Hi,

Just bought Archer AX50, connected it to the modem, but the WAN light is orange.. not green. My old wifi router is working okay though. DO i need to call TIME Cust Svcs to change the setting to the Huawei modem?

OK. Thanks. May I know the reason for it? So I gonna convert the c1200 to AP

Hi, what model is the ONU (aka fibre modem) ?

Thanks.

Do you work in your bedroom most of the time or spent most of your WFH hours at your living hall?
If you can afford it, wire up all your room with CAT6/E ethernet wall outlets for future proofing.

You can further expand your network in future by using additional switches in each individual room or buy a wall mounted mini APs/mesh units via wired connections turning it on only when needed.

For me I don't like to have a powerful WiFi AP right beside my head where I sleep for health reasons. I intentionally TURN off my 2.4G WiFi and only enable 5G for strategic reasons just "ENOUGH" to cover my workstation area which is part of my living hall.

You might want to know why I intentionally restrict my WiFi coverage area just enough to cover where I work. Firstly I minimize the chances of my neighbors interfering using jammers, listening and stealing my WiFi. If you just walk away from the living hall at my house, immediately you would lose the 5G WiFi signals right away. Also I would know that if there's an intrusion in my network, I can ALMOST be certain it's my neighbor which is stealing it because it's so weak the signal it makes it not even worth STEALING.

Second, it's for health reasons.  I don't want a powerful high frequency transmitter beside my head while I sleep. My bedrooms and TV rack in my living hall all have wired outlets to serve my needs.

Ur 2 in1 router support mesh WiFi. Y not just get a mesh node from time to cover that area?

Hi, you may place an AP at the green marked spot if there is a network port there (there should be with this kind of design).

Thanks.

Dont have that much money and time to hack all my walls and do this now 

Most of the times I would be doing my work & spending my times at the living room & got a TV box. But, would be ideal if i just could cover other bedrooms with WiFi signals since other family members spend their most their time in there.

I do agree on the health reasons too.

You don't need much money to run direct ethernet cables concealed in cable covers along the walls just like your electrical cables.

Since you mentioned that connectivity in bedrooms are just for convenience, you don't need wiring to cover all rooms then. Stick with your original plan of relocating the router opposite the dining table as you've marked. Run just a single ethernet wire under cable covers along the wall further down the walkway leading to the bedrooms to somewhere right in the middle of all 4 rooms.Make sure you have a electrical socket nearby for convenience. Place just an AP there either wall mounted or on a small rack. Turn it on/off only when you need to access internet from your room on demand. That should be good enough to cover all 4 rooms.

The AP/mesh unit works just like a wired switch except its connects to your devices wirelessly. All routing functions will still be handled by the main router which you plan to place at the hall.

For your tv box, you might also want to run a cable across the wall to provide a port for your tv rack.

You probably need 2X 10M of CAT6E cables for both the bedroom area AP and TV box. That should leave you with 2 more spare ports on your router for other purposes maybe a closeby workstation PC.

Under RM300 should be more than enough if you can get reliable contractor or friend or DIY.

Unfortunately, the walkway leading to bedrooms don't have any electrical sockets. Last time I was using a TP-Link Wifi Extender RE200 to extend the WiFi from bedroom 3, not that satisfy with the speed it provided, but serve it purpose la for my other family members who always stay in their room.

Any recommendation for the router which I plan to place at beside the TV / opposite dining table ?

Thank you

You can consider using a PoE adapter then. It uses half of the set of wires inside your ethernet cable to supply electricity simultaneously with data through it to your wireless AP.

The router brand I'll leave it to the sellers here to give you a suggestion.

PoE adapter ... First time hear of this .. So means Router -> PoE adapter -> AP ?
Thanks for the suggestion on AP setup & location optimization advice though. Really help alot on my plan. 

Yes, i do. i am familiar with wireless router setup (been doing setups with no issue all these while). Reconnecting using my old router has no issue at all.. just this newly-bought AX50 shows orange light for WAN.. like there's no internety signal from the huawei modem at all. Called TIME Cust Svcs, they have confirmed that the modem's function is sety to "only modem". They have even re-set the connection, but the same issue still persist.

hey guys, just wanna confirm, for any time home broadband plan, in an event of downtime/breakdown of service due to fibre fault/time's fault, there is no waiver or discount offered regardless of the length of service downtime? (hours to days etc)

Nope, no compensation for consumer user unless you have a service level agreement with TIME.

FYI, this is not the case for TM, they do provide compensation, I went through this experience before (2 times)

FYI, this is not the case for TM, they do provide compensation, I went through this experience before (2 times)

It's Huawei EchoLife HG8240H.

Yeah there is a network port there.

Any recommendation ? Need able to provide almost full speed 500mbps , right now I cant get full speed with the provided 2 in 1 ONU . 

Should I invest more for WiFi 6 coz my laptop can support it, i do play online games most of the times and my work demand good network connection too.