@5w33

Unifi has some pretty decent international speeds at the moment. Besides streaming data, local 100mbps is bloody useful. People download international content @ 5/10/20mbps and put it up on a local 100mbps content sharing network (p2p, direct dl, whatever).. saves everyone tons of time + bandwidth. You download a torrent and you hit another local peer, your torrent speed will shoot up to 10MB/s+..

Anyway, it's not like we're ever going to see this on the current infrastructure.. 8mbps reserved for IPTV + maybe 1-2mbps for VOIP which leaves less than 90mbps available per Fiberhome port. They'll probably reuse the PON fiber optic cabling and change the hardware in the future to accommodate faster speeds.

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Jun 19 2010, 05:59 PM

If you've wired port 3 of the DIR-615 into your own router's WAN port, no PC connected to your own router will be able to see/ping the DIR-615. In order to access the DIR-615, you'll have to wire your PC directly into LAN port 1 or LAN port 2 of the DIR-615. That's the only way. If you don't want to wire it directly, you can enable the wifi on your DIR-615 so you can connect to it via wireless for configuration purposes

@PrivateJohn

With that pc3-win7, does a direct cat5 cable work? If it does, it's probably an issue with the wireless connection seeing as you can't even ping 192.168.0.1. Check the wireless security settings and make sure you're using the correct wifi key.

EDIT: Sorry, if you can obtain an IP it means DHCP is working fine.. so your security settings are probably correct. No idea though, try out the direct cable.. if that works then disable your wifi security + change the network name and try it on the PC through wireless :3

@Lucas

2x router access passwords (admin and secondary admin).. 5 digit PIN number for the VOIP line (no idea what its for).

Writing a technical guide on how to retrieve the admin/operator/PPPoE password manually from the DIR-615 soon Need to open up the router though, lol

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Jun 23 2010, 08:52 AM

Yes, it's a modded router with VLAN tagging capability. Most home routers do not support this and none of them support multiple VLANs which is required for the IPTV + Internet to be used at the same time.

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Added on June 23, 2010, 11:40 amLol, it seems that every month I discover a new major Unifi router screw up.

23 June 2010 -- major Unifi router exploit #2



This is a source code dump of tools_system.php, the script that allows you to manage your configuration backups in the Unifi DIR-615. Notice how this particular page has a 'require("/www/model/__admin_check.php");' as an authentication measure but the command that activates the backup download doesn't? In other words, anyone can just access http://your.unifi.router.ip/config.bin from the LAN or http://your.unifi.router.ip:8080/config.bin from the WAN (if you have remote management enabled) and download your entire settings file. After that, your config.bin can be applied on his own router and your PPPoE user/pass combination along with the admin/operator account password combination can be extracted from it directly. This is more of a dLink firmware programming fail but it's really TM's fault for putting so much trust in them that a simple user/pass combination will protect your router from hackers.

Yeah, I honestly wish TM the best of luck trying to implement their download quota. This is what happens when you force everyone to use a stupid closed router platform and assume its secure simply because some company made it for you.

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Jun 23 2010, 12:02 PM

It's not easy. And you need a very specific router for this.. a commercial home router will not work in most cases.

RouterBOARD routers (not easy to configure) or routers with dd-wrt firmware support (though you'll only be able to configure Internet access, IPTV most likely will not work for you). You can also look into pfSense or Endian based hardware appliances though even they don't fully support the IPTV. Reason its so difficult is because TM has special software in their DIR-615 just for the IPTV. If you only want Internet access, then it's not too bad.

The Internet and IPTV connection must be made through those special VLAN IDs. The DIR-615 hardware is *reusable* as a VLAN bridge so I wrote a guide on how to do that. It's the most cost effective method as everyone is given the DIR-615 for free.

You have to buy special hardware for this. Either a smart switch, a pure linux router (think desktop PC running a linux OS with 3 network cards) or a dd-wrt based router with port + tag based VLAN support (which is hard to find). Why do you want the DIR-615 out of your network so badly anyway? When you put it in VLAN bridge mode, its operating at the Ethernet level and can't even see your Internet traffic anymore. It's very hard to write a generic guide for hardware out there.. there's about a 100 ways to achieve what you want and the DIR-615 can already do it

Yeap, should be like that if your IP cameras need POE.

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Jun 23 2010, 09:12 PM

There's two attack vectors for a DDOS but all involve multiple PCs (hence the 'distributed'). You can choose to make multiple requests (which will fill up a target's connection buffer causing it to refuse new connections) or you can saturate the target's bandwidth.. or both. A single PC can also 'DDOS' a target if it has sufficient bandwidth (with the option to re-route traffic through multiple hosts to hide his identity or not bother at all).. but in this day and age most people just use botnets for this purpose since its the most effective method.

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Anyway, DC++ hub anyone? D: lol

File sharing network LYN used to have one but I think it failed cause of Streamyx upload speeds ._.

http://forum.lowyat.net/LYNDirectConnectHub

There's even a forum section for it.. I believe it was being hosted on a Streamyx line with a no-ip DNS service before this. If enough Unifi (and maybe even Streamyx) users are interested in it perhaps we could reboot the project? I don't know who's in charge of it though.

