Wow that would be great Wuqi if you can get a repeater to boost the Spore signal which means your area will have access to faster Spore signals costs aside.
Wish i could do that at Setia Tropika.
Please let us know how you achieve success here. That would be great.
How much does a repeater cost?
Hi wuqi, will the Repeater work for my starhub mobile?
Horizon hills it should work i guess as long as can pick up signal and boost the signal strength. (They have built in signal amplifiers right?)
I studied electronics for 2 years during my JC as one of my special subjects.
However have since forgotten everything.
Wished the signals could reach Tropika.... But alas no where in sight....
Just now did something silly on hindsight, there was a young lady, about 14 i think, her boyfriend dumped her by the roadside and she was crying outside a bank. I was waiting outside as just happened they were doing something to the machines inside, so i asked her what happened. Turned out that she was dumped (literally) and her parents were in Tesco. So i volunteered to send her to Tesco since she couldn't reach them.
So i asked her to wait and went in to draw some money and then drove her straight to Tesco. Then went quickly back to finish the makan with my family. Wife was a bit upset as i took so long and when i shared this with them, they chided me for being too helpful as it could have been a trick to rob me, etc.
Still, i just did what i could as she was a young lady and in need of help and she had no RM on her. Just paying forward and in a way back to society.
(I got help lots of times from kind hearted cabbies and lorry driver uncles who drove me when i was lost, got injured, etc) Sometimes, the ordinary man in the street may be much better to you than your own relatives.
I remembered one time i called a senior relative as i had a fall outside my Secondary school(one minute from her HDB) Instead of helping me, she cursed me and asked me to solve my own problem. It was a cabbie (who sent me for free) and my grandpa who came and sent me to the hospital, she didn't even care.
If you could get a signal there, then you definitely can do it. It works for all 3 telcos as long as you can get a signal. The basic cost for one is just about 300 plus and single band and cheaper types from HK, you can get for 100 plus (Pricing in SGD)
If one can get a SG telco signal in JB and one makes call and Data connections, is the charge one of 'local usage' i.e. as if in SG, depending on the plan subscribed, it would be "FREE" or would it charged as International roaming....... as one is in J.B. while connected, though it's through a SG telco signal. Sorry if it sounds a silly question?? I hope Bro Wuqi or one of the other Bros. can enlighten......
Good on you Bro Wuqi, Your family were quite right to worry for you as it could have been not what it seem but a scam!! Fortunately it wasn't. It can be frightening at that age(...14 yrs.) and also being a female at any age to be left alone without means to get help!! In saying that it's a frightenening at any age to be left without any means to get help. My hat off to you Bro.
Just now did something silly on hindsight, there was a young lady, about 14 i think, her boyfriend dumped her by the roadside and she was crying outside a bank. I was waiting outside as just happened they were doing something to the machines inside, so i asked her what happened. Turned out that she was dumped (literally) and her parents were in Tesco. So i volunteered to send her to Tesco since she couldn't reach them.
Previously i used to get the M1 signal at Thistle hotel, at JB City Square and a couple of other places. And i used to make calls. Even in indonesia in Batam, the charges are local call charges (as in singapore local call charges)
Since you are hooking on to your home base operator.... the charges will all be local. If you have a local Data plan (ensure that you have turned off roaming for data). This effectively means that you can only hook on to your home base operator. Therefore charges would be local again.
Ok i need to find Yews Cafe now.
Thanks Wuqi for the tip. Ali Cafe i think i have seen it but was not sure good or not so did not go in.
Thanks for Pearls Cafe as well...
HH, i meant to say that its the strongest in certain areas of my place, it may differ for you and might even be better. I was referring to the new ones like Yellow Horizon. Quite nice but yes its a bit deserted for now.
Thanks bro AP and Grago, yes on reflection did a silly thing but glad it came out alright.
Hi Grago, it will be local in SG, as in its as if you made the call in SG itself. Ordering from overseas as the ones in SG need licensing, etc etc.
Sure, Ali cafe last order is before 12mn as i found out too late previously, the coffee and tea with tongkat ali is pretty nice. Their fried rice is nice too and their nasi lemak even has 3 versions. Sometime back, they served jap style food too.
i think i go back only after mid nite
saw the monstrous snaking jam on camera just now
Just what my husband would do too, and you are both lucky nothing bad happened to you ... VERY sorry to say that, and may it be that soon this would be the only and correct thing to do.Just now did something silly on hindsight, there was a young lady, about 14 i think, her boyfriend dumped her by the roadside and she was crying outside a bank. I was waiting outside as just happened they were doing something to the machines inside, so i asked her what happened. Turned out that she was dumped (literally) and her parents were in Tesco. So i volunteered to send her to Tesco since she couldn't reach them.
So i asked her to wait and went in to draw some money and then drove her straight to Tesco. Then went quickly back to finish the makan with my family. Wife was a bit upset as i took so long and when i shared this with them, they chided me for being too helpful as it could have been a trick to rob me, etc. ...
I checked skycam at tuas sometime in the evening and for the 1st time i saw the malaysia side queue stretched all the way to singapore side and can be seen on camera?!! my goodness that's how many km of traffic jam i hope no one here got caught in it. wonder if i should go on from tuas later or just give up and make camp in sg already... anyone traveling back to SG these few hours from tuas? can update?
Wow, not a bad kopitiam to get late supper and with 'Tongkat ali' ....
There are also ways to divert or forward calls. Can you get any signal at all there at all out of all 3 SG telcos?
Hi mine is under starhub and for my business, i expect calls to come in anytime from singapore. What would u suggest? Cos u mentioned that starhub can only be received at certain part of the house.. that means i cant use it anyway in my house?
My update below..... yes thats how bad it was....
I saw the 3km signboard a while after i was in the jam. Which means i have traversed atleast 3.5 km of the jam.
Sometimes in life you dun have a choice do you? I had to come back today.... Nothing urgent...
Just that i really wanted to come back...
Kudos to my wife for making the 3.5 km only an hour an ten minutes.