Euroview HD

[rupraish62]

Hello All,

Happy New Year to all........

Can someone tell me that Euro view HD cable box is working fine or what? and where is the new firmware for same. As thinking to buy my self and get rid off SV7.....

[ByteMaster]

Hello All,

Happy New Year to all........

Can someone tell me that Euro view HD cable box is working fine or what? and where is the new firmware for same. As thinking to buy my self and get rid off SV7.....

If your using a SV7 and your having problems getting a Euroview is not going to solve them.
I cant speak for sv7 but the combo has been working flawlessly for ages now.
Check your setup
Signal levels
Go direct to router if possible for broadband.
Use carling 1.04
Dont go doing heavy downloading at same time your watching tv to see if things improve.
If all else fails take it to a friends house with a feed and see how your sv7 performs.
The euroview uses the same server as sv7 , its the same box different package.

[cactikid]

same server different name on box=same problem and probably
only a year also ,as box is new not alot of reviews yet

[rupraish62]

Hello Byte Master,

Thanks for your reply and sorry for delay as was not felling OK.
Any how am thinking to replace from SV7 into Euro view HD as have bought recently LCD HD ready Tv so thinking to change the Box as well and one things have noticed that in my SV7 all HD channels including SKY Action,Comedy,Indie,Sci-fi are coming with voice off course no pictures, so hope by replacing Euro view HD will solve all my problems an same time will have HD also.

[cactikid]

starview 7 is not a hd box,i would wait for feedback on this box remember its a new starview as name as changed now to euroview

[ByteMaster]

starview 7 is not a hd box,i would wait for feedback on this box remember its a new starview as name as changed now to euroview

Hi, i have not seen the Euroview in action but it is a HD receiver so yes you will get the HD channels that you dont get on the Starview 7. Thats providing the server keeps running !!!!
I would however consider not leaving yourself dependent soley on cable feeds and a single server. Its not an if but a when the servers disappear only a matter of time before everyone is looking at the scrambled channel message on all the channels......on the cable side so I would suggest a Starview combo HD this will allow you to use a satellite dish also and you can have access to thousands of channels. I am not a huge fan of the combo but it is very very good at what it is and does for the price you pay. If you you use google you will see how to not rely on a single server on the satellite side, but we cant talk much about that here. The combo stocks are exhausted pretty much in the UK at the moment but that should change over the next few weeks. You will have seen many posts suggesting the starveiws are also a one year box but that is not entirely correct either.If you have the latest file on your starveiw 7 you will see a server valid to date. This is being mis understood by a lot of peoples on all the forums so for now its not worth worrying about if you are not using again a cable only box. I have a combo + Lan since November 2009 and its still working as good as the day it was put on the test line..
Changing to Euroveiw will not fix your intermittent freezing problem this is mainly down to your home set up and the sever of course. The vast majority of the freezing issues is down to
1. Wireless Ethernet connections being sold on flea bay.
2. Incorrect setup of home plugs especially the devlo's
3. Poor to start of with internet connections.
4. Little or no knowledge of router setups i.e port forwarding.
5. Too little signal getting to the receiver. Too much signal "nonesense"
6. An overloaded server at peek times i.e football.
You could hold out for the new Kryptveiw thats commong out but if its like the current one I wouldnt bother. Daily reboots needed. Disconnections from router. Slow as you like on screen display. And who really uses the whether information?
ByteMe

[MILLWALLFC]

Can you explain how the devlos should be setup and port forwarding. Although it works must of the time just when anything like football on it breaks up, or something is on everyone is watching.

2. Incorrect setup of home plugs especially the devlo's
4. Little or no knowledge of router setups i.e port forwarding.

I have tried through devlo's plug and now have it plugged in direct to router but still have freezing problems, this is for a starview 6.

[todgerman]

Yep id say get the sv combo hd like a friend of mine has, he also uses a perfect running sat server for a tenner a month along side the cable for double backup. The KV is a much better server than the sv server. But i only use the kv as a multi-room box and pay for sky hd sub, no good looking forward to a match then the server going down. Theres no way id just use either of the boxes as my sole source of tv apart from the sv combo loaded on the sat and cable.

[EAMO 2]

Can you explain how the devlos should be setup and port forwarding. Although it works must of the time just when anything like football on it breaks up, or something is on everyone is watching.

