No more live TV with UHD box

Hello @Mogwai72

No live image (but replay and recordings) sounds like IGMP snooping. Possibly The mesh system cannot do this or must be configured accordingly.

Asus can’t handle this. Is a known problem. Before you buy this retail junk (sorry for the strong words) it’s better to take a WLAN-Box 2 or 3 and have no problems.

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@Mogwai72 wrote:

….So would I have to get one that can do that? Does that even exist (I’m just checking)?

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With the Swisscom WiFi boxes it works - also a kind of “mesh”

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@Mogwai72 wrote:

….Or the best thing is to pull a cable…

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Definitely the best way!

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@Mogwai72 wrote:

Or the best thing is to pull a cable…

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This is actually always the best solution. If you are still looking for input on the subject of laying LAN cables, I have something else to read for you. Particularly suitable if you want to lay several cables. Also power, speakers, coax cable

Lan installation using skirting board channel

@Mogwai72

Of course, a LAN cable is always the best solution, but the fact that your Asus Mesh system cannot handle the multicast of a blue TV live stream is a clear false statement.

What you have to do to be able to operate a Swisscom TV-Box correctly on an Asus system is to go to the administration menu of your Asus router and:

- under the menu item LAN/IPTV you activate the Multicast option

- In the WLAN settings of the 5 GHz band, activate the IGMP snooping option

With these two settings set correctly for IPTV, the Swisscom TV-Box, which requires multicast capability for the live program, will also work without any problems on both the LAN and the WLAN of any Asus system.

Hi Mogwai72,

Sounds more like a configuration problem to me 😉. Question: When you connect a device to your Asus box, which IP range do you get an IP from? 192.168.1.x? something else?

Basically, you have to make sure that the multicast packets make their way from the IB to your TV. Apparently there are settings for this in your system:

I can’t tell you exactly which profile or settings you need to use, as the official documentation is very modest.

Alternatively, you can save yourself the double NAT and operate the system in AP mode. Then it should work with IGMP snooping.

LG

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Mogwai72

Did you also make the more important of the two settings, namely under Advanced Settings/LAN/IPTV?

It should then look like this:

So you have to set multicast routing to “Enable” and the default IGMP version to “IGMPv3”.

Just leave everything else at the default values.

Since I don’t use the same Asus model as you, the menu may look a little different for you and if you have several ASUS devices in your set, you should also activate the multicast settings on each device within the set.

Activating multicast routing (also called IGMP proxy by other router manufacturers) together with IGMP snooping (for the WLAN) then brings together compatibility with multicast video streams and thus also for the live program from Swisscom TV.