Today, for a small part of a big mission of clearing up and "updating" my house, i begin my preparations to increase the wifi coverage in my house, from only second floor, to first floor too. As well as since mum upgraded our optic fibre speeds to over 300mbps, i got to test out the new speeds and make sure the cables and modems can support! Also, I intend to take the mio box (router) out of the network, and introduce a new modem.

Currently, my house has...
one Singtel white mio box router, (which sucks)
i have one black one version lying somewhere around...
one Linksys E2500 modem that supports over 300mbps
one huawei optical fibre modem
and a thousand and one assortment of cables. i have cat4, cat5e wlan cables, old telephone landline cables.
the power cables can get really annoying at times. especially when the heavy plug falls off or something.

FYI, the video that i took is the current config that i have done in the past, and then the process of 'upgrading'. The final one ain't ready yet!

This is the start! the huawei optical fibre modem, which is housed snugly inside my storeroom! What happens is that the connection is on first floor, and due to the limitation of the length of optical fibre, i got to keep the modem close, so i hung it behind the door. INSANE length of wlan cable.i think it was 35m?


Checked all the cables in the house to ensure they enable higher data transmission speeds! :)
my house is pretty dark, so sorry for the bad lighting!


Some may ask, like hey ming yang, why not buy and extremely long optical fibre and line it like what you did with the wlan cable all the up? ? well two reasons,
#1. It's EXTREMELY expensive to buy excessively long optical fibres.
#2. They are very very fragile so i am not going to take the risk.
Remember the coil of extra length of wlan cable that i have? Having too long of a distance actually slows down the data speeds due to it having to travel a longer distance, but it's cut at the right length so that i wouldn't need to install a networking switch to boost the speeds again :) Also, it is always good to work with slacks, as contingency, and also just in case someone magically trips over the wire, which shouldn't be happening if you wire it properly.

I soon try and figure, playing around with the connections to eliminate the router. Because having it is like having an extra "traffic light junction". And everybody knows that when they are rushing for time, they would rather speed on a highway (or freeway) instead of having lots of junctions! Same concept, i want my data FAST and NOW.


In the next video, you begin to see my main intention, of installing a second modem to the home network. it was a total pain trying to do the rewiring which is hidden at the back of the table, because of the sheer amount of cables that we once had, as well as the massive mess that was standing in the way between me and the cable. boooooo!


Well at least FINALLY, after clearing out the mess on the table and around it, so that i can access the cables and give em a good clean up, i'm finally on the way to successfully linking the new modem into the network! So tomorrow, i can install the modem downstairs, so that we can have wifi coverage on the first and second floors of the house! Also, the wifi would have LIGHTNING speeds too! Wohooooo~! No such thing as buffering for videos, no such thing as waiting for a page to load, everything becomes instant!! Sounds kinda extreme to have a home network that goes over 300mbps but it's needed given that my family uses the internet and all over often and excessively, depending heavily on speeds! The modem splits up to four of our computers, fully utilising all the ports that it has to offer xD

CORRECTION, wLAN PORT, not CABLE. my cable is perfectly fine xD sheeesh seriously it sucks having to connect only via wifi to the modem for now, one day i gotta visit Sim Lim Square and send my desktop in for checking :( from what i gathered, its a hardware problem with the port, so gonna get it changed! (y)

But now, as i install a new modem tomorrow, we're gonna have FOUR more ports that support over 300mbps!! which will probably never be used! :D seriously at the rate this is going, I can set up LAN gaming shop in my house man... :P

Configured the new Asus RT-N56U modem into the ip address, MAC codes and all done already, tested connecting my phone via wifi to it, cabled it to my bro's lappy, everything's OK! After having a troublesome problem of the router not recognising my user and password xD nearly died HAHA but it's alright now! just left with tomorrow to install it, clear up some excess cables tomorrow and tadaaaaa~! who know when i'm gonna update #procrastinator