Simple business tricks. If you own a company, will you allow your customers to bypass your own restriction via the supplied device? Definitely no right. Same goes to them.

The company will always find a way to restrict their device. Haha.

Don't expect much from tm. their fibre service is good for me, but their iptv service seems outdated and lame for me.

I literally don't even use the iptv service. Hahaha.

Fiber optic splicing (may be detach/broken) at outside your residence or a faulty btu. I've face this issue before.

This post has been edited by Jjuggler: Nov 18 2019, 11:01 AM

Answering towards your queries here my friend, the supplied ISP's router regardless the brand and the model, you should be able to easily hit 300Mbps via Ethernet back-haul and 300 Mbps over wireless as well (it depends on your settings, distance between your client device and the router, congestion and the strength of the wireless signal emission from the router - only possible via 5GHz) and ≤ 100 Mbps for 2.4GHz band.

*Legends: (FE) = Fast Ethernet 10/100Mbps & (GE) = Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Mbps

Starting from a lower tier, the RT-N14UHP (FE), RT-N800HP (GE), AC1200G+ (GE), AC1300UHP (GE), AC58U (GE), AC59U (GE), AC1500UHP (GE) and AC66U

I would strongly recommend you to opt for AC router instead, an entry level of ASUS router should be fine.

I place my router and other networking gears inside an enclosed server rack located in the middle (upstairs) of the 20x70 double-terrace house.

Best way, doing your own personal research through their respective social media platform and give importance towards negative comments and do your own informal survey (verbally maybe some yumcha) by asking your taman people of the ISP, they're using currently and how is the performance, especially during at the peak hours and the package (e.g 100Mbps or 300Mbps) type and the max download speed they can achieve.

You also must give importance towards the type of equipment these ISP gave you, how to maintain the networking gears (third-party gear compatibility without much effort, plug-and-play) and many more.

You can refer her for further info if you need.

You can only use other's experience as your good guideline towards a better experience on having contract with the ISP's for the next 24-months.

Almost all the wireless router/wired router available out there, regardless any brands can be done, just differ in the method of execution of the act.

This post has been edited by Jjuggler: Feb 2 2020, 10:30 AM

It seems you're using a DIR-615 router (first-generation unifi router) - Source: y500,

If you wish to upgrade to a newer router, I would like to advise you to invest some cash to buy a better router out there. I don't and won't really recommend you to opt for ISP's stock router due to poorly coded firmware and only will be acknowledged by the ISP's when there is actual security breach found/encountered by the cyber-security experts out there before a quick fix over the firmware is issued.

Hi there my friend, I seen you have trouble picking up a right router for you to replace your current ageing router. You can buy your own third-party router at any IT shops, I prefer you to buy through shopee. If you're planning to take a cheaper wireless router model, I can suggest two major budget brands over here, D-Link and TP-Link. Their entry-level Wi-Fi 5 or 802.11ac (in general term we call it as Dual-Band Wireless Router) is quite cheap. You can head to a few reputable online reseller such as OOKAS to buy a unit. Recently, there is a Trial-Program offered by the seller with minimum fees. Just stay away from ISP routers due to poorly configured code and poor security issued updates. As for your problem, you can refer to a few setup guides on how to setup the router for first use by yourself. So you can save RM53 in the future if your home network goes wrong.



P/S: Well, just think this forum as a learning platform for you to expand your knowledge in networking field for your own future reference and no one is noob over here.

It seems you're using an old alcatel-lucent ONU (modem) and the ancient dir615. My advice, you can cancel your current package and subscribe again to get a newer equipment with 24months contract or you can request to TM to change the BTU (Modem) to a newer one and router (if you decided to use the stock router again). Try to see your luck.

I am using my own third-party router. The newer modem comes with a black elegant case. For standard home users, you will get a modem (model varies for the place, certain place will get nokia like mine, certain will get huawei) and a really basic AC1200 router, the supplied router model is D-Link DIR-842, TP-LINK C1200 and some may get the Netis router.

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This post has been edited by Jjuggler: Feb 4 2020, 01:08 PM

TM is improving these days. So they're one of the best fibre provider for landed currently although they're the dominant fibre company.

They're giving the tplink router, Archer VR1200v if not my mistaken.

In general, most ISP's supplies a pretty standard router, so no complaint on that. For power users, they will opt for a better wireless router with more powerful processing power.

They used to be troublesome during their early days, but now, they are improving. I don't face any major problem at the moment, worst to worst, my BTU once went kaput before solved within 8 hours with a new BTU replacement. Well for me, they are okay.

Dulu orang kuat TP-Link.. Hahaha.

TP-Link Archer C2300v1 launched somewhere around 2017 year along with the C3150. However, when I go through their official MY site, my god, there is no
C3150 and C2300 in display. Well atleast I managed to find a link, for C3150 and C2300. Going through their site, the latest C3150 revision gets its last
update on 26-09-2017 (US) and the little brat receives its last firmware upgrade at 03-09-2018 (US).

I have to agree to this. Well, a happy user of AC68U with Merlin here.

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I used to recommend ASUS routers although some even labeled me as an "ASUS ambassador - ", but I always suggest good products to the people and they do deserve the best for their long-term investments.

You have to manually look for the firmware every-month or two weeks in interval. I always head up to asus-merlin site to check twice in a month to ensure I am running the latest firmware issued for my router model. There is a reason in behind why most router manufacturers didn't embed this feature inside their firmware. You can expand your knowledge on this further over here. However, if you're power user, you can use this update notification script, only if you're running asus-merlin fw in your router although the developer states that the support for the model has reached its EOL status a few months ago. However, if you're using RT-AC66U_B1, you can flash AC68U firmware to it - Source.