Hey there, I have “a little” trouble to get my IP-TV working.
Some words about my setup:
I connect to the internet with a Speedport router, working as router, not as modem. Behind this I installed an RB2011UiAS-IN, I use this mainly as firewall, CAPsMAN and DHCP Server.
The Speedport is connected at eth6 with the Router Board as DHCP Client. Meanwhile and temporarily without any active firewall rules. Until last week I used IP-TV with Entertain 1,
therefore I had simply set up an IGMP Proxy, everything worked well.
Now I switched to Entertain 2. If the Mediareceiver is connected to the speedport, everything is fine. If it is connected to the Router Board the tv stream stops after about 20 sec..
I try to solve it by using PIM. First I deactivated all my formerly created IGMP Proxy Interfaces and switched off “quick leave”. In the next step I created two Interfaces under PIM.
One for my WAN connection, one for my internal network (I use a bridge Interface). The result can be seen in the images attached. My problem: The tv image still stops after a
few seconds. After switching to another channel it works again for a few minutes, so nothing changed. Can somebody explain what is happening here? I would like to understand
my mistake, not just fix it.
So… have you or has ANYONE anywhere ever gotten a Mikrotik router to work with Entertain 2?
I’m experiencing the exact same issues. Entertain 1 worked with IGMP Proxy (though that also took a bit of convincing) but now people are forced to switch to Entertain 2 and nothing works.
All across the internet I can find people struggling with this - other routers seem to be fine, as long as they support igmpv3, apparently.
It’s only Mikrotik routers that stubbornly refuse to work. And nobody really seems to have a real solution (the only one I found was to turn the Mikrotik into a dumb switch, but that’s not really helping).
I’m about to chuck my two Mikrotiks into the bin and look for an alternative, unless somebody can tell me that it at least “should” work.
The setup is: Speedport acting as modem and Mikrotik HEX-S doing the rest (I also have a hAP ac² in case that would help, that’s currently not in use).
Normally there are a few more switched in-between on the way to the receiver, but right now, for testing, the receiver is plugged into the hex directly.
The known effect: switch to a channel, enjoy apx. 5 seconds of TV, then it stumbles to a halt.