Giga Hub 4000 to TV Box via Ethernet - Technical Question

[GoogleNut]

Good morning.

Looking to connect my Fibe TV Box to Bell Giga 4 via Ethernet instead of WiFi.  I have a few technical questions.

1.  Can I connect it directly to the Giga's LAN ports using a regular Cat6e cable?

2.  Does the Giga 4 tag a specific VLAN for TV service through that yellow LAN port that the TV box recognizes or does it run over the same VLAN as the data service?  If tagged, what VLAN number is used for TV service (presuming the data service is untagged/native vlan)

3.  If separate VLANs, has anyone been successful in extending both data and TV VLANs over a switched network?  

Essentially I would like to extend both Data and TV service to my home entertainment area without having to run multiple cables.  The idea would be to trunk both data and TV VLANs between two desktop switches and provide separate cables to the Bell TV Box (TV Vlan) and the rest of my entertainment stuff (XBOX, Android TV, etc over Data VLAN).

Any insight welcomed.  Thank you.

[Vanadiel · Accepted solution]

I have tried this way back when I initially got the service and it resulted in 10 seconds or so network pauses for the TV traffic.

The easiest solution is to leave it on WiFi, unless it does not work well.

[WelshTerrier · Accepted solution]

Good Day & Welcome

Yes to question #1. If you prefer a wired Internet connection instead of wireless Wi-Fi connection, you can connect an Ethernet Cat6e cable to any yellow Ethernet port on the back of your modem.

You can use any spare Ethernet port on your modem to hardwire a connection directly to your TV receiver.

You cannot extend both data and TV over a switched network using the same Ethernet port on your modem. If you plan on hardwiring your Bell receivers, each receiver must be connected directly to the Giga Hub modem.

The wiring for each, must run directly to the Bell Giga Hub modem. Each connection must be point to point to the Bell modem. 

Take care.

[GoogleNut]

Thank you for the reply.  About the following:

The wiring for each, must run directly to the Bell Giga Hub modem. Each connection must be point to point to the Bell modem. 

Why would each receiver require their own port on the Giga?  What would prevent them from working if, for example, I plugged one Giga LAN port to a switch (in vlan 1) and two receivers (or even just one) on the same switch on the same VLAN 1?

If that were possible, I could simply run that VLAN 1 directly from the switch to the TV Box through the switched network and have my home firewall WAN port on another ports in VLAN 1 talking to the Giga?

Trying to understand the limitations.