Re: Problems with tr.103

[Mihai Amariutei <mihai@ambra.ro>]

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Well, to be precise:

- 103 is no longer in test, as it is advertised on EON page as operational
- Many other cards works under Linux (and don't show the stability problem
of the Siemens driver, I may add)
- Many ISP use other platforms for web caching (but Linux is the most used,
indeed).

Maybe this inability of the Siemens card to receive 103 is somehow related
to the well-known stability problem.
It may be that something in the data stream (maybe the bitrate per PID,
maybe some data patterns) interfere with the operation of the card.

Also it seems to me EON is looking into ways to deploy it's service to
people without a satellite dish (and this is a smart move, potentially
vastly expanding it's customer base). Now they are testing getting their
signal on cable.
I don't think they want to alienate ISPs (after all, they are at least
providing the return path).

Mihai

----- Original Message -----
From: "Plamen Ganev" <pganev@com-it.net>
To: <linux-dvb@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 4:59 PM
Subject: RE: Problems with tr.103


>
> > As I said, 103 works well, as long as you don't use a Siemens card for
> > reception.
> > The others transponder still works with my Siemens (well, actually
> > Technisat) card.
> > Beats me why this is happening.
>
> Well... the facts are:
>
> 1. TP103 is the test transponder
> 2. The siemens card works under Linux.
> 3. Linux is used in many ISP for transparently proxying web traffic.
>
> If you make 1+2+3 then EON is testing a method to filter out ISP that use
it
> for downstream.
> Well... my logic could be wrong :-)
>
> Plamen.
>
>