UPC Horizon Set Top Box trial

Use UPC HORIZON NETWORK
You dont want horizon as your router or wireless router
You can setup horizon to Join network your own router or existing upc router if you kept it and still active
You dont want horizon as the router in network setup choose Join Network
Wired connect LAN of horizon to LAN of your own router
Wireless join wireless network of your wireless router
LAN port only one you have connected to router for wired
Note other ports might be available as a switch but important don't do below
Dont choose Create Network
Dont Choose Create Network

If you want to use Horizon as your Router
Choose Create Network
Wired setup connect
to pc from lan port of horizon
Wireless setup ssid and password on back of horizon box or create your own ssid and password
Connect by wired or wireless to devices using either LAN ports wired or join wireless using ssid and password

4 LAN ports to pc/sky/ps3/blu ray etc wired

Note your other cisco router will not be active if its a upc router for broadband/phone only horizon box will be active

If you have your own router you will have to use it in Access Mode only
if your router supports this if you want stronger wireless for house

Both setup will give you full network usage of horizon box video music photos with other devices iPhone iPad Computers smart Phones etc as long as there on same network and are dnla certified or install Twonky Server get licence code from upc call 1908
then on your Pc set up twonly server and you can also use iPhone Twonky App
Other Free and is much better than twonky is a video music and photo server is PS3 Server it's free and supports all video formats install on your windows or mac works on most dnla support televisions blu ray players and ps3 and also works on horizon box

IMPORTANT NOTE

Note on the first setup of your Horizon box may take 30 min to over 1 hour to fully set up
it may disable your original upc router so if that happens you can only use the horizon for tv broadband or phone

But it's still possible with most modern wireless routers to set them up as access points only for wireless if you need better wireless signal
I suggest you let upc know first before you run first setup of box if you want to use your original upc router and connect box to that router if they let you do that

kave2 wrote: »

In Power Management Settings there is "Standby Power Usage" with 3 options High, Medium, Low. When Low is selected, Phone and Internet
connection will be deactivated. Anyone know what is the difference between Medium and High?

In: max. 59 Watt
High (active) Standby: 56 Watt
High (passive) Standby: 38.3 watts
Middle Standby: 27.5 watts
Low Standby: 1 watt
Only use Medium or High if you want constant broadband and phone

I would advise to set auto standby to off and only put on standby when not going to be used for long period but never set to low

kippy wrote: »

Achilles, the powerlan adapters, even the cheapest of them are far far better than any of the G network speeds in most wireless networks, and the higher rated ones EASILY out perform N rated wireless networks........

(Experience from using many of all mentioned technologies mentioned here)
If you are not getting the "rated" speeds through the powerline adapters you should check that you are using CAT6 Patch cable, I generally find that increases the speeds..........if they are well well below what is advertised - even then I find even at that they are far better than wireless for speed and stability.
I'd also ask what you are measuring the "speed" against - how are you determining that you are only getting connected to the network at 80Mbps as opposed to 500?

A speed test to my linux server in the next room done via those plugs (can't remember the brand I had) with Cat6 cables through a Gigabit ethernet switch.

Achilles wrote: »

A speed test to my linux server in the next room done via those plugs (can't remember the brand I had) with Cat6 cables through a Gigabit ethernet switch.

Have 500Mb Homeplugs for connecting my NAS the three media players in the house. They work perfectly steaming HD content. I would highly recommend them over wireless. To be honest as long as your electrical wiring is up to scratch in your house, the homeplug is the way to go. It is a wired connection!!!!

Mister Gooey wrote: »

Have 500Mb Homeplugs for connecting my NAS the three media players in the house. They work perfectly steaming HD content. I would highly recommend them over wireless. To be honest as long as your electrical wiring is up to scratch in your house, the homeplug is the way to go. It is a wired connection!!!!

In fairness 5 or 6Mbps is more than enough to stream HD content over your own network, this isn't an accurate measure of how much throughput you're actually getting from these devices.

It may work fine in your setup but in relatity they're still ****e devices.
How many businesses do you find linking everything back to their gigabit switches via homeplugs?

