Recommendation for IPTV (eg Telekom Entertain)

This review describes why managed switches with IGMPv3 support, as this Netgear switch, for television are important the internet and how to set it. TV via Internet, IPTV? For example, the Entertain service of Telekom.

If you want to pass on IPTV in the private network, so encounter many users really disgusting problems. Two effects can be traced to the wrong choice of switches: stuttering or faulty reception and a super slow-Fi with crashes.

The problem short and sweet: once you have changed a channel with Entertain, the connection is switched to a multicast. This is an especial type of connection from the server to the Telekom Entertain receiver that makes it possible at all, IPTV without sending the network completely flooding. This transfer is referred to with the standard IGMPv3. Who refers Entertain of Deutsche Telekom, has therefore also get a matching DSL Router with IGMPv3 ability. The current Fritz! Boxes dominate this standard as well.

It now hangs behind these DSL router a switch without IGMPv3 ability, the Entertain data are sent as a broadcast across the entire home network: the network is flooded, a possibly appended WLAN is virtually silent and the television signal stutters. Only one IGMPv3 capable switch can limit the data on the ports on which depends the Entertain receiver. That's why you go!

You can configure the Netgear GS108E-1000PES for receiving Entertain with the following settings. The VLAN IDs are incidentally important and observed, as they are set by the Telekom so. The exact steps are to be derived from the manual. The settings are carried out with the Netgear tool.

1. Activate Advanced port-based VLAN. This is a manually configurable list of VLANs with a preset VLAN 1 opens that includes all 8 ports of the switch.
2. Delete the VLAN 1 by clicking away all 8 ports
3. Set up a VLAN 7 a, which covers all ports (so looks the same as the above deleted VLAN 1)
Includes 4 lessons a VLAN 8 a, the only port for DSL router and the port to Entertain receiver. Here then flow via the Entertain data
5. Unlock QoS mode 802.1p
6. Enable IGMP Snooping Status
7. carrying the VLAN ID 8 in "VLAN ID enabled for IGMP snooping" a
8. Disable Validate IGMPv3 header and block unknown multicast address

Finished!