Finally, after Unifi promised me that my area would be covered by Unifi by the end of 2010, they came to install the service. Yes folks, it was a long wait. But let's see, sometimes things are worth waiting for, no?
Below was my chronicle of the installation 'milestones' on Evernote. Do check out Evernote for your note-keeping, checklist making, idea-jotting purposes. Since I don't really have that much time; as you can see, the last time I posted on this blog was in Dec 2010, I am just basically copy pasting from my Evernote, starting below:
The Unifi guys arrived around 1008hrs but it was raining. They discussed how they would proceed with the installation but due to the rain, they said they are unable to proceed as yet. So they opted to wait out the rain in their van. I offered that they could wait it out in the house but they declined. They are both Muslims so I am unable to offer them any food/drink either way.
1022hrs : still waiting but don't hear the rain so much from within the house so maybe they can proceed soon :P
1032hrs: Wow, they started to take down their ladder from the van, looks like they will proceed. Nice~ :D
1042hrs: began routing the black cable (that will go from the point outside the house to along the exterior of the house)
1210hrs: Everything is installed with minimum fuss. But just getting it to work now. They said something about there might be a "mismatch", so waiting to see how they deal with it. :P
1230hrs: The problem was solved by 'cleaning' the fibre optic cable that connects to the modem. They told me to test the internet and it resulted in a very respectable 5.02Mb/s download and 4.89Mb/s upload speed! w00t! Great news indeed. Then I had to test the IPTV and the video did seem to be a bit jerky, though, predictably, he said it would clear up. I've got all the channels on HyppTv on offer for free for 1 month. Will see what I do with this particular service later on.
The phone worked well enough too.
They left shortly after. So all in all, it only took 2 hours' work! Fantastic :D
Proof of the bandwidth obtained, as reported by speedtest:
One of my good friends suggested I do some real world tests like multiplayer gaming and torrenting to justify switching to Unifi. Certainly exciting and useful if we have such data to refer to. Will keep you all posted, thank you for reading!
