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Internet in my Serviced Apartment too slow, any suggestions?

Post by satoruster » Sat, 11 Aug 2012 10:38 pm

I've just moved to Singapore and am now staying at a Serviced Apartment until I find a permanent place to live, but the Internet (Docomo or StarHub) here is too slow that I can't even watch YouTube or join Video Conference at night from this apartment.

Would getting a Wifi router be the best next option? Any suggestions would be very much appreciated!

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Post by nakatago » Sat, 11 Aug 2012 10:52 pm

You can't do anything, really. The Serviced Apartment either doesn't really have a fast connection in the first place or there's too many of you sharing bandwidth.

You can probably get a mobile connection of your own for data or maybe buy a prepaid card to stave you off until you've stabilized and decide on something more permanent.
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Post by zzm9980 » Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:07 pm

nakatago wrote: You can probably get a mobile connection of your own for data or maybe buy a prepaid card to stave you off until you've stabilized and decide on something more permanent.
But don't expect much from that either; see a billion other threads in this sub-forum griping about the terrible mobile data networks here.

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Post by satoruster » Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:14 pm

Thanks for your quick replies! I just tried with my Japanese Docomo SIM through StarHub with my NexusOne and found it's much faster than the connection here in this Serviced Apartment. At least, I could watch YouTube :)

As a short term solution, maybe I should only get a prepaid SIM at StarHub for $32? http://www.starhub.com/content/broadban ... epaid.html

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Post by zzm9980 » Sun, 12 Aug 2012 9:18 am

satoruster wrote:Thanks for your quick replies! I just tried with my Japanese Docomo SIM through StarHub with my NexusOne and found it's much faster than the connection here in this Serviced Apartment. At least, I could watch YouTube :)

As a short term solution, maybe I should only get a prepaid SIM at StarHub for $32? http://www.starhub.com/content/broadban ... epaid.html
Yes, that is what you should do ASAP. You're probably paying roaming data rates right now if you're using that Docomo SIM here!

Also I'd suggest testing the connection in any other location you plan to use it. Each network is quite picky on where and when it works. I had bad luck with Starhub in the places I needed it. But if you're satisfied with the connection you get in your apt, great. Just make sure anywhere else you might want to use it is good too.

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Post by satoruster » Sun, 12 Aug 2012 9:27 am

Thanks for your reply! Yes, Docomo offers "Kaigai Pake-hodai" which gives you unlimited data service for 2,980 JPY at max/day. Not cheap, but it had been useful as far as I was visiting Singapore, but not anymore :) Thanks for your input! Much appreciated :)

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Post by nakatago » Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:27 am

zzm9980 wrote:
nakatago wrote: You can probably get a mobile connection of your own for data or maybe buy a prepaid card to stave you off until you've stabilized and decide on something more permanent.
But don't expect much from that either; see a billion other threads in this sub-forum griping about the terrible mobile data networks here.
But amazingly, Starhub prepaid Data >>> M1 Data postpaid plan :x :x :x
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Post by robotcake » Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:33 am

nakatago wrote:
zzm9980 wrote:
nakatago wrote: You can probably get a mobile connection of your own for data or maybe buy a prepaid card to stave you off until you've stabilized and decide on something more permanent.
But don't expect much from that either; see a billion other threads in this sub-forum griping about the terrible mobile data networks here.
But amazingly, Starhub prepaid Data >>> M1 Data postpaid plan :x :x :x
Eh? What's up with the M1 Data postpaid plan? I don't use either so I have no idea..
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