Hi Guys,

My situation with Maxis fiber is as follows:

They came to install the fiber for me yesterday. Installation was completed and line tested. However, they gave me everything, the fiber line, modem (not Huawei) BUT not the router and phones. This is because they ran out of stock for the Thomson routers and could only supply the new customers (me included) the Thomson router after Raya.

So, in the evening, I decided to go buy myself a router with VLAN capabilities. I settled for TP-LINK WR841ND (as I see that Peacelover had place a guide for us to configure the network to allow internet connection without using the thomson router).

As the modem is not huawei and I could not link my notebook the the modem, I decide not to touch the modem but work around the situation.

This is what I did:

1. set up the TL-WR841ND, connect a lan cable from its Wan port to port 2 of the modem (this is due to the binding peacelover mentioned above, i stuck with port 2 of the modem).

2. linked port 2 of the TL-WR841ND (let's call this the TL router from now on) to my notebook.

3. Login to the TL router, set its IP as (192.168.1.254)

4. Under WAN settings, I followed peacelover's advise. i.e. choose PPPoE/Russioan PPPoE; inserted the maxis login id (XXX@home.maxis.com.my); entered the password (XXX1) and attemp to connect to the internet... waiting happily for the connection.

5. however, connection failed.. Checking on the system log in the TL router, I noticed packeages being sent to the modem but modem failed to response (the error was - 'timeout waiting for PADO packets').

What I noticed about the modem is that the power light and the PON light is permanently on (no blinking). However, the port 2 lan light is blinking (indication of package movement).

As for the TL router, the internet light and the Port 2 lan light was blinking whilst the power light was permanently on..

With that said, can a network guru/sifu advise me where I went wrong here?.. or did Maxis deactivate my connection after the complete installation due to them not being able to furnish me with the Thomson Modem? Are there any abnormality on the behavior of the modem and TL-router?..

Do hope to read some advise here soon as I would love be be connected to the net via Maxis Fiber before Raya..

Thank you in advance, guru's/sifu's..

Sayboon,

May I know where I should be tagging the VLAN621?.. Thanx, Sifu!

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Added on August 12, 2012, 1:55 pmanyone can advise me on the steps needed to perform a VLAN621 tagging on a TL-WR841ND, pls?.. been searching the net but could not find any guide..

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Added on August 13, 2012, 9:55 amPeacelover, how did you configure your TP-Link router to talk to your Maxis modem?.. I am still unable to establish the connection.. From the error log, it seems I kept hitting 'timeout on PADO'.. Seems like the modem is refusing to reply to my TP-Link router..

Sayboon has suggested that i do a VLAN621 tagging. How do I go about doing such tagging on myTP-Link router, pls? or is the tagging done on the modem end?.. 0.o

This post has been edited by kayage: Aug 13 2012, 09:55 AM

Wow!! thanx sifu's finally I got a direction to follow.. Seems like we have to crack into the router setting and make some drastic modifications.. From the looks of it (the process flow), I think my TL-WR841ND could be rewired so.

On, my next few questions:

I noticed there are 4 files on WR841ND in the openwrt site:

openwrt-ar71xx-tl-wr841nd-v3-squashfs-factory.bin 20-Nov-2010 04:30 3932160
openwrt-ar71xx-tl-wr841nd-v3-squashfs-sysupgrad..> 20-Nov-2010 04:30 3670016
openwrt-ar71xx-tl-wr841nd-v5-squashfs-factory.bin 20-Nov-2010 04:30 3932160
openwrt-ar71xx-tl-wr841nd-v5-squashfs-sysupgrad..> 20-Nov-2010 04:30 3547140

my TL-WR841ND is on V7.2. So, which of the files above i should be downloading to flash my TL-WR841ND router?.. 0.o

Also, the VLAN tagging, I should you 621 instead of the 600 or 500 as per example, right?

thanx sayboon.. will try it soon and post the result

ok.. the past few days had been nighmarish for me.. lol..

i managed to flash my tl-wr851nd to openwry version 7.. however, that version does not come with the gui installed.. (my router wont allow version 5 to be installed @_@)

anyway, i followed klseet guide in installing luci.. but failed miserably.. this is my hurdle now.. i believe if i can get luci installed into the router, other steps should be straight forward..

ok.. this is my prob on luci installation..

to install luci, i need an internet connection.. according to klseet, by just plug in a cat1 cable to the router's wan port (that i had just flashed) to a lan port for another router that has internet connection would give me the internet connection i need.. well, i tried and it failed... i.e i used a cat1 lan cable which my nb has internet connection to and plugged it in to the wr8541nd's wan port and could not ping the outside world.. i check the network configuration for the router and noted that its ip was 192.168.1.1 (gateway and dns as well).. the internet connection's gate way and dns for the other router (which has internet connection) was 192.168.0.1.

so, i tried changing the network file for the router by changing the router's ip address to 192.168.0.111 and the gateway and dns to 192.168.0.1 (this was done in the network file in /etc/config) but still could not connect to the internet @_@

i read more and noticed that i could also connect to the internet by mobilephone dataplan.. upon further reading, i need to install the usb device into the router which inturn means i need an internet connection to the router ont he 1st place.. @_@

anyone can advise me where i went wrong with the 1st setup, pls?.. if the other router (with internet connection) has its ip as 192.168.0.1 and its gateway and dns the same, what should i do with the wr841nd to get it to connect to the internet via that router?.. what is the configuration i need to do in the router?..

do hope someone could guide me (a network noob) here.. LoL..

looking forward to some guidance.. thanx