Unifi installed today for my friend. Fairly quick, 12-1:30pm, and painless. Lasted for about an hour and then it started raining and poof went the connection. No Link nor Auth light on the BTU. Now waiting for the installer to come back to check.

Installers came back at about 4pm. Checked the black fibre from the tiang to the white box (FTB?) at the house. That was fine. Using their Optical Power Meter, the culprit was found to be the white fibre from the FTB? to small white box in the house.

Fun begins.

They suspected a bad connector so they tried redoing the connectors a few times. Didn't help. Low power. Next they changed the white fibre. Also didn't help. Optical power at the end of the black fibre was ok but as soon as they connected to the white one, it was low. They tried a few more lengths of white fibre and connectors until they almost gave up. In the end one of them removed a whole a lot of white fibre from the roll and then tried another length from there. This time it was ok. Turned out to be a bad patch of cable in that roll. Maybe someone stepped on it.

The rain turned out to be a red herring. Just a bad patch of cables. So everything is ok now. All that took almost as long as the initial installation.

These two young chaps were even more sociable than the two that came to my house. Very relaxed, friendly and talkative.

Technical wise, just average but enough to get the install done. eg I asked him to set the wifi password to something but he insisted that I must use the WPS pin printed on the bottom of the router as the password. I didnt protest. Can set it later myself.

Just want to report that I've just replaced the DIR-615 (not that I was much problem with it) with a Mikrotik RB750GL router. Still have much to learn about this new router.

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Added on February 6, 2012, 4:14 amWhy can't they just SMS you the password? and you can change it yourself in the router? While you're doing that, save the other person's user/pass for future use. :-)

This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 6 2012, 04:14 AM

If you view source in your browser, you can see the password. It'll be in this section. (for DLink DIR-615 router)



Ask them to give you longer cable when they come back to complete the installation.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 6 2012, 01:23 PM

If your old TV got Video/Audio in (the yellow, red, white RCA jacks) then can use already.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 10 2012, 03:18 PM

I think TS wants to split the wireless APs into 2 in order to separate the BG clients from the N clients for performance reasons.

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Added on February 10, 2012, 5:49 pmAny switch will do, just make you sure your uplink is plugged into Ethernet port1 or whichever is the master ethernet port on your switch, usually first port or could be the last port. Even if you don't, it's ok, just a very slight performance hit. For unmanaged switches, no need to configure anything, just cucuk only.

I understand you want to separate the WiFi G & N clients. Why not cut down on the number of routers and just run the WiFi G off the RTN16? Save some space and electricity.

My setup is similar to yours but I just have one AP.

BTU
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RB750GL -> Airport Extreme (WiFi BGN) -> all my wired devices upstairs
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DGS-1008D -> all my wired devices downstairs

My HyppTV STB is currently connected to the RB750GL via a pair of Homeplugs. I might replace them with a RB250GS switch and trunk both VLANs down my lone ethernet cable. Only prob is that I have 5 wired devices downstairs, 6 including the STB and the RB250GS only has 4 usable ports.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 10 2012, 05:54 PM

1. Router password
2. WiFi password
3. Disable WPS (Google reaver-wps for more info)
4. Disable TR-069 protocol

SSID, up to you. Not much else to do.

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Added on February 10, 2012, 8:34 pmLOL, not quite, the simplest setup would be DIR-615 in place of your TP-Link. 9 of 10 UniFi users would have no idea to do what you've done. Especially if they had to flash the WR1043ND themselves.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 10 2012, 08:34 PM

Oops, sorry, what router u using? For DIR-615, it's under Advanced/TR-069 tab.

You might want to check on the price and availability of the fibre cutting tool first. That's probably harder to find than the cables.

I can use my office user/pass at my house and vice versa but of course only 1 session per login is allowed.

I used the DIR-655 for Streamyx too. Fantastic router. Unfortunately there's no way to use it directly with UniFi. You'll still need the DIR-615. What you do is set the DIR-615 as a bridge and the DIR-655 for PPPoE, similar to a Streamyx modem/router setup. More info here: http://unifi.athena.my/

Torrenting here at Sg Long at 5mbps, no probs. Could be it server-side prob?

It isn't great but not that bad. My neighbor's DIR-615 is in his back room on the ground floor and I still get 2 bars on my iPhone when I'm at my gate. Probably a distance of about 70ft. However in my bedroom, closer but 1 floor up, the signal is worse.

It isn't that bad. I was using it for a month. It can handle non-stop direct downloads and even torrents if you limit your # of connections < 50. But too many connections (including half-open ones) will eventually slow it down to a crawl and crash the router. I'd say it's works just fine for someone who doesn't torrent much. e.g.: my neighbor's DIR-615 is probably close to 130 days uptime now.

In any case, there are plenty of alternatives from cheap TPLinks to Asus to Routerboards. I'm currently using a Routerboard RB750GL.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 11 2012, 11:25 PM

No, it won't.

No worries. Use the DIR-615 first. If got prob then can always get a better one. The cheapest TPLinks are below RM100 I think.

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Added on February 12, 2012, 1:09 amROFL.

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Added on February 12, 2012, 1:14 amSave the money first. Speed wise it's fine as long as it's not stressed too much. If that happens, a quick reboot will usually solve it. Admittedly it has its deficiencies in other areas such average wifi signal, 100mbit ports, useless QoS, WPS cannot be entirely turned off (?), etc...

This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 12 2012, 01:14 AM

If you are in the room above your router, I don't see why the signal is so bad. It's very close and only one concrete floor for the signal to go through. My MacBook in my 1st floor home office at the back of my house is almost directly above my neighbor's DIR-615 which is in his back room on the ground floor. I'm getting 5 bars of wifi. (-64dBM) Distance is roughly 15ft.

Have you tried with other wifi devices?

3) Someone can discover your WPA key quite easily. You can try it yourself with reaver. I've tried it, It works on the DIR-615. Problem is that there are some routers where the WPS service remains active even after you've disabled it from the web config. Not sure about the DIR-615.
4) TR-069 is for TM to remotely configure/manage your device from their ACS (Auto Config Servers). I know they use it to change settings on the BTU but haven't seen it in action on the router. Not a really a biggie, if you ask me. e.g.: if you forgot your password of your router, they can use TR-069 to change it for you instead of having to walk you through resetting the router over the phone.

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Added on February 12, 2012, 3:37 pmNo problem. Come see me at HQ and I'll set you up. The rest of you guys will have to wait till your contract is over. New prospective customers keep checking the website. Any questions, please email mok@tm.net.my with subject line "Just like Thailand"

This post has been edited by soonwai: Feb 12 2012, 03:37 PM

Safe in what way? You mean like virus or stuff like that? It's a public tracker so generally speaking it's not safe.

On my Huawei ONT, I have VOIP, Line1, Line2. VOIP is always on. Line1 will light up when I use the phone.