 What's up internet? So I've been talking a lot about routers lately. Yung Google Wi-Fi na mukhang cute pero demonyo pala siya. Yung Asus router which I really love, the Asus lent it to us, to sobrang gada ng performance nun. Yung Ubiquiti Dream Machine which I recently got for myself pero pinaglalarwan ko pa sa wala pang review. Pero yung isang router na di ka pa napagusapan is yung Libreng router. Yung kasama dun sa ISP connection mo. Tapos okay na ba to? Kailangan pa ba palitan yun kasi sayang naman Libre na nandun na siya, di ba? So we're gonna take a look at the performance of the ISP router. Pero bago nun kung hindi pa-activated yung Windows mo, baka gusto mo palitan yun using our sponsor. Ang video na to ay handog niscdkoffers.com. Maram kang mahanap na ibat-ibang uri ng software dito. May games, apps, activation codes for Windows 10. Check out our video on CDK offers in the video description. Mabilis, mura, and, of course, legit dito. 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But you can get a third-party router to handle the networking chores dun sa bahay mo, dun sa business mo, and yung ISP router mo parang modem nalang talaga yun. Pero, kailangan ba talaga yung third-party router na yan? Yung ISP router ko is from Huawei. Ito yung default ni Converge para sa mga fiber plans nila. Ito yung model number, but how was my Huawei router? Simula tayo sa Wi-Fi coverage. Actually, yung interesting dito, pareho lang yung coverage dun sa mga third-party routers na subukan ko. Yung mga sulok ng bahay ko na may Wi-Fi dun sa third-party router, may Wi-Fi parin dun using the Huawei router. Kaya ba lang, is mas mahi na yung signal. So the coverage is the same, but what's different is the strength of the Wi-Fi. Kung baga, kung na sa isang bedroom ako, dun sa third-party router may Wi-Fi, dito sa Huawei router, may Wi-Fi din naman, pero mas mahi na yung signal. Actually, I was super surprised to learn that na medyo pareas lang tayo yung coverage, kasi yung ibang third-party routers andami nilang binabangit na specs. Apat na antenna, ganito gan yan. One central antenna, three external and things like that. Itong Huawei na to, mas maliit kaysa sa third-party routers. Itong Huawei router na to, doesn't look like much. Medyo maliit siya, yung antenas niya, hindi kasing impressive dun sa ibang routers na nakita ko. But actually, the coverage is the same. Mas mahi na lang nga siya yung strength ng Wi-Fi compared dun sa iba. After Wi-Fi, let's cut to the chase. Of course, everybody wants to know, kamusta yung gaming performance. And actually dito, medyo bagsak talaga si ISP router. I tried Star Wars quadrons and while running squadrons, I tried to download a file. At the same time, while downloading a file, I tried to log on to EA. You need to log on to EA bago ka makapasok sa multiplayer ng squadrons. Hindi talaga kaya. For some reason, parang maxed out na yung bandwidth or maxed out na yung connection ni ISP router. Error message yung error message yung EA. Pero after a few minutes of trying, ayaw talaga pinos ko muna yung download, pinatay ko yung download, di nabukang ko pumasok sa EA, no problem, nakapasok ako. So that really goes to show na hindi niya kaya yung full download, kahit yung paglog on dun sa server, parang naiyirapan yung router. This was never a problem with any of the third-party routers that I tried. Kaya niya yun na kung baka multiple internet requests, like a download, at the same time, logging on to a game service, yun kaya yun ng mga third-party routers. Tapos, nung nakalaroon ako ng squadrons sa multiplayer, made discernible, lag time talaga siya siya. You're familiar with the game. You pilot a star fighter. Medyo FPS type siya na kailangan magaday yung connection mo kasi magre-react ka to the things on screen. Hindi siya turn-based. Again, I never experienced any lag issues with my third-party routers, but with my Huawei router, and I know I'm not the best star fighter pilot in the world, pero usually naman kaya ko iwasan yung mga asteroids. Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to one. Never tell me the odds. Pero dun sa Huawei, wala olats. Bangga ako ng bagga. I'd smash my star fighter into any debris coming my way. So definitely a slowdown for the Huawei router on gaming. Next, the important for me is your Netflix, kung sa yung streaming, because basically, that's what you want from the internet. Downloading, games pat yung streaming. Yung Netflix was a little choppy. Medyo matagal yung load time, tapos pagload niya, hindi pa siya yung high-res, lower-res yung nalood ng video, but after mga 5 minutes na nunod ka, mag-smooth out na yan, tatalo na siya dun sa higher higher-resolution video version. So sa simula, medyo mabagal, tapos low-res, but eventually the problem smooth out if you keep playing the video after 3 to 5 minutes. This was actually better than my bulok na Google Wi-Fi, pero malayo siya dun sa Asus router. Yung Asus router sobrang responsive. Pag-on mo yung Netflix, mag-load siya ka agad, tapos yung initial load palang high-res na yung video. So not too bad, actually I was a bit surprised with the Huawei na, not too bad naman. Yung nga, tas mas magad na