2. Incorrect setup of home plugs especially the devlo's
4. Little or no knowledge of router setups i.e port forwarding.

I have tried through devlo's plug and now have it plugged in direct to router but still have freezing problems, this is for a starview 6.

I'm sure Bytemaster will post a tutorial for SV6/7 users on how to alter router settings to fix freezing issues for SV6/7. Funny the HD-Combo is allegedly not freezing on cable using same server & not requiring any alteration to router settings

[ByteMaster]

I'm sure Bytemaster will post a tutorial for SV6/7 users on how to alter router settings to fix freezing issues for SV6/7. Funny the HD-Combo is allegedly not freezing on cable using same server & not requiring any alteration to router settings

@ Eamo
Not intending to do a tut as I dont have SV6 or 7. Sorry to disappoint .

O.K "Flawlessly" may not have been the best choice of words but certainly dont have the same issues that loads of peeps are posting regarding freezing. Its either on when the servers are working or not. HD content also works very very well and with the kids having these in their rooms if it was not working correctly I would know...
This is simply down to connections and internet access. All else is server. I am not saying mines is better than everyone else but I sure have never posted saying its freezing every 5 minutes or similar. It doesn't..

Football times or big events the usual server problems but I did mention that and with any and all servers thats to be expected for at least the first 5-10 minutes.

Port Forwarding for Novices :To give yourself every chance of eliminating access issues you simply change your SV ip address to static in the network page of the box, Make it static in router settings and open all the ports 0 - 65000 on that IP/Mac address. If things improve your on a winner.
Anyone using a d-link should try this. If it does not work close the ports again.

Devlo's: Set it up per the instructions and ensure your getting a connection at another wall socket close to your where your host devlo is plugged to the router. Connect a Pc/laptop to it the do a speedtest/ping test. Note your results. Now do the same test at the socket next to the SV box. If your results are drasticly different. Were talking Pings of 200ms or more then the homeplug option is just not the way forward for you. You would be better suited to a ethernet hard wire solution from box to router.Remember not every house is the same.
Problems that usually cause this are two electrical panels in one house (fuse boxes) different ring mains.
Another set of non devlo plugs
Putting the homeplugs to far apart i.e the garden garage.....

[EAMO 2]

Port Forwarding for Novices :To give yourself every chance of eliminating access issues you simply change your SV ip address to static in the network page of the box, Make it static in router settings and open all the ports 0 - 65000 on that IP/Mac address. If things improve your on a winner.
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Appreciate your tut on router settings. Not sure if it will sort out
freezing issues for all users but may improve some. Peak viewing times are the worst for freezing & is down to server overload. To use random figures; If server line can run smoothly with 500 clients, then you need 1000 lines to cater for 500,000 clients. Normally you could apply diversity factor to calculation
and assume every client won't use box at the same time. This
could reduce server lines needed to say 700-800. This would be
fine until peak viewing such as live matches. So servers need to
increase lines or inform people boxes will function properly only
at off-peak viewing times

[BillyBlue]

Does anyone know where to get the new firmware for this Euroview HD box.
My mate bought 2 of these, one did not have the required firmware installed.

[ByteMaster]

Does anyone know where to get the new firmware for this Euroview HD box.
My mate bought 2 of these, one did not have the required firmware installed.

You should find it here,

Digital Kaos - Downloads - Euroview 1st FW Release

[ByteMaster]

Peak viewing times are the worst for freezing & is down to server overload. To use random figures; If server line can run smoothly with 500 clients, then you need 1000 lines to cater for 500,000 clients. Normally you could apply diversity factor to calculation
and assume every client won't use box at the same time. This
could reduce server lines needed to say 700-800. This would be
fine until peak viewing such as live matches. So servers need to
increase lines or inform people boxes will function properly only
at off-peak viewing times

I totally agree. This though does still not account for peoples saying its freezing all day everyday.
I especially like
"Normally you could apply diversity factor to calculation"

If it was only that simple, its fairly obvious that s/lines are no where near the required amount or the set up just needs some tweaking at the peak times but for what you pay I would say if all is connected together as it should be or at least you have done the very best you can and you are only suffering problems when the footie is on well off to the pub with ye then before all the pubs are gone and a whacking block of flats is there in its place.

[cactikid]

there are other things like signal and quality levels,splitters,how good the coaxial is as of tight connectors on cable,also whether they have a basic tv package and broadband or broadband alone.