i live in my own house and i also didn't want to hack walls. so I pulled the cable and shield with PVC trunking case neatly on top of my walls to each floor.

ya if you're renting, just the mesh wifi is the most economical and just works. and when you move later, you can bring your mesh wifi with you. this is probably the most recommended.

FTTR is really for people who want something a bit more reliable and honestly more for the networking enthusiast. There are definitely benefits for it, it's just you got to weight the costs.

Most people rather save on money and just do wifi mesh over wifi backhaul and be done with it. less fuss and money required 

wifi7 is too expensive right now. Also isn't it not yet ratified either? So wifi 6e. Then you can use the channels less people use so you won't be as impacted due to wifi congestion in your place, especially like in condo.

Hahhaa, later they will just use the excuse Singapore is small and easy to implement.

Definitely not worth it...
I think maintain current plan is more better...

how cheap is cheap?

Perhaps you can try those power line network extension by TP Link, I used to use that last time with 800mbps Unifi speed at ground floor and about 2000mbps on upstairs with the power line.

Yeah, but Time's coverage is so bad that it's practically non-existent.

Meanwhile Unifi and all the providers under its infra can't even provide symmetrical speed.

TIME upgraded the speed to 200M for RM99 package, so far have you guys seeing any counteroffer by TM??  Will TM upgrade their RM89 to 200M too?? Otherwise all their customers might switch to TIME.

Sound like TM plan let go all their high rise customers to TME, only focus those landed customers (that no coverages by TIME). In this case, how to survive?

Seem like TIME is very profitable especially in city area (High rise) which having a larger portion of population in bolehland. They will continue monopoly where TM sound like not interested.

RM99 (200M) vs RM89 (100M)

Agreed, it's much better tonight.
However, it's still not as good as the pre-COVID era where everything loads instantly. After COVID, it seems like they've never really fixed the broken submarine cable.

Excited for my speed boost tomorrow! Even though it won't do squat for latency, hey, it's free! LOL

Yep. Just finished the upgrade



So to anyone else waiting for their speed upgrade, raise a ticket to MCMC immediately

Apartment AX-57 probably enough already. You can even buy 2 and use the Ai-Mesh feature, but not needed in most cases for apartments. Fyi, I think the AX-57 has been superseded by a newer model, 1800HP or something like that. Do take note that the lower priced Asus routers don’t support Merlin firmware. Lastly, the prices in your pic seem higher than what I’ve previously seen, but maybe diesel naik router also naik, so I’m not sure.

Sorry sorry. I got my model numbers mixed up. The AX1800HP replaced the old AX55. The AX57 in your pic should be newer and (a bit) more powerful, so likely to be priced higher.

Comparison: https://www.asus.com/my/product-compare?Pro...-servers-wifi-6

Merlin firmware allows some advanced features, but if you don’t know about it then you probably don’t need it. Nowadays the gap between AsusWRT and Merlin is not so big anyway. Stock AsusWRT firmware is more newbie friendly since it contains presets for our TM, Maxis, etc settings and all that.

Better to ask in the dedicated wifi router thread. More experts there.

Do you have many people in your apartment with many devices? If your environment involves many devices doing bandwidth heavy stuff (streaming, gaming, local network file transfers) at the same time, tri-band can help. If it’s just you and your partner streaming different shows every night, then no issue with dual-band. In most cases,you will likely hit Unifi’s limit long before you hit the router’s limit.