SCS_john
join:2012-06-22
Saint Clair Shores, MI | Ethernet on Ultra TV Are the Ethernet ports on the back of the receivers transmit the Internet? Or are they JUST phone jacks?
Thank you. |
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@wideopenwest.com | Ethernet just like a wired router. |
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 WOW_DanPremium
join:2011-03-24
Naperville, IL
kudos:22 | The ethernet ports are disabled on the media players. On the gateway, those are your router ports for the internet. |
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 smunro622Premium
join:2006-02-15
Madison Heights, MI | reply to SCS_john
Dan
what is the reason for disabling them? i would prefer the cat 6 over the coax i have |
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SCS_john
join:2012-06-22
Saint Clair Shores, MI | reply to WOW_Dan
Any future plans on utilizing them? I rent a house and my gateway is upstairs, and the players are downstairs. |
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WOW_DanPremium
join:2011-03-24
Naperville, IL
kudos:22 | reply to SCS_john
There is no current plan to utilize the ethernet ports. We are using MoCA only at this time. I have no more information to provide on this unfortunately. |
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SCS_john
join:2012-06-22
Saint Clair Shores, MI | said by WOW_Dan:There is no current plan to utilize the ethernet ports. We are using MoCA only at this time. I have no more information to provide on this unfortunately.
Well if the MoCA connection means its all coaxial connection, why couldn't there be a way for the gate way to connect the Internet the same way as the video does? If the gateway and the players speak to each other through the cables for the video, then the Internet should be able to do the same. I'm not engineer or master tech, but I know quite a bit about networking, so I see that as a possibility, and it would make the home networking a whole lot easier, as to gamers for example. Like myself, in my situation, I would be able to hook up my playstation to the box for the Internet, and not have to run a 150+ feet Internet wire along my upstairs, and down my stairway, and through my living room. And then I wouldn't have latency issues, because I would have a wired connection rather than the loss of speed with my wireless. I'm just trying to make a suggestion and give some opinion on the topic for some customer satisfaction that would come your way if the ports would be utilized. Because the ports are already on the players, it's just the matter of utilizing them, and working around to make them function.
Or is there a major detail that I'm missing that makes this impossible? Lol |
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said by WOW_Dan:There is no current plan to utilize the ethernet ports. We are using MoCA only at this time. I have no more information to provide on this unfortunately.
I'm not knocking WOW for disabling the ethernet ports, as it would be another feature that requires support which means more $ passed to the consumer (especially for a feature that so few people would use).
But just for fun, in a perfect world I'd like the media player to function as a MoCA-ethernet bridge so I could hook up my SlingBox (which does not have wifi) directly to the media player instead of having to use a wireless bridge. |
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WOW_DanPremium
join:2011-03-24
Naperville, IL
kudos:22 | reply to SCS_john
We have explored the possibility of using the ethernet port to bridge ethernet to MoCA as you've mentioned, but at this time it's not in the design of the equipment. It's up to the manufacturer to create support for that. We've requested it, but I wouldn't be able to tell you if it's in the works, or even at all possible without needing new hardware. |
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