Got no friends with Unifi yet

It's ultimately up to the upper management. Installers are users too.. they don't want the cap either and no ones really sure about what TM intends to cap it at.

go harvey norman go~

Yes, you can use your old linksys wireless router as a wifi access point for unifi. Just log into the linksys admin page, disable the DHCP server, save the settings + restart. Then connect a cable from your Linksys router LAN port (note LAN, not WAN/Internet) into one of the dir-615 BLUE lan ports (not the yellow WAN or red IPTV).. you can then just connect to it via wifi and you should be able to browse the net using Unifi.

If you cant do a direct connection from DIR-615 <--> Linksys, you can also do a DIR-615 <--> Homeplug <--> Homeplug <--> Linksys. Should work fine as long as you disable the DHCP in the Linksys and your homeplugs can connect to each other. As long as the DHCP server is running, it will always tell whatever devices you connect to it to use the Linksys as the default gateway and not the Unifi router.. hence you not being able to go online.

Another thing to take note of is that the DIR-615 is configured at 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0 by default. If your Linksys is using the same IP (192.168.0.1), make sure you change it to something else like 192.168.0.2 or you'll have an IP conflict between the two routers. Change the IP of the Linksys before you disable the DHCP server if this is the case.

Remember to take note of the Linksys IP and subnet mask cause you'll have to manually set it the next time you want to access its config page (since the DHCP server is disabled).

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Just for the record, my TMnet provided DIR-615 w/dd-wrt just died last night . It got fried during a power fluctuation, I'm using an old laptop with pfSense at the moment and it works great with Unifi. Snort IDS, transparent SQUID caching proxy, 100000 connection state table

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: May 23 2010, 05:59 PM

HTTP is pretty slow today for some reason. KL speedtests showing 500ms+ lat but 10mbps up/down, BT is fine though

USA back to normal already .. getting 15-20mbps. UK is a bit slow though

If it has VLAN tagging support, yeap. But I can't guarantee anything, another LYN-er tried it with a dd-wrt flashed buffalo router and it doesn't seem to be working properly. I'm not sure if he was on VDSL Unifi or Fiberhome though..

Haha, I didn't test it out till today.. I had a spare quad core c2d rig around with 8gb of RAM in it. Hooked up 2 additional NICs (3 in total), tried pfSense on it and the Internet worked fine.. but the IPTV didn't work at all.. I think pfSense blocks multicasts and I'm not too familiar with FreeBSD to fix the problem.

So 'bout an hour ago, I reformatted the system and installed ubuntu server 10.04. System boots in 5-8 seconds and connects the PPPoE link in another 3-5.. brings my home network online from cold boot in <15 seconds. Services and iptables all configured manually from the shell using a script.

Had some issues with the IPTV VLAN <-> physical NIC bridge. If you don't set the IPTV VLAN priority > Internet VLAN priority.. the IPTV stream gets completely screwed up which is funny because I didn't notice any priority bits in my earlier packet captures.

Anyway, everything is working perfectly now. If you ever need a quad core Unifi router with a 1,000,000 connection sized state table + IPTV support.. rest assured you can build one from scratch

Furthermore, I'm just guessing here but I think TM has implemented MAC address filtering for their DHCP server on the IPTV VLAN. Their DHCP server will not acknowledge requests from non-set top box vendors. This means you can't hook up your laptops to view the streams anymore with my playlist unless you spoof the MAC address. Could probably set up a DHCP relay server with a spoofed MAC or something but I really don't care about the IPTV network much anymore.. I'm sick of TM reading what I post here and making changes without even giving any acknowledgment.

Changes that have 0 effect on the quality of their service but discourage power users from straying away from using their crap hardware.. therefore putting those users at a disadvantage.

That's not really bridge mode, its just using the Linksys as a wireless AP/switch. The routing is still performed by the Dlink using TM's DIR-615 firmware and is limited by it. I only recommend this if you're happy with the DIR-615 routing performance (no lockups, a lot of connections per second, etc.) but you're dissatisfied with the wireless access point performance (weak signal). Proper bridge mode involves a direct connection between Fiberhome <--> Linksys with the DIR-615 back in its own box.

Tomato? Are you on Tomato or dd-wrt?

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: May 26 2010, 05:15 PM

@azwan92

I was thinking about that, maybe the next Unifi thread can compile all our info about it on the front page or something. Or I could just put it up on my webserver when I have the time so everyone has access to it easily.

I've also already programmed an easy tool to VLAN tag Windows PPPoE packets so you can connect your PC directly to the Fiberhome if you're ever having issues with you're Unifi (or DIR-615). It lets you check the PPPoE error message code like back with Streamyx.. would like to upload it soon

@76radius

I didn't know you were on VDSL Unifi till you sent me that last PM It shouldn't have any effect on the VLAN tagging however.. looking at the VLAN trunking page it looks like you're only using VLAN 500 and 600 like the DIR-615. No idea why yours is performing that way ><

riz*

Yeap, works on any network card on Windows as long as you install winpcap. Problem is it works at the user level so its very unstable in terms of latency. However, its very useful when your router dies/Unifi has connection problems and you just want to go online or debug the issue with a direct connection using Windows.

