hi riz, i'm noob (1st posting) interested in unifi signup, been reading past posts to catch up.

moogle (hi!) asked abt your earlier smart switch suggestion, wouldn;t that be cleaner in case the 2ndary (and unofficial) acct gets bumped for whatever reason since vlan tagging is the only (?) issue here ? yes addit $$ needed for switch but don;t need to touch dlink/backdoor for most ordinary users like me

fiberhome-> smart sw -> generic router -> sw (or another smart sw ?)

unless i am missing something u covered in a post earlier then ok my bad (pls enlighten ?). or too simplistic... ? tks

hey moogle, i'm learning too - actually thanks to you, riz and everyone here i;ve managed to learn a bit more about unifi, vlans, networking.. and i really appreciate everyone;s comments and hope to contribute back to the forum.

yes i was following riz's thread on gs105e (can u get it locally?). it seemed ok but maybe i don;t know enuf that's why i asked to see if he or anyone had tested it. thot it was a great idea if it can separate the streams cos my tinkering with the router shouldn;t accidentally kill the iptv if anyone is watching it at home (that's assuming a separate stream goes from switch to STB directly and another stream to the router, no?). basic router changes i can probably get by trial and error but configuring router os, daemons and double nat... etc are seriously out of my league

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Added on June 2, 2010, 12:51 pmguardioo, oh thanks for that good to know, i have an older dlink 625 router currently with no vlan capability with streamyx that;s why i was hoping for something/switch to manage the vlan tags for me so that i can reuse it.

i assume then that the set top box connects to the router directly, yes ?

This post has been edited by jx13: Jun 2 2010, 12:51 PM

hi rizvanrp,

first of all thanks very much for your guide, i managed to configure a vlan bridge following your instructions, it works very well and started using my own router di624. the iptv side also works fine, tested my link using unifi;s speed test and also one below, it seems to be consistent.



can you advise me with a problem i seem to be having, my current config:

fiberhome -> dir615 -> myrouter -> notebook. (this works well and is how i used to test my link above)


previously on my streamyx i had been using a switch dlink dgs1008d (@moogle i think you hv same switch ?) with no problems for about a month but when i connect it as follows to share connection

fiberhome -> dir615 -> myrouter624 -> SW/1008D -> notebook

the unifi speedtest stops and hangs when testing of upload, download works fine. and also speed of link degrades significantly. any idea or suggestions on why this might be ? my di624 is an older router no gigabit but i've used it previously with the 1008 switch no problems before ? just puzzled seems to only happen the minute i plug the switch in. dead switch ?


many thanks in adv
jx13