What adapter?

there's a way that you don't need to touch the Modem(BTU)
you just need a router that is capable to do Vlan tagging(like TP-Link TL-WR1043ND)

Why is it so?

Your VoIP and IPTV VLAN settings are still LEFT untouched inside your BTU. All you have to do in future is just swap back your Thompson to have the service reenabled.

Better still if you can convince the TM technician can configure the BTU to strip the VLANs on one of the other 3 ports. Leave port 1 as it is.
Just enable port binding on either port 2-4 (whichever you want) and untick VLAN tagging. Leave LAN port 1 as it is.

I'm sure many of those who subscribed the RM118 package earlier won't be bothered about the the IPTV and calls. It's very high posibility the pay TV charges will be incurred extra. 

So yeah, just leave port 1 as it is and make the BTU unstrip the VLAN on the other ports for the use of your 3rd party router.
Any service you want to continue using in future should you change your mind, just plug your Thompson into port 1. The TM technician will have to make another visit to your home anyway if there's any changes.

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..

not using the same router as you but you can try flash openwrt at your own risk
http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03.1-rc4/ar71xx/
find your router here... flash the openwrt firmware
and follow this guide and do some changes...
http://klseet.com/index.php/tl-wr941nd-ver...-unifi-on-trunk
on the vlan set 621...
it's all on your own good luck

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?

Second attempt using latest tomato-K26USB-1.28.RT-MIPSR2-100-AIO.trx on Asus RT-N16.  Still fail.  Give up.  Will get Mikrotik or TP-Link.

Hi Sayboon,
  I am a bit confuse here. In this article, http://stanleytiang.blogspot.com/2011/08/u...using-your.html, it says change the vlan tagging in the modem but now, it's like changing the vlan tagging in router. Can you help to clarify?

Wah, so good? But need to spend >RM500 for a router jau not very good lor

This is because the new bootloader which TP-Link 1043ND builtin for Hardware Version 1.8 (some) & 1.9 which disable the WAN port, due to a bug. However you can still use the WAN port for other brand or model provided the other brand don't use the similar method

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr1043nd read the paragraph with (!)
https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/11898
wiind, no prob , glad to share my experience.

Some of these settings are also done with the help from Tanghm, as I've bounce couple of ideas with him and he helped me in a few areas.

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Added on August 23, 2012, 4:05 pm
Yup ... is totally find if you found other routers which support Vlan tagging by default, then you don't need to use custom firmware.