Thursday, April 05, 2012

Answers from TV Smith...

to questions on additional TV receivers using Unifi...

I have read it and though I cannot say I am confident I can do it, I feel assured that it is possible to have additional television sets using one Unifi connection in a house.

"The current Unifi set-up involves routing the fibre-optic cable from the pole to a Broadband Termination Unit (Huawei Echolife HG 850) inside the house. A LAN cable connects it to the supplied VLAN-capable wireless router (D-Link DIR 615). The 3rd piece of equipment, the set-top box (Huawei EC2108E) streams video content to a television set or monitor..."

"Contrary to some reports, the wireless N router performed sufficiently well with regard to Internet access. I am able to receive the signals on different floors with download speeds very close to a direct cable connection. If you are getting weak signals at certain spots, a wi-fi extender may help..."

"Enter TP-Link’s AV200 Mini Powerline Twin Kit or TL-PA211KIT (RM 150 street price). It is a pair of powerline adapters or ‘homeplugs’ that use existing electrical wires to transfer data. Setting it up is not as simple as the skimpy manual suggests, though..."

"The video streaming via the homeplugs appears excellent with no drop-frames and compression artifacts. Of course, don’t expect the HD quality to be on par with that of Blue-Ray, even when connected directly. There you have it; a cheap and practical solution to deliver high quality streaming content to any point in your house..."

"While we are at it, I like to remind new users to change two important settings. Connect to the Unifi wireless router via a network cable and log on to http://192.168.0.1./ Change your SSID as it is stupidly set to broadcast your user name, example ‘ah_lian@unifi’..."

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