What is the diff btw Starhub Cable and Fibre broadband ?

[Evillusion]

Been using cable tv ,broadband and mobile from SH for more than 10 yrs....thinking of the others for the services when my contract ends this yr. Hope they can give same or better than SH.

[Watwheels]

Why need to lay cable? I don't understand? You are suppose to go wireless. Warning, if you request to lay cable do not be surprised when they start looking at you like a dinosaur. LoL...

If the wireless range is no good just get a range extender.

 

What they will give you is a gateway and a wireless router. Help you setup to connect to your devices if needed.

 

What router they give you might be very basic like what I had a Hw*wei piece of crap. If you want to use your desired router you have to get one yourself and call SH technical hotline and tell them so.

 

They will dan take a few working days to lias with open net to do the necessary connections and admin. Dun ask me why. I also dunno. Along the way they will advise you not to do this coz if you encounter problem they can't help you with the 3rd part router that you have got. You have to look for the router support to help you. They will keep warning you that. After you are successful dan they will ask you whether you want to dsicontinue the fixed line that came with the package. Coz most router sold outside do not support a digital fixed telephone line.

 

I'm happily using my own desired router it's by miles way better dan the piece of crap.

[Ender]

 

10m antenna cable -> I presume it's a coax cable.

 

If you change to fibre, there are 3 boxes.

1. Opennet ONT connects by fibre to Nucleus modem.

2, Nucleus modem connects to SH router via ethernet

3. SH router will connect to the rest per your current set-up.

Depends on where you want to place the 3 boxes, your fibre and ethernet cable length will follow accordingly.

 

M1 only two box, i.e the TP fiber channel cable direct to Huawei modem, and then to my Asus router.

[Baal]

- If u go wireless, use a good good router. They dont provide options to upgrade router for $X dollars for fun. If ur router cmi, it will undermine the speed u signed for.

- Or buy ur own good router.

- However, no matter how good ur router is, manual connection will still be better. Esp so if the layout of your house is less than ideal for wireless.

[Kangadrool]

Lay cable is still cheaper and better as long term infrastructure investment. Nothing beats the good old cable; just like real manual transmission vs DGS.

 

It's also more stable vs wifi.

 

Just ask them to run the trunking along the skirting instead of the walls and ceilings. You will hardly notice anything.

 

Why need to lay cable? I don't understand? You are suppose to go wireless. Warning, if you request to lay cable do not be surprised when they start looking at you like a dinosaur. LoL...

If the wireless range is no good just get a range extender.

 

What they will give you is a gateway and a wireless router. Help you setup to connect to your devices if needed.

 

What router they give you might be very basic like what I had a Hw*wei piece of crap. If you want to use your desired router you have to get one yourself and call SH technical hotline and tell them so.

 

They will dan take a few working days to lias with open net to do the necessary connections and admin. Dun ask me why. I also dunno. Along the way they will advise you not to do this coz if you encounter problem they can't help you with the 3rd part router that you have got. You have to look for the router support to help you. They will keep warning you that. After you are successful dan they will ask you whether you want to dsicontinue the fixed line that came with the package. Coz most router sold outside do not support a digital fixed telephone line.

 

I'm happily using my own desired router it's by miles way better dan the piece of crap.

 

[Neutrino]

I am on Star Hub FREE 1Mb/sec service.

 

I've been on it for 10 years?? or so and I keep thinking about uograding to Fibre which is available at my HDB block.

 

But I get youtube, live sport, films and overseas TV without any buffering stops etc.

 

I see no reason to change to fibre whatsoever.

 

BTW my desk top is through ethernet but I've got wireless on my laptop and the wireless can penetrate two pre cast concrete walls over a distance of 30 feet with no drop off in speed whatsever.

Edited January 3, 2015 by Neutrino

[Kangadrool]

If it's not broken, don't fix it.

 

Fibre is faster, but not as stable. If you use consumer-grade plans, good luck. It can go as slow as dial up during certain periods.

 

I am on Star Hub FREE 1Mb/sec service.

 

I've been on it for 10 years?? or so and I keep thinking about uograding to Fibre which is available at my HDB block.

 

But I get youtube, live sport, films and overseas TV without any buffering stops etc.

 

I see no reason to change to fibre whatsoever.

 

BTW my desk top is through ethernet but I've got wireless on my laptop and the wireless can penetrate two pre cast concrete walls over a distance of 30 feet with no drop off in speed whatsever.

 

[Kb27]

Sorry bro what u mean by 'consumers grade plan'

 

When SP sells you a subscription plan, the general public gets the "cheap" plan (like flying economy class).

It means you compete with all the residences in your blk, your area, etc..at the same time.

Nothing is guaranteed.

 

They can sell a "better" plan to corporate who are willing to pay more (like flying business class).

In this case, they would aggregate less traffic, so they have less competition; or even tagged certain packets, saying you get priority when mix with the economy class people. So your Internet becomes faster.

Edited January 3, 2015 by Kb27

[Sabian]

Simi dinosaur?

 

Pple talking about laying Cat 6 cable lah.

 

Wireless connection is way slower than having a Cat 6 cable. Esp if you run NAS for your family members.

[Kangadrool]

Yup, exactly! My company's 10 Mbps plan is much much faster than my home fibre. You get what you pay.

 

 

When SP sells you a subscription plan, the general public gets the "cheap" plan (like flying economy class).

It means you compete with all the residences in your blk, your area, etc..at the same time.

Nothing is guaranteed.

 

They can sell a "better" plan to corporate who are willing to pay more (like flying business class).

In this case, they would aggregate less traffic, so they have less competition; or even tagged certain packets, saying you get priority when mix with the economy class people. So your Internet becomes faster.

