Hello brother, I'm using SH 5Gbps ONT $29-$30ish,
so far so good, actually impressed with SH's low price for 5GBPS yet have freedom of Port forwarding, firewall, can setup smart home also, can use power user's equipment's whenever, yada yada..... Furthest room with Lan connection is like 2ms pinged to google servers. If you want take same plan as me, you can copy my setup....
All equipment meshed with TP-Link's Aginet via wire backhaul, seamless wireless/WIFI at every corner of the house even in toilet watch drama oso power.....
The requirements....
Make sure you have everything ready such as data points in each room linking to DB/Main Router box.
Every room that needs fast WIFI should have 1x TP-Link HB410 wire backhauled to switch/DB/Main Router + ONT Combo.
My setup currently...
- 1x StarHub's Given ONT
- 1x TP-Link HB710 (Router Mode/Mesh) comes with 2 ports, 10G Wan + 10G Lan Port
For "Routing" +
What you get: (Living Room WIFI Coverage).
- 1x TP-Link 10G Switch TL-SX105 comes with 4 outgoing ports, means can connect 4 bedrooms via LAN cable/wire.
Note that this one need to buy outside yourself.
To enable HB710 have wired connection to 3 other HB410 found in bedrooms.
- 3x TP-Link HB410 (Access Point/Mesh) comes with 4 ports, 1 Wan/Lan 2.5G + 1x Lan 2.5G, 2x Lan 1G
For "Access Point" mode via wire backhaul per bedroom with 2.5G Capable Desktop PC.
What you get: (Bedroom Direct Ethernet + Bedroom WIFI Coverage).
Total extra one time damage:
1x TP-Link 10G Switch TL-SX105 @ $399/-
3x TP-Link HB410 Supplied by StarHub @ $360/-
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Why i choose ONT over ONR?.. sure ONR easier to set up, sure 1 equipment and gao tim, but it locks me out of stuff like port forwarding, OpenVPN, and pretty much any serious networking config... And as many described their experience with ONR give a lot problem also.... Don't even want to talk about other ISPs with ONR, complete mess esp when you cannot troubleshoot yourself, need wait a few days book some cock appointment waste time coz ONR config locked by ISP.....
The nice thing of having ONT is, when internet down, most of the time is user fault, can solve quickly but need to understand a bit of networking stuff luhh.
If in the future you or your kids want play with things like hosting Minecraft server all these, ONT is the way to go..... ONR can never do any sort of these things bah.... Maybe in the future can, idk... But unlikely bah....
Btw, all need to setup yourself...
Starhub Field Engineer will only plug in FTP to ONT and then to the given HB710.... And test if everything is stable and got internet. Thats it. The rest you ownself plug uh... But quite easy luh... Search in youtube how to setup HB410 as access point, and how to plug unmanaged ethernet switches can liao.
