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No need for brand loyalty with telcos. | StarHub was my first ever broadband provider. I’ve been their customer for over 20 years, even before the time Singapore began its Next Generation National Broadband ...
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The 10 Gbps XGSPON SFP+ transceiver plugs directly into your own router. | My home broadband has been out-of-contract for over a year. Although my 1 Gbps plan was good enough, I was in intrigued by all the new plans, ...
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I am kind of resigned to accepting poor service. | I wrote this a week ago. It rained. My shoes and socks were wet. I was annoyed. I had a frustrating experience with someone’s customer service that day. And the ...
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Fixed, and network is now back up to speed. | As a network person, I’d always hear no end of complaints about the network not being fast enough. Nothing is ever fast enough. Besides, the problem is often ...
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Here's how to setup IPv6 on a MikroTik with StarHub. | I use IPv6 everywhere I can, not just on my websites, but also on my home broadband. So when I recently got a new MikroTik router to replace my pfSense gateway, ...
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I have been migrating across telcos recently, from red to green, and so I had both their smartphone apps installed. Red was basic, but functional. Green had lots of useful information. Red had an app update earlier this week ...
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The needs of mobile phone users have changed the last couple of years. Some of us prefer to buy our phones from non-telco sources, while others don’t need to change their phones all that often. Furthermore, many of us ...
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I’m quite enthusiastic about supporting IPv6, as may be evident by my occasional posts on this topic in this blog. I have StarHub fibre broadband at home, and they’ve provided IPv6 access for some time. There ...
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IPv6 network connectivity on my home fibre broadband service is broken at the moment. I’m definitely not happy about it. So perhaps I’m mostly just ranting when I complain about their network engineering being a ...
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I was recently struggling with my home fibre broadband connection when, as it turned out, it was something I had figured out before, but I had forgotten all about it. So to save myself the hassle in case I need to go through that ...
