What I need?
- router with gigabit ports
- VLAN support
- WiFi 2.4/5GHz
- IGMP Snooping (nice to have)
- easy firmware update (without any issue such like reset to default settings after update)
- most important there shouldn't be any multicast packet drop (i.e. no pixels squares) during testing procedure
Testing configuration looks like
- internet tariff: 300 Mb/s download and 150 Mb/s upload
- two laptops in LAN ports 1 and 2
- one STB MAG 255 in LAN port 3 with full HD stream
- one IPTV multicast probe STB-1001S2 with IPERF in LAN port 4
What did the test procedure look like?
- download multiple torrents to saturate of tariff limits
- flooooofig with
hping3 --flood IP - parallel download 10GB files to two laptops
Which router did I tested?
- Uplink WR1200AC => FAIL
- Totolink A3002RU => FAIL
- RB951G-2HnD => FAIL
- D-Link DIR-842 C3 => FAIL
- D-Link DIR-825/EE rev G1 => PASS
- TP-Link Archer C6 v2.0 => FAIL
- TP-Link Archer C5 v4.0 (no VLAN support) => FAIL
All failed routers generates STBPlayer: TS Continuity Counter error on multicast probe.
Only one D-Link DIR-825/EE pass all test.
What problem registred multicast probe?
.. and tested Mikrotik configuration