QUOTE(Candy12 @ Oct 19 2020, 03:57 PM)
This is no longer the case for LANDED in years to come for fibre deployment.It is more ECONOMICAL and EASIER to serve landed properties/small townhomes apartments called "mansions" in the near future because the ISP does not need to approach the building's JMB/management/developer to get things sorted out for approvals.
Japan is a good case study to look at this approach now. Their higher tiered plans and exclusive ISPs such as the country's FASTEST rated ISP, Sony NURO only serves landed and small townhomes(mansions) no more than 3-5 storeys high. If your building is HIGHER than 5 storeys, they will NOT come and UNLIKELY you will get to subscribe to the higher tiered 10G plans with less contention ratio. These kind of higher tiered plans are also catered to more richer segment of societies who can afford their own landed homes with more privacy.
Sony NURO has a dark fibre leasing agreement with NTT to rent their unused spare fibre cables which they mostly serve the Tokyo Metropolitan areas.
We have local companies such as TNB(Tenaga) now willing to do the same by building new fibre networks around the country for landed properties and renting spare cables as dark fibres for interested ISPs. The wholesale approach which TM does using layer 3 routing instead is not favored by some ISPs because they want more control over their own network/pricing.
Fibre optic cables are going to get 10X much cheaper due to manufacturing process improvements, advanced cheaper passive splitters and cable pulling methods.
When "apartments" and small mansion homes in Japan it is these kind of buildings which they're referring to:
In Malaysia/Singapore, when we mention about apartments/condos, the general impression is a 20+ storey high rise building. These kind of buildings are much more harder to re-wire with fibre once they get old. You need to find enough of spaces for your conduits to route the fibre cables and the trouble of getting the approvals with the building management.
In all above.. You forgot to factor in one thing. Malaysia and our politics. You should try getting approvals to rollout cabling in Raman’s that have existed for decades. Places where even TM despite milking for years, still refuse to upgrade the area. Typically ONLY NEW landed developments can have that near guaranteed luxury of being pre-setup with TIME and or other ISP. Most well-established (read older) landed developments are a pain to get into and expand. It’s a simple business decision. TIME cant simply go through the hassle to roll out only for few people to take them up. Why?
Lastly, unless there’s some “politics” involved. It’s easy to get approval from residents and building management of older condos and apartments. Give you example, we were paying TM RM139 for 30Mbps up & down. In walks TIME who says for RM149 I can get symmetrical 500Mbps up and down, PLUS they will pay the early termination fee for switching from TM.. As one who worked directly with TIME, residents and the building management.. The TIME deal was a no-brainer, so getting signatures and approvals was a “walk in the park”. That would not have been possible if I was living in some similarly aged or older landed area. Don’t believe? Hit up someone in TIME that handles such.
QUOTE(Green_lemontea @ Oct 20 2020, 04:29 PM)
Does anyone has a picture of how exposed or how the technician glue the Fibre cable inside the condo unit? Is it at the ceiling or on the floor? Pictures will be great to better understand it.
I've scheduled for next week but I'm really concern about the cable being exposed in my unit.
No pic but it’s a relatively tiny white cable. Skirtings are white as well, so had ours ran along the top of the skirting. After awhile you forget it’s there. IIRC, just glue was used.. so far so good.
QUOTE(karising @ Oct 20 2020, 06:14 PM)
Just switch from Maxis to TIME 100Mbps since last Friday, was given the new router TP-LINK EC230, tested with iphone on 5Ghz wifi speed and stability were excellent, very stable 100Mbps during speedtest. However, when using SmartTV, tvbox, desktop using the 2.4ghz wifi, connection not stable and will have sudden drop, never experience it during Maxis. The router firmware is the latest 20200827 and i have check this thread history but couldnt find a real solution. Anyone can solve this problem? Please share. Thanks!
Switch to 5Ghz network or move your devices closer to the router or vice versa. As for the desktop? If critical, gaming etc... I strongly recommend that you just run a dedicated cable to it.
QUOTE(Candy12 @ Oct 20 2020, 07:19 PM)
If possible I'd rather use nail in clips than hot glue. They look neater and last longer. Removal also easier and holes can be patched back easily with wall plasters.
True.... However, I can see renters being reluctant to poke holes in someone else’s wall. Later kena landlord/agent from hell.. Say bye bye to your deposit.