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5:02 pm
December 6, 2008
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Katrina
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I recently had Uverse installed in my two story home. The tech put the RG downstairs in my bedroom but my computer is upstairs. Although I have coaxial cable in all my rooms there was an issue with using these since they orginate at a locked Time Warner Box. So my destop computer is accessing the internet via a 2wire adapter. The connection was low so they boosted my signal but that causes static on my phone line.
Does the RG have to be close to a TV set? I am wondering why they couldn't have installed the cat5 and the RG next to my computer upstairs and then run the coaxal line downstairs to the two tvs since he already had to splice into one of the lines to run the service to a second tv.
If anyone knows of a good site with setup configurations that would be great.
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5:12 pm
December 6, 2008
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Uverse Guy
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They should be able to and I wouldn't let them tell you different. However, they may want to run the coaxial up the side of your home and then route it right underneath the under pinning and drill through the wall were ever you need the connection. This bothers some people with some exposed coaxial visible on the side of your house but not me. I'm fine as long as they do it neatly one little wire on the side of the house isn't going to bother me a bit.
I would call back and try to get someone out there to install the RG in a more ideal location. Seems to me they where taking sort cuts.
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9:09 pm
January 2, 2009
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Premtek
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According to the terms of service the prem tech desides where the location of the rg is to be. if the customer request that the rg be located else were there will be a charge for the pulling of new cables if needed. I dont usuelly do this but its what it says.
Also if you have a stb nearby and its on coax you can plug an cat5e patch cable into the network port on the stb and then to your pc. This will bridge the connection.
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6:07 pm
January 4, 2009
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Premtek
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Yea it sould work fine just remember that you are bridging and tapping the bandwidth of the stb. Its going over coax so if you are doing alot of transfering it might cause the pictures to distorte. The speed on the coax is rated to 112 mb and if you are sharing pc's in your home i'm not sure that it will work.
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3:56 pm
January 10, 2009
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Premtek
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zapp05 if you try it let me know how it works i know it will work if you have just internet but i'm curious about connecting to another computer and sharing files.
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8:28 pm
January 16, 2009
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Premtek
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Will some one give this a try and let me know if it works????
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6:46 pm
January 22, 2009
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Uverse Guy
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Premtek,
I definitely can get online when I plugged my laptop into my STB with a Cat-5 cable. Infact I'm pretty impressed that works, I wonder if this is a benefit of true IPTV. I haven't tried to share files but I will this weekend and actually I'm courious to see what happens if I connect a wireless router to a STB.
I will report back once I have a little time to do some tinkering.
Also, I wonder if a slingbox will work of this ethernet port? I don't have one but if anyone does I would be curious to see if they can use their slingbox by connecting it to the back of the STB.
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8:46 pm
January 22, 2009
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Uverse Guy
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Okay all,
I shared a file on my PC that is connected directly to the RG. I took my laptop and plugged an ethernet cable into the STB in another room. I mapped the laptop succesfully to my PC connected to the RG and shared files without a single problem. Both PC where running windows XP Pro.
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9:00 pm
January 22, 2009
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This is very interesting discussion. I'm going to try this with my U-verse service to see if I can share files and use the internet through the set top boxes. This would be really handy if you wanted a hard wired connection in a room without having it wired for cat-5.
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5:51 pm
February 3, 2009
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Katrina
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FYI, they moved the location of the RG at no charge to me. Although the cat5 line from the wall downstairs is going to another box-not the RG. The computer is now connected to the RG via the Cat5 but with another cat5 and a phone line running through an old DSL filter instead of a new phone plug. I am confused on this setup but it is working. All is good.
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10:47 am
February 10, 2009
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Premtek
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cool thanks for the info on the file sharing its good to know.
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3:36 pm
February 14, 2009
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Uverse Guy
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I was amazed actually how easily it worked, this actually can save money because you don't have to have another jack installed in the room and don't have to relay on wireless which I believe still can be flacky in areas because of interfering signals. However, sometimes wireless still can run great. It works great for me but I know others that have had troubles and where not able to really figure out why.
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7:17 pm
August 24, 2010
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One problem with using the Cat5 out of a receiver is that it burns them up. "Set-top-boxes" are not designed to be switches or routers. And if you keep burning up boxes, after a while it gets frustrating.
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7:27 pm
November 15, 2010
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Uverse Guy
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Why would data transfer burn up a set top box? It gets way more bandwidth coming from the video signal than the data, that doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
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