Hi

I have a Humax FoxSAT-HDR and for no apparent reason at the moment (but I live in hope), I have it on my LAN. However, when I set it to DHCP client, it gets the desired IP address & subnet, but sets the Default Gateway (Router) address to 255.255.255.0. I've checked my DHCP Server, which correctly issues configurations to all other LAN Clients.
Of course I can set the IP configuration manually, but I was wondering if anyone else had similar behaviour?

Regards

As it's not enabkled yet, why does it matter?.

It won't do anything, and when it's eventually enabled it may be completely different to now.

The warranty is fast running out.

I've been on the wrong end of Aldi's PVR "we'll fix that in the next update" before & I was trying to find out what did and what didn't work and whether it was just mine (ie a fault) or everybody's and therefore a bug/ not yet implemented.

I thought the Freesat+ spec required an ethernet port, perhaps it should require a working ethernet port!

Isn't it a two year warranty? On a product that was only released in November, so can't actually be more than three months old?

What a curious definition of "fast running out"

The freesat launch specification required Humax to make sure the ethernet port could be used but because of the time to market on all sides freesat did not require us to make the non-trivial effort of finishing the return path section immediately. We are not making false promises and a great many people are working on this and work is progressing to a schedule, just not a schedule I can share.

While I have every faith this will become a fantastic product I would never buy a product based on future functionality otherwise it is a less than wise investment.

If you buy cheap rubbish from a low quality supermarket what do you expect?.


As Freesat don't have the service for it working yet, it would be pretty pointless - it's a future feature, as has always been said.

Bob
Odd! It would seem that Humax (& others) expect people to at least be, influenced to buy a product based on just that. Why else "brag" about it in the brochure?

Don't get me wrong - I love my HDR, I wish it didn't forget my recording schedule when I checked out the non-freesat mode, but I love my HDR. More power to your collective elbows!

Thats all well and good coming from Bob as Humax are a big name in the industry and should be around for a years to come, but what about the others?

I bought the Bush HD box and to be honest, I am perfectly happy with it. It does exactly what I expected. It obviously has an ethernet port also. I have not connected it up yet as I did not see the point, but I may do tonight, just to see if it picks up the correct info from my network.

If Bush/Grundig/Goodmans/Alba did as Humax did and have left the functionality of the ethernet port for future updates, whose job is it now to push those updates out?

Alba sold some of their names to Argos.. Do Argos now have to support the Bush boxes or does that still remain with Alba??

Jaysus... my head is starting to hurt now...

mj

Again, it doesn't matter if it does or not, as there's no service to use it with. It also seems pretty likely that the Ethernet port will probably only be used on the PVR's, far better spooling streamed programmes to the HDD, rather than trying to watch it in real time as it freezes and blocks.

Sky HD boxes have had unused Ethernet ports for almost 3 years, it'll happen if and when it does.


The parent company, Alba - updates are their responsibility.


They've only sold a badge, not the company, just exclusive rights to the name (presumably for a limited time?), it's a common occurance with cheap brands.

Thanks for that Nigel..