Questions about VLANS and IPTVs.

[yapper]

Hi,

I've lurked around a bit but finally made this account to ask these questions.

I just got 100Mb/s fiber service from my local ISP. They use a pace modem/router to provide internet and tv over ethernet. I also have tenants living in attached apartments. My final goal is to provide the ability for TV and internet from my connection to my tenants with only having to run one cat5e cable to 1 managed switch in each apartment.

The biggest problem I seem to be having is that the IPTV boxes seem to be very finicky, pretty much the default settings are the only thing that seem to work according to my ISP. They won't work through my router. I also want each tenant to have their own VLAN for internet.

My solution is have a TV VLAN on my switches that comes straight off of my ISP modem and use my RT-N66U tomato router(connected to the modem) to create separate VLANs for the tenant's internet and then connect the LAN ports on the router to the switches.

Each port that goes to a tenant would be assigned with the TV VLAN and their unique internet VLAN. Inside their apartments would be a switch with one port assigned to the TV VLAN and the rest for the network VLAN.

Would something like this work without disrupting the IPTV?

Does the ISPs modem need to support VLAN access for the managed switch to treat its LAN as a VLAN?

Should I just run 2 separate cat5e wires one for TV and one for Internet?

Sorry if this post is long and convoluted and thanks in advance for any advice!

 

[Dreamslacker]

Yes, it can work if your setup is what I think it is - Singtel with MIO.

Presumably, you rent the STB from the ISP and sub out to the tenants.

In which case, you probably want the stock firmware on the Asus router and select the MIO vlan setup option. This will split the Internet, Mio voice and Mio TV networks out to separate physical ports.

You *might* need to double NAT depending on what kind of segregation you need between tenants.

The alternative is to VLAN segment off the ONT first then split off the internet access VLAN and IPTV vlans separately.
This would be VLAN 10 for internet (you might need to clone the MAC ID of the PACE on your router's WAN port) and VLAN 20, priority 4 for IPTV.

Setup a separate VLAN for 'internet' access for each tenant. For each room, pipe both the internet VLAN and VLAN 20 to the data point. For the switch connecting to the point, do an access (untagged port) with ingress PVID 20, priority 4 for the STB. The rest of the ports will be access ports for internet for that particular tenant.

 

[yapper]

Thanks for the reply! I will start experimenting with that setup to see if I can get the TV to work, thanks!