The answer is no, the n56u is not worth RM450 in any case.

But I surrender, OK, you win. I offered a solution and you did too. It seems that your solution is better.

Sorry, 47ronin, looks like you will have to spend the money for the Asus RT-n56u and entirely redo your diagram. Hope you have enough ports to plug things in and no plans for using VPN in the near future.

I'm gonna go read a better book.

ps: jchue, you should really really go read the thread again. I wasn't stepping on you because your solution was not as good as the others.

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Added on February 17, 2012, 4:11 amHey bro, mine also no need spend money what? Surely mine is better. :-) I also forgot what your solution was already. I think 47ronin got fed up and went home. He needs to let us know why he needs a switch. Maybe he wants to locate the switch somewhere else. And why 8-port, maybe he got more things to plug into it.

47ronin, when you wake up, please reply. As you can see from the timestamps, we all cannot sleep because of you. If you're a girl, you probably be feeling real good with all this attention. :-)

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Added on February 17, 2012, 4:42 amYeah, that will work. But you have to set your load balancer policy so that it spreads your outgoing BT requests evenly over the 2 WANs. The incoming data will then come back over the same WANs. To the other side, it just looks like 2 separate BT clients from 2 different IPs. Some people load balance based on IPs, so one PC goes WAN1, next one go WAN2, then back to WAN1, etc. If like that, then no speed increase for a single PC.

For streaming, let's say youtube, it's only one connection so it'll only go out and come back in using 1 WAN port. Unless you do aggregation which is beyond the scope of this discussion and my brain.

Disclaimer: I could be totally wrong on this though. :-)

Anyway my company used to have 3 x TPLink RT480+, cheapo dual wan load balancers, to 4 x 1mbps Streamyx but I've never tried BT on it before. Now we're just using one BIZ20.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 17 2012, 04:46 AM

Any UniFi users here using VPN? My friend is looking for a router with good performance for the office for UniFi BIZ20 that works with VPN passthrough. A bonus would be a built-in VPN server. Doesn't have to have WiFi. Must be cheap so looking for home routers. Say budget at RM500.

He has an Asus n56u but VPN from him to his supplier's VPN server doesn't work with this router. The DIR-615 supplied by TM actually is OK but it's hanging or slowing down too often (due to bittorrent :-)

In the future, he may need incoming VPN but prefer not to have a separate box so a built-in VPN server would be a bonus. Only 2 or 3 person needs to use at any one time.

So far on the list: Vigor 2130 $460 and RB750GL $250. Any other recommendations?

He's gonna give me the n56u if I can get something working for him.

Oh ya, very important to return otherwise they keep your account active. Then few months later kena big bill. I read about case like this here or another forum.

No worries and why in the world would you need to apologize for asking a valid question.

May I ask why you planned to have a 8 port switch?

and what software you used to draw your diagram in your ori post?

3:30am. I think IT guy forgot to configure timezone to GMT+8. :-)

No, bro. In retrospect I'm the one who should be sorry. I sincerely apologize to you for my sarcasm & the things I said or implied.

If I could I'd offer my hand for a shake. But since we're behind our PCs, would you FTP to my server? That would be a handshake, TCP wise.

As for the root cause of all this, it's all 47ronin's doing with his question and PowerPoint diagram! I think it's time we gang up on him. :-)

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Added on February 17, 2012, 6:25 pmMore ram means the router can have a bigger connection table, more firewall rules, more queues and rules for QoS, more features running like BT clients, download managers, file servers, etc.

IMHO the most important is the connection table because this one is very dynamic and can grow out of hand very fast especially when using BitTorrent or there are many concurrent users. That's why you see cheaper routers hang or slowdown when running BT. Just like a PC when it runs low on mem.

However more ram also needs to be complemented by a faster CPU otherwise the router cannot keep up with all the connections.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 17 2012, 06:25 PM

Routing to which host? I'm getting usual 10 hops to my webhost in the US. 7 to twitter.com. 6 to cloudflare SG.
Route looks the same to me. Pings are high though 200-300ms to the first two, 15ms to SG.

