TL-WR841ND still need to flash custom firmware for unifi? or just plug n play WAN port to STB lan port 1?

After reading some information from klseet n rizvanrp... decided to configure my DIR-615 C2 (not TM's 615) with dd-wrt firmware direct to the fibrehome

FYI, i already was using DD-WRT with my Streamxy previously, so it's a matter of changing the settings only
Remember this settings are for DIR-615 C1 or C2 only. Because REV.C uses the same DDWRT firmware despite the numbers. These are NOT for DIR-615 G1/G2 (TM's version)



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I dont use IPTV yet so this solution will be alright for now... = )
Shall anyone attempt this pls do read everything on KLSEET and UNIFI ATHENA

Difference can be felt most when using wifi. It really outperforms the stock router many times especially in multiple user extra demanding situations. Not to mention there's no delay anymore when u type in www.xxxxxxx.com and hit enter.

I wasnt used to the stock router, whenever u hit the enter key or clicked a link, there will be some sort of small delay and the page loads in stages. Streaming's fine tho. With my old baby things just come in like poof

Not complaning tho, really no complaints on UniFi. It just so happens i have a better router than theirs. The installation was quick under 1 and 1/2hrs. Service was activated immediately n it was really no frills. Good job!

This post has been edited by andrew9292: Jul 23 2012, 08:41 PM

Same thing just happened, and now at my fiberhome POTS light which is the phone line light, lit up. And it blinks when i pick up the line. Previously it's just dead but i do have the line. Alcatel fiberhome unit tho. Not the Huawei one...

sesat ah... that's for bill payment, cant exceed owing them 3 months. I do wonder does this happen when u overuse the phone line, and exceed 3mths of 'credit'

https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2449613

Try changing your DNS to 8.8.8.8 ; 8.8.4.4 (Google Public DNS)

Google DNS is in Malaysia, if i not mistaken OpenDNS nearest would be Singapore.
Both equally fast for me though. Compared to...... yep.

This post has been edited by andrew9292: Aug 4 2012, 12:26 AM

But not all N routers are well optimized. Theoretically N will double the distance and nowadays provide speeds up to 300Mbps but it's still very very limited to the firmware and hardware of the router. In some situations a classic G router might even outperform an N router in speed, coverage and consistency. When TM just launched UniFi, my friend was one of the first to get it... Living in 2 story house the upper floor suffer disconnection with laptop and sometimes undetectable with Iphone n wireless dongle. I used InSSIDer to check and found out the B/G mode's signal is stronger about 5dBi than B/G/N... thus set it to B/G mode 20MHz and the connection was stable for the laptop and apple devices. But that was quite some time ago with the 1st firmware...

Also there was a 40Mhz setting bug which prevented some devices from connecting properly. When a connection is established, the device needs to signal the router whether it is capable of transmitting in 40Mhz mode as part of the handshake. Some high end routers will allow the incapable device to connect to the main 20Mhz, while still broadcasting in 40Mhz. Some will completely drop to 20Mhz. Some might fail to do anything, thus preventing the connection to even be established. This is usually a firmware problem. Also, 40Mhz does not mean more speed or coverage instantly. If the router is in a noisy environment (many AP broadcasting around it) 40Mhz might cause more interference and the router has to drop wireless packets. Also to mention, if the router has a lousy controller, enabling 40Mhz will degrade the SNR of the connection because it induces too much noise.

An analogy would be using cheap speakers, turning up the volume all the way, u get cracking and distortion and the music turns into noise, which makes it harder for you to hear what's being transmitted into your ears.

Anyone else having problem with N connectivity and speeds can try checking their router and make sure WMM is enabled, and security must be WPA2 + AES cipher ONLY. The N spec requires this security mode to operate at full speed. Unless you have really outdated device that cannot utilize WPA2/AES, then use the multiple modes. But this means that if that device is connected, you'll never get full N.



