Wait for TNB to come in for selling wholesale passive dark fiber. Many ISPs will love to join them since they get to build their own active network with it including Time.

All ISPs on TNB open network will be allowed to supply their own brand of ONTs(fibre modem) besides their own access router.

No more since early this year after TM changed their early termination policy from RM500 1-time penalty to remaining months of your 24-months contract.

Now if you've just recently signed up for Unifi for a 24mths renewal of your contract, you need to pay 24 remaining months in total to terminate your line.
Just think of 24 X your current TM monthly bill as penalty.

RM500 where got enough to cover your penalty? Thus both TIME and Maxis has seized this offer to help customers make the switch over.

Give you the RM500 rebate over few months also won't be able to cover your months of early termination penalty right? Let's say you have 10 months left and you're subscribing to a RM150 plan.

Did you renew your contract, changed plan or replaced hardware with your Unifi account starting early 2019?

Why do you need password to initiate live chat? Just open the live chat page tell them your acocunt, they'll do verifications with you such as asking you personal quesitons for your IC no, latest payment made, location, . etc. to confirm you're the line owner then check it for you.

Time Fibre finally expanding to Ipoh?

Spotted Kinta Riverfront Service Suites for Ipoh area in Time's Home Fibre coverage map.
Hope more condos in Ipoh will be wired by Time Fibre after this.

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.

You must mention the destination and country.

Ping to where? Local server? SG server? Japan server? Aussie server? US server? EU server? African Server?
Where?

Just ask anyone here with a 100M Time user here to do a manual CLI terminal ping to:


No need to do it at Ookla's website.

This post has been edited by Candy12: Oct 19 2020, 10:13 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.

The installer who did my home used nail in clips(small ones since fibre cables were very thin) they are unnoticeable when run along cable covers.

May I ask if this test was made from a Time Home Fibre line based in Northern Region/Penang or the Klang Valley?

If from Penang then it's quite impressive to get 5ms ping rates to a server based in Shah Alam all the way from Penang which is around 360km in road distance.

Disregard the Singtel results for the time being. Other Singaporean ISPs are also getting very high pings to reach them.

Try these other Singaporean ISPs instead:

Hmm quite good results your're getting there. Please disregard the Singtel results, there's something wrong with their DNS as it will resolve with some other IP which works better in other regions. Even other ISPs in hosting Singapore are getting terrible speeds above 50ms.

Use this instead: cdn.aws.singtel.com but found out it's being hosted at some Amazon server??
Singtel using AWS hosting?

My physical ISP is Ipoh riding on Maxis Fibre which is around 200km north of KL.
From Ipoh to Maxis's Subang Jaya test server my pings are like 5-6ms.

www.speedtest.com.sg: 12-14ms
speed.sg.m247.ro: 16-18ms
speedtest-sgp.apac-tools.ovh: 17-19ms

I give you a range which is what I get between off peak and peak hours.

For pings to Penang, expect 2-4ms on top of what you get from Ipoh because the distance is even further from the Klang Valley.

This post has been edited by Candy12: Oct 25 2020, 04:15 PM

Which server you're testing with getting 18ms?

You can directly ping speed.time.com.my from your command terminal.

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.

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.

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.

The PoE Injector unit has 2 inputs, one the data ethernet cable from the router and power supply port with a ethernet output port that combines both inputs to be sent to the AP device with a single cable. That's how they wire up outdoor wireless APs on roofs instead of pulling 2 separate wires all the way out there.

Make sure your wireless AP unit must also be able to support PoE ports to separate the 2 sources at the other end.

If you plug your PC directly into the ISP's own router and managed to get connected to the internet it's OBVIOUS that it has not been switched to BRIDGE mode yet because when you need an separate router to do PPPoE authentication to connect properly.

The reason why you can't make changes when you log into your Huawei modem is because that account you use to login is just a basic user account without privileges.

Your ISP is hiding the ROOT/administrator account from you to prevent you from tinkering its settings inside that's why you need to keep calling them and enure that they made the changes properly.

Either that or you need to "find" ways of how to gain access to the ROOT account hidden to solve things on your own without dragging time. It could void your warranty though.

So the login "Root account" the ISP might be hiding from you is telecomadmin.

Maybe you need to do some social engineering skills with the technician and ask them to reveal to you?