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antzac67
Aspirant
May 12, 2021

GSS108E Switch is not supporting 4K media streaming

I'm new on this community and this is my first post. I have two GSS108E Netgear Switches at home, one is dedicated to data and the second one is for TV boxes that now come with ethernet port and not ...
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schumaku
Guru - Experienced User
May 12, 2021

Guess the "IPTV" explanation should have been something like "IGMP Multicast handling for IPTV" instead.

 

Check the "Manage Multicast Traffic With IGMP Snooping" settings (GSS 8-Port and 16-Port Gigabit Ethernet Smart Managed Plus Click Switch User Manual p.17 ff) - in my understanding it should be ready to play by default:

 

  • Enabled. IGMP snooping status
  • Disabled. Validation of IGMPv3 IP headers
  • Disabled. Blocking of unknown multicast addresses
antzac67's avatar
antzac67
Aspirant
May 13, 2021

Thanks for your post, I have checked the settings you mentioned and they are and has been as you suggested. So it seems the problem should be something else.

Antonio

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    schumaku
    Guru - Experienced User
    May 13, 2021

    It might be required to update the unknown firmware on the GSS108E switches to enhance the ICMP Multicast handling - trouble is that Netgear has revoked firmware and some mandatory bootloader updates from the support downloads. YeZ please.

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      antzac67
      Aspirant
      May 31, 2021
      schumaku wrote:

      It might be required to update the unknown firmware on the GSS108E switches to enhance the ICMP Multicast handling - trouble is that Netgear has revoked firmware and some mandatory bootloader updates from the support downloads. YeZ please.


      Thanks for your response, so if I understand correctly, there is not really a solution to my problem until Netgear offer a new firmware for my device? Is Netgear planning to release a new firmware for it? I've seen that the there is an FW version V1.6.0.5 for the GSS116E, but the newest for GSS108E is V1.6.0.4. Sould I wait for the new FW release or start saving for a new switch?

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      antzac67
      Aspirant
      Oct 17, 2021

      I have found that there is a new firmware version for this switch 1.6.0.9, I have installed it and I was very hopeful my problem about the pixelated image was going to disappear but it did not. Any suggestions here, thanks in advance!

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