Re: [Hampshire] IGMP protocol with BT home hubs

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Author: Roger Munford
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] IGMP protocol with BT home hubs
Thanks Simon and James. Could I say with a good degree of certainty that
new switches from D-Link and TPLink would support it. I cannot find any
to say if they would or wouldn't.

The "blurb" about this system says that commonly used ethernet network
components can be used. However I am at a standoff with the support
engineer who is adamant that there is a network problem and therefore
cannot support this new piece of kit that has only just reached the UK.
I somehow have to convince him that it should be referred to the
developers. If it is not still underdevelopment why did the website
suddenly duplicate itself in Spanish? last week.

Thanks again for your help.

Roger

On 07/03/2016 09:34, Simon Reap wrote:
> On 06/03/2016 18:41, Roger Munford wrote:
>> I have a problem with a new, complex system for managing ethernet
>> connected solar inverters and the problem may well be down to missing
>> multicasts from a BT home hub.
>>
>
>> For anybody that has followed what I have been trying to describe, do
>> BT Home hubs support IGMP? is there something in the configuration
>> that enables/disables it and is there a test that I can do to verify it?
>>
>
> The BT Home Hubs 3, 4 and 5 definitely support IGMP - BT Youview
> requires it.
>
> When the old BT freeview service stopped and I was "upgraded" to
> YouView, I had to get a Home Hub 4 installed to replace my solid
> reliable Netgear DG384 which didn't support IGMP (as far as I could
> tell). My old Homehub 1 (once I'd retrieved it from its hiding place
> in the loft) didn't work either.
>
> There's a fairly old list of routers which support IGMP (and hence BT
> YouView) at
> https://community.bt.com/t5/YouView-Boxes/Known-Routers-to-Work-with-Multicast-IGMP/td-p/994338
>
> Simon
>



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