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Orbi and ATT Uverse IPTV
Today I reconfigured my network to move all remaining traffic onto the Orbi, including IPTV. For those outside the US, one of the vendors that sells IPTV service is ATT and their product is called U...
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I hear ya. Hate getting old. :smileyvery-happy:
I do wonder if this setting would help with Orbi and working with managed switches. There settings seem to have IGMP protocols enabled which don't work well with Orbi. If the protocol is disable on the switch, then Orbi works well. Possible this feature maybe the cause for managed swtiches and ethernet backhaul configurations. :smileyfrustrated:
You are likely right on that. Something about IGMP snooping support comes to mind. Back when I first got Uverse service, I learned the hard way not to commingle computer and IPTV traffic, so the solution was to put them on separate independent switches, which I still have setup. However I think the Netgear ProSafe switch I have installed may be capable of handling IGMP traffic, and I may test that out later. If it worked, would be another simplification on the physical wiring side. If I knew there was a measurable performance impact, I'd still leaving IPTV on a separate physical LAN port, but from what I see now, the non DVR settop box is working flawlessly and no issues reported.
Well would certainly like to know. IGMP has been problematic with Orbi since users first mentioned this about a year or two ago that he stumbled upon the setting in his managed switch and after disabling it, Orbi and his system started working well. So I've brought this up when users mention manages switchs or asking about ethernet backhaul with any kind of switch thus I recommend non managed for the most part.
Alright, I'll do the test when I can but also have to get into attic to confirm the model number of the switch. It was given to me by ATT in one of the service calls as I had tremendous teething problems with the service early on.
I also remember and posted in the thread I think you're referring to about the user that was first trying this out. Perhaps the earlier version of Orbi firmware didn't have proper support for IGMPv3 but it's clearly shown in the management console now.
If I could actually convert my family to using the Uverse app, I could hide the settop from plain sight! A nice aspect of other streaming boxes like AFTV and AppleTV.