I have every room in my house wired for ethernet and, as mentioned in an earlier post, some of my Humax boxes are wired thru two or three switches before the router, all without problems. So the use of switches cannot in itself be the cause of your problems. Faust continually extols the virtues of using powerline, and no harm to them in the right situation, but nothing can beat hardwired.
My Humax Forum » Freesat HD » HDR 1000, 1010, 1100S
My HDR-1000S 1TB is locking up my home network!
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| Wed 13 Apr 2016 15:31:54 #51 |
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Pollensa1946 - 11 minutes ago »
I have every room in my house wired for ethernet and, as mentioned in an earlier post, some of my Humax boxes are wired thru two or three switches before the router, all without problems. So the use of switches cannot in itself be the cause of your problems. Faust continually extols the virtues of using powerline, and no harm to them in the right situation, but nothing can beat hardwired.I too have all rooms with PCs/TVs wired for ethernet.
Only used the powerlines to connect the Humax directly to the HH5 so that I could bypass the Netgear switches. Left this running for around 24 hours and there were no problems.
Yesterday afternoon I added in the upstairs switch. To date everything is running fine with both upstairs and downstairs PCs able to access the Internet.
Next, I will add in the downstairs Netgear switch at position 3) and see how that works. This will be back to the orginal configuration that was causing the lockups except that the Panasonic TV's CEC (Viera Link) has now been switched off!
Note: during all of this Wireshark will be monitoring the network traffic from/to the Humax box.
Could the Panasonic TV's CEC being enabled cause the lockups?
Paul
| Wed 13 Apr 2016 16:07:31 #52 | -
You would not think so but if the problem does not reoccur then turning it on again should give a clue with Wireshark monitoring.
Also in IT for 25 years, not in networks but did do a MCSE as an add-on interest.
| Wed 13 Apr 2016 16:13:08 #53 | -
PaulMcI - 8 minutes ago » ...Could the Panasonic TV's CEC being on be the cause of the lockups?...
My own experience is that the Humax implementation is so variable with regard to which make of TV it is plugged into that I no longer use it at all. So the only way is to do as Repassac advises.
| Wed 13 Apr 2016 16:19:48 #54 | -
REPASSAC - 4 minutes ago »
... Also in IT for 25 years, not in networks but did do a MCSE as an add-on interest.I was working as a Civil Engineer for 8 years until a certain Mrs Thatcher came to power (you are probably too young to remember her!) and made huge cuts in public spending which caused me to be made redundant. Luckily I was able to immediately enrol in a one year University MSc course in Computer Science & Applications and the following September get a job in IT with the UK's largest telecom firm.
| Wed 13 Apr 2016 16:39:45 #55 | -
Pollensa1946 - 33 minutes ago »
My own experience is that the Humax implementation is so variable with regard to which make of TV it is plugged into that I no longer use it at all. So the only way is to do as Repassac advises.The behaviour of the BT YouView (Humax) box's CEC has also changed recently.
My YouView box is connected to a Samsung TV in our front room and my wife found it very easy to use as all she had to do was press the power button on the YouView remote and the TV powered up showing the YouView screen.
Pressing the power button on the YouView remote now wakes the TV but doesn't display the YouView screen! This really confuses/annoys my wife and I am called to sort it out each time!!
In this case CEC was very useful.
| Wed 13 Apr 2016 17:04:41 #56 | -
PaulMcI - 51 minutes ago »
REPASSAC - 4 minutes ago »
... Also in IT for 25 years, not in networks but did do a MCSE as an add-on interest.I was working as a Civil Engineer for 8 years until a certain Mrs Thatcher came to power (you are probably too young to remember her!) and made huge cuts in public spending which caused me to be made redundant. Luckily I was able to immediately enrol in a one year University MSc course in Computer Science & Applications and the following September get a job in IT with the UK's largest telecom firm.
So how do you view it now, as a negative or positive outcome, really interested.
| Wed 13 Apr 2016 17:32:52 #57 | -
Pollensa1946 - 2 hours ago »
I have every room in my house wired for ethernet and, as mentioned in an earlier post, some of my Humax boxes are wired thru two or three switches before the router, all without problems. So the use of switches cannot in itself be the cause of your problems. Faust continually extols the virtues of using powerline, and no harm to them in the right situation, but nothing can beat hardwired.Technically your devices are hard wired with homeplugs. I actually use a combination of network switches and homeplugs for a faultless network experience.
| Wed 13 Apr 2016 17:53:34 #58 | -
REPASSAC - 25 minutes ago »
So how do you view it now, as a negative or positive outcome, really interested.Very positive!
I was interested in ways of reducing the tedium in the Civil Engineering Consultancy firm and had managed to programme the parabolic design of vertical road curves into a Compucorp programmable calculator with storage of only 416 commands. This reduced the design on the calulators we had back then (only had add, subtract, multiply and divide with ability to store one number) from over an hour to under 5 minutes with the results printed out on 2" wide paper tape which could be attached to the design.
So on the day I got my notice, and being very interested in computers/programming, I went to the University next door which just happened to have an open day in the Computer Science department. I explained my situation to the man in charge of the Computer Science & Applications MSc course and got on the course starting at the beginning of October.
I had to pay the course fees because I couldn't get a grant at such short notice so I used my redundancy money and got my tax back for the year and this paid for the University course.
But this worked out great for me as my starting salary in IT was £3,300 more than my old job (Civil Engineering did not pay very well back then and probably still doesn't)!
Another advantage of moving into IT was that I didn't have to work outside in the rain and wind any more!!
| Wed 13 Apr 2016 18:23:51 #59 | -
Faust - 1 hour ago » ...Technically your devices are hard wired with homeplugs. I actually use a combination of network switches and homeplugs for a faultless network experience
If you knew anything about ethernet protocols I think you would agree that powerlines are a compromise solution. Otherwise, why don't major mission critical installations use powerlines, which of course they never will.
| Wed 13 Apr 2016 19:12:16 #60 |
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