Greetings!

Just got my maxis fibre line installed today, TM technicians setup the modem, while Maxis techs configured the router, did a speedtest, and took the bloody router away. Apparently some directive from the top requires them to send all remaining routers back to HQ. You won't imagine the amount of crap-spinning i got from customer service, about the router being out of stock la, only left demo unit la bla bla bla, when the tech told me it was a brand new unit.

Anyway, was told that i can only get the router after the 25th, which is a good 2 weeks from now! How'ma gonna pass my Raya hols yo!

So now i'm staring at the HG850A modem with an active link, just no router to dial it. Any quick solutions, like direct dialing from a PC or can i use my DIR-300(flashed with DD-WRT) to dial the connection?

PS: Even temporary solutions are fine as long as i can use it till the router arrives?

This post has been edited by alvin_goh: Aug 8 2012, 05:35 PM

Jumped the gun and bought a TP-Link 1043ND.

After countless hours, I still havent managed to setup my connection.

Here are the steps i did:
1. Flash router to OpenWRT
2. Connect port 2 of HG850A -> TPLink WAN
3. Add VLan tag 621
4. Edit Wan interface to PPPOE, change physical settings to VLAN Interface: "eth0.621" (wan)

I notice that WAN doesn't light up when its connected to the HG850A. Under interfaces the WAN interface also appears greyed out. I am at a loss~!

Edit: After losing much hair, finally solved the problem by tagging and connecting vlan to eth port 1 instead of WAN port.

This post has been edited by alvin_goh: Aug 9 2012, 03:42 AM

Post your setup and we prolly could help

Yes, u need a router with vlan tagging capability eg. Tplink 1043ND. Read this thread over and over and over again.