mili
07-05-2009, 11:22 PM
Continued from http://forums.dsstester.com/vbb/showthread.php?p=937305
Step 3,
You took note of your Slinger's MAC address right? Mine in this case was 00 54 98 b8 3f c5. We now go back to my router and set up a DHCP reservation for the Slinger. The idiots at D-Link used to call it Static DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) on older routers, so we will set up a static dynamic thing. Go to the SETUP/NETWORK SETTINGS page in the Router's admin panel and find the DHCP Reservation option on the bottom. Fill it out with the Slinger's IP we always want it to have and its MAC address then click Save.
http://bellexpress.vu/images/DHCP.jpg
By doing this every time you restart the Slinger it is always assigned the same IP address of 192.168.0.50. It is important because we will now put the Slinger's IP into a DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) where the router will do no filtering between the Internet and your Slinger.
Step 4,
We now go to the ADVANCED/FIREWALL SETTINGS page in the router's admin and configure IP 192.168.0.50 to b in the DMZ on the bottom of the page ...
http://bellexpress.vu/images/DMZ_host.jpg
...then Save Settings on the top of the page.
http://bellexpress.vu/images/save_settings.jpg
Step 5,
Now go to the ADVANCED/PORT FORWARDING page and forward all incoming packets on your Slinger's listen port to your Slinger's IP address. If you recall I used the same source and destination ports of 11014 for my Slinger which now has the IP of 192.168.0.50 so I entered those numbers and then click Save Settings. On some routers you can select TCP or UDP or Both, you want Both TCP and UDP to be forwarded.
http://bellexpress.vu/images/portforward.jpg
We are done with the Router you can close the browser.
Step6,
Go to the IKS Channels page in the Slinger software and Click the Scan Channels button twice with about 30 seconds between clicks to see the available public channels for Dish and Bell. Or you can just manually enter
Channel 100-00113 for Dishnet or Channel 100-00082 for Bell. This Channel thing is like a login ID nothing more.
For password enter 123456789 for either Bell or Dish and click the Write button.
http://bellexpress.vu/images/IKS_channel.jpg
Step 7,
Go to the BIN editor page and click Load Bin and select your married BIN. Since my 301 is edited with public numbers I can use the provided Dish Public Clean ROM102 at rev 103.bn102 from the Dumps folder in the IKS software. If your receiver is not cloned to the public numbers but you have a ROM102 or 103 BIN that is married to your receiver you need to write that BIN to the Slinger instead of the public BIN. If you have a ROM103 BIN it has an extension of bn103 not bn102 and it will not show up in the list when you select BINs unless you select All Files from the drop down box.
http://bellexpress.vu/images/all_files.jpg
If you want to change the time zone you can enter the two digit code in the Time Zone field then click Patch.
F2 - Newfoundland Standard
F3 - NST/NDT Dynamic Change
E4 - Mountain Standard Time
E5 - MST/MDT Dynamic Change
E9 - CST/CDT Dynamic Change
E8 - Central Standard Time
E0 - Pacific Standard Time
F0 - Atlantic Standard
F1 - AST/ADT Dynamic Change
EC - Eastern Standard Time
ED - EST/EDT Dynamic Change
E1 - PST/PDT Dynamic Change
DC - Alaska Standard Time
DD - AKST/AKDT Dynamic Change
D9 - HAST/HADT Dynamic Change
Since I am in EST and Daylight Savings I edited mine to ED.
Once the BIN has the right time zone click Write and it will be written to you Slinger.
http://bellexpress.vu/images/BIN_write.jpg
This is it folks. Both your Slinger and your router is now configured.
Step8,
a, Unplug both the USB and power cable from the Slinger.
b, Take the Slinger to your receiver. Hook up the phone cable with the interface card on the other end to the phone socket on the Slinger, plug in the network cable from your Home Router into the RJ45 socket on the Slinger.
c, Turn on the receiver and wait until it is asking you to insert a card. Remember, the receiver must be at the latest firmware. Connect the power to the Slinger. The Slinger will have the LED in the front of it turn red then immediately turn orange and will blink 3 times indicating the Slinger contacted your router, asked and have gotten an IP address from it. After that it will turn solid orange connecting and waiting for the server . After a few seconds the server will reply to the Slinger when the LED will turn green and start blinking. This is when you insert your interface card into the receiver. The receiver will acquire the satellite signal and go through the steps starting up. Finally it will download the guide and reward you with picture. The LED will stay orange for 15 seconds then when a new packet arrives from the server turn green for a second. That is normal.
Troubleshooting.
Of course nothing ever works as easy as claimed. Chances are you will at one time or another encounter problems. Here are a few symptoms and suggestions I myself have observed.
You get 019 error Card not inserted correctly, CAM ID showing S00 0000 0000
I found that if the Slinger did not connect to the server yet and you insert the interface card in the receiver it will give you this error. To avoid this you must wait until the LED blinks green. So remember, power it on wait for 3 orange blinks, wait, when it starts blinking again green that is when you insert the card. If it does not blink green after like 30 seconds or God forbid turns red pull the card out, cycle the power on the Slinger and wait for the green blink. Sometimes take up to 10 tries, I guess at peak times when the server is the busiest.
