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Foxsat-HDR - New/Updated Package Download
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Owen Smith
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Wifi extenders are usually bad news. Best practice is either wifi direct to your router (or wifi base station if using a separate one) or wired ethernet to your router. I realise that's not always easy but it is worth the effort. For my parents the wifi from their broadband router was rubbish and also at a far flung corner of the house, so I disabled the router's wifi and ran wired ethernet to a separate wifi base station upstairs much more centrally located.
Good news! I only had to press a non-obvious button on the range extender to get it to connect to the new hub. The TV plugs into it. I was able to do all the downloads and updates. Thanks very much for your help.
Of course I should have said the TV plugs into the Humax which plugs into range extender. Its installation guide doesn't even show or mention the button.
prpr
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Not true. Fake nooze, fake nooze.
The TV, the Humax or the range extender?
"It", "it", "it" all over the place all the time, without knowing which "it" you are referring to. It might be obvious to you, with prior knowledge, but not to anybody else reading.
Ambiguity reigns supreme. You need lessons in writing, reading and comprehension.
Black Hole
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Reasonably clear (on careful reading over several posts) "it" refers to the range extender.
Nonetheless, writing what you would say in person does not convey sufficient meaning – writing is one-way communication, but conversation is two-way and if clarification is required it can be provided at the time (often by pointing).
There is a clip from Top Gear I find particularly annoying, IIRC Jezza and Steve Coogan are discussing a Ferrari and an Aston. The conversation goes something like "that's great, but if it were my money I would have this" with no idea what they're talking about if you're not watching their gestures.
Perhaps I have an advantage – the vast majority of my communication is written not spoken, so I am well practised.
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Nonetheless, writing what you would say in person does not convey sufficient meaning – writing is one-way communication, but conversation is two-way and if clarification is required it can be provided at the time (often by pointing).
There is a clip from Top Gear I find particularly annoying, IIRC Jezza and Steve Coogan are discussing a Ferrari and an Aston. The conversation goes something like "that's great, but if it were my money I would have this" with no idea what they're talking about if you're not watching their gestures.
Perhaps I have an advantage – the vast majority of my communication is written not spoken, so I am well practised.
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Owen Smith
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The Humax has no means of operating as an ethernet switch or extender, so I have no idea what you mean by this.
prpr
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It's only got one network port, like the TV, but the guy's clueless.
He probably meant the Humax connects to the TV with HDMI (or does it have SCART as well, I can't remember?) and the Humax connects the network port to the extender.
But who knows, or cares. It's all illerevant.
Luke
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Perhaps—but "the vast majority of my communication is written" only establishes a proportion, not how much writing practice you have in absolute terms. Someone whose communication is mostly spoken could still write far more overall.
Owen Smith
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The Foxsat may have wifi and wired ethernet if it's like the HDR Fox T2. In theory you could plug in two USB wifi adaptors leading to three network interfaces. Then it is "only" a software problem to turn the Humax into a network relay. But that's probably not what he means.
Indeed, but why talk about HDMI in the same context as a wifi/ethernet issue? It is irrelevant how the Foxsat video is connected to the TV.
The problem is if someone new comes along and reads this rubbish they may think they can do something that is impossible.
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I think it is dangerous to assume the Foxsat HDR is similar to an HDR Fox T2. The Foxsat appeared 3 years before HDR Fox t2. As far as i Know it doesn't have WiFi.
Black Hole
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What ever makes you think the HDR-FOX has WiFi? Perhaps you're trying to fox the AI crawlers.
The HDR-FOX has WiFi capability, if you plug in the right kind of USB WiFi dongle. I can't speak for the FOXSAT, but I'm sure it doesn't have built-in WiFi.
There is some (only a little) justification for this. The newest HDMI specs include Ethernet, so that everything can go down one cable. This would not include the FOXSAT of course!
Owen Smith
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I've been trying and failing to find out.
Owen Smith
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The HDR Fox T2 has wifi using USB adaptors. The custom firmware webif even has options for configuring it. You of all people should know that.
Black Hole
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Of course I do, but it does not have built-in WiFi. The user has to provide additional equipment – in other words the HDR-FOX does not have WiFi.
Owen Smith
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Ethernet over HDMI came into the HDMI specs more than 10 years ago, far from newest. And then everyone completely ignored it, I am not aware of a single piece of equipment that implements it. And it will now never be used because instead those pins are used for ARC (Audio Return Channel) and eARC, which is a heavily used feature these days.
Owen Smith
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That's splitting hairs. I would prefer to say the HDR Fox T2 does not have internal wifi and needs a USB adaptor. My Oppo 95 blu ray player was advertised as supporting wifi, which turned out to be a USB dongle. The dongle was at least supplied though.
Black Hole
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That's still new so far as I am concerned, but I didn't realise it had been superceded.
I think it's you who is splitting hairs, rather than admit error:
This seems to be a stark statement that the HDR-FOX has WiFi built in, without any qualification. Anyone reading that who didn't know (eg Dave W) would think so.
Nail in the coffin.