[News] Starhub will be the world's first to offer Linksys' new EA8100 AC2600 router

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It is almost 1 year ago that Starhub decided on using Linksys EA7500-AH AC1900 model as part of their broadband package.

Now it is to offer this new Linksys EA8100-AH AC2600 model.

It is quite common to read that there are complaints regarding to this existing Linksys EA7500-AH model by some customers.

Interesting.
 

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Up for DFS capability.

Sent from 当断不断, 害人害己 using GAGT
 

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How's Starhub Fibre broadband? Stable and fast as what they advertised or not? It's no point in having a great wifi router if the ISP is like ****.

My M1 1GB Fibre is operating at 100MB download speed connected directly to modem and 10MB connected ti WiFi router. They blame my router which they gave me.
 

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How's Starhub Fibre broadband? Stable and fast as what they advertised or not? It's no point in having a great wifi router if the ISP is like ****.

My M1 1GB Fibre is operating at 100MB download speed connected directly to modem and 10MB connected ti WiFi router. They blame my router which they gave me.

i prefer you keep the issue isolated to m1 thread for consistency and to reduce confusion.

This thread is pertaining to starhub and linksys ea8100, which is exclusive to starhub users only.
 

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DFS? What's that?

dynamic frequency selection. it means routers can use certain frequencies in both bands where other normal routers do not have.

an example will be:
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channel 52 to 64 on 5Ghz wireless ac are usually disabled on normal routers, but will be available on ea8100.
 

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How's Starhub Fibre broadband? Stable and fast as what they advertised or not? It's no point in having a great wifi router if the ISP is like ****.


As long as you use 3rd party DNS eg
1. OpenDNS - 208.67.222.123 and 208.67.220.123
2. QuadDNS - 9.9.9.9
3. CloudflareDNS - 1.1.1.1
4. GoogleDNS - 8.8.8.8

It will be as smooth as butter and as solid as a rock.

There are twice SH internet is down which I am not affected because of the above DNS was set in the router.

In 2017 - h t t p s : // w w w .straitstimes.com/singapore/starhub-rapped-broadband-disruptions-a-capacity-issue

In 2018 - h t t p s : // w w w . straitstimes.com/singapore/some-starhub-customers-hit-by-internet-connectivity-issues
 

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At least Starhub issues new and decent router for subscribers and to those who recontract, unlike Singtel.
 

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Fml. Please don't join the DFS club. I want to continue to be the only DFS channel user where I live.
 

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As long as you use 3rd party DNS eg
1. OpenDNS - 208.67.222.123 and 208.67.220.123
2. QuadDNS - 9.9.9.9
3. CloudflareDNS - 1.1.1.1
4. GoogleDNS - 8.8.8.8

It will be as smooth as butter and as solid as a rock.

There are twice SH internet is down which I am not affected because of the above DNS was set in the router.

In 2017 - h t t p s : // w w w .straitstimes.com/singapore/starhub-rapped-broadband-disruptions-a-capacity-issue

In 2018 - h t t p s : // w w w . straitstimes.com/singapore/some-starhub-customers-hit-by-internet-connectivity-issues

Linksys router is known to have issue/bug with static dns set in router. It will just set your device dns as automatic even if you have set google dns at router
 

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dynamic frequency selection. it means routers can use certain frequencies in both bands where other normal routers do not have.

an example will be:
tp-link.png


channel 52 to 64 on 5Ghz wireless ac are usually disabled on normal routers, but will be available on ea8100.

Would that also mean that client device also needs to do dfs in order to make this particular feature viable
 
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