Singtel's 1+1 Gbps Fiber Pro Gamer Bundle

[divinepotato]

Are there any benefits to the 2Gbps plan (SGD 64.9; no additional routers) vs the 1+1 Gbps plan (same price of SGD 64.0 + 1 AX86U)?

My use case will be an Aimesh network for many wifi devices (probably close to 20 devices across a few family members, comprising several mobiles, streaming boxes and smart home devices), plus a PC connected via ethernet cable. Main usage is for video streaming + work. Will the 2Gbps plan be able to feed a 2Gbps connection to the AX86u (prefer not to meddle with load balancing / link aggregation or other not-so-stable setups) and therefore provide greater bandwidth than a 1+1 across the Aimesh network?

 

[xiaofan]

Are there any benefits to the 2Gbps plan (SGD 64.9; no additional routers) vs the 1+1 Gbps plan (same price of SGD 64.0 + 1 AX86U)?
My use case will be an Aimesh network for many wifi devices (probably close to 20 devices across a few family members, comprising several mobiles, streaming boxes and smart home devices), plus a PC connected via ethernet cable. Main usage is for video streaming + work. Will the 2Gbps plan be able to feed a 2Gbps connection to the AX86u (prefer not to meddle with load balancing / link aggregation or other not-so-stable setups) and therefore provide greater bandwidth than a 1+1 across the Aimesh network?

For your use case, you do not need either plan, SingTel 1Gbps plan will do. Actually if you are not using SingTel, then you can even use 500Mbps plan. FYI Netflix 4K video is about 25Mbps.

2Gbps plan is mostly useless for 99.9% of the household. Each port will still be 1Gbps, so you need two routers to saturate the 2Gbps. Moreover, ONR can not be bridged for the 2Gbps plan and it will be the main router, RT-AX86U will be totally wasted to function as an AP if you do not want to have Double NAT. The free mesh solution for the 2Gbps plan is also not good.

The only use case of 2Gbps plan I can think of is for people with many devices downloading lots of stuff (not video streaming or gaming or WFH/HBL), say you have 10 PCs downloading stuff from the internet.

1+1 plan is not needed either for majority (95%?) of the use cases but at least it has a few niche use cases.
1) who want to have two seperate networks. Eg, one for gaming, one for the other family members. Or one for the tenants and the other for the family members.

2) who want to use dual WAN load balancing to achieve >1Gbps speed with single connection (from the 2.5G port or from wireless)

3) who just like the RT-AX86U and do not mind paying a bit more for the extra bandwidth.

 

[romary]

Have you tried? What is the issue you are facing?

All good just forgot to restart the ONR after swapping to Dual WAN

 

[romary]

Any ways to get more than 1gbps for upload?

 

[xiaofan]

Any ways to get more than 1gbps for upload?

No way as of now. It is a limit of the GPON standard used by the typical ONR/ONT. The theoretical limit is 1.244 Gb/s but local ISP seems to limit at 1Gbps.

Ref:
The most common GPON standard permits a capacity on each “trunk” line of 2.488 Gb/s on the downstream, and a maximum upstream capacity of 1.244 Gb/s.

Ref: Starhub 2Gbps plan.
https://www.starhub.com/personal/bundles/homehub-plus/2gbps.html

• The 2Gbps Fibre Broadband service consists of two (2) 1Gbps lines. When both lines are running concurrently, the sum of the download speed is up to 2Gbps and the sum of upload speed is up to 1Gbps.