Asus RT-AC68U with Maxis fiber and Astro IPTV

For those who interested to get Maxis fiber + Astro IPTV working with Asus RT-AC68U router, below are the settings I used and it works for me (both Internet and IPTV is working).

*The backbone is TM Fiber

The main configurations are the WAN and IPTV settings, the rest you may set it up as you would normally do.

Physical connection
- Cable from modem LAN port to Asus router WAN port
- Cable from Asus router LAN port 4 to Astro IPTV decoder

WAN
- WAN Connection Type: PPPoE
- User name: <your user Id>@home.maxis.com.my
- Password: <your password>

*Call the support line if you don't have this information.

IPTV
- Select ISP Profile: Manual
- Internet: VID = 621
- LAN port 4: VID = 823
- LAN port 3: WID = 822

Credit to: schizophreak (lowyat.net forum user)
Ref:
https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1506242/+1480
https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1506242/+1700

Some screenshots of the settings








Update [03/11/2014]
After around 2 days and 2 hours of use, my family member told me the Astro is not working. I tried restart the router and modem, still not working. Then checked the Astro IPTV settings (Network > Diagnostics), it shows an IP received from Maxis directly (10.xxx.xxx.xxx), Unfortunately I forgotten to capture the screenshot, can't really remember the details of the IPs. It supposed to use a local IP, but it wasn't, so I guess the connection isn't right, hence, the IPTV doesn't work.

So I turn on the router from Maxis again and connect:
- Cable from modem LAN port to Maxis' router WAN port
- Cable from Maxis' router LAN port to Astro IPTV decoder

Then the Astro IPTV works again.
This time it receive a local IP - 192.168.1.64


After that, reconnect the cable back to the Asus router just as before I did anything and it works.
- Cable from modem LAN port to Asus router WAN port
- Cable from Asus router LAN port 4 to Astro IPTV decoder

So, it seems like when connected to the Asus router, the Astro IPTV decoder didn't receive a proper IP to get it working. I'm now on this 2nd round of connection for 2 days 18 hours, it is still working.

Update [12/11/2014]
11 days 19 hours+ past, Astro IPTV is still working.
But found a drawback of using this router with Astro IPTV - it won't download program data (at least, pressing "Info" shows nothing).

Update [17/11/2014]
Coming back from a weekend day out, turning on the Astro found it "dead". Astro is not working anymore. Opening the Settings > Network > IP Diagnostics found it showing an invalid IP.

I'm done with the testing of this configuration and has switch it back to the old config/setup - Cascade router.

The setup/config:

- Cable from modem LAN port to Maxis' router WAN port
- Cable from Maxis' router LAN port to Astro IPTV decoder
- Cable from Maxis' router LAN port to Asus AC68U router, then set the router with this config/settings:
   > Administration\Operation mode\Remains as router mode
   > LAN\DHCP Server\Enable the DHCP Server = No
   > WAN\WAN connection type = Automatic IP

Using this setup/config, I still can utilize most of the features in the Asus router (Eg. QoS), apart from those who need Internet access (Eg. built in VPN).

Log:
- 29/10/2014, ~4.30pm (GMT+8): Switch from Maxis router to Asus RT-AC68U (Internet & IPTV working)
- 31/10/2014, ~6.30pm (GMT+8): Astro not working (Internet still working)
- 01/11/2014, ~2.15am (GMT+8): Reconnect to Maxis router to get IPTV working, then connect it back to Asus router
- 03/11/2014: ~8.15pm (GMT+8): Checked Astro IPTV and Internet still working on Asus router
- 12/11/2014: ~10.15pm (GMT+8): Checked Astro IPTV and Internet still working on Asus router
- 16/11/2014: Astro IPTV is "dead", switch it back to the original configuration - Cascade router