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bleucheeze & HappyAng, if you all find it confusing by what I had typed so far. Let me check my plans on saturday, I can give you all an onsite run-though using your floor plan designed by ID at my place. Can run through my home networking with you for better understanding.

Could be the powerline or noise in your electrical power line. Either you place the strong signal router in living room or studyroom. If in living room, Modem cum router->Lan point in living room->Lan point in Study room->AP->Wired & Wireless connection. Or, in study room, Modem(disable the router feature)->Lan point in living room->Lan point in Study room->Router->Wired & Wireless connection. Never place your router inside the Box, reduce your WIFI signal for sure, at least an opened concept cabinet please. It is a big NO NO Change all again lo, wait for good discount, put into your wishlist

Yes, if you had did this placement, the signal definitely improves. If possible, never near major electrical devices, ie TV, when near the TV panel, it will affects the waves emitting out of the router. Place your router at high level above your TV console panel if you had planned some shelfs/opened cabinets will do, for your MIO Box, it is ok to be on the console. Do note that, the router will be also near your LAN point at level 1 which grants internet access to LAN point in level 2.Is your mio box at your current place, 2 in 1 aka broadband & telephone line package? If yes, that is tricky, you can check with Singtel whether they allows seperate modem for broadband & telephone line. However, if your MIO box provides broadband & the phone in your living room wired to phone point are seperated, it should not have any issues. Unless you are using cordless phone, when placed near TV, some interferences can't be avoided. click on it Hot Plug aka Powerline If possible, get a router & configured it as AP aka Access Point. WIFI repeater much easier to configure. Plug & play device. Whichever your budget allows. Cool, happy shopping!

:sport-smiley-004: Dont be shy, just a picture of your modem & router deployment zone. Picture speaks a thousand words. I believed it will benefit those reading it.In fact I liked your simple network deployment when I visited your place last friday. The placement of the router was decent, located at high cornered 90 degree wall. As such, signal from your router bounds off well to the rest of your house. A simple example of not centralising your router but maximised your WIFI effectively. Exactly, powerline aks Hot plug is fine. It is not as bad as it is. However, for powerline to be effective. We need to identify/consider 2 area.The route distance of your electrical power line, if it is a short, powerline should be decent to get intended coverage. Strictly bad if 24/7 download basis. If long, need to identify along the electrical power chain, any power sucker items were input along it. If yes, it will affects the performance of the powerline, why? during to NOISE Due to various reasons, took the idea off of having hot plug aka powerline in each rooms during my pre-renovation days. Matter of fact, I bought quite a no. of Hot plug during IT shows, disposed them off in 2nd hand market unused & brand new in box. Back to your concerns, your project comes with flooring? If no, quite easy to plan. However, since you are into HT, better to plan how you want to maximise your networking synergy in your new place.

Take a picture on how you placed your modem & router Agreed with Dragonnite. It works this way too. By the way, our Dragonnite is IT by profession, I'm not but my strong interest in IT kicks that in Sounded like you are on OT in Renotalk

Cool, so yours is 5.0? I found 1 more kakis in renotalk. Oh, that's outdated, my rack long time full house! So many new ones in a big paper bag at the moment, going to look for a bigger rack! Not sure to go for out/enclosed type.

I did a quick count on my BR titles, I nearly fainted! :jawdrop: 200+ However compared mine to Xtremeplace, small fry!

Ya, the Amazon bug on was cured in Feb 2013 since it started :bow:

I liked your concert & other sector. Blue Man group, II Divo! :dribble: you got HT at home now? Check them out from your cart la :notti:

No problem at all. I liked your t-blog, your t-blog name is catchy! Good to shop some stuffs from Amazon ya? may value add your home if any?

trying already, give me some time.

For Ht, best is no frame or black frame. Take away distraction.

To house players using the shelf, need to be deep set, need to provide allowance for placement & wires input. Players wont last nowadays, plus you are subjected to upgrade.

haha...2016 refers to Melmeow's collection I think. Wah, heavy buyer here :dribble: take picture & show me. Care & share motto continues. Oei, when are you getting Oppo? I stopped using Borderlinx because of that, using Hopshopgo & other forwarder. I had stopped buying BRs for the time being, still got quite a nos on back/pre order status Dont bother to look at Amazon US for this. I got ask before, will never works for us. Need to buy from UK. Or buy from HK if you intends to travel there soon.

