I have been following this thread for a while now and I have also done a bit of due diligence work on the Astro/Maxis IPTV settings.

What I believe is happening is that the Astro/IPTV port should be link aggregated. One port with 2 VLANs. Default VLAN (untagged) to the internal IP pool (e.g. 192.168.1.X) and a tagged VLAN (IPTV - 823). The Astro PVR unit is getting the channels listing, etc via the normal VLAN and the contents (actual stream) from the tagged VLAN.

Can ASUS support link aggregation in its original firmware? ASUSWRT can support Link aggregation. If so, can ASUS test and create that profile for the Maxis/Astro IPTV users?

I haven't gotten to get the RT-AC68U as I have no time to experiment with the configurations.

This post has been edited by mercuxio: Feb 9 2014, 04:29 PM

The term I was referring to was vlan trunking not link aggregation. Getting rusty.

Anyhow, I have tested my theory and it does not work. The IPTV VLAN (823) is never to be connected directly the the PVR. That vlan carries the multicast traffic for the channel. The Thompson router dynamically routes the multicast when there's a request from any LAN port for the multicast traffic. This could possibly be achieved with IGMP Proxy or IGMP Snooping. I'll leave that experimentation to the others here.