On 2023-04-30 18:29, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 4/30/23 03:09, Carlos E. R. wrote:
And before you ask, no, I can not put DHCP on a different machine without breaking TV and who knows what.
Do you have a separate modem or something for the TV? How does all that work? Do you feed the TV(s) from a coax cable? Where does the phone connect?
The "old" setup: --fibre---ONT---ROUTER----TV_DECO \ \----computers phones ONT → <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_interface_device#Optical_network_terminals> Only that it is not external, but internal, in the wall of the sitting room TV cabinet. Then, recently they removed the ONT, replaced the router and DECO: WiFi (2 and 5G) Y --fibre---ROUTER----TV_DECO | \----computers | phones It is fibre to the home. Somewhere in the block, a single fibre splits to a number of fibres, one per home. Maybe 32. The setup allows 1 gig symmetrical bandwidth. Actual, I measured it. Then I reduced the BW to pay less. The phones are plain old phones, copper, but fed from the router. Mains fails, then no service, unless the client purchases an UPS on his own. Obviously, it is VoIP till the router, then copper. They claim it is impossible to connect standard VoIP phones. In building blocks newer than maybe 20 years, it comes underground, and the building has the ducts and provision for at least three different Telco companies to deploy their hardware and reach each flat. The TV deco gets its signal over ethernet. The deco tells "I want to watch this channel", then the server sends that channel to the house. It uses IGMP broadcasts. I can pause, go back or forward. Whact serials, TV on demand, rent/purchase movies. I can "record" a program from a channel, but it really only saves a pointer or link to the actual recording at the server room. They are erased after 6 months. It also supports Netflix, Prime, Disney, and others. Yes, I can skip adverts in the channels recording, but not those of the ISP, that run before a movie or chapter of a serial. Just one advert. Only one TV set. For more, we have to rent another decoder. One chap reverse engineered the system, and I could watch any channel on my computer. But then they implemented digital right management (not all channels), and the chap disappeared, he stopped supporting the software or answering questions. That software allowed saving a recording on the cloud to a file.
Before you comment on the absurd number of TV's, realize that we have lots of family living here with us. Not that we want them here, but the declining standard of living that we're experiencing here in California limits their options to live on their own, and I don't want to see them living on the streets.
No objections :-) I have 3 TV sets myself: sitting room, the only one on fibre; a smart tv on the kitchen, and a set at the computer room. The later can display from a TV double tuner receiver with hard disk, or display my mini-server, which then can run Firefox and display almost any program from the same Telefónica serving, for free. The TV set is smart because the previous incumbent died. I was using it as auxiliary computer display for my relatives this summer, and it fell. Just half a metre, and fell on top of my leg. Not his intention, but mine: I quickly put my leg in his falling trajectory in an attempt to save its life. Did not work. And it happens than a smart tv is almost the same price as plain tv.
For most common home routers I have seen, the guest configuration is only about giving guests a different SSID and password than the main one. They get IPs from the same pool as the household.
I've got an Asus RT-AC68U that provides an isolated guest network on both 2.4 and 5 GHz. I go further and have that router on it's own isolated subnet on my Zyxel router.
Of course I've got IPv6 disabled here as well as on my main router. NAT keeps me as snug as a bug in a rug without complicating my life, it's bad enough as it is.
heh :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)