For EM, you need to have wide coverage for both levels. As such, you need 1 router each in Level 1 & 2, you should not save $$$ on that. Placement of router should be always in centralised location at each level ideally. You had mentioned the worst position for the modem aka Mio box to be located inside TV console, you had created 1 additional shield on it. Secondly, inside the console, you had also reduce the WIFI coverage further due to low level on AIR. Let me elaborate further, for WIFI to be effective, the lesser the interferences from objects/panels in wood/metal material, glasses, the better it is. As they will reflects WIFI signal off your intended zone. It should be placed at high location. Good to know that your ID had suggested to wired your rooms located in level 2, likely that you need to access your laptops or desktops at both location. Wired connection for both rooms will ensure dedicated internet access. However, you did not mentioned the networking route on how the rooms are wired from to gain access? Firstly, did your ID linked level 1 & 2 with LAN point using Cat6 cables as your modem is located at level 1, it should never ever be overlooked. If no, I got no idea how both rooms will have internet access. Please do not tell me that your ID had suggested Hot plug connection. Why? waste $$ wired your rooms. Secondly, did your ID suggested to wire your level 2's common walkway with LAN point? For this, it is optional, for your in depth information, I will placed the 2nd router in common walkway, in concealed ceiling or on shelf to provide equal quality WIFI coverage for both rooms. Last, the Singtel Mio box has build-in router, but it is decent only, I will use it as modem soley, bridge it to a quality router for your case, due to your EM status. If your Mio has telephone access, can be a bit tricky to configure. No offence intended on reply, just sharing my thoughts from your supplied information. I can advise further when you hit me again. Ok la, we can wait. Haha... Yes, for WIFI & wired access to work, modem need to be connect to router, however, as you mentioned, yours is 2 in 1? You need to confirm on that, Reason being, your modem(2in1) will be located at DB box. The connection will be Modem(2in1)->LAN point in DB Box area->Study room LAN point->Router(you need to configure it as Access point instead of router mode) which Dragonnite had suggested.You need to be sure that the router can be configured both as ROUTER or ACCESS POINT. Alternatively, like Dragonnite had mentioned, use Hot plug or Wifi Repeater, but it will not be effective on Wifi repeater, it will be input to electrical wall point, so still low on signal when providing the other room aka MBR. Yes, concealed network cables will cut off any interferences. You need to check with your ID how he/she wired as per my reply to you above.

No problem dude. Always willing to help & share. Care & Share motto says alive! By the way, you will be collecting your house in few years?

Ok, forgot about the shielding part, so looks like via ground level is a good way to lay those cables. Your electrician is one hired by your ID I presume - They know what to do when you tell them you want to lay it this way? I have checked your cable layout, it looks pretty complicated with the turns (or was that only for the speaker cables? those in the pictures which showed some of the piping), so how do you replace/upgrade them in the future - tied the new cable to the old cable and pull the old cable from the patch side? Ans: It depends, can do over-the-air, if you got no intention to hack the flooring. Make sure your contractor uses separate PVC pipes for network, should never combine with electrical wires. Yes, by my ID, quite decent, at least they uses network cable tester to check the termination & uses a crimper to terminate the points. From tv console to back, that's for my speakers. You should only looked at the single point(main door) where it linked to my study room. From my tv console linked to study room, ditto for the 2 rooms. The benefit of putting at ground, using PVC pipes, allows my contractor to use special mini flexible to pull from 1 end to another effectively with much ease for future upgrades. The method you had suggested was correct, that's how they did mine. So you can hack the walls to add in the points (and with the same number of cables that was there)? Er, I can't see the 2 point each room thingy from your plan as you have 7 points in total in the plan and you have 7 wires to the patch, so that sounds like only 1 room (study) other than the living area you have 2 points for LAN. So, could you repeat that again - how do you do 2 points when there is only 7 wires? I would have thought 14 points which would have gone beyond your 12 pts wall patch. I presume you would hack the wall (from the ground to the point which the wall plug will be) to place those LAN points? Ans: I didn't hack the whole wall, but rather additional hole so called to expand your points. The linkage you saw are pipes, i had provided additional in there but never utilised them at the moment. 1 at main door, 2 at tv console, 2 in studyroom & 1 each room, total 7. Wires are run in pvc pipes, you only need to purchase 1/2 gangs network points to be live. For my patch panel, it is supposed to link up between my rooms back to studyroom vice versa. 3 in living, 2 each room, I'm left with 3 spares. I didn't hacked the floorings in my room, so I had instructed my contractor to hack the wall from ground to electrical level, and continued via side wall to my point of intent. Ok, let me get this right. Your modem (from whatever source you are getting your broadband from) is at P1, which has a wall plug pt and a power pt affixed. Your modem LAN point is fixed onto the wall plug, which brings the connectivity to your 16 port router in your study room. The rest of the points P2 - P7 will then get the connectivity from this router which distributes the bandwidth among these (2-7) points right? Ans: Yes, at point 1 to my study room, but that is straight to patch panel, from patch panel to my router, from my router to my switch, from my switch back to 6 points in patch panel. This way, all my remaining 6 points gained Internet access. So when you get your fibre TP fixed, it will be at P1, and the ONT from your fibre provider will be place at P1 in replacement of the current one, and the connectivity will be the same. Right? Ans: Yes, that's right, point 1 is permanent for all Internet service provider.