You will also run into this problem if your Slinger can't receive the packets from the server. It can be caused by a badly configured router, your modem also being a NAT and blocking stuff, an IP conflict on your network, you using a normal phone cable to connect the Slinger to the interface card, messed up interface card, firewall enabled in routers, encrypted NAT (netgear crap routers like that) enabled in routers, server being down, our Internet being down. For best results get a D-Link router, have your setup like mine above, make sure your modem is not also a NAT (is in bridge mode).
You are getting blinking green but you see only header info on the subscription channels and the previews.
Your receiver's firmware is out of date or your married BIN has problems and will not negotiate a session with he receiver properly. If you can clone your receiver with the public numbers and use the provided public BIN. Make sure you take or force the receiver to take the latest firmware.
You are getting freezing.
Unfortunately with IKS you will always have some freezing. You are after all receiving packets form across the Globe not from your smart card in the card slot. Micro freezes are normal to have. If you are getting very long and frequent freezes at times but not always it maybe network congestion, the server being overloaded or the channel you want to watch not being served with many cards. If you always experience freezing and long ones you must do this:
Get a D-Link router. It does make a huge difference, ask on forums. Don't know why.
Configure your router as I described above. Your router's menu may differ but the idea is the same, DMZ, DHCP reservation and port forward.
Make sure your modem is a bridge, not a NAT device. Avoid wireless modems that have only USB plugs, you need Ethernet (RJ45) out on your modem.
Make sure you are not using a wireless bridge to connect your Slinger to your wireless router. Loads of interference from wireless devices like phones and even your microwave will results in dropped packets which are not resent. If your Slinger is far from the router get a Power Line Inserter and use that. For best results use a plain old Ethernet cable to connect your Slinger to your router.
I found it helps to restart the Slinger every day. For some reason restarting it makes freezing go away for me.
You lose picture or get sever freezing after a long time of use.
If you are not changing channels for more than 4 hours and your receiver is one of the old legacy ones which does not go into standby mode after 3 hours of inactivity the Slinger will go into standby mode and will need to be restarted. To avoid this turn the receiver off with the remote when not watching or tune to a preview channel like 101 on Dishnet. If your Slinger did enter standby mode it will show a red LED or a solid orange one. No green shoots for you. Simply pull the interface card from your receiver, cycle power on the slinger or press the recessed reset button on its side then once you get the green LED blinking insert your interface card back in the receiver.
You can't get the Slinger detected in your computer.
Make sure you installed both drivers from the Slinger program's Drivers folder. You must use a 9V center positive 300mA minimum rated power supply with the Slinger.
Step 3,
You took note of your Slinger's MAC address right? Mine in this case was 00 54 98 b8 3f c5. We now go back to my router and set up a DHCP reservation for the Slinger. The idiots at D-Link used to call it Static DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) on older routers, so we will set up a static dynamic thing. Go to the SETUP/NETWORK SETTINGS page in the Router's admin panel and find the DHCP Reservation option on the bottom. Fill it out with the Slinger's IP we always want it to have and its MAC address then click Save.
http://bellexpress.vu/images/DHCP.jpg
By doing this every time you restart the Slinger it is always assigned the same IP address of 192.168.0.50. It is important because we will now put the Slinger's IP into a DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) where the router will do no filtering between the Internet and your Slinger.
Step 4,
We now go to the ADVANCED/FIREWALL SETTINGS page in the router's admin and configure IP 192.168.0.50 to b in the DMZ on the bottom of the page ...
http://bellexpress.vu/images/DMZ_host.jpg
...then Save Settings on the top of the page.
http://bellexpress.vu/images/save_settings.jpg
Step 5,
Now go to the ADVANCED/PORT FORWARDING page and forward all incoming packets on your Slinger's listen port to your Slinger's IP address. If you recall I used the same source and destination ports of 11014 for my Slinger which now has the IP of 192.168.0.50 so I entered those numbers and then click Save Settings. On some routers you can select TCP or UDP or Both, you want Both TCP and UDP to be forwarded.
http://bellexpress.vu/images/portforward.jpg
We are done with the Router you can close the browser.
Step6,
Go to the IKS Channels page in the Slinger software and Click the Scan Channels button twice with about 30 seconds between clicks to see the available public channels for Dish and Bell. Or you can just manually enter
Channel 100-00113 for Dishnet or Channel 100-00082 for Bell. This Channel thing is like a login ID nothing more.
For password enter 123456789 for either Bell or Dish and click the Write button.
http://bellexpress.vu/images/IKS_channel.jpg
Step 7,
Go to the BIN editor page and click Load Bin and select your married BIN. Since my 301 is edited with public numbers I can use the provided Dish Public Clean ROM102 at rev 103.bn102 from the Dumps folder in the IKS software. If your receiver is not cloned to the public numbers but you have a ROM102 or 103 BIN that is married to your receiver you need to write that BIN to the Slinger instead of the public BIN. If you have a ROM103 BIN it has an extension of bn103 not bn102 and it will not show up in the list when you select BINs unless you select All Files from the drop down box.
http://bellexpress.vu/images/all_files.jpg
If you want to change the time zone you can enter the two digit code in the Time Zone field then click Patch.