I used it a lot on my Win 7 netbook when my DIR-615 got fried and I needed to go online using Unifi. You have to unplug the DIR-615 though, the Fiberhome only allows 1 port to be used at a time.

@76radius

I'm gonna ask for a free replacement tomorrow then

@Moogle

Like I said, you can use an Atom system with 2 NICs to get full functionality.. this would consume around 45watts I guess?

You can wire a single NIC into a layer 2 switch and run the Internet VLAN + your home LAN (192.168.x.x/24) over it.. so 2 NICs is enough for Internet + IPTV access. That's what I'm doing right now..

That being said, you can also look into using a Guruplug server which has 2 Ethernet ports and would also be ideal for Unifi (Internet + IPTV).

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: May 27 2010, 06:46 AM

Eh by layer 2 switch I'm referring to the standard 'dumb' switch you can buy for <RM40 (5 port). Not the expensive one with IP routing/smart switch. Basically the PC you plug into that switch will handle all the Unifi routing and VLAN bridging for you.

I'll post the config diagram up here later when I get home, got a presentation to do in a few minutes >< (in class lol)

@nitewish

FTP with port forwarding is not so straight forward.. read http://homepage.mac.com/car1son/static_por...d_ftp_xtra.html

I've always had issues with FTP servers over NAT-ed connections due to this.

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Regarding my earlier 'dumb' switch + 1 NIC setup :



Each line represents a single Cat5 cable (except the red one).

This is what I'm using at home now. Because the Fiberhome trunks VLAN 500 + 600 together and doesn't use non-VLAN traffic at all, you can combine the VLAN 500 + normal network traffic over the same physical wire. This means you can use 1 NIC alone to support Internet connectivity and 2 NICs will give you Internet + IPTV.

Also.. just visited 76radius and checked out his Unifi setup. You can only use the Cisco RVS4000 as a VLAN <-> Physical port bridge. This means if you have an RVS4000 you can set it up to allow you to use any router with your Unifi regardless of whether it supports VLAN tagging on the WAN port or not. This is pretty wasteful as the RVS4000 is a full fledged IPS + router but due to its inability to support VLAN tagging on the Internet port, it can only be used as a VLAN bridge ... and it costs RM600 locally.

As for the Buffalo Wireless N router (WHR-HP-G300N??) + dd-wrt which he had setup, the iptables FORWARD-ing rules which its dd-wrt firmware uses by default are totally screwed up and will mess with your PPPoE over VLAN-WAN connection. If you're using dd-wrt on this router, you have to run 'iptables -F FORWARD' as a cron job/startup script to get it to work. If you don't do this, it randomly resets TCP connections and drops a lot of packets for some reason. Other than that, its an "okay" budget dd-wrt router replacement for Unifi's DIR-615.

Well, I really shouldn't have said 'layer 2' switch because all switches are layer 2 switches and now you're confused ._.

5 port 10/100mbps switches only cost around RM40+ and its good enough for the job. If you have an old router with 4 LAN ports around the place, you can even use that. Basically you just need a switch, nothing special.


Yesh, that's how it works. The internet traffic from the fiberhome <-> switch <-> router PC is all on VLAN 500 so it doesn't affect any non-VLAN traffic.

And the bug with the Buffalo is probably unique to that particular dd-wrt firmware which is running on it. It's just an iptables issue so you have to set a script to flush the FORWARD-ing table. Not sure about using Tomato, never tried it before Still, the Buffalo doesn't have port based VLAN tagging either which means you can't set up IPTV on it.

May 28, 2010 - I just uncapped Unifi to 100mbps.

Just found a major exploit that lets any 5/10/20mbps user get full 100mbps internet connectivity

I know you TM guys are reading this so here's what I have to say :

I only ran the test for 5 minutes but it confirmed my suspicions. I'm a nice guy so I'm not going to do it again or release it to the public (hell I'm not even going to post a screenshot this time) -- but I'll tell you this, its possible and easy to do. It's only a matter of time before someone else figures it out ..

Haha of course I won't but it makes me wonder why we have to pay so much for 5/10/20mbps when the system allows for 100mbps. I didn't even *want* to uncap my line but when I was reconfiguring my router I just realized that it would work. I'm sure they are at least partially aware of it?

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: May 28 2010, 10:30 PM

Only thing limiting it is the 10/100mbps port on the Fiberhome. Biz packages have the same Fiberhome modem if I'm not mistaken.

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: May 29 2010, 12:49 AM

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1439287 - read it

Anyway, getting back on track. Having my dir-615 replaced then writing a guide on how to get it working with your own hardware It'll be up in a few days I guess