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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
They always insist that each "engineer" visit starts in your premises and works backwards towards the exchange. They kept blaming my in house wiring for intermittent ADSL faults 10 years ago, but given I don't have any and am plugged into the master socket for everything that was rubbish. After...- Owen Smith
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- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
I see plenty of lack of evidence on all sides in recent posts on this thread. For example I have no evidence of most ethernet switches being unmanaged, but others equally have no evidence of the opposite. So we'll have to call it quits and move on.- Owen Smith
- Post #390
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
And in my experience they will complain about how poorly their wifi works at the opposite end of the house from the router where they actually want to use it, while failing to do anything about it. When I suggest either moving the router or adding ethernet switches and a separate wifi base...- Owen Smith
- Post #388
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
What is it with hummy.tv? Why is there so much attacking people? I'm not in the same county at the moment, but it's only the best selling gigabit ethernet switch. EDIT: NetGear GS108. Built so solidly that they and cockroaches will be sharing the post nuclear blast world.- Owen Smith
- Post #386
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
Most ethernet switches are unmanaged. That's exactly what happens on my NetGear gigabit switches.- Owen Smith
- Post #384
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
Your router will have another MAC address for your home network hard wired ethernet ports. The world facing connection is ADSL or VDSL (assuming you are using an all in one router) and doesn't work the same way. MAC addresses are ethernert/wifi things. Ethernet switches don't have MAC...- Owen Smith
- Post #382
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
Wifi base stations have MAC addresses. Often they're printed on a label underneath.- Owen Smith
- Post #380
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
But if you check wifi basestations they list two separate MACs, one for 2.4 and one for 5 GHz. It may depend on whether the device is capable of using both simultaneously, basestations are and phones often are not.- Owen Smith
- Post #375
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
Bear in mind 2.4GHz and 5GHz on the same device have different MAC addresses. Other than that possibility I have no answer.- Owen Smith
- Post #371
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
The Humax boxes don't rotate their MAC addresses. I doubt much home AV gear does, there's no point it doesn't get used on the move. But yes if your phone is rotating MAC addresses and you give it a meaningful name on your home wifi, the name will be lost (attached to an unused MAC) next time...- Owen Smith
- Post #369
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
That's still done within the manufacturers' allocated MAC address ranges, indeed many of them got new allocated ranges for this purpose. I don't know how they avoid clashes, possibly by listening for any duplicates and switching address if they spot one? Security wise what it means is you can't...- Owen Smith
- Post #366
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
By definition MAC addresses are globally unique. The first 6 digits are allocated to a manufacturer and then they're required to allocate the remaining 6 digits to the products they manufacture in a unique way. If you ever find duplicate MAC addresses someone has been playing silly buggers. I...- Owen Smith
- Post #364
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
Irrelevant, you can have as many SSIDs as you like creating wifi networks which all use one DHCP server. Wifi and DHCP have nothing to do with each other and operate at different levels of the network stack. Wifi basically acts as a replacement for network cables and ethernet switches operating...- Owen Smith
- Post #361
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
What a strange concept having a wifi extender do DHCP. It's supposed to be extending the wifi, DHCP operates at an entirely different level in the network stack. Once the wifi extension is working, the normal DHCP server should be accessible from anywhere on the network, and adding a second one...- Owen Smith
- Post #358
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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HDR-FOX T2 HDD Replacement
My understanding is Foxsats are a bit different. The hardware is older and quite a bit slower, and the custom firmware has a different history having started as an entirely separate effort by Raydon who appears to have vanished off the scene a few years ago.- Owen Smith
- Post #159
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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fixdisk found corrupt block in queue.db, any action needed to recover?
I found it by running fix-disk in the first place. I believe the bad block gets remapped at that point when found, sometimes the old contents can be recovered with lots of re-reads and written to the remapped block but this one could not, which leads to a file with all working blocks but one of...- Owen Smith
- Post #6
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
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fixdisk found corrupt block in queue.db, any action needed to recover?
Well I renamed it to queue.db_old and rebooted and a new queue.db was created so I guess I'm good now. I'm going to run a long hard disk test. This is the first bad block ever shown on this box so it may be time to see if there are more.- Owen Smith
- Post #4
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
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fixdisk found corrupt block in queue.db, any action needed to recover?
It's the fact I should delete it and the custom firmware won't sort itself out automatically that is what I needed to know, thanks.- Owen Smith
- Post #3
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
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fixdisk found corrupt block in queue.db, any action needed to recover?
