Broadband/Cable Internet

Taiwan Living in Taiwan
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Hi All - just moved to Taiwan (and Taipei) and about to sign a housing contract.

searched the forum and seems like last discussion on this was a decade ago !
so i’m not talking about using SIM card, but proper broadband internet as i’m going to be working from home at least half the time and will regularly have google meet meetings + download/upload heavy files (max 1gb).

Any recommendations on which service provider is most reliable ?

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Ask your neighbors what they’re using. In a newer community style building there may be a preferred provider who gives a special rate or even is the only provider.

Personally I would never use CHT again unless there was absolutely no choice whatsoever as in my experience their reliability, service and equipment is horrendously bad. Other’s may have different opinions.

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thanks !
didn’t think about asking the neighbours, wasn’t sure if they would find it weird.

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Some streets only have one provider, my street is Chungwa, that’s only ok but only one I can use.
Zhongshan Taipei city.

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Taiwan Mobile.

Unlimited 120 mbps cable
Unlimited 4G

$999/m.

Foreigner friendly. No guarantor. No passport.

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I’ve never had any problem with Chunghwa Telecom. Hinet is solid and reasonably priced.

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oh wow… didn’t know some streets will be monopolized by a provider (maybe also because other providers doesn’t want to bother investing ?)

This is SIM based isn’t it. I’m looking for non SIM based

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You probably have a choice in buildings, only the building management will try to convince people to use one that gives them - management- incentives.

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Nope. I specifically said cable

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i see. Thanks for the insight. I’ll make sure i check carefully

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Oh i see.
so this is a packaged cost that includes cable & mobile ?
the mention of 4G threw me off earlier.

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Yea. It comes with both. Great combo deal!

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Is there any way to check which broadband providers are available for a specific address? (that’s how it works in Germany) And then just book online?

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Most broadband providers have an address check, I think. How do you know what broadband providers are available? That I do not know.

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Well, I would have tried with the two big ones (Hi-Net/Chunghwa and Taiwan Mobile).

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Does this package still exists?
Does Chungwha also has a combo package like this?

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  1. Yes
  2. No
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I have a similar package from TW Mobile except got their 1599 package

The 1599 package has:

  • 1 Gbps cable internet (not asymmetrical, about 128 up). You get free dedicated IP addresses if you want to run home servers.
  • Unlimited 5G + hotspot (this one is important for me since I travel and hotspot to work. I sometimes use 200GB a month in hotspot data and never notice throttling. I use my own hotspot rather hotel/public WiFi since it’s safer)
  • home cable tv (I never use it)

You have to sign a 2 year contract

By the way 11/11 and other big shopping holidays are a good time to sign up for new contracts since they have lots of deals

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Would you say TW Mobile home internet is very stable? I am mostly working with websites and servers from the EU, so the high ping is always troublesome. Currently I have only experience with Chunghwa for home internet.

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Yes it’s generally very stable

Sometimes it goes down for a few mins at midnight, maybe they are doing maintenance. I switch to 5G hotspot when that happens.

I believe Chunghua cable should be better since they own their own cable lines? They can give asymmetric download/upload speeds. If I wanted to get my same package with Chunghua mobile it would cost 3k+ a month.