F2 - Newfoundland Standard
F3 - NST/NDT Dynamic Change
E4 - Mountain Standard Time
E5 - MST/MDT Dynamic Change
E9 - CST/CDT Dynamic Change
E8 - Central Standard Time
E0 - Pacific Standard Time
F0 - Atlantic Standard
F1 - AST/ADT Dynamic Change
EC - Eastern Standard Time
ED - EST/EDT Dynamic Change
E1 - PST/PDT Dynamic Change
DC - Alaska Standard Time
DD - AKST/AKDT Dynamic Change
D9 - HAST/HADT Dynamic Change
Since I am in EST and Daylight Savings I edited mine to ED.
Once the BIN has the right time zone click Write and it will be written to you Slinger.
http://bellexpress.vu/images/BIN_write.jpg
This is it folks. Both your Slinger and your router is now configured.
Step8,
a, Unplug both the USB and power cable from the Slinger.
b, Take the Slinger to your receiver. Hook up the phone cable with the interface card on the other end to the phone socket on the Slinger, plug in the network cable from your Home Router into the RJ45 socket on the Slinger.
c, Turn on the receiver and wait until it is asking you to insert a card. Remember, the receiver must be at the latest firmware. Connect the power to the Slinger. The Slinger will have the LED in the front of it turn red then immediately turn orange and will blink 3 times indicating the Slinger contacted your router, asked and have gotten an IP address from it. After that it will turn solid orange connecting and waiting for the server . After a few seconds the server will reply to the Slinger when the LED will turn green and start blinking. This is when you insert your interface card into the receiver. The receiver will acquire the satellite signal and go through the steps starting up. Finally it will download the guide and reward you with picture. The LED will stay orange for 15 seconds then when a new packet arrives from the server turn green for a second. That is normal.
Troubleshooting.
Of course nothing ever works as easy as claimed. Chances are you will at one time or another encounter problems. Here are a few symptoms and suggestions I myself have observed.
You get 019 error Card not inserted correctly, CAM ID showing S00 0000 0000
I found that if the Slinger did not connect to the server yet and you insert the interface card in the receiver it will give you this error. To avoid this you must wait until the LED blinks green. So remember, power it on wait for 3 orange blinks, wait, when it starts blinking again green that is when you insert the card. If it does not blink green after like 30 seconds or God forbid turns red pull the card out, cycle the power on the Slinger and wait for the green blink. Sometimes take up to 10 tries, I guess at peak times when the server is the busiest.
You will also run into this problem if your Slinger can't receive the packets from the server. It can be caused by a badly configured router, your modem also being a NAT and blocking stuff, an IP conflict on your network, you using a normal phone cable to connect the Slinger to the interface card, messed up interface card, firewall enabled in routers, encrypted NAT (netgear crap routers like that) enabled in routers, server being down, our Internet being down. For best results get a D-Link router, have your setup like mine above, make sure your modem is not also a NAT (is in bridge mode).
You are getting blinking green but you see only header info on the subscription channels and the previews.
Your receiver's firmware is out of date or your married BIN has problems and will not negotiate a session with he receiver properly. If you can clone your receiver with the public numbers and use the provided public BIN. Make sure you take or force the receiver to take the latest firmware.
You are getting freezing.
Unfortunately with IKS you will always have some freezing. You are after all receiving packets form across the Globe not from your smart card in the card slot. Micro freezes are normal to have. If you are getting very long and frequent freezes at times but not always it maybe network congestion, the server being overloaded or the channel you want to watch not being served with many cards. If you always experience freezing and long ones you must do this:
Get a D-Link router. It does make a huge difference, ask on forums. Don't know why.
Configure your router as I described above. Your router's menu may differ but the idea is the same, DMZ, DHCP reservation and port forward.
Make sure your modem is a bridge, not a NAT device. Avoid wireless modems that have only USB plugs, you need Ethernet (RJ45) out on your modem.
Make sure you are not using a wireless bridge to connect your Slinger to your wireless router. Loads of interference from wireless devices like phones and even your microwave will results in dropped packets which are not resent. If your Slinger is far from the router get a Power Line Inserter and use that. For best results use a plain old Ethernet cable to connect your Slinger to your router.
I found it helps to restart the Slinger every day. For some reason restarting it makes freezing go away for me.
You lose picture or get sever freezing after a long time of use.
If you are not changing channels for more than 4 hours and your receiver is one of the old legacy ones which does not go into standby mode after 3 hours of inactivity the Slinger will go into standby mode and will need to be restarted. To avoid this turn the receiver off with the remote when not watching or tune to a preview channel like 101 on Dishnet. If your Slinger did enter standby mode it will show a red LED or a solid orange one. No green shoots for you. Simply pull the interface card from your receiver, cycle power on the slinger or press the recessed reset button on its side then once you get the green LED blinking insert your interface card back in the receiver.
You can't get the Slinger detected in your computer.
Make sure you installed both drivers from the Slinger program's Drivers folder. You must use a 9V center positive 300mA minimum rated power supply with the Slinger.