Supposed to attach it via USB I think but its not provided

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Anyway, just posting an update on the IPTV on PC subject.

When I first noticed that VLAN 500 (internet) had a PPPoE layer but VLAN 600 (IPTV) did not, I assumed the IPTV streams were open for browsing without authentication. I got to work and managed to get it running on my PC.

However, it seems that less than 24 hours after I posted the screenshot of me running Luxe HD on my laptop's Windows Media Center along with some configuration info, TM either by random luck or by monitoring this forum thread decided to scramble the Luxe HD stream. I really don't see the point in this except to force us to use their lame set top box. Other ISPs which provide IPTV also provide their users an m3u playlist with the channel names and UDP multicast addresses so that they may connect to their IPTV service via their PCs. Furthermore, if people wanted to 'pirate' the content they would just use a HDMI capture card if the streams were scrambled.

I'd go into descrambling the streams (basically what the STB does) but it's illegal and would be like trying to tap into paid satellite broadcasts using software emulation. Except in this case it's a fiber optic cable pulled directly into your home so I doubt anyone is going to tap the line in the first place.

Right now, the only streams which are not scrambled are the PIP (picture in picture) streams which use the h264 codec @ 320x240(?) res which is basically like watching a Youtube video in standard def. There's really no point in me posting the media center configuration guide but if you guys are still interested in light channel surfing via your wireless router, the PIP streams are pretty okay to watch and only require VLC player and a single m3u playlist file.

I'm going to attach the playlist file I made which contains all the channel -> multicast address information. All you need to do to use it is to have your laptop network card in DHCP mode (no static IP set, obtain automatically) and plug it into the *red* IPTV port on the back of your TM DIR-615 router. When it gets an IP in the 10.x.x.x range, open up the playlist file in VLC and select the channel you want to watch.

I still think their STB is shit (lack of recording feature, laggy, etc) and by forcing us to use it, it makes their IPTV service shit too. For those of you who have complained about the IPTV picture's poor quality and 'flickering'/'shaking'.. its not due to their stream but rather because of the crap STB itself. I had excellent IPTV image quality when using my PC as a media center (not to mention the ability record and rewind streams). So petition to TM to unencrypt the streams and maybe we can have some better quality IPTV here.



IPTV Playlist : http://www.athena.my/imagehost/hypp_tv.m3u

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Apr 13 2010, 01:42 AM

Eh, thats what you can do with my method. However you must hook up another wireless router to the IPTV port to act as a wireless AP. Like I said before, all devices connected to the IPTV port are put onto the IPTV network.

So if you hook up a wireless router/AP to it, you can then wire your STB to that AP while having your laptop connected to it via wifi card at the same time. Your laptops wifi card will be assigned an IP address in the IPTV subnet and you will be able to just open VLC and stream the channels regardless of what the STB is doing

I've discovered a lot of exploits on their network in the past and reported it to them to fix. A few threads back I mentioned a DoS attack method on their Cyberjaya 5 datacenter routers which I found last year; a bug which let me take down the RHB bank and McDonalds m'sia websites with a single click of a button or perform a MITM attack. It's better I find these bugs and report it to them than leave it open for some *other* malicious users to find and exploit. If they want to kick me off their network just because I find their bugs and report it, they're going to have an insecure network.

Then you know there are three kinds of DRM being employed.. that I know of anyway. The first is this video stream encryption. Its what prevents me from just tapping directly into the video feed. The second is Macrovision. That prevents analog devices such as a VCR from hooking up and recording streams. The third is HDCP or High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection, this prevents 'HD enabled' certified devices from copying video data using the HDMI output. I just want the first to be disabled like it was before so we have the option to use our own STBs.

If you've ever been online, you know that DRM does not work at all and prevents legit consumers from actually getting the most out of their service. I understand the red tape and all with applying for a channel broadcast, but seriously.. look around, literally every TV show out there is available as a SD or 720/1080p HD mkv file out there. If they can't remove this DRM, at least give us the option of having a better STB with DVR features.

