Yeah. Linksys calls it transit region.

I did ask in forum here on which one is the best but could not get any response.

Huawei also has this setting? I searched thru the UI page but could not find it before I switched to linksys.

Time broadband based on my experience comparing to the unifi I had been using previously is really so so only. Nothing really impressive to be frank.

The stock Huawei mesh is totally trash. Buy any other brand of tri-band mesh will work better than it.

Personally I had used time broadband for 1.5 months now. I would say that comparing to unifi, I get more consistent experience.

I had a few times of experience so far that when I was playing mobile game the latency can suddenly shoot up to 1000ms and cause me losing the game. Wtf.
I am on 500Mbps and I am the only one who uses the internet at home.

The only bad part of unifi is the upload speed which 500Mbps plan also only has 100Mbps but to be frank come to real life experience the maximum upload speed u can utilise is very minimum. My experience of uploading photos and videos to Facebook are the same with time broadband of 5x more upload speed. Even I upload video to YouTube also same. The reason has nothing to do with time broadband but just simply the destination servers where u can do the upload is the cause of the bottleneck. They just have limited upload bandwidth that u can tap on.

However, this is solely my experience and may not be urs.
If u are happy with time broadband just dun change anything. In addition, time is charging solely rm500 for termination anytime while unifi charge in full for the remaining months of contract (as good as no termination). With this point alone, time broadband is still good for those who worries about contract which I am one of them.

I also shared that I had experienced the same on the latency portion when I play the mobile game. So indeed time broadband is having the issue since others also experienced this.

500Mbps confirmed is having public ip. i just subscribed 1.5 months ago and using it now.

Managed to get this speed on my iPhone inside study room (child node).

My pt is not on the exceeded speed.

I just wanted to say that I can finally attain full speed at the child node after finding the right position of both main and child nodes eventually.

I think Becos based on per GB speed cost, time is already considered cheaper?

maybe this is the reason? After all if comparing middle plan of 500Mbps time is still cheaper. Not to mention that the upload speed is higher.

i switched from unifi to time (landed to highrise).

from 500Mbps to 500Mbps

if u ask me, is there any real-life difference actually answer is no.

although unifi has 100Mbps upload speed only while time is symmetric. but one does not really lose out so much for upload part. becos most of the destination server has limitation on the upload which one cannot really enjoy speed beyond 100Mbps, at least for facebook and youtube upload speed i dun see a difference. maybe other servers will.

unless u are hosting as a server urself for others to upload to ur server, then it may make difference.

other than that, it only looks nice when doing speedtest and that's it.

seriously, i dun think u can even feel a difference if it is just purely loading web pages or youtube videos...

if ur speed is always faster than ur destination server's speed, then ur speed is not a bottleneck.

if u do not encounter issues with ur current plan, seriously no pt to switch to 500Mbps unless u does encounter congestion becos too many users in ur house etc.

if not becos i am a new user and the 500Mbps plan is more worth becos of the 6 months discounted price at rm99 and one mth free for online sign-up, i would consider to sign the 100Mbps plan instead.

u mobile comes in to time fibre infra too late only a few days after i signed time fibre so suck thumb that i cannot switch to u mobile unless after 2 years later. or unless i terminate my time now by paying rm500 to switch to u mobile 100Mbps.
i find that 100Mbps is sufficient for my usage since most of the time there is only 1 person which is me in my apartment that uses the internet. i hardly download stuff so 100Mbps is totally sufficient. not to mention that time fibre is symmetric speed. upload is also 100Mbps.

many on lower end plan like 100Mbps they always wanted to switch to higher plan just purely to enjoy faster upload speed. becos 100Mbps plan the upload speed is only 50Mbps only.

rm79/mth for 100Mbps plan with symmetric speed is a steal.

i am paying effective rate of rm129 for 500Mbps under time fibre (after considered the first 6 months rm99 and one month free).
i can save rm50/mth for something i did not fully utilise.