Could get a Europe/US based VPS and set up the DC++ hub daemon on it, limit the connections to Streamyx, Jaring and Unifi based users only or something

I was actually running some speed tests between my 20mbps line and Moogle's 10mbps line, seems to max out at 500-700KB/s for some reason using FTP and HTTP. No idea what the performance will be like on DC++ but Unifi -> Streamyx would likely saturate their bandwidth on a single thread Lol

Well, there are already some people on Unifibiz I don't know, Streamyx users won't have to rage about slow speeds if they can pick up their TV shows locally from Unifi users.. and TM won't get to talk about us sucking up their international bandwidth either :3

Any Streamyx users subbed to moogle's anime server?

Lol, 4 hours ago.. someone who claims they're from TM gives me a call, states my full name and asks me if I'm a Unifi subscriber. I say yeah and then they inform me that they want to replace my 'remote'. I'm like okay ..

2 hours later, some random guy (in plain clothes and a non TM vehicle) shows up at my doorstep with a brand new IPTV set top box remote control and hands it to me.. then asks me to pass him my old remote control or he can't give me the new one. Since I have no idea what the heck is going on and can't be bothered about IPTV, I just pass him the remote and he hands me a brand new, identical IPTV set top box remote control and asks me to sign a form confirming that he's delivered it to me.

So I'm just in a 'what the **** just happened' state at the moment :/ Called Unifi tech support and they have no idea about this either. Yay for random IPTV STB remote control deliveries. I wonder if they're going to give me a second Fiberhome unit next :3

UPDATE : Oooh, it seems like some of the buttons on the previous IPTV remote are defective. Guess some of you guys will be getting a call from TM soon

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Jun 24 2010, 06:16 PM

So I switched back from my pfSense router to the DIR-615 again after about a month, just to see if there's any performance difference. Right now, it's pretty bloody noticeable that the DIR-615 is dropping connections (on wired LAN with wireless AP turned off). Running 1k to 3k connections on my torrent box and the router gets me kicked off online games every 5-10 minutes or so. However when I'm not even torrenting, everything is fine :3 . Terrible router IMO

Lul, anybody wanna buy some bandwidth reload cards from me?

I have to see how they implement the cap. It's likely going to be at the PPPoE level (account level) since they wouldn't want to take in account IPTV or VOIP traffic.. you can easily bypass this but at the expense of others.

Uncapping has always been easy on Unifi and its still possible today.. but I'm not going to write a guide on this or tell anyone how to do it (even secretly) because its highly illegal. Even I don't use it myself because hell, it's pretty easy to spot a traffic spike from 5/10/20mbps to 100mbps+ on the ISP side. If you want to be banned from all TM services for the rest of your life I'm sure you'd be dumb enough to do this ._.

Hopefully, the cap won't be applied for traffic between Unifi users.. that way at least we can still share files with each other at full 5/10/20mbps without it adding to our total.

Its normal on this router.. wifi connection drops and even breaks VPN connections. Even when you use the wired connection, when the router goes under heavy load it either locks up or starts dropping all your connections. The only way to really fix this problem is to swap the DIR-615 out with another proper router.

Lol trust me, its easier than uncapping cable modems. No TFTP required, no additional hardware.. just a Linux OS and 1 minute of your time

Anyway, TM's also starting to charge for most of the IPTV channels or something right? No wonder they were so persistent in locking users out of using their own hardware.

Cuz MX sekritly works for TM !

@MX

If you can, please ask them about the cap.. 60/90/120 is way too low for the price we're paying. We need to know when they plan to implement it, what happens after we hit the cap and if Unifi-to-Unifi bandwidth counts against it. It wont be so bad if traffic between Unifi users isn't counted.. at least we can set up our own Unifi support + file sharing community which should only utilize their local switching capacity. It's pretty lame if they can afford to stream unlimited IPTV @ 8mbps 24/7 but include Unifi-to-Unifi traffic in the Internet quota measurement.

Also, tell them to secure the network properly lah.. I don't want to pay RM250/mth for 20mbps just so some other guy on 5mbps can uncap his line to 100mbps and pay RM149 for it. What's the point in implementing data and speed caps when anyone can just get past it ._.

@Guardioo

TM isn't as advanced as Singapore.. the SG issue is because of the way the protocol functions. This however.. is uncap-able because of a configuration problem on TM's side.

I'm sure you could get away with it if you uncap a 5mbps account to 20mbps (and not higher).. it would take them some time to realize but definitely not 1 hour. It's pretty stupid to want to implement such a low cap when the whole network is pretty much insecure at the moment.

Unlikely to happen, people would bypass the cap by re-routing traffic through local datacenter servers. I'm sure they could implement unmetered traffic within the Unifi network alone though.

Haha yeah.. experienced that before. Still, you can purchase packages with a monthly quota rather than by xx mbps (offered only by resellers of course).

If only international traffic is capped I should get to work on that Unifi dc++ hub soon I'm kinda busy IRL at the moment, see how things go and what MX510 has to tell us after the TM event thingy

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Jul 1 2010, 07:23 PM

But as usual.. they don't know the cause. It's the 20/40Mhz wifi bandwidth setting if I'm not mistaken :3 Had this issue on my dd-wrt flashed dir-615.. anybody here have it on stock tm dir-615 firmware?

@sg999

Terrible cap limit, I'm sure when it finally gets implemented the Unifi hotline is going to be down for a while.

But I guess they've confirmed its for international traffic only? In that case its not too terrible.. we can still help each other out.