Regardless, at the end of the day a determined person with more time on his hands is going to take a logic analyzer to the flash memory chips and break the system open

I think you can use gateway metrics to keep your internet gateway as the default one

But yeah..



Those Unifi people will probably not like that

Everything you're looking for can be found in this thread, start reading from page one

Spent half my day on campus and the rest of it wiring a rs232 over rj45 cable manually (Yost cable) to test out a theory.

I screwed up the tx link on it though.. but..





Om nom nom 8 bit chars, 1 stop bit, no parity @ 9600 baud

The DIR-615 G1 router also has a serial connector on it, gonna get a rs232 -> TTL 3.3v board soon and try to extract the firmware. Looking at dd-wrt forums it seems that it might be possible to run dd-wrt on the Unifi DIR-615 but people are saying VLAN functionality won't work which basically breaks the whole thing for us Unifi users.

What I plan to do is extract the /etc/passwd file out of the flash if possible. There's already a dropbear SSH and telnet daemon running on the router, having SSH access would give that router way more flexibility. Getting DD-WRT to fully support it on the other hand is a different matter. TM has help from the vendor, we don't

No need to source a Cisco RS232-RJ45 connector when you have the 20 minute Yost cable ! Look at that amazing interference shielding and wiring job /s 56k modem DB9 connector from 1997 + cat5 cable from 2010, lack of a multimeter and soldering gun and this is what you get.. lol

But yeah I'm getting some proper hardware soon, can't stand all these macgyver style tools I have to put up with. I'm also pretty sure the user/pass combo is something else but see how that goes la

No need to source, just logged into the Fiberhome earlier. Nothing much there except some network information and diagnostic tools. It boots from network every time and it gets the firmware image from an FTP server on the fiber optic network. Not much use at all unless you have fiber optic based diagnostic tools ( which I don't ). Going to look into the DIR-615 next which should be way more useful hopefully

Read this thread, start about 10-15 pages back. I've already set up a direct connection via the Fiberhome modem without using the DLink. VLAN ID for Internet is 500, IPTV is 600. Your wrt610 with dd-wrt has to have VLAN support (which I heard a lot of gigabit capable dd-wrt routers dont). Establish two VLANs on the WAN interface of your router. Have the router connect the PPPoE via VLAN ID 500. Bridge VLAN ID 600 with a physical port on your router so you can plug the IPTV in.. and you should be good to go.

I don't blame you for not using the stock dir-615 though.. not only does it lack gigabit, it's draft N and has some connection limits imposed on it. Specs are lower than other dir-615's too and it starts dropping connections and slowing down once you hit the 150-200 TCP + UDP connection mark.

Inside the DIR-615 :


8MB flash/32MB RAM for the DIR-615 rev G1 which they provide..

Anyway, I'm ordering a MikroTik RouterBoard 750G/450G which has gigabit + 680mhz atheros processor + 32/256MB RAM + 64/512MB flash and runs RouterOS. Should definitely be capable of handling the 20mbps connection load and costs about RM230/400 depending on the model. No point trying to find a router to install DD-WRT on when I can already get a fully supported RouterOS/OpenWRT embedded system

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Apr 17 2010, 03:23 PM

Okay guys, I've spent the last 2 hours doing this ._.

And I have *very* good news

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Not only can you run Unifi through your DD-WRT router, you can run DD-WRT on the TMnet DIR-615 G1 router. After looking at some FCC documentation, I realized the chipset (CPU, RAM, FLASH) were exactly identical to the D-Link DIR-615 D1. I took the plunge and reflashed the TM router and YEAHHH I spent over an hour getting the DDWRT PPPoE daemon to connect over VLAN ID 500. I know how to do this however I'm still testing the stability and VLAN support.. so no guide yet (I don't want you to screw up your router). If this is going to be used by other Unifi users, IPTV has to work flawlessly with the dd-wrt firmware.

