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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Found a good and cheap hotel in Taipei for family size of 4 to stay.


Reasonable price, cost me NT$3200 per night for 4 pax.
Stayed there for 5 nights.

The hotel website : www.nonganhotel.com.tw 儂安時尚會舘
You may also book the hotel via www.asiarooms.com 

If you are worried about privacy, the hotel actually is separated into 2 sections, low floor rooms and high floor rooms. High floor rooms are for long stay, full service stay.


Their bathroom is European style with a bathtub and shower, no separate bathing area. The design of the hotel is modern and clean.

They include breakfast, western breakfast in the hotel rate, so if you don't want to eat at the hotel, you can ask them to reduce the hotel room rate.

You can walk to the hotel from the nearest ZhongShan Elementary School MRT station (LuZhou line, completed not long, you might not find it on Google map) for about 500m.
Unfortunately, non of the major airport public bus pass by this area, so either you get to Taipei Main Railway station and then change to MRT to get there.

Overall, I find it is convenient to stay at the hotel, nearby there are 7-11, supermarkets and food street. Nice area but it was an ex red light district, it is ex, now it is clean. =D

Problem with Starhub Voice Enabled Cable Modem (Motorola SBV5121)

Yes. I had problem with the modem connecting to my wireless router - DIR-300.
Was using the normal digital modem and then butt itchy, went to subscribe to the fixed phone line service. It is free, so what not right? But I spent alot time trouble-shooting the problem.

I am able to connect to the wireless router but not able to surf internet. The internet connection was fine for the first website pages, read that, pages only, then the connection starts to drop. Got to switch on and off the modem and the router, then managed to surf for few pages, the connection drop again.

At first I thought it is due to the router's firmware, upgraded to version 1.4 from Dlink website. Unfortunately, after upgrading the modem, the connection did not improve at all.

So, I called Starhub few times and finally managed to speak to a more knowledgeable Starhub CSO and he suggested me that he can separate the voice connection and the internet connection using different modem. Ureka! So luckily, I kept my old modem, did not sell to Karang Guni, the CSO asked for MAC address to separate my connection. He was quick and know what is going on and fixed the issue.

So now, I got both modem working, one for voice, one for internet.

Lesson learn, separate them if it doesn't work. I almost wanted to purchase a new wireless router which I am not sure that it will resolve the issue that I had encountered.
But well, if you are lucky and speak to the right party, things will be resolved.

GOOD LUCK.