Morning all, I recently subscribed to TIME for my new home. I have renovated it in such that I have relocated my fibre wall socket to within a tiny utility room just after my entrance. I pulled Cat6 cable to the ceiling of a passageway to the rooms for POE convenience.

Does anyone have any experience setting up an ASUS AX3000 Dual-Band WiFi 6 Power over Ethernet (PoE)? I tried configuring it via the Asus Expert Wifi app and though it shows successful, I can't connect to the created SSID.

I reached out to TIME and they say in order to use a 3rd party router, I have to set this ASUS router to bridge mode. But I can't seem to find this setting. If anyone has any input or experience with this, appreciate some assistance, even a home visit which I'll gladly pay a token for your time.

Coz right now, my master room/bath do not get signal from the TIME modem cum router in the utility room. And other rooms signal is poor. I need the ASUS to at least be an AP at the designated location.

Hi, just leave your TIME ONT as it is, plug in your Cat6 into anyone of the LAN port of the Time ONT and the other end to your Asus AP. You cant connect to the SSID simply because the AP did not get IP address from the TIME ONT.
We are not sure the exact location of your Asus AP placement, perhaps you could highlight in a layout diagram as if it's very near to the TIME ONT, then you may consider turning off the wireless signal on the ONT. You may download some Wifi apps to check the RSSI value of the Asus AP... generally -67dBm to -30dBm would give you pretty good connection.
Thanks.

hi, newbie to homelab here

anyone made it work with ont --> pfsense / opnsense --> wifi ap instead of the isp issued router? thinking about subscribing to their 1gbps

Contact support for bridge mode. Obtain PPPoE username and password from self care. LAN1 of TIME unit into WAN port. Set up ur router with the details, no VLAN setting needed.

does it have to go thru TIME router on bridge? no direct ONT > own router possible? i.e is it because of some sort of policy they set?

i dont mind having to configure / tinker my own router.

does it have to go thru TIME router on bridge? no direct ONT > own router possible? i.e is it because of some sort of policy they set?

i dont mind having to configure / tinker my own router.

Pressure them to do bridge mode for you

Thanks bro. Called up customer service and they helped to setup to bridge mode. But since it’s a 2Gbps connection they had to do a vlan tagging on the port to allow my router to do a PPoE connection on the 2.5 LAN port of the Huawei bridged device.

Enjoy the faster connection! 

Anyways do you mind to share a speedtest result?

Monthly subscription:-

Time Malaysia 200Mbps RM92.22/month PAID
M1 Singapore 2,500Mbps S$29.90/month (RM98.67) PAID
Exchange: 3.30

Just for info only. "A Fistful of Dollars" made a BIG difference!
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Indeed very cheap.

Last time I used StarHub 1Gbps plan also symmetric speed. That time sgd39.90 with one year contract. After that, switch to m1 500Mbps plan for sgd29.90. Now 2Gbps is already at this price. 🤪 lucky for anyone to stay in lion city.

But I would say that my experience with 1Gbps vs now at 600Mbps not much difference at all.

Would rather change to 200Mbps by paying the cheapest price at rm99 only soon in another less than 6 months time.

To be fair, the excess bandwidth to anyone likely not going to make any difference unless one really download stuff 24x7 but even 200Mbps speed is decent speed for most especially if the household only has 1 to 2 ppl.

You are right.

At the two place, it is the lowest speed and BEST value plan. M1 do have the OLD 1Gbps but you have to pay more instead of less, but contract-free.

M1 Home Broadband $ per Month including 9% GST.

M1 1Gbps  $35.86(no contract)
M1 3Gbps  $32.16
M1 6Gbps $40.22
M1 10Gbps $55.48

For comparision, SIMBA 10Gbps  $32.69.

There are reports about the overheating of the NIC (with heatsink) for speed above 3Gbps. Mine with 2.5Gbps is OK sofar, no DC, no heat issues and low cost NIC both USB & Desk Top PC.
I would say this 2.5Gbps hit the sweet spot but it is not being offered currently.

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Just opted into their one year contract with RM10 rebate. Is there any better offer now?

https://www.ais.th/en/consumers/fibre/package/broadband24



I prefer  (Download/Upload) 500Mbps/500Mbps at RM65