Just upgraded to 300mbps unifi, Need sifus advise on best router to get
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 Feb 20 2020, 10:40 AM
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QUOTE(Grayson @ Feb 19 2020, 12:43 PM) Besides this 2 modem any other good modem you recommended? I saw in the market keep advertising this Asus rog gt- ax11000 but too expensive for me... No need to go AX. Last time the GT-AC5300 was near to 2k now cheaper already. That's for gamer. RT-AC5300 is sufficient. Budget? |
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Feb 20 2020, 10:56 AM
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QUOTE(Grayson @ Feb 19 2020, 11:00 PM) So 86 ftw.. But haven’t release yet? And price wise? What’s the difference between ac and ax version? The 802.11ax is designed to operate in all ISM bands between 1 and 6 GHz when they become available for 802.11 use, in addition to the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands already allocated. Now to make thing simple, it is called WiFi6.Now most devices support 802.11ac. So, I'd say just stick to 802.11ac. Yes, people might say, buy now and you can use for long time when more and more devices out there support. However, you are paying for high price for nothing when the modem price will quickly drop when more and more in market, in my opinion. |
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Feb 20 2020, 11:05 AM
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QUOTE(Grayson @ Feb 19 2020, 07:24 PM) Budget around 600-900.. don’t mind stretching if the router is good! Using handphone but desktop coming soon.. the router is beside my room, but somehow I’m only able to receive 60-70mbps, if standing beside my router I can’t even get 300mbps... do I need to call tm to check my speed? If your modem can provide 300Mbps, it does not mean that you will get 300Mbps. It depends on your devices/phone also. Your phone probably only can do 1 spatial stream (single antenna). So, the max speed is around that on 20MHz bandwidth. You will get around 300Mbps with 80MHz channel, but you will also exposed to interference from neighbor since your channel if you are on 2.4GHz band |
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Feb 21 2020, 08:11 AM
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QUOTE(Grayson @ Feb 20 2020, 09:16 PM) Budget around 600-900, let’s just say I just buy the lan cable to connect to my desktop, is tplink sufficient? Or does rog excel in that too? LAN cable will definitely takes the load of the WiFi and mush faster. The main reason is the LAN cable is full-duplex but the WiFi is simplex communication. The WIFI is like walkie-talkie, when someone talk you can only listen  . If you have many devices on WiFi, each one have to wait for their turn  The ROG is designed specifically for gamer since it will provide something like QoS (Quality of Service) to your game data packets. The packets will get priority. So, no delay. I bought ROD too but I don't play game  I'd say for normal use, TPLink is sufficient enough. |
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Feb 21 2020, 08:22 AM
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QUOTE(Grayson @ Feb 20 2020, 09:20 PM) So to be safe, 20mhz for 2.4ghz, and 80mhz for 5ghz? Yes, I'd just do that 20MHz for 2.4GHz band.I tried standing beside connecting to 5ghz with phone supporting 300mbps but manage to get below than 100mbps, called tm service they say I’m suppose to get above 50% of the applied 300mbps.. Less than 100Mbps is low. Something is not right. I think you have fixed the bandwidth to 80Mhz, right? I get around 470Mbps on my 500Mbps service with both laptop and my phone. I forget what my setting was anyway. Since wireless is half-duplex, I guess that is why the cs said you should get above 50%, generally around 60% I believe due to protocol overhead, etc. |
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Feb 21 2020, 10:40 AM
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QUOTE(Grayson @ Feb 21 2020, 10:26 AM) Sorry for asking, why use 36, 40, 44 and 48? Why not use others and what’s the difference between these channels? And I’m using tplink right now how do I know if it’s support dfs nd tpc? Thank you for your time. Dynamic Frequency Selection Dynamic Frequency Selection is a channel allocation schemes specified for wireless LAN, commonly Wi-Fi. It is designed to prevent interference with other usages of the C band frequency band that had predated Wi-Fi, such as military radar, satellite communication, and weather radar. It was standardized in 2003 as part of IEEE 802.11h. In the US and other countries, some of the Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) bands are used by radar systems. Wi-Fi networks operating in those bands are required to employ a radar detection and avoidance capability. I think this is not applicable here in Malaysia. We are still on standard ISM bands. The Transmit Power Control (TPC) goes together with DFS to avoid interfering the radar by reducing the power. I think you can have both disabled if there is such feature in setting |
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Feb 21 2020, 10:41 AM
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QUOTE(Grayson @ Feb 21 2020, 10:28 AM) I have adjusted the bandwidth just now, and from 50-70mbps now I got around 100mbps which is still quite Low I think. Hm Have you ever installed any apps to check if there is other signal within your operating WiFi channel? |
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Feb 21 2020, 01:03 PM
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QUOTE(Candy12 @ Feb 21 2020, 12:40 PM) 20MHz for 2.4GHz is narrow band you can only reach max about 50-75Mbps on speedtest if you choose this setting. You can put any widest band if you have no interference from any other WAP like from neighbor or your other WAP. I'd leave the 2.4GHz band for guess and old devices.Increase it to 40MHz you'll probably get max 125Mbps if you have a supported wifi client/device that supports it. Most newer equipment nowadays already support this unless you have very old outdated stuff at home that'll need Wi-Fi connectivity. Then there's 2x2 MIMO on top of the 40MHz 2.4GHz Wifi which claims to oduble the speed with 2 parallel antennas. Do remember that even though your router/AP supports newer technologies such as 2.4GHz wide band Wifi and MIMO 2x2, you need a client that matches it as well. For 300Mbps plans above, it's recommended that you use 5GHz WiFi instead to gain the extra bandwidth and take advantage of the speed. For 100Mbps plans below, 40MHz 2.4GHz will be good enough for most people. My stock router at home is capable of AC1200, it makes sense to get a AC1200 rated wifi adapter or a matching capable device to take advantage of the speed which is 1.2Gbps via wireless. Do note that speeds are theoretical speeds, give or take 20% overhead with published speeds on the tech sheet, that's what'll get in real time conditions. For the 5GHz band , it is different story because you have more channels. Unless your device can do link aggregation, you can only use either band only. So, no 1200Mbps total |
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Feb 22 2020, 12:37 PM
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QUOTE(Grayson @ Feb 21 2020, 09:45 PM) Nope, can you recommend me the app so I can check? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?....analyzer&hl=en |
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