Will continue my testing later

UPDATE @ 2.00AM : This is f**king sweet

UPDATE @ 2.06AM : MRTG graphs, full Linux console, SSHd and telnet support, bandwidth graphs, full control over connection limits, system load and status information.. AHHHH Unifi 20mbps + DD-WRT on TM DIR-615 G1 == *orgasmic*

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Apr 18 2010, 02:06 AM

Haven't started work on IPTV yet. The problem at the moment is that the DD-WRT takes the 4 LAN ports on the DIR-615 and bridges them into an interface called vlan1. The WAN interface is placed on vlan2.. so I set up VLAN tagging on vlan2 and made the PPPoE dialer connect via vlan2.500 (vlan2 interface with VLAN ID 500).

I ran into a boatload of problems at first because the dd-wrt firewall actually filters out PPPoE replies from the Fiberhome modem. I didn't know this till I hooked up a sniffer between the Fiberhome and dd-wrt dir-615g1 and sorted it out.

I have to find a way to separate each individual LAN port so I can bridge vlan2.600 (vlan2 interface with VLAN ID 600) with the physical IPTV port. I believe there's an interface to do this in DD-WRT but on the DIR-615D1/D2 firmware, its hidden. Though I can access it and alter the settings I don't know if its making any real difference.

I'll try it soon and post my findings here. As for now, everything works except for :

1) IPTV port (untested)
2) Internet light is always orange regardless of ppp0 connection status (but is easily fixable with a shell script and some gpio commands)
3) USB Shareport (untested but since there's full shell access to the system might have something I overlooked)

Other than that, everything else is working like a charm. Router has some *very* useful features for people who intend to share their lines or are power users. Advanced QoS, MRTG graphs, connection tracker (easily haxxable using some /proc variables) and everything else you love in dd-wrt. It's also way more responsive than before and gives a ton of wireless options such as using a wider frequency band and WPA2 enterprise encryption.

When I last tested the TM DIR-615 firmware, I didn't know what the hell was going on. I ran 3 torrents on 1 PC and my other PC could not establish any connections at all. Basically hit a connection limit. The web server for the TM DIR-615 firmware was also limited to 15 connections, if you ran the apache benchmark tool on it and set it to 15 threads you basically would DoS the router.

Now I know everything >=) Will keep you guys posted of course

Yeap

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Apr 18 2010, 04:54 AM

Performance wise, the hardware for the dir-615 g1 is pretty standard. 400mhz processor, 32MB RAM and 8MB flash. Only problem here is that it's draft-N and lacks gigabit support. The WNDR3700 has a 680 MHz processor and 64MB of RAM. The WZR-HP-G300NH uses a 380Mhz RAlink/400Mhz Atheros processor which is identical to the one in the dir-615 G1 TM gives.. though it has 64MB of RAM. Right now, when I torrent on the dir-615 G1 with dd-wrt.. I always have around 15MB of free RAM available. System load stays below 0.10..

If you really want some heavy duty performance (say >4 P2P users on your network), I still recommend getting a Mikrotik router. They're cheap and powerful. The RB450G has gigabit support, RouterOS (its like DD-WRT), 680Mhz CPU, 256MB of RAM, 512MB flash and is built to fully support embedded router distributions.

There's really no point in looking for a RM500+ router that has to be hacked in order to support DD-WRT when you can buy one with a fully working router OS on it for rm250-400.

Anyway, enjoying torrents on my dd-wrt TM dir-615 G1 at the moment.. will try to get the IPTV working soon

In what way? In terms of physical connectivity, Unifi's Ethernet over fiber > Streamyx's ATM link performance already.

RB450G and RB750G both have gigabit ports and have the same 680Mhz Atheros processor. However, the RB450G costs nearly 2x more because it has serial, comes with a nicer metal casing and most importantly has 256MB of RAM vs the 32MB of RAM on the RB750G. The RB450G also has 512MB of flash memory while the RB750G has around 64MB I think.

OS wise, Routerboards can use their own RouterOS or OpenWRT. Both of which are as capable as or more capable than DD-WRT, simply because the RouterBOARD was designed to run those operating systems unlike most dd-wrt routers.. which have to be 'hacked' in order to run dd-wrt firmware. Everything on the RouterBOARD works.. such as full VLAN support and PPPoE connectivity which is required for Unifi.

