Wireless Upgrade Vlog

[nicklmg]

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Linus experienced a TON when he was over in Asia! Here are some of the highlights from Singapore.

 

[georgespamme]

THIRST

[beebskadoo]

First thing I see is Linus' backwards hat, takes me back to the old days. You look like a goofy goober, hire me as your fashionista adviser <3

[itscatbug]

Thanks for sharing this.

[niofalpha]

The lady at like 0:34 Photobombed.

[Mew]

Wrong forum? 

[nicklmg]

Wrong forum? 

Yep thanks for the reminder.

[Mujteba]

Lol what a badass! 

*Wifi here sucks! Better change the access port for them.

[Blebekblebek]

you see that windows xp

 

you SEE THAT

[samcool55]

Now i actually want to know how the pc upgrade went

[RyomaSJibenG]

you need to come to my house and upgrade my wifi plox :DDD

[Daniele M]

Look at that! A house made of concrete! Welcome to NOT America.

[Theghost1292]

How did the PC upgrade go?  I'm really curious about that.

[Geralt]

Funny thing was I have actually visited the stores he did at Sim Lim Square.

 

Still overpriced tho.

 

[davidmorpurgo]

I love this kind of videos...

There's one thing I didn't get tho: why did he made two SSIDs? is it one on 2.4 and the other on 5GHz?  <_<

 

 

[Nexxus]

Linus dont know shit about overlapping channel use.



I might have to look into 5ghz lol

[beach_boy98]

Linus dont know shit about overlapping channel use.

I might have to look into 5ghz lol

Wire all the devices lol

[Dizzyspeed]

Hey guys,

 

My family lives in Singapore, and we use Starhub as well and the whole central modem and wifi router combo was what we were offered as well, along with repeaters throughout the house, and we live in a 3 story conservation house with the same super thick floors. They wanted to set up a single source on the second floor and have us pay for extra repeaters throughout the house, but because we have so many wireless things and our neighbors were using the exact same system it simply did not work. So instead we decided that our only option was to set up individual hot spots for each floor. How I achieved this was that the way our house was set up was the Starhub modem was plugged into the ethernet port in the wall, then I went to our central switch box which next to it had a box which included phone lines and the ethernet ports for the entire house. I used one cord to plug from the port where the modem was connected into a ethernet switch box. Then I ran cables from the switch box into the other ports on the box where the house ports were. So now I could have ethernet throughout the entire house from the wall, which would not have worked the way it was originally set up cause the internet was not actually sent through the fiber around the house, only to the location of the modem. Anyways, so after all this we then set up individual routers for our living room on the first floor, which also reached the second floor bedroom. Then the provided router on the second floor covered my brother's room our family room and the kitchen. Then a router for my dad's office on the third floor and another router for my own room also on the third floor (even though there is only a wall separating my room and the office, I can't connect to the office wifi at all.)

 

When we compared the cost of the routers compared to the repeaters we found that we had to pay for 2 routers (since we already had another one and the one provided by starhub) to cover all the rooms instead of about 9 or 10 repeaters. A question of about 400-500$ on routers and the ethernet switch box and quite a few ethernet cables, compared to the 900-1000$ for the proprietary repeaters starhub was trying to get us to use. It does mean we have 4 separate wifi hotspots with different names and passwords, but that was just a choice we made in case we wanted to find the source of specific problems, and it does not really take much time for our devices to change as we move around, the repeater setup they first showed would not actually work for multiple devices being connected to the individual repeaters and we found it rarely actually allowed us to access the internet it was just a blank connection reading that they showed us on a starhub connection reader. 

 

Either way after that long set up, we had a working sonos system throughout the house. My dad could access his documents from his third floor office in the living room and we had 200mb up and down everywhere. So though it took a lot of initial tinkering it ended up working fine. We still get no cell network connection in about 50% of the building, but that we can't do anything about. And word of advice for anyone planning to move to Singapore, firstly it is really expensive to live there, there are many expert scam artists (I could write a book about of our troubles with the construction of our house and how poorly they tried to fix it), and to always check everything that they do cause they will try to take a short cut to get it done really quickly and cheaply, and claim it will work but it won't. And lastly they are always late, so if they say I will come between 10am and 4pm, expect them somewhere between 6pm and 10pm claiming that they were stuck in traffic, even though you can cross the entire country in around an hour and a half.

 

Also go to Funan instead of Sim Lim Square for better deals, information and basically no scam dealers. And there are some big name chain stores there with their point or membership cards, which are generally really cheap and give you a decent discount if you're buying things in bulk.

 

And for cables it goes Short ethernet cables are all cat 5, medium are all cat 6 and long all are cat 7 in Singapore.

 

Also remember that there is a conversation rate of 1.33 sing dollars per 1 USD or 1.21 sing dollar per 1 Canadian dollar, just for those who want to convert more properly.

 

That was way longer than I intended it to be woops

[Jeemax]

Such a sweet setup. Still as total networking noob (plug ethernet in router from modem, setup software, leave alone for 5 years). To what do you connect these access points? to consumer grade router most people have? Some more special router?  Something else?

[fir_nev]

I hate it when relatives try using our IT knowledge for free service. The relatives could have tried getting solutions even before Linus' arrival. I'm from Singapore and if a family can afford that house, they should be able to afford almost anything.

 

Dat pc tho...

[Nexxus]

I hate it when relatives try using our IT knowledge for free service. The relatives could have tried getting solutions even before Linus' arrival. I'm from Singapore and if a family can afford that house, they should be able to afford almost anything.

 

Dat pc tho...

Maybe they just didnt care enough to fix it? maybe it was driving linus insane while he was there and insisted?

[fir_nev]

Maybe they just didnt care enough to fix it? maybe it was driving linus insane while he was there and insisted?

 

Or maybe... it was on purpose?  :unsure:

[sunil6512]

If only i had fast internet

[Cream pie filled car]

Having thick concrete walls is just horrible for wifi. I live in Singapore and I have a few Powerlines on every floor making a total of 5 wifi connections through out the 3 story house. I know how Linus feels.

[Adam]

That was a really good video.