This post has been edited by andrew9292: Aug 7 2012, 02:05 AM

Unifi Gangnam style? lol

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LOL

Some VIP5 packages have up to 8Mbps download, and upload up to 15Mbps.
Their MINIMUM is 5M/5M. It's quite common, for those that sign up within the 1st year of launching got this speed till now... They are connected to exchanges KLJ (Kelana Jaya) and TDI(Taman Tun Dr. Ismail). None i know whom are connect to SWY(Willayah Perseketuan) get uncapped speeds, probably due to high congestion. I just got mine last month and it's 5M/5M strictly.

You can try using Google DNS and turn off the firewall in DIR-615 if you want faster respond time.
Read up about the wireless settings from google or somewhere and edit them according to your needs.
If you're running Wireless N, you must use WPA2-PSK with AES cipher + WMM enabled to get full N speeds, alot of TM technicians dont bother setting this properly during setup.

You can also go to unifi.athena.my, there are some instructions to turn off the remote management functions to enhance security & free some memory on the router... And run a tweak test from http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks to see if your computer is optimized. Normally, if you're running windows 7, there is a RWIN auto-tune feature which might need some time to adapt. There are also other parameters u can tune using http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php

Lastly try to use the latest version of google chrome, in my opinion it's the fastest browser now and firefox is no match for it

This post has been edited by andrew9292: Aug 26 2012, 02:16 PM

1. I've never used TM DNS since the availability of GoogleDNS about 2010? It was quite bad back then, now not too sure, although it seem much better. If what u did fixed it for you, then that should be the problem.

2. Can show screenshot of where u changed the option for the dns? And the screenshot of 'dns not validated'?
Reboot the router? Maybe u can try to flushdns and registerdns in windows? Use another browser? Rarely u need to do this, but sometimes it helps.

3, if u have the budget you can look for routers designed to support UniFi. The stock router doesnt work too well especially when there's an active IPTV session + firewall enabled (heat+memory issue?) The router tends to delay/QOS packets... For example when u do Speedtest ,the speed will be about 2Mbps for 5 sec climbing slowly, then jump to 15Mbps and finish, as if the data was delayed, then suddenly released to you. This happened on a friend's router, so i turned off the IPTV which kinda helped, then turned off the firewall because windows already has a built in firewall, reduce redundancy and there was no more 'initial delay' or router hang. This was for one of the earlier firmwares(software), not too sure about now but i'm quite sure the hardware isn't very capable, not saying it's bad because Maxis's is even worse, it's good for the cost but to some people it isn't enough.

Disable the Firewall (use PC firewall) + don't use IPTV + disabled Remote Management (turn it on only when you call TM and required to turn it on for investigation from their side) + use GoogleDNS + use B/G/N with WPA2-PSK, AES cipher ONLY with WMM enabled (all must be exactly that for maximum N throughput) is the best thing u can do.

This post has been edited by andrew9292: Aug 28 2012, 04:40 PM

firewall, yes router firewall... with firewall enabled i felt p2p with multiple (300+) connections opened cause the router to be sluggish and every device that is connected to the router will be slow except the one p2p-ing somehow. mine was with the latest firmware 7.13? before i custom firmware a better router = )

for port forwarding you can refer to: http://unifi.athena.my/router_config.php
really good site for unifi info = )

in fact, not only firefox, chrome sometimes too with the older versions.
especially if you have a lot of extension and add-on inside the browser, it can cause serious incompatibility and can affect speed and stability. which is why i keep my browser clean. no toolbars, no a single add-on and extension except java, flash & adobe reader.

i've learnt this lesson before the hard way. had to reformat my whole pc last time because of a crazy chinese add on toolbar which cannot be removed forever no matter what i did. it shows removed and not inside firefox, but it's still running. worse than yours, halfway browsing i will be redirected to some random page. if other pc's are not affected badly then you can be sure it's yours... personal opinion, chrome is the best browser now as firefox is slowly becoming heavy on the system since a couple versions ago..

Found out something funny,
This is my ping times to GoogleDNS without any activity, 1 digit ping

This is the ping time WHILE LOADING 1080p Youtube, 3 digit ping!

Looks like i need to set up some kind of QOS on DDWRT...

