On August 16, 2013 at 10:12, Audiophiliac said...
I do not know the ins and outs of DECA/MOCA (same thing right?), but it seems to me like the clients get their IP address from the router. In our situation, we assigned them a static IP as a requirement of the c4 driver. But when they were first powered on, they received an IP address that was inline with what the router was assigning. I would imagine the DECA system in the genie or the DTV DECA "injector", behaves more like a switch than a router.
I think it just throws people off, and it did to me at first, that there is no RJ45 port on the C31. But if you think of the older HR22 and other boxes that required the DECA "dongle" that split the ethernet out to an RJ45 jack, it makes more sense. The newer receivers essentially have that dongle built in, so it will strip the ethernet off the coax and send it to the network interface internally.
cool, i didn't know that you could set a static ip in the client. i haven't played around with this setup yet, but was considering it for my house since a couple of my directv receivers fried during a recent storm.
