1. Not that I had noticed. I actually ran speedtests to local and US reference sites when the installation was complete and TM contractors were there with me.

2. My guess is a combination of DIR-615 having weak signals and walls, furniture etc may have different effects on signals. Also too many wifi networks in most urban homes nowadays and the fact the 2.4Ghz spectrum supports only 3 bands. Anything more is going to have some interference big or small. Some vendors 802.1n routers uses dual channels ie. 2 bands which makes it even more congested. Your other option is to go to the 5Ghz spectrum which is free from congestion at the moment.

The option I was refering to is to run 802.1n on the 5Ghz spectrum. Less congestion there as its a lot more channels to use. I reconfigured the stock TM router to be just a VLAN switch and connected my router which supports dual-band. Given the usually 10 or more wifi networks in my area I see lots of congestion affecting re-transmits from my computers to router which affects network speeds. Some of the wifi networks are transmitting very strong signals and my take on this is if your router is not "powerful" enough it may cause issues. Did plenty of tests myself and one particular test if I reduce my router transmit power to minimum my computer cannot even connect to the router (and the same low power setting not too long when we see few wifi networks around connects without a hitch). "Magically" by increasing the router transmit max power setting the same computer will connect fine. YMMV

Sounds like your first location is "nearer" to other wifi networks (and possibly lower signal due to stuff between your pc and the router eg walls?) and therefore gets signal drops due to interference.

Firstly you don't need that fan and if you are drawing USB power for the fan from either equipment it just adds more heat.

You need to place your router further from your modem to give some space for air flow. Usually something like 25mm or more helps. By the way both my router and modem sits inside a cabinet, runs 24x7 and no fan needed. Just make sure you don't stack them too close.

Interesting. I am noticing some weird connections problems since Friday morning. Perhaps a coincidence but TM did an upgrade/maintenance on Unifi on Thursday night.

Wondering if people reporting issues with Unifi are using the stock DIR-615 or either reconfigured the DIR-615 as a VLAN switch or custom router? Trying to see if there is a pattern to the influx of issues posted here the past few days.

Unifi changed something at their end? There was a maintenance upgrade last week and my problems started after that

Are you using the DIR-615 default config?

This post has been edited by XPS: May 13 2011, 05:13 PM

In which case get TM to replace the router. They offered me a replacement although it seemed fine. And most of the problems went away ie at least net is stable now although pings to some servers are timing out (never happened before).

+1

Same problem recently. Mine started after a TM maintenance. I know its not the router as the router log is reporting that I have "no connection to the ISP" but I get a router IP address from TM. Which means I am bridged via DIR-615 up to the exchange.

---

Added on May 15, 2011, 4:26 pmIt depends on the equipment design. Some routers come with a thick piece of heatsink so you can run 24x7 for years even kept inside a cabinet with a glass door

As long as the equipment feels warm to touch its fine. Dust is one of your biggest issue as over time it will reduce the ventilation and heat will build up at the component surfaces.


This post has been edited by XPS: May 15 2011, 04:26 PM

On your post, please note that a number of people using different router makes are now reporting issues with the VLAN custom router settings but their net connects fine with D-Link default Unifi settings. The problems started around a week or so back. I know its weird

This post has been edited by XPS: May 17 2011, 12:08 AM

Airport Extreme > Internet > TCP/IP > what is your router address shown when you set Airport Extreme to handle PPPOE in VLAN mode on DIR-615?. Also when you click on router status specifically the yellow button, what are the error(s) being reported?

The only thing I can think about now is IPV6 is set to local-link. The other options are host (act as a node on the IPV6 internet) or tunnel (tunnel IPV6 internet and computers on local network). Has TM implemented IPV6?

If we can narrow this down to Apple routers then I can post on Apple forum for answers

LOL

You may recall when we first had Streamyx and the modem cost like RM800 each

You are right that its only a bridging device. The Huawei modem seems robust as far as I know though.

For the past 2 weeks it seems we are seeing various people reporting issues with non-TM supplied equipment (mainly custom routers and not IPTV though). Problem goes away once supplied DIR-615 in stock configuration is used. What is happening I wonder though

Wireless - yes when Airport is connected in a bridge mode.

NAT & DHCP - have not tried turning off DHCP in DIR-615 and letting Airport handle everything else.

Firewall - remember to turn on DIR-615 firewall (off by default).

What connections are you using to the TV? HDMI or optical/coax ?

Nice, very nice. I understand that Asus is coming up with dual-band routers. Is there, if you would happen to know, an Asus model that supports dual-band? 5ghz is kind of necessary with so many 802.1b/g/n around and the fact that 2.4ghz has only 3 usable channels don't help.

Have firewall on and don't see any issues despite heavy usage by a number of computers. But then again DIR-615 is bridged to my own router who handles the wireless clients. I suspect the wireless side to take a toll on the DIR-615 and seems to contribute noticeably to some of the problems reported here. With wireless off DIR-615 seems fine so far

Depends on whether there are channels on IPTV that you like. Compared to Astro Beyond HD the feed from IPTV seems a lot better picture wise (using HDMI). Not sure about hifi audio as my main audio setup is hooked to Astro.