What IP are on? I tried both 175.139.x.x and 210.195.x.x. Routing looks identical.

But speed seems to be fine here in Sg Long. Where r u?

What a coincidence, I was at TTDI shophouses this afternoon. Complain to TM, reboot router?

But for Rapidshare me also really slow downloading. Quote from jDownloader forums:
http://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?p=192566


This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 17 2012, 10:15 PM

So far good, VIP10 maxed out. Haven't tried on 20mbps yet.

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Added on February 18, 2012, 3:14 pmDepends on the router. For DIR-615, for example, start with say 200 connections and slowly edge your way down till you find a comfortable number. I think I had mine at 100 for quite some time with no probs but router slows down after 2 weeks or so. So just reboot every 2 weeks.

Current router, RB750GL, my max is set to 5000 but I haven't got many torrents to download right now to test it. At the moment, ~800 connections total.

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Added on February 18, 2012, 3:16 pmI didn't check the speed but my ping times to US about the same as yours. 200-300. Not so good.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 18 2012, 03:16 PM

Which BTU? Red light usually means got optical signal but cannot sync.

Try on/off already?

I mean what brand and model is your BTU.

I would say at least one to five and more.

That's news to me but maybe why not? Maybe fibre expert can chime in here.

You can disconnect/reconnect it but be careful. Don't bend it too much and don't step on it.

Telnet in and type "uptime".

There's one more way from the web browser. Let me check.

Here it is:
Change some settings in the DIR-615, then when you click Save Settings. Keep an eye on the URL. You should see something like this.

263223 is in seconds. Convert to days is 3.0465625 days

This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 21 2012, 03:50 AM

Good question, I don't think so. Just change something that doesn't require a reboot. Like toggle telnet on/off.

Btw, did anyone notice my IPV6 tag.



This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 21 2012, 04:52 AM

No, lah, I use 6to4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6to4 which is:

More info here: http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/6to4/

There's also Hurricane Electric as an alternative.

Of course, router must support ipv6.

Quite interesting, after I setup ipv6 on my router, automagically all my PCs on the LAN got their own v6 IP. No need separate DHCP server as ipv6 has auto configuration!

I also set my PPPOE to ask for IPV6 from UniFi but "IPV6 request rejected". C'mon TM.

Hardest part was how to get the browser to use IPv6 to connect to LYN. Safari seems to prefer IPv4 over IPv6. In the end, I just block LYN IPv4 address in my router. I know, stupid solution.

I did it just to see the swimming turtle. http://kame.net
Another site for more info and to test your setup. http://test-ipv6.com

Also notice quite a lot of torrenters using IPv6 already.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 21 2012, 05:23 AM

http://ipv6.forum.lowyat.net no more already. Now forum.lowyat.net supports both IPv6 and IPv4.

I only know how to do for my router, RB750GL. What's yours? Anyway this thread probably off topic for IPv6. Suggest we move to one of the other IPv6 threads.

Since it's for the Draytek 2130n why not move it to your Draytek thread, http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2114099/

Did you know www.v6.facebook.com has an IPv6 address of 2620:0:1cfe:face:b00c::3

My IPv6 config for my Mikrotik RB750GL.



175.139.x.x is current IP address.
2002:XXXX:XXXX:1::1 is the IPv6 address calculated based on the above IP.
This needs to be updated every time you get an IP from UniFi.

IPv6 DNS from OpenDNS: 2620::ccd::2 and 2620::ccc::2

This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 21 2012, 08:47 AM

Something is definitely wrong. Lotsa sites unreachable.

I'll be buying a TP-Link WR-841ND router for UniFi use. Not familiar with this model at all, other than reading up at klseet.com, so got a few questions.

- Are the ones in the shop UniFi ready?
- If not, which is the latest/best firmware for it?
- Planning to get 2, 1 as a router and the other to extend the wifi using WDS. It supports WDS right?