This post has been edited by westlife: Feb 4 2024, 02:17 PM

yeah. interested to know also. but i think the experience should be similar to maxis/celcom/digi that uses tm infra also for fibre broadband.

if time fibre infra is stable, i think u mobile one should be as stable as well.

i had used time fibre broadband for almost 2 months now. so far so good.

my two PCs which are connected to the same child node via wired can get this transfer speed. much better than wireless.

u mobile now also has the coverage for highrise using time infra.

i think need to change btu i guess.

no need to lay cable for highrise, most of the highrise nowadays has built-in fibre port in the living room, just plug in fibre cable to the BTU can work already. of course need PPPoE username and password.

u mobile fibre (on time infra) never uses ONU (modem + wifi) like time broadband?

U are using u mobile fibre broadband?

I am on time fibre broadband 24 months contract for 500Mbps plan and this is my 2nd month of usage.

I had enjoyed one month free subscription so far due to online sign up promotion and I am paying rm99 for the remaining 5 months so about rm40 savings per month from the original price of rm139.

If assume I used finished until 6th month and cancelled the line, I would had already enjoyed rm139 + rm40 x 5 of savings for 500Mbps plan = rm339.

If I terminate the line at 6th month I will be paying rm500 one time termination fee.

Rm500 - rm339 = rm161 exact loss I had incurred.

My plan is to sign the u mobile rm79 100Mbps instead.

So for this case, is it worth this move? Becos rm79 per month even consider just 2 years of usage if assume I also used time broadband for complete 2 years due to contract, I still save quite a bit.

1) First of all what standard is ur wifi mesh? Wifi 5 I assumed? If wifi 5 no issue to get 500Mbps and above if the coverage and signal are good
2) u likely can check the signal strength from yr child node to the master node via the wifi router GUI. Check it to see what is the signal strength.
3) if signal strength from ur child node to master node is good, check if ur device such as yr phone is connected to child node or still connected to the master node when u roam around. How intelligent ur node to switch between the master and child node depending on the devices and ur wifi mesh. There are features like node steering which the node will redirect ur devices to the node with strongest signal but this feature even both node and device support it, it may not work well in real.

Since ur master and child node are too close to each other, the device may still connect to master node which is further and result in slower speed while u are actually physically closer to master node.
4) for mesh system it requires a lot of trial and error before u found the best locations to place ur master and child nodes.
5) besides ur plan is 100Mbps only? Becos given that u are in front of master node and again get such slow speed, it indicates big prob.

1. If u model is dual-band and not tri-band, even with good signal between the master and child nodes. The speed will still not be maximum when u are connected to child node. So tri-band or not does make a difference.

2. Ya normally the portal of the mesh wifi routers should allow u to check the strength of the child node to master node.

3. Yes. That’s the meaning of master and child node.

The same portal u can access for the mesh wifi router should also allow u to see which node ur device is connected to, be it master or child.

SSID depending u are using the same name for 5GHz and 2.4GHz or u will use the same name for both. Ideally u should use different name so that u can ensure that ur device is connected to 5GHz always for fastest possible speed. So if separate u should only see two networks one is 5Ghz and one is 2.4Ghz when u do the scanning.

4 & 5. Yes location u placed the child node very important, it affects speed u can get. Ideally it should be within the coverage of the master node.

Like my child node, the signal strength is full bar so my speed while connected to the child node is not bad and latency is low. Ensure that no more than 1 wall between ur child and master node. But also be cautious that ur master and child node also cannot be too close to each other Becos ur device may not switch to the child node that may be physically closer but instead connect to ur master node that is further away and result in slow speed and high latency.

I had made the trial and error of the positioning of the nodes to get the most optimised result now. I am using 3 nodes (including master) for my apartment unit of 882 sq ft. Now everywhere in the apartment I can get perfect speed and latency.

Besides, my mesh system is tri-band so it can archive this if not it is impossible.

but i am paying rm99 only for 1st 6 months and 1st month is free.

so technically i pay rm400 penalty since i had one month free on 1st month.

so saving of rm480 - rm400 = rm80 so in long run it is still a saving...

but saw one killing tnc under the faq.. it said that during the contract period cannot even relocate the service (wtf), else need to pay penalty.



i think like that, i may opt to downgrade my plan to rm99 100Mbps after 6th month of my current plan... while remaining under time fibre..



This post has been edited by westlife: Feb 18 2024, 04:30 AM