Hi Jonathan, I am in the process of migrating this site and appreciate your comment was two years ago.

For the time being I have made a few updates to the article and imported some of the old configuration photos, I recommend opening those in a new tab to see them in full size.

I have personally stopped using DD-WRT because of the increasing number of bugs I kept encountering and having trouble with stable releases. I have moved on to pfSense over the last year.

Regarding your question, I didn’t use any VLANs. The crux of the setup is setting up a bridge and enabling IGMP snooping, pretty much exactly as the config images indicate.

Hi

I am having a similar issue but do not have any vlan’s set up. If I run through your instructions I get the BT ‘whats on’ channel to work but I lose any connection to the wan. I think I need some help with networking

I don’t know if the Linksys firmware support IGMP. If it’s a newer router most the manufacturers released updated firmware to support Multicast. I would first look into whether Linksys has supplied that in their latest release.

Otherwise this router is DD-WRT compatible. The link to the latest build is below.

ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/betas/2017/08-29-2017-r33257/linksys-wrt3200acm/

There should be several guides out there on flashing this router.

I’ve been personally eyeing up the Linksys WRT1900ACS as my next DD-WRT project, but am waiting to confirm whether Virgin Media has fixed their broken Modem mode on the Super Hub 3.

Cheers,

Blag

I have recently purchased a Linksys WRT3200ACM to replace my BT Home Hub 5. The Linksys is connected to an BT Openreach modem Unfortunately I am stuck trying to get my BT TV subscribed channels to work. There appears no set up for IGMP on the router.

Kind regards
Jean-Paul

Looking further down on the port setup page you should have the option to set the WAN port assignment, in this br0. Then configure the interfaces you want included in that bridge. Those would include your VLANs, ethernet, and Wi-Fi.

The carousel has an example image following the Bridging setup.

Each router might be a little different, in my case it’s an Atheros chipset. Hence the Wi-Fi is ath0 and ath1 for the 2.4 and 5GHz bands.

Good luck!

-Blag

Thank you for this guide, it has been a great help in getting setup with BT Vision. However i am stuck on one point and i was hoping you may have some updated information.

Back in 2015 Marty posted that as soon as he switched to br0 as the WAN port it killed his internet. I have the same issue myself.
I assign vlan 1 and 2 to br0 but as soon as i switch to br0 the VLC test stream works but no more internet on wifi or Ethernet.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

For out of the box compatibility I bought a used ECI Openreach modem. These are already set to Bridge mode at the expense of being locked down.

If you have an unlocked modem, connect it to your computer, match its IP address (assuming it has DHCP enabled), and log into it. Try fishing around for default credentials. From there it will be a matter of matching the VDSL VPI settings for your ISP.

I haven’t had a look at the innards of this modem so that’s about all I can say at the moment. Alternatively the Draytek 130 is a good open firmware modem that you can set to Bridge mode as well as having access to.

Can you remember how you set the ECI B-Focus V-2FUB into bridged mode?

Thanks

Rich

Hi Benoit,

I have not had any problems configuring IGMP to enable IPTV on any of these builds using the above guide.

I’m currently using r30605 and have been updating firmware and not resetting the router when promising builds come up. I did at some point in the last year perform a fresh installation on both my routers. My current networking table is exactly the same as the one pictured above.

-Blag

Did you get BT IPTV running on any of the recent build as well?

Your post refers to an older build but so far I have not been able to find evidence that it also works on the newer builds.

If not, then I will try r25697 which is the version you said for sure works when you wrote this post.

Regards,
Benoit