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BT Youview - suitable routers
Hi, I'm looking for some advice on routers that will work with the IPTV service from BT Youview. at the moment I'm using the HH5 but I'm not happy with this and would prefer a non BT product. Hope this is the right forum for this query!!
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Might help if you told us what problems you are experiencing. There would be no point changing the router if the problem was a crap broadband connection for example.
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Might help if you told us what problems you are experiencing. There would be no point changing the router if the problem was a crap broadband connection for example.
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Thanks for your reply, the problem I have with the HH5 is that it reboots every few days and the DRM kicks in and drops my speed, this has happened with every HH I've used, my connection is very good and if I fit my own router ( WD MY NET N900) it will run without rebooting at 74.00 Mbps.
I'm not familiar with the My Net series of routers but from what I've seen online it seems a decent enough device. So why not continue using it? Can't see any obvious reason why it wouldn't work with BT TV/You View unless those services are somehow tied into the hardware of a HH5 in which case I doubt any other router would work. But I'm pretty sure that you can use any router you like and, apart from BT not supporting it, there should be no issues using it. If the My Net router works fine then I'd be tempted to say just continue to use it. Not sure what advantage you would gain by swapping it for something else unless there is some additional feature you would like that the My Net router doesn't have? |
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Presumably you have Infinity with an external modem if you can hook up the My Net 900 and get 74Mb/s out of it?
I'm not familiar with the My Net series of routers but from what I've seen online it seems a decent enough device. So why not continue using it? Can't see any obvious reason why it wouldn't work with BT TV/You View unless those services are somehow tied into the hardware of a HH5 in which case I doubt any other router would work. But I'm pretty sure that you can use any router you like and, apart from BT not supporting it, there should be no issues using it. If the My Net router works fine then I'd be tempted to say just continue to use it. Not sure what advantage you would gain by swapping it for something else unless there is some additional feature you would like that the My Net router doesn't have? |
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As I pointed out in my original post the problem is that my N900 will not work with the IPTV channels from BT, I know that there are routers that can and I'm just looking advice from someone who may have overcome this problem.
Found this https://community.bt.com/t5/YouView-...MP/td-p/994338 which might be of interest. There is a link on there to a list of suitable routers but I just get an error message saying it can only be accessed from a BT broadband connection so no idea if it is still relevant or not. The thread starts in 2013 but there are some posts from this year so might be something useful in there. |
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Found this https://community.bt.com/t5/YouView-...MP/td-p/994338 There is a link on there to a list of suitable routers but I just get an error message saying it can only be accessed from a BT broadband connection so no idea if it is still relevant or not. "Sorry, the page you are looking for has moved. If you are using a link posted on the forum, then it may be out of date. You should be able to find what you are looking for from the Main menu" http://forumhelp.dyndns.info/vision/multicast.html |
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Ah right...
Found this https://community.bt.com/t5/YouView-...MP/td-p/994338 which might be of interest. There is a link on there to a list of suitable routers but I just get an error message saying it can only be accessed from a BT broadband connection so no idea if it is still relevant or not. The thread starts in 2013 but there are some posts from this year so might be something useful in there. |
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I'm with BT and clicking on the link "Known Routers to Work with Multicast/IGMP" brings the message
"Sorry, the page you are looking for has moved. If you are using a link posted on the forum, then it may be out of date. You should be able to find what you are looking for from the Main menu" http://forumhelp.dyndns.info/vision/multicast.html |
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