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RE: Connecting Skydigibox to WLAN?


  • To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: Connecting Skydigibox to WLAN?
  • From: "Kenneth Watt" <kwatt@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:13:05 +0100
  • Mailing-list: list ukha_d@xxxxxxx; contact ukha_d-owner@xxxxxxx
  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

> The slot that u refer to is a CAM Conditional Access Module slot. Most
sky
> boxes have them but due to tuning limitations of sky boxes it is very
> difficult to use aditional cams in them. The format of cams is the
same as
> PCMCIA cards but the interface is totally different. So i dont think
that
> u will be able to use it to network with.

Yup, there is no known networking for any Sky or Sky+ box yet and I doubt
that there will be either. I dare say that you could read from the serial
port on some of the boxes but I think most of the use it's been put to so
far is for data logging the encryption.

K.




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