My HDR Fox T2 ground almost to a halt so I ran fixdisk and it found a corrupt block in queue.db. Do I need to do anything to recover fully ie will customised firmware now be not doing some processing eg. auto decrypt? Error given for the file was: The following file contains a corrupt block and...- Owen Smith
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- Replies: 5
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
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Video killed the radio star
Ken Bruce is essential listening for me and my parents, and Simon Mayo for me. But Freeview wasn't a good way to listen, it's a faff turning the TV and Humax on and if I recall correctly it was in mono anyway like lots of radio stations on Freeview. My best audio quality for Greatest Hits Radio...- Owen Smith
- Post #5
- Forum: Freeview
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
They always insist that each "engineer" visit starts in your premises and works backwards towards the exchange. They kept blaming my in house wiring for intermittent ADSL faults 10 years ago, but given I don't have any and am plugged into the master socket for everything that was rubbish. After...- Owen Smith
- Post #397
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
I see plenty of lack of evidence on all sides in recent posts on this thread. For example I have no evidence of most ethernet switches being unmanaged, but others equally have no evidence of the opposite. So we'll have to call it quits and move on.- Owen Smith
- Post #390
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
And in my experience they will complain about how poorly their wifi works at the opposite end of the house from the router where they actually want to use it, while failing to do anything about it. When I suggest either moving the router or adding ethernet switches and a separate wifi base...- Owen Smith
- Post #388
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
What is it with hummy.tv? Why is there so much attacking people? I'm not in the same county at the moment, but it's only the best selling gigabit ethernet switch. EDIT: NetGear GS108. Built so solidly that they and cockroaches will be sharing the post nuclear blast world.- Owen Smith
- Post #386
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
Most ethernet switches are unmanaged. That's exactly what happens on my NetGear gigabit switches.- Owen Smith
- Post #384
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
Your router will have another MAC address for your home network hard wired ethernet ports. The world facing connection is ADSL or VDSL (assuming you are using an all in one router) and doesn't work the same way. MAC addresses are ethernert/wifi things. Ethernet switches don't have MAC...- Owen Smith
- Post #382
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
Wifi base stations have MAC addresses. Often they're printed on a label underneath.- Owen Smith
- Post #380
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
But if you check wifi basestations they list two separate MACs, one for 2.4 and one for 5 GHz. It may depend on whether the device is capable of using both simultaneously, basestations are and phones often are not.- Owen Smith
- Post #375
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
Bear in mind 2.4GHz and 5GHz on the same device have different MAC addresses. Other than that possibility I have no answer.- Owen Smith
- Post #371
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
The Humax boxes don't rotate their MAC addresses. I doubt much home AV gear does, there's no point it doesn't get used on the move. But yes if your phone is rotating MAC addresses and you give it a meaningful name on your home wifi, the name will be lost (attached to an unused MAC) next time...- Owen Smith
- Post #369
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
That's still done within the manufacturers' allocated MAC address ranges, indeed many of them got new allocated ranges for this purpose. I don't know how they avoid clashes, possibly by listening for any duplicates and switching address if they spot one? Security wise what it means is you can't...- Owen Smith
- Post #366
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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O
Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
By definition MAC addresses are globally unique. The first 6 digits are allocated to a manufacturer and then they're required to allocate the remaining 6 digits to the products they manufacture in a unique way. If you ever find duplicate MAC addresses someone has been playing silly buggers. I...- Owen Smith
- Post #364
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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O
Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
Irrelevant, you can have as many SSIDs as you like creating wifi networks which all use one DHCP server. Wifi and DHCP have nothing to do with each other and operate at different levels of the network stack. Wifi basically acts as a replacement for network cables and ethernet switches operating...- Owen Smith
- Post #361
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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O
Options for Domestic Wired Networking / Broadband
What a strange concept having a wifi extender do DHCP. It's supposed to be extending the wifi, DHCP operates at an entirely different level in the network stack. Once the wifi extension is working, the normal DHCP server should be accessible from anywhere on the network, and adding a second one...- Owen Smith
- Post #358
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
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HDR-FOX T2 HDD Replacement
My understanding is Foxsats are a bit different. The hardware is older and quite a bit slower, and the custom firmware has a different history having started as an entirely separate effort by Raydon who appears to have vanished off the scene a few years ago.- Owen Smith
- Post #159
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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fixdisk found corrupt block in queue.db, any action needed to recover?
I found it by running fix-disk in the first place. I believe the bad block gets remapped at that point when found, sometimes the old contents can be recovered with lots of re-reads and written to the remapped block but this one could not, which leads to a file with all working blocks but one of...- Owen Smith
- Post #6
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
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fixdisk found corrupt block in queue.db, any action needed to recover?
Well I renamed it to queue.db_old and rebooted and a new queue.db was created so I guess I'm good now. I'm going to run a long hard disk test. This is the first bad block ever shown on this box so it may be time to see if there are more.- Owen Smith
- Post #4
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
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fixdisk found corrupt block in queue.db, any action needed to recover?
It's the fact I should delete it and the custom firmware won't sort itself out automatically that is what I needed to know, thanks.- Owen Smith
- Post #3
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
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fixdisk found corrupt block in queue.db, any action needed to recover?
My HDR Fox T2 ground almost to a halt so I ran fixdisk and it found a corrupt block in queue.db. Do I need to do anything to recover fully ie will customised firmware now be not doing some processing eg. auto decrypt? Error given for the file was: The following file contains a corrupt block and...- Owen Smith
- Thread
- Replies: 5
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
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Video killed the radio star
Ken Bruce is essential listening for me and my parents, and Simon Mayo for me. But Freeview wasn't a good way to listen, it's a faff turning the TV and Humax on and if I recall correctly it was in mono anyway like lots of radio stations on Freeview. My best audio quality for Greatest Hits Radio...- Owen Smith
- Post #5
- Forum: Freeview