Hi Bleucheeze, most welcome to help you. Good to know that you had the intention to engage network contractor to fix up the wirings for you.Back to your questions, buy a strong signal router & place the router in your study room. I presumed your study room & living room side by side & MBR opposite your study room. Your intention of 1 point each in living room & study room was to link them up via wired access. If I had interpreted correctly. Here you go on the route. Open net point->fibre modem->cat6 cable connected to your living network port aka RJ45>>(your contractor will setup a LAN cable link from living room to study room)->study room network port aka RJ45>cat6 cable connected to your router->2 type of access to answer your needs(see below) 1) wired access Connect your laptop to router ports 2) wireless access Enable your wifi in your router Now, why place it in study room. Centralise your wifi access, signal will be stronger near your intended wifi zone coverage. Your mobile devices, tablets, pads, smart phone will received better signal that way. Do note that if possible, place your router as high as possible, never below your human height level. Reason being, at that level, you had placed pretty much blockage at that level, being your furniture & fittings, cabinets, chairs, table etc, they does affects the signal. The higher it is, the better signal it is. Of cause, your wired connection to your laptop might be un-glam, for that you need to brainstorm. Which brand of router to look at? Asus RT-AC66U if budget allows, I do remembered that if you signed up fibre plan, discount will be given, should set you back at $200 range. Official retailed price at $289. Alternatively, Asus RT-N56U, it is pretty decent, discount should set you back at $100, retailed price at $159? If my memory served me right. Feel free to hit me again

Hello Alpc As per message in your t-blog which I left a message about this pm. Don't mind me, but since I just selected my flat, I wanted to get more info and details so that when I do get my keys I would have something in place and knowing what I need for that. Ans: No worries about it, just hit me here, will try with my best knowledge. From your blog, it sounds like your unit is premium version which mean the flooring came with it but you hack it off. You also took the opportunity to add in your cat6 cable before they add in the tiles for your flooring. I wonder why did you decide on putting it beneath the flooring? Was it put into a casing or it was left bare in the cement? Ans: Yes, it is premium flat but not good quality compared to my folks(also in Punggol) I don't liked the flooring came with because it was ceramic tiles! My folks were homogenous tiles. The feels were better! So during my renovation, took the opportunity to hack them away. With that, can wired my place up with cat6 at ground level why not? Reason is simple, concealed under floor will shield off any interferes, All at ground, earth zone. If run through the ceilings are fine, but need to shield them up as I know, because of electrical wires for lighting & power points. They were laid by my electrical contractor, all cat6 cables were slotted into hard round PVC pipes, linked to my patch panel located in my study room. I did posted a picture on my layout. Never leave them bare on ground, you can't replaces them when they are broken or in future to upgrade the cables to cat7. Is it true that new BTO flats will comes with power pt/switches/tv/tel points already line up and concealed?!? What if you need more points or in this case, LAN points? Ans: Yes, all will be concealed. Can do by left method, hack the side walls and add additional points you need, be it power/cable/telephone etc. for LAN points, at least 2 points if possible. I got 3 points in my living room. The rest 2 each. Meantime I need to look deeper into your cabling plans which I just discovered!! LOL! Ans: Feel free to read, I did patch panel before further routing my access via gigabit switch then to my various points in the house. Oh did I mention that I realized my floor plan is 90% similar to yours except for the shelter placement - in my floor plan, it's in between the main door and kitchen! So my total area looks more boxy than yours. Ans: nowadays the layout are pretty common, can popby my place if you are interested, if I gain sufficient audiences for a walk through.

Oh, nice! Must really visit your place 1 fine day to listen when yours burn in

once in, hard to get out, end of day, it's part of the enjoyment! Enjoy the process! yup, not burned in, he said 30 odd hours only. His listening position can feel the thump & punch! I though it was some decoration until I scanned through the surrounding, all covered. :jawdrop: Cool, thanks for your kind comment, will reply you in a bit, but will post here if you don't mind for others to read. Beneficial to potential home owners. how much is the damage? 2 channels mono?

oh my! Too heavy for me.His listening position is surrounded by them. I'm lucky to have a listen at his tall monster, Raidho! Oh my, it was so unbelievable. With all the tweaks around me. Speechless, just listen and observes all the tiny stuffs around the room. He told me his systems not at max potential! Conditioner not here yet.

Ya, full house! I was looking for Dac then well, happened too fast. Haha..What is that? The tweak? Name & URL for reading? If my memory served me right, I saw it at giraffe place.

Audiolab MDAC, ok for me la!

yes, DAC to Cayin.