No V7?

The RVS4000 supports VLAN management and PPPoE but it doesn't support PPPoE over VLAN AFAIK. It can only be used as a switch for Unifi, much like the RB250GS or the Procurve.

dd-wrt will work with pppoe over vlan but IPTV support is a hit or miss. I've heard some people managed to get iptv + pppoe over vlans working on the same dd-wrt router (linksys) but you have to find that particular unit which is outdated by todays standards (200mhz proc + 8mb ram).

I don't think you need to hook up a 5 port switch the Huawei BTU if you want to attach two vlan-aware routers to it. This is only needed for the Fiberhome BTU as it has port locking. You can do this of course but you're still relying on the DIR-615 for IPTV. Using a separate unit for bridging allows you to ditch the DIR-615 completely so it's up to you really If you're happy with the DIR-615, you can just use the bridge mode guide anyway.

With the Fiberhome, this is a problem for some people as they have to keep 4 devices powered on. The challenge here was looking for a device which could easily replace the DIR-615 on any BTU model while using 3 devices at most.

Uh I'm not sure what you mean Could you rephrase that please?

The disconnection with duplicate user/pass logins was added as a security feature during one of their upgrades a few months back. If someone else is using your user/pass, you will experience disconnections but I doubt this is your problem. If you suspect that this is the case however, you should ask them to change your PPPoE password for you.

It could be that someone has broken into the DIR-615 and extracted certain details from the unit to perform a duplicate logon (which is very easy to do). A lot of stupid things have been happening on the Unifi network these past two weeks so I wouldn't rule it out completely.

This post has been edited by rizvanrp: Sep 13 2010, 02:54 AM

Should be ok, just download the original TM DIR-615 factory firmware 7.05 from my site before you start.

A bit of both.. they utilize the MAC address of the unit for some security features and I remember it used to cause a lot of problems back in early April during my install.

I'm not too sure about that. The main IPTV streams themselves don't require any authentication but if I recall the RTSP streams for VOD and the content selection menus always send out the device MAC address + username + pass. If TM is enforcing a strict policy, you will not be able to dual login with two STBs. Even if they've kept it open however, it would be very easy for them to block.

As suggested by others, you should try it for yourself but I'm pretty sure they would have/will eventually lock it down as it would allow for users to share accounts.

@akerue

Eh, forgot to mention that running two STBs means you'll only be able to watch 1 HD channel or 2 SD channels at a time due to bandwidth limitations.

@akerue

I did the testing on my Fiberhome with the RB250GS before recommending it. I was torrenting at 2.5MB/s while streaming HD and VOD content on the IPTV STB without any jerking. It was actually smoother than using the DIR-615 when switching between channels. The RB250GS is perfectly capable of handling 1mbps/8mbps IPTV streams

Are you using the DIR-615 router w/ TM firmware?
Your custom router (WRT45G) will be connected through the WAN port and the DIR-615 will not be 'aware' of it or the internet connection in this configuration. If you keep the wifi on, you will only be able to access its web UI config page @ 192.168.1.1 without any internet access.

If you're behind NAT you're already considered pretty safe. Just block traffic from the WAN side for any services on your router (web UI, ssh, etc.) along with RFC1918 (private subnet) source IP traffic from the Internet. Normally for Linux firewall setups I go with a whitelisting setup rather than blacklisting. Allowing related + established TCP and UDP connections along with ICMP echo replies, everything else is blocked.

It's possible, FTTH should be able to scale up to 90-100mbps with a few accounts over a single line. One of the early methods to uncapping Unifi was to bond multiple PPP interfaces using the same account.. which is how I used to get 100mbps That's patched now but you should be able to use a single Linux router box + multiple accounts + load balancing to achieve what you want. You'll only see the effects on P2P applications such as BT though.

Eventually? I replaced my DIR-615 around May and they gave me a refurbished set (with previous Unifi user's pppoe login/pass intact)

7.05B? Screenshot please?

It seems that TM has finally upgraded their router to the DIR-615 G2 rev + 7.05B firmware then.. something that I have no experience with at the moment. If you want me to grab the operator account/peek around it for you, I'd need a physical unit to experiment around with.

UGPM

I have all the hardware to do that.. but sadly I don't have a G2 router to play with :3 The FCC documents for the G2 rev are not out yet on their site AFAIK so no internal shots yet.

60-64ms

FYI I'm on FTTH with wired LAN.

Are there are any differences between the features on the 7.05b firmware vs the 7.05 (when you're in the operator account)?