 

[Watwheels]

It's depending on the hardware and the house you are in when it comes to wired or wireless connection. Wired connection confirm is more stable. Coz no interference from your neighbours. But still you all share the same common server.

 

Hardware also makes the difference. Mobile devices wireless is weak compared to laptop wireless. It's all depending on the receiving power. If mobile devices have the same receiving power as your laptop the batt would drain out pretty fast.

 

If you have use man pack radio set in the army you will know. If you set to high power your transmit and receive are better but the batt will also drain out faster. Wired connection hardly uses any power so it's very stable. In a house full of walls and doors like "terrains" the wireless signal will be harder to get thru. Plus with interference from your neighbours of course it's less stable. Line of sight for signal strength is very important for wireless. LoL... Things I learn from army.

[Watwheels]

Since there's no good answer as to why fibre broadband is better dan cable broadband....

 

Here's why.

Cable broadband. As the name suggest and it's plug to your TV antenna socket suggests the data is transmitted via radio frequency aka wirelessly. The radio frequecy is subjected to terrain, weather, and other signal traffic. Less stable.

 

Optic fibre broadband. The trunking of the mass fibre strands are installed underground, in other words it's "wired" like most of you prefers. Basically it works on light technology and the fibre are mirrored surfaces all round in the interior to transmit the light which carries the tonnes of data. Compared to the regular copper wire it doesn't suffer degradation over time and is also more stable.

 

When it comes to speed....if you sign up the same speed for both cable and fibre it's depending on the server. How many household sharing. How new the equipement. End of the day optic fibre is just more stable and consistent. It's not really "faster" if you sign up the same package. The data is just on a better mode of transport.

 

 

For audio fans. Now that digital tv is taking over it's good to invest in optical fibre cable for your media player, setup box or even your TV. Becoz HD channels also have digital sound. You setup box has a optical output which you can use to hoook up to your receiver or home theater. Dun forget to go to setting to switch to digital sound. It's alos good to invest in a optical fibre junction box like this... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000812QC6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

to switch between media players, setup box and tv to enjoy digital sound.

Note: Not all digital sound will sound fantastic. It will still largely depends on the source's sound format.

HDMI is still copper wire nontheless. Sound from optical output will be very different.

 

 

[Playtime]

Bro.

 

Cable broad band is not "wireless" la.

It doesn't even connect to a roof antenna if That's what you tot it works.

[lausai88]

Bro.

 

Cable broad band is not "wireless" la.

It doesn't even connect to a roof antenna if That's what you tot it works.

 

just to add:

cable broadband (like fibre) also need to run underground cable to every household

 

copper also carry digital signal same as fibre.

fibre provides a bigger pipe or more bandwidth compare to copper

 

fibre has it own issues:

fibre is very fragile, cannot bend the fibre in our home

cannot touch the tip of fibre, dirt or our finger print will affect the light transmission

cannot point the fibre to our naked eyes (or look at the light source) - can get blind

etc etc

[Alpha78]

Since there's no good answer as to why fibre broadband is better dan cable broadband....

 

Here's why.

Cable broadband. As the name suggest and it's plug to your TV antenna socket suggests the data is transmitted via radio frequency aka wirelessly. The radio frequecy is subjected to terrain, weather, and other signal traffic. Less stable.

 

Optic fibre broadband. The trunking of the mass fibre strands are installed underground, in other words it's "wired" like most of you prefers. Basically it works on light technology and the fibre are mirrored surfaces all round in the interior to transmit the light which carries the tonnes of data. Compared to the regular copper wire it doesn't suffer degradation over time and is also more stable.

 

When it comes to speed....if you sign up the same speed for both cable and fibre it's depending on the server. How many household sharing. How new the equipement. End of the day optic fibre is just more stable and consistent. It's not really "faster" if you sign up the same package. The data is just on a better mode of transport.

 

 

For audio fans. Now that digital tv is taking over it's good to invest in optical fibre cable for your media player, setup box or even your TV. Becoz HD channels also have digital sound. You setup box has a optical output which you can use to hoook up to your receiver or home theater. Dun forget to go to setting to switch to digital sound. It's alos good to invest in a optical fibre junction box like this... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000812QC6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

to switch between media players, setup box and tv to enjoy digital sound.

Note: Not all digital sound will sound fantastic. It will still largely depends on the source's sound format.

HDMI is still copper wire nontheless. Sound from optical output will be very different.

 

 

 

Sorry bro, two pieces of wrong info.

 

1. Cable broadband is not wireless, it's still wired. Main problem with cable is that most of the connection in the last mile is shared, i.e. it works like a hub. The more people tapping into the same line, the same capacity is shared by more people, everyone suffers slower speed.

 

2. HDMI is copper cable, but the signals transmitted are digital. Whether it's HDMI or optical cable, it depends on the sound format (DTS, etc), and the sound processor that is capable of processing the format. HDMI cables can't run for long distances due to signal loss, while optical cable can run a longer distance.

[Jamesc]

I am not rushing to fibre as I think cable will be here for a long time.

 

Cable is our strategic back up.

 

If terrorists hack our fibre network we still have cable as our back up.

 

[Ysc3]

I am not rushing to fibre as I think cable will be here for a long time.

 

Cable is our strategic back up.

 

If terrorists hack our fibre network we still have cable as our back up.

 

 

jit pai jia lat liow ....

 

your "long time" will end 30 Jun 2019 ...

 

how then ??

[Jamesc]

jit pai jia lat liow ....

 

your "long time" will end 30 Jun 2019 ...

 

how then ??

 

People have a habit of doing things last minutes.

 

The slower the switch from cable to fibre the more

 

worried they will be. The better the offer to switch will be.

 

Free installation, free connection, free router, free 2 years subscription.

 

Anyone can think of anything else? Free TV channels?