Phone line and Broadband

[FastNOC]

I've been playing with my 722 a little. i plugged the ethernet in and it picked up an IP ok. I ran the connection test and it shows broadband and phone OK.

Does this mean I can unplug my phone connection completely without a problem?

[Jim5506]

622/722 only contacts Dish once a month, check the logs for last call in date.

I don't believe the call in is activated through ethernet yet.

[HobbyTalk]

I've had mine connected since it first became available (unhooked phone) and the last connection shows 8-27-07 so it appears it is working. But other interactive services do not appear to work.

[FastNOC]

Well it just occured to me (reading other posts i made about the phone line) that I would lose called ID anyway, and I really like that, so I'll leave the phone plugged in. But until they come up with a web interface to manage the box (MAN i would be thrilled) There's really no sense in leaving broadband plugged in

[kruser]

What I'd like to do is still be able to plug my phone into my 622 and get Caller ID but not have the damn 622 try and call out all the time.
I did hook it to an ethernet jack and it did get an IP and all was good but I still caught it calling out over the phone line.

I also see that it sends requests over the ethernet connection at a rate of about once per minute.
I have not sniffed the traffic but I do wonder what info the 622 will report back to home?

So if the ethernet jack works then I'd like to see a device that allows the incoming caller id signal to pass but block outgoing calls from taking the line off hook.
Seems like this should be easy!
A capacitor maybe?

[Frankdj]

I also see that it sends requests over the ethernet connection at a rate of about once per minute.
I have not sniffed the traffic but I do wonder what info the 622 will report back to home?Yep, would be interesting to see what it's doing via the ethernet connection. I'm on satellite internet connection and sure don't need something else eating up my limited bandwidth! :nono:

[Frankdj]

Was just wondering if anyone knows what's being sent/received when the 622 is connected via the ethernet connection? Seems my router is reporting 20+ meg of traffic on the port the 622 was connected to during past 24 hour periods when I had the 622 connected. I'm on satellite "broadband" where bandwidth is a commodity that can't be wasted. (Pass the 30 day rolling usage limit and they to cut you back to almost dial-up speed till you drop to 80% below the threshold.) I disconnected the receiver for now and started receiving the daily message that I need to be connected to avoid the monthly $5.00 additional tuner fee.

[wje]

I would guess that the 1 minute traffic is the 622 polling E* to pick up any web-based scheduling you've done, not that you can actually *do* that yet.

D* does the same thing... they don't push your web request down, the DVR polls periodically for them. This avoids all the problems they would have with firewalls, dynamic IP addresses, etc.

[jmsteffen]

So, if the darn thing doesn't do anything, why have we all connected?

[wje]

Excellent question. Because we can? (yes, I did, too)
Eventually, it will be useful.

[redbird]

I have two 622s with one connected to the phone line and the other using DishComm for caller ID. It's worked great for months but now the Dishcomm shows failed. I cannot get the 622 to switch back to the phone line! That option (local/remote) is greyed out because of the Dishcomm failure.

[tedb3rd]

Frankgj: I'm on WildBlue satellite internet and we've got the bandwidth limit too. After 24 hours of having the 622 connected to internet, my upload totals increased more than 2x what they EVER had in any 24 hour period. If I ONLY used my internet connection for the 622, I would be in violation after about 45 days.

That's irony. It would be like the power company offering a certain type of air conditioner unit they sell in partnership... And then that air conditioner is such an energy-hog that they slap you with a 'penalty fee' after you have used too much electricity. Also there is no way you could avoid this penalty shy of completely disconnecting your air conditioner. And if you ONLY used the electricity to power the air conditioner, it would still consume more than your daily allotment.

Perhaps future software versions will allow for much less bandwidth. There is no way that the phone connection is using that much data transfer!! 20 megs over a phone line is a long connection time! Those dial ins to DN only last a few minutes at the most.

In the meantime, I setup my router to not allow any WAN access to/from the 622's MAC address except for 1 hour a day. I checked the router log and it showed that the 622 sends something out about every 3 minutes.