I actually spent a few days searching for a replacement for the TM DIR-615 G1 router till I managed to get DD-WRT to run on it. Among what I discovered were Intel Atom based systems (with only 2 Ethernet ports), Jetway motherboards with Atom chips (4 Gigabit LAN ports but using the Realtek chipset) and this RouterBOARD series. Measuring performance and power consumption to price ratio, the RouterBOARD series is perfect for being a high powered TM DIR-615 Unifi replacement in my opinion.

This is based on all the forums I read up on RouterBOARD, their own website and the given hardware specifications. Though, I'm starting to doubt the need for such a high powered router if you have less than 5 P2P users in your household because dd-wrt on the TM DIR-615 G1 is quite capable of handling heavy network loads. RouterBOARD's would be ideal for corporate Unifi users if they're being forced to use the DIR-615 I think

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Apr 18 2010, 05:02 PM

If there's anything TM hates more than P2P traffic, its boobs

Emergency boot, used brainslayer's latest dir-615 rev d firmware from dd-wrt FTP server. I really do not recommend anyone doing this unless they know what they're doing.. or they will be cut off from Unifi until they figure it out ._. It's also irreversible at the moment because there's no DIR-615 G1 factory firmware out to my knowledge

DIR-615 G1 has no JTAG btw, just a 3.3v TTL connector for serial interface.

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Apr 18 2010, 10:48 PM

Linksys WRT610N?

According to this page : http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Linksys_WRT610N


I doubt its possible then. Technically, you don't need to preserve the VLAN tags when you forward packets. It just needs to be able to read and reply with VLAN tagged packets on the WAN interface (vlan2) only. But if the switch is just passively stripping off VLAN tags (much like what Windows does), nothing will work

It will not work.. but not because the ports on the Fiberhome are locked. The IPTV STB does not understand VLAN tags, the DLINK router does this 'translation' for it by listening on 2 VLAN IDs on its WAN/Internet port. Its configured to be aware of VLAN's 500 and 600. PPPoE connections are pushed through VLAN 500. The last port on the DLINK router (IPTV port) however is bridged with the WAN interface on VLAN ID 600.

You can wire your Dlink router to any port on the Fiberhome modem and it'll work. In fact you can wire any VLAN enabled Linux computer to any port on the Fiberhome modem and have it connect to Unifi for you

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Apr 19 2010, 04:43 AM

I know all this from my own experience

Speedtest.net is not accurate for Unifi speed testing. This has been confirmed by the bandwidth graph on my dd-wrt Unifi router and the one running on my PC. I'm on FTTH VIP20 and it shows 11-15mbps for KL servers but when I download from my own servers, its 20mbps. You definitely are getting the full 10mbps on your line. Unifi over FTTH practically guarantees full speed (taking into account protocol overhead of course).. If the speed on the IPTV link were to be lower by even 512kbps-1mbps, your Luxe HD channel would experience a lot of streaming issues.

About the email login, the email username is your unifi username @ unifi.my. You have to check your Unifi confirmation slip, it has a table with all the details you need.

As for the STB, it looks like mine is locked at 4:3 too but you should know that each channel is streamed at its own aspect ratio. I use my 24" LCD (1920x1200 res) to watch IPTV and it plays the HD and SD channels fine without any aspect ratio problems. I'd be worried if the Luxe HD channel was squeezed into a 4:3 aspect ratio due to this STB setting but it's not.

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Apr 19 2010, 04:14 PM

Lol no I had two very friendly engineers install the Unifi for me.. apparently I was the first in my area near KDU Blitzone there. Prolly that other guy.

Speedtest is not accurate if that 1 connection cannot max out the line Using my own Jaring based servers, 1 thread can get 20mbps using the HTTP and SSH-FTP protocol. Tells me the servers being used to host the speedtest file have some capacity issues. After all, how many Malaysian datacenters offer gigabit ports in Malaysia? 5x 20mbps users and the 10/100mbps uplink will be saturated. It gives people the false impression that they're not getting what they're paying for.. so at least for Unifi, speedtest.net is not accurate to gauge the line capacity.