None... for exactly this reason. I'd class my home network as a high performance notwork and not a typical home user wishy washy setup, hence for my needs (and the needs of many others) the homeplugs are toss.

In my diagnostics screen , I see that signal quality is excellent, but strength is low/fair.
When I set up new box I removed the cables from modem and UPC box, took one of them and plugged it into the Horizon box.
Now thinking I should have removed splitter instead of having one cable going into box, one unused.
Would it make any difference?

Achilles wrote: »

In fairness 5 or 6Mbps is more than enough to stream HD content over your own network, this isn't an accurate measure of how much throughput you're actually getting from these devices.

It may work fine in your setup but in relatity they're still ****e devices.
How many businesses do you find linking everything back to their gigabit switches via homeplugs?

None... for exactly this reason. I'd class my home network as a high performance notwork and not a typical home user wishy washy setup, hence for my needs (and the needs of many others) the homeplugs are toss.

If you have the option of Gigabit Ethernet, it's always the best way to go. But if that isn't an option, and it's a choice between N Wifi and homeplugs, I'd go for homeplugs every time. I get a steady 90Mbps in local file transfers (and http downloads would likely be faster, less 'chatty' protocol). For media sharing at home, the difference is night-and-day in how fast the media lists & streams. Plus I don't get any connection drops with homeplugs, I certainly can't say that about Wifi.

Obviously, YMMV depending on your home wiring; or how close the Wifi devices are together, which router you have, if your devices support 5GHz, the number of neighbouring Wifi networks etc. But in my experience N Wifi doesn't come close to homeplugs.

Achilles wrote: »

In fairness 5 or 6Mbps is more than enough to stream HD content over your own network, this isn't an accurate measure of how much throughput you're actually getting from these devices.

It may work fine in your setup but in relatity they're still ****e devices.
How many businesses do you find linking everything back to their gigabit switches via homeplugs?

None... for exactly this reason. I'd class my home network as a high performance notwork and not a typical home user wishy washy setup, hence for my needs (and the needs of many others) the homeplugs are toss.

Nobody is comparing homeplugs to gigabit ethernet. They were mentioned as an alternative to wireless. How many businesses use Wi-Fi as a direct substitute to ethernet? Or to link "everything back to their gigabit switches"?

I've got UPC to "de-consolidated" by broadband and phone out of the Horizon box. It just didn't make sense for our setup with TV nowhere near to PC and no easy way to route cables. Also I have the phone wired around the house from where the modem was and again not easy to run cables.

I've changed the Horizon box to "client" mode and connected it to the wireless network from the UPC modem. This is working fine and can stream over DLNA to box.

However the Horizon box continues to broadcast it's own SSID and even gives out IP addresses over DHCP to devices that try to connect to it.
It's acting as both a client and an access point using the one radio. If I change the wireless channel on the modem the access point on the Horizon box moves with it.
I can't find any way to turn this off. Has anyone else experienced this? Anyone been able to turn this "feature" off?

Just got my box today and i cant get my remote to work
Cant connect to the internet either I can connect to the router but can only get a private IP address

Hi! I got my Horizon today. It states that the remote code for my TV (Sanyo) is in the quick guide. Unfortunately, there was no guide in my box. Can anyone give me the code. I tried the ones in the other UPC box manual but they didnt work. Thanks!!

Spot on!! Thanks Gitb1

Anyone else experiencing audio drop outs? Happening on all channels.

Thats why i requested deconsolidation of broadband and phone. Either box was freezing during phonecall so no tv and broadband but phone ok or different scenarios phone/broadbarn/tv . Box is not reliable at this stage to have everything in one and i dond feel it will be soon.
Other problems: if box is in deep standby (red front light) 9out of 10 times when pressing button on on remote or on the front box panel it doestnt react. Only unplugging from power helps.
I cant find any option to delete whole series from my recordings. To my suprise, Delete Everything really deleted everything, not just choosen series

What exactly is the "real" need for "proper" bridging? Surely the demand for it would only effect a very very small proportion of end users?