at the yellow area. But i have a tight budget.

1) What is the recommended setup to improve the internet speed at the yellow area?



2) What is estimated speed drop if using mesh as compared to my current powerline adapter?
Assuming using M4 Deco, 1xxMbps should not be a problem.

3) Do i need to upgrade my current router?
Since you have the mesh router, there is no need to upgrade the router, and strictly not advisable to grab the free router offer as the new 2-year contract's premature termination will result penalty of remaining months.

Thanks to All Sifu first 

Hello 🤠
For those who haven't changed the Huawei fibre router settings, could you please give me the default local DNS (primary and secondary) input by TIME? Tq

Hello 🤠
For those who haven't changed the Huawei fibre router settings, could you please give me the default local DNS (primary and secondary) input by TIME? Tq

Hi all Sifu

I am using powerline adapter to extend wifi coverage for my house. In term of wifi coverage, not much a problem.
But there is a internet speed drop using powerline adapter. The internet speed is dropped to 30mbps - 50mbps at the yellow zone (my internet subscription is 200mbps).
My current setup is: HG8240H5 > EC230-G1 > Powerline adapter



I plan to upgrade the setup to improve to the internet speed at the yellow area. But i have a tight budget.

1) What is the recommended setup to improve the internet speed at the yellow area?



B should be a more promising option. But provided it is tri-band wifi mesh units if u are going to do wireless backhaul.

2) What is estimated speed drop if using mesh as compared to my current powerline adapter?

Power line should see more speed drop than mesh for sure. Power line is an old school solution now and it is totally not stable as well.

Just go for any mesh solution and if u can connect the mesh units even the child units to wired it will be the best.

If u are using wireless backhaul, u will definitely experience speed drop also, u will not be able to get full speed if u are on 600Mbps speed if u are on that plan. If between the mesh nodes the signal is good, u will also at most get maybe around 250 to 400Mbps kind of speed depending the distance between the nodes to ur current location too. But this kind of speed is also overkilled to most ppl. This is also the reason why I plan to downgrade to 200Mbps at rm99 to save the monthly cost on internet also.
And if using mesh, the latency will also be affected Becos of the extra ‘hop’ the traffic needs to pass thru.


3) Do i need to upgrade my current router?

No need if u go for tp-link deco mesh. Just change the existing wifi router to bridge mode by calling time customer service.

Thanks to All Sifu first 

Hello 🤠
For those who haven't changed the Huawei fibre router settings, could you please give me the default local DNS (primary and secondary) input by TIME? Tq

If you leave it blank it should default to TIME DNS

otherwise
203.121.65.40
203.121.65.49

2001:f40:0:3::12:68
2001:f40:0:3::2:68

but seriously, just dont, it's better to use a 3rd party one, a week or so back there was an outage of time's dns servers

As mentioned by blacktubi, AAE-1 and SMW-5 serve as the main undersea cables connecting Asia to Europe these days. There are other cables available but they're much older and suffer from capacity limitations. Additionally, some of old cables are currently experiencing problems and are offline.

RETN may have capacity on those cable (which I won't confirm or deny), but this capacity alone may not meet all demand. And IP transit is considered a basic service, and any available capacity, now considered premium, would likely prioritize managed customers such as business VPN services.

Currently my most stable option for connections to Europe is PrivadoVPN through Mexico City   

May I check if time fibre broadband is giving public IP access for the 100mbps (now 200Mbps)plan?

No longer the case, as it has been CGNAT-ed. You need to call in & request ...in more harsher way !

wah. Confirmed no public ip? Then I wonder if I should switch to 200Mbps now already? Is it hard to get the public ip if requested?