Joey Works Without Coax Cable?
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BTW I am told that what works today may not work tomorrow as they continue to refine and upgrade the network stack on the Joeys. Again only coax to the Joey's is officially supported.
Dish may not support it. I am however, happy it works. I now can remove that coax cable laying across the yard to the studio. I won't have the expense and time into burying the line. I don't expect dish to fix anything. I would have installed my new hopper system if I could have. This is just a great bonus that give me flexibility.
In my days at a mainframe computer corporation, users would often find little features that were no defined by the company. They would build operational procedures around the undefined feature.
Then when the new operating system release came out and the undefined feature was no longer there, the users would bitch and cry about what the vendor had done. There was no sympathy for users who used undefined features by the vendor.
I can see the crying that will occur if a firmware release of the Hopper no longer works on Ethernet.
Then when the new operating system release came out and the undefined feature was no longer there, the users would bitch and cry about what the vendor had done. There was no sympathy for users who used undefined features by the vendor.
I can see the crying that will occur if a firmware release of the Hopper no longer works on Ethernet.
This is the point I am trying to get across. What works today might not work tomorrow.
I think they'll have the right to cry, because, supported or not, acknowledged or not, there is NO moral reason to remove a working feature which is harming nothing.
This is yet another reason that we should be able to use our own receivers with American providers. The rest of the world must be laughing, if they even bother to look at what a ridiculous setup we have here due to nothing other than corporate greed.
Just tested this on mine, disconnected the coax, picture froze but after a few seconds, it resumed on ethernet. Reconnected the coax and after a few seconds, it switched back to coax. Wow, I'm impressed.
This means the mythical Sling Player is here now, and works in multiples! If the wifi stick works, you truly have a portable Dish TV for use around the house.
This means the mythical Sling Player is here now, and works in multiples! If the wifi stick works, you truly have a portable Dish TV for use around the house.
rglore said:
Fully redundant Joey networks MoCA and Ethernet thats pretty cool should never be with out TV now.
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If anything, i think it will work better as they refine it on the Joeys. For the self install/DIY crowd, this is a pretty nice little thing.
Of course, i wouldn't get "dependent" on it working and have a backup plan if this does have issues.
(Not that i'll ever be trying this myself on a permanent basis since I have RG6 everywhere I need)
Wow I am impressed with the response to this thread. Wonder if I will get free service for a year or if Dish's MiB will be out later today to collect their equipment.
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towboy123 said:
Do your Joeys and hoppers have IP addresses and on the same network. Any firewalls or port level security on your switch? Can you ping both the hopper and Joey ips from a computer? Might want to reset the network connections in the network setting menu.
I am just using a 6 year old linksys 100Mbps switch/ wifi AP so I know the backplane is very small compared to even a basic managed enterprise switch.
This might be why it's not a supported connection method.
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Some of us "thought" we saw the future and wired our houses in GigE. Not 19th century tech like coax... UTP Ethernet!
Agree with CulpeperUplink (and others). This is a great feature. IMHO it should be left in the firmware, if not supported, in perpetuity. It should not be ripped out because of some perverse "logic" at E*.
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TheKrell,
The physical layer of the connection is not Ethernet. Ethernet runs just fine on coax. Thicknet and thinnet were both coaxial based and ran before twisted pair.
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The physical layer of the connection is not Ethernet. Ethernet runs just fine on coax. Thicknet and thinnet were both coaxial based and ran before twisted pair.
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Dish should spend more time fixing the ondemand than trying to disable this.
The OnDemand hoses my internet connection. It pretty much maxes it out by default. Good luck trying to do netflix, gaming, youtube, or pretty much anything else on your internet connection while that's happening.
The OnDemand hoses my internet connection. It pretty much maxes it out by default. Good luck trying to do netflix, gaming, youtube, or pretty much anything else on your internet connection while that's happening.
I would think that the disabling of Joey video connections over ethernet, if it does occur, would be more of a "collateral damage" situation from enabling some other ethernet feature. I doubt it would be something actively worked on to disable for the sake of disabling it.
