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Re: [southwest] New Install Scheduled, I have some concerns thou No secret you just need some way to get data to your Set tops over the coax unless you want to run cat 5 to each set top. This is what the NIM is doing for you. |
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 More FiberPremium,MVM
join:2005-09-26
West Chester, PA
kudos:18 | said by Fireguyy:No secret you just need some way to get data to your Set tops over the coax unless you want to run cat 5 to each set top. This is what the NIM is doing for you. The OP did not say anything about FiOS-TV. Without FiOS-TV he has no need for either the Actiontec or a NIM.
Even if he is getting FiOS-TV now, or in the future, with a cat-5 connection to the ONT, he can put the Actiontec behind his Cisco for VOD and Guide data.
BTW, there is no point in running cat-5 for the STB's. The SD STBs don't have an RJ45 connector and the one on the HD boxes is not enabled. |
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said by Fireguyy:No secret you just need some way to get data to your Set tops over the coax unless you want to run cat 5 to each set top. This is what the NIM is doing for you. What? Guide and VOD does not come from the router. the router is necessary so the STBs can access the Verizon guide and VOD server via the internet.
SLING,
The NIM also provides for a MOCA LAN so the STBs can talk to each other. I am not sure if you could replicate all of that in the Cisco. The STBs talk to each other via the 169.xxx.xxx.xxx IP addressing scheme, but they talk to the router via 192.168.1.100-199. The .100+ range has been allocated for STBs. If you have other devices assigned static IPs in the .100 range you will have several conflicts and issue. |
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Hajman
join:2001-12-17
Phoenixville, PA
3 edits | said by FiberTechV:The STBs talk to each other via the 169.xxx.xxx.xxx IP addressing scheme, but they talk to the router via 192.168.1.100-199. The .100+ range has been allocated for STBs. If you have other devices assigned static IPs in the .100 range you will have several conflicts and issue. Actually, the STBs are just setup as DHCP clients. I know this for a fact because I am provisioned using ethernet, I use my own router (a Dlink DGL-4300) and have configured the router to hand out predefined IP addresses on the basis of the device's MAC address. The STBs will take whatever IP address I choose for it.
To the extent that you are correct about the range, I think that the Actiontec and other Verizon supplied routers are simply coded to give IP addresses to the STBs in the ranges you quote.
To the OP, I agree that double NATing of VOD and guide data should not be an issue. That said, ethernet provisioning to your own router together with a NIM is a cleaner install |
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