Wireless receiver and INID

[raggmopp2001]

Any idea when the wireless receiver will be available for use with INID?

[JefferMC ACE - Wizard]

I wouldn't hold my breath.  The architecture of how the signals from the iNID are fed into the home makes this an issue.

[SomeJoe7777 ACE - Geek]

The iNID has 4 ports outside:

1. HPNA over Coax. This is usually used to feed set-top boxes for IPTV.
2. HPNA over twisted pair. This is usually used to feed the i38HG, and therefore all computers.
3. User Ethernet port. By default, disabled, but can be enabled in the web interface. Usually not connected and not used.
4. Technician Ethernet port. Enabled, but never connected to the user's wiring. I don't know if you can access the Internet or the IPTV over this port.

Anyway, if the homeowner has a spare Cat5e cable going out to the iNID, you could theoretically terminate it, plug it into the user Ethernet port, and turn that port on in the web interface. Then inside, plug that cable into the 802.11n wireless access point to feed the wireless STBs.

[Palatka]

I've experimented with my INID some since it is easily accessible and located inside the house versus outside.

The ethernet port works fine for internet access as long as you feed all STB's via coax. Mixing internet and multicast traffic will cause slow internet, etc.

The I38HG can also be fed via the ethernet port. Just disconnect the "green" data line on the 138HG and go straight to the ethernet port, or in my case via a 108T netgear switch V1.

The technician access port can be used for internet. However it uses the 172.16.0.X IP range in DHCP versus 192-168.1.X range.

The technician port cannot be used for STB's It blocks Multicast. STB's will only briefly show the unicast IP video before it blacks out.

Palatka

[texasguy37 ACE - Champion]

Some U-verse technicians had a discussion on this topic on the Uverseusers.com forum.

http://www.uverseusers.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=2&topic=18725.0

[JefferMC ACE - Wizard]

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SomeJoe7777 wrote:
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Anyway, if the homeowner has a spare Cat5e cable going out to the iNID, you could theoretically terminate it, plug it into the user Ethernet port, and turn that port on in the web interface. Then inside, plug that cable into the 802.11n wireless access point to feed the wireless STBs.

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But wouldn't you have to (manually) turn it back on every time the iNID rebooted?

[SomeJoe7777 ACE - Geek]

I believe the setting will survive a reboot. But it will turn back to the default (off) on a factory reset.

[Palatka]

Rebooting the INID does not turn the port back to the off state. I have booted my INID several times and none of my manual changes in the INID have been lost. Ie...IP address allocation, STB naming, eithernet port activation, setting new password, etc. I think that ONLY a factory reset will change your settings. Palatka

[JefferMC ACE - Wizard]

Ah, okay.

[ttorrez8]

answer to your ? on the tech port yes you can access the internet and or iptv

[unrtechie]

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raggmopp2001 wrote:

Any idea when the wireless receiver will be available for use with INID?

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There's a fix in the works and should be ready shortly.  They are putting together the necessary infrastructure to do it.  The recent updates to the iNID have corrected the issues that were being encountered previously.  There's going to be only one way to install it and they will have to be setup correctly.

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[bauwls]

Wireless Receiver with iNID will be offered to new customers beginning 9/16/12. I believe the preferred connection is the WAP on the inside unit. The issue before was the iNID pruned multicast IPTV traffic as to not congest the inside unit. I haven't heard what exactly the fix was, but IPTV traffic (atleast for the Wireless receivers) is now allowed on the inside unit.... tomorrow.