What method did you guys go with in the end? If you're using the BTU to handle the PPPoE, the load for NAT and connection tracking is placed on it as well as the router you plug into it. The echolife uses its switch ports as a VLAN trunk for the DIR-615 to connect to. Basically, you probably might be able to wire a custom dd-wrt router into port 1 for PPPoE and wire the DIR-615 (stock firmware) into port 2 for IPTV. However, since you're using two devices here for each VLAN.. your IPTV may take a performance hit because it no longer has traffic priority. It's also not possible to do this setup on the older Fiberhome BTUs :3

What mode is the WAN connection on your WHR-G300N set to anyway, PPPoE, dynamic IP or static IP? It would be pretty awesome if its in PPPoE mode over the standard WAN interface without tagging because that would mean pr0di9y found a way to get the BTU to work in bridge mode

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Aug 16 2010, 10:12 AM

You could try and disable the WAN-PPPoE setup + layer3 port (basically revert back to stock settings), then plug your dd-wrt router with VLAN tagging enabled into port1 and your dir-615 into port2 for IPTV and see if they both can run at the same time. This isn't possible on the Fiberhome because its configured to only allow 1 device per port at a time but the Huawei may be different.

Btw, I'm curious.. this is one of the setups I assumed was possible when I was fiddling with pr0d's Huawei but never tried out. It seems that you're behind double NAT now? Basically you have 1 public IP at the BTU and your PC now sits 2 private networks away from that. Does port forwarding on the dd-wrt work at all?

@klseet

Not possible from what I saw. You may be able to pull it off by telnet-ing into the unit, accessing priv exec mode and going into the Linux shell (yea, huawei is linux based despite the initial IOS-like interface you see ) but I don't think you can save the settings permanently. It doesn't support bridge mode in its web UI

Anyway, that's very good news for Huawei BTU owners. Fiberhome BTUs lock the switch ports to 1 device at a time so this is pretty much impossible for us early adopters

If you have a spare wifi router lying around, use it as a wifi access point by disabling its DHCP server and wiring a LAN cable from it to the DIR-615. Unifi stock router has very weak wifi signal coverage.

http://unifi.athena.my/index.php?option=co...id=53&Itemid=65

There is a guide for that (dd-wrt), just apply it to a Buffalo DD-WRT flashed router or something

It's both. If you look at Unifi, you have VDSL and FTTH. The VDSL has higher latency (by about 30-40ms) because it's been configured on interleave mode at the multiplexer. Both users get the same IP and traffic prioritization at TM but due to the difference in technology being used to deliver the service, one has higher latency.

Then there's also IP traffic prioritization which is fairly obvious if you've been on the Unifi IP range vs 4mbps IP range vs standard streamyx.

Nope :3

Jeen has torrentflux now? =x

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Aug 18 2010, 08:46 AM

It looks like you logged into the web UI using the 'admin' username. Did you use the 'operator' username to log into the thing? If you did, you're somehow being given the 'admin' level access to the web UI and not operator.

Told you guys the RB250GS would work

@klgoh99

Hows the performance btw?

Doesn't the DIR-825 have a 680Mhz proc compared to the 400Mhz Atheros on the WZR-HP-G300NH? :3

WZR-HP-G300NH - Atheros AR9132@400Mhz / 64MB RAM
DIR-825 - Atheros AR7161r2@680Mhz / 64MB RAM

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices
http://wiki.freebsd.org/AtherosMIPS

Maybe the AR9132 is a better router platform tho ;o

EDIT : My VOIP is down too, there's a dialing tone but can't call out. Unreliable >_>

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Aug 20 2010, 07:00 AM

It depends on how many features you want with dd-wrt. 4MB is already enough for the dd-wrt build with a pptp server + ssh daemon + other features. In terms of router performance, CPU speed + RAM make a difference. Flash memory doesn't do anything except hold the firmware :3

Anyway, good news guys

klseet dropped by my house today and passed me two Mikrotik RB250GS's for testing.. and I have to say, I'm impressed with it



I managed to get things up and running in about 15 minutes using that configuration however I'm still testing everything to ensure it gives the best performance. Based on what I'm seeing in my Wireshark dumps from my linux box, the VLAN tagging/stripping is working as it should so I'm pretty sure this can permanently replace the DIR-615 for about 55SGD

Some configuration settings work however it causes duplicate packets and doesn't correctly filter the ARP packet flood which is spewing out of the Unifi IPTV network so I'm testing every possible configuration through Wireshark before I write up a proper guide for this (give me <24 hours ).

I'm posting here through my Windows PPPoE dialer. My PC is directly hooked up to the RB250GS at the moment. Excellent performance and stability so far Gonna go dig up my IPTV STB from the hole I buried it in to see if it works.

Update :

RB250GS is an excellent replacement for the DIR-615. Torrenting at 2.5MB/s while streaming Luxe HD + VOD movies.. absolutely no video stream stutter Gonna go write a guide now.

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/SwOS#VLAN_Tab

Is it that much of a difference between enable/strict :S? It's only going to be fed packets tagged with ID 500/600 since that's how the BTU is configured :3 I'll note in my guide that they can opt to switch the ports but 1 (BTU), 2 (IPTV), 3 (PPPoE) with 4/5 free for port mirroring, diagnosis, etc. seems more logical to me than to follow TMs style lol

TM's billing is always 'meh' at most. Anyway, try the user/pass combos on this site .

Should be possible.. Don't know what kind of performance you would get though.

Yeap :3

I felt that with the IPTV too but I assumed it was just due to a firmware upgrade or something (since I haven't turned the STB on for a few months =x).

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You know you want to place a bulk order for it

Now we just need to find a replacement GPON unit and we're all set :3

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Aug 23 2010, 10:15 PM

There's really not much difference in wiring up your VLAN capable router to the BTU directly with IPTV through the RB250. The only thing I fear is that because the IPTV needs slightly higher data priority, if you use two diff ports on the BTU your video stream might be affected.. but that's about it really.

billytong : I tested that setup with UT running at 2.5MB/s while streaming HD IPTV + VOD streams.. everything was really smooth