This post has been edited by andrew9292: Aug 29 2012, 02:43 AM

which firmware u using? u MUST download the UniFi supported firmware from TP-Link ori website
just select your hardware version, u will be able to see them stating which firmware support unifi users.
http://www.tp-link.com.my/products/details...TL-WR841ND#down

if i not mistaken klseet/riz firmware is beta. here got final releases. u should the latest firmwares first if u didnt earlier...

What router u're using? 1500? UniFi's optimal MTU is 1492. Try setting static ip on xbox, then put it in DMZ? Most likely microsoft/xbox/unifi side problem tho

This post has been edited by andrew9292: Nov 11 2012, 08:25 AM

found this from google:
http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-live/co...-setting-979104

Have you tried that?

I dont really use xbox, only when visiting other's house... I try google your problem, from my quick look it seems quite soe people have this problem, could be due to their ISP, due to their router or config problem... but there are too many things to look at

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Added on November 11, 2012, 6:52 pmAfter all, Streamyx biz? & Unifi biz users still pay more than home users...

I would think that, you pay more you get more is okay in this context lo...
Rather than you pay more, but get same as the less. That's fked up

Plus many other online forum also got people complain slow link to china. Just search 'slow china connection forum' & u can see many users from around the region also experience same thing. Hopefully it's true that the limitation is at China ISP side


This post has been edited by andrew9292: Nov 11 2012, 06:52 PM

Any 5Mbps will mostly only be enough to stream 1 x 720p video without buffering [x.264 - high profile, high bitrate mp4]
or, 3 x 480p without buffering - baseline/constrained baseline profile, low bitrate mp4

For 1080p you will need 10Mbps.
5Mbps will buffer on 1080p, unless they cap u higher at 6 - 8Mbps.
2 x 720p sometimes can, sometimes cant, depends on how the uploader encoded their file and how youtube post-process it.

Some 720p files are large, some can be really small. For standardized VEVO music video @ 720p, nope, most of the time 2 computers will buffer @5Mbps anywhere in the world. The problem is not with unifi, it's just the way the video is encoded.

If you want more accurate theoretical calculation. Take Gangnam Style 720p for example. The file is 88MB(MegaByte)



Check from : Copy+Paste Official vid link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0&feature=g-music to http://keepvid.com/ Allow the javascript to run, and it will present u the list of video, 240 - 1080p with their respective size.



This post has been edited by andrew9292: Nov 13 2012, 07:00 AM

Yep 720p 1 person loading can lar. I try loading to create a 2 user situation by loading 2 x 720 in my own browser, sure one of the vid will buffer, sometimes both....

Mayb for some which their 5Mbps is not hard cap can use 1080p with 20sec or more stall in the beginning.

My 5Mbps cant do 1080p even with 30 second stall time.
If i take filesize and length divide my available bandwidth, i'll need to pause 1min+ to load a 4min vid.
I'm hard capped at 4.75Mbps (610kB/s).
But the fact is, we should always give roughly 10% away for IP overhead. 610 - 61 = 549kBps.
uTorrent can show data recieved rate without IP overhead, and it's confirm my usable data rate is about that.

Jealous some of my friends 5Mbps but speed can reach 850+kB/s, about 6.6Mbps+. That one 1080p sure no problem.



This post has been edited by andrew9292: Nov 13 2012, 05:46 PM

serius -.-
60kb/s is as good as 56kb/s old time dail up lor...
unless u mean 60kB/s which is about 512kbps line -.-

This post has been edited by andrew9292: Nov 13 2012, 05:50 PM

If it's ADSL router and modem, with telephone cable RJ-14 socket as WAN input. Not possible
If it's just a router with RJ-45 Ethernet cable as WAN input then possible.

Connect your old router WAN to UniFi router port 1-3. Dont use port 4, that is for IPTV.
Set static IP on your old router to your UniFi router as gateway.
Set up wireless at your old router.
Connect to the old router wireless n test if it's working.
Turn off dhcp and wireless at unifi router.
This increases redundancy tho... especially if u dont turn off SPI firewall on either one of them. Can also cause port fowarding problems if u cant trace where is the problem...

Or you can buy a replacement router.

This post has been edited by andrew9292: Nov 18 2012, 04:06 PM