yung performance niya, kaysa sa dun sa Google Wi-Fi ko, na if you watch my review, medyo nakakaproblema na talaga siya. For number of devices, I tried to stress out the Huawei router by connecting multiple phones, multiple laptops, multiple TVs, streaming Netflix, and different devices. In fairness dun sa Huawei router, parang di siya na, di siya na lito. So all of the devices had decent internet connections, like if you were just streaming, if you were just surfing the internet normally, parang di naman siya na lito na andaming information requests and things like that. So again, that was a plus side to the Huawei router. And I was a bit surprised that it actually did that well, considering the number of devices that I had logged on to it. And that brings us to normal things like normal internet surfing, normal YouTube watching, normal email and things like that, chat, Facebook. Actually, okay si Huawei router for those things. I didn't experience any slowdowns. I didn't think that parang discernable yung performance difference dun sa mga masmahal na third-party routers. And so the Huawei router did a decent job of giving me an average internet experience for surfing, for Facebook, for things like that. Torrent downloads, though, were noticeably slower on the Huawei router. I wouldn't consider this normal internet streaming because yung torrent protocol, it really tries to grab data from different places, from different cedars and that's what allows it to be much faster than a single server download. Kong baga na tatad talaga yung data connection mo if you're using torrent because you're trying to draw it from different places. And it was noticeable in the Huawei that torrent downloads were slower compared to my downloads on third-party routers. Mas mabagal din yung mga file transfers ko through Wi-Fi. If you watched our 40k sub-video, I talk about that I use FIM a lot. FIM is an app which allows you to transfer files wirelessly through Wi-Fi. And so ito mga video files na ito, medyo malalaki and I have a lot of video files kasi I make a lot of mistakes. You don't see them in the edited YouTube version. But I keep going, eh, or I keep eh, whatever, you know. Andaming nangyari na andaming mga files na I transfer, I watch and I delete. Dun sa Huawei router, halatatala ganang ang bagal ng FIM Wi-Fi transfers. Very noticeable yung difference in speed dun sa Wi-Fi transfers. File transfers over Wi-Fi dun sa Huawei router tsaka yung mga third-party routers. And if you deal with a lot of large files, then that's really something to consider. Even for a non-tech user yung missis ko, nasan ay rin siya using FIM to transfer files. And she doesn't usually care about the speed and things like that. Pero itong lumipat ako sa Huawei router na pansin niya kaagad ang bagal ng FIM. If a non-technical user notices the speed difference, then sobrang talagang glaring na yun, talagang halatang halatan na yun. So bottom line, kamusta ba yung Huawei router? Yung ISP router, yung Libraeng router na bagay ni Converge? To be honest, it's not bad. It's better than I thought it would be. And in certain use cases, like na sa apartment ka lang, you don't really game a lot na FPS or flight sim. You don't mind, kasi yung Netflix naman para nagload naman siya after three, five minutes, nag-smooth out naman yung video tapos nag-high-risk na siya. If you don't mind those little inconveniences, then actually, okay naman yung ISP router. Of course, not all ISP routers are the same. Yun nga, yung sa akin Huawei na galing sa Converge, some might be better, some might be worse, but in general, siguro, pare-pareho lang linalaroon naman yun, pare-pareho lang naman libre yun. And so, like a Converge offer the more expensive router than PLDT, over time, malalugi sila or same globe. Let's say, mas mahal yung router ng globe, mas mahal yung performance, kaisa sa Converge, pero kung mas mahal yung performance, malamang, mas malaki yung bayad, di na sila competitive sa market. So just based on the kind of quality that they can, that all of the ISPs can give for free, I think that's about the same. I mean, there's sort of a baseline level quality there. And for limited use cases na, yung ah, you're living in an apartment, you're okay with gameplay that's a bit slower, Netflix which is a little slower, okay naman siya. Actually, even if you have multiple people in the apartment using the internet connection, it will still be okay. But for me, I don't fall under that use case. I do need to be sure na kung magigaming ako, mabilis. Or let's na ngayong reflexes ko, matanan ako, plus may lag time pa. Wala na, wala na na sa gawang mapapatay, diba. Netflix also, I like it na when you turn it on right away, sobrang belis ng pagload, high-risk ka agad. On theme, when I file transfer, I don't want to be waiting and waiting because that's dead time. That's time I can be better doing other things. So I would not use the Huawei ISP router for myself. Yung yan na, wheelie ako sa Ubiquiti Dream Machine, watch out for the review. But for certain people, it will be good enough. You don't necessarily need to run out and get an expensive third-party router. Thanks for watching.