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Any connectivity - router guru's around?

RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,231
edited December 1969 in The Commons

I've set up a wireless with wire capability internet radio Tuner from GraceDigital on the bedroom. Router is in the old bedrooms walk in closet that's now my computer room. I was thinking that the routers wireless capability should be about 30 feet or so. It's about 20 feet from the new bedroom location so shouldn't be an issue but there is some spotty activity.

So started researching and it seems that on the Motorola router from AT&T for UVerse there is a config tab called IP Passthrough. There are a couple of options but they confuse me. This is not my forte so asking advice on how to set this up.

One option is the Default Server and under that is a box to put the routers IP address in. But not sure if that's what I want
Second option is the Passthrough and then a bunch of other options become selectable.

I've got the routers settings up as high as they will go for signal strength but the Passthrough was mentioned on a few forums out there as something that the routers built in Firewall sometimes blocks packets from devices like the Tuner from getting through properly. This is an issue with my Blu-Ray player that has built in wireless connectivity to access NetFlix and other on line media resources. But playing a movie all the way through is a total joke. So I just watch Netflix on my computer monitor, which is a 27" monitor so no big deal there. But I'd really like to get the Tuner in the bedroom stable and getting a solid signal if possible.

Keep in mind this is not an area I'm well read on so please instruct me with easy to understand info.

Thanks so much

Richard

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  • SpitSpit Posts: 2,342
    edited December 1969

    One option is the Default Server and under that is a box to put the routers IP address in.

    Did you try that? Then I assume you have to tell the radio what IP address to talk to.

    Any instructions on your internet radio tuner? Do you know the device ID of the radio? Usually there's an option in a router to accept a device ID to connect to. Then the radio should have some method of letting itself know who it's talking to--in this case the identity of the router and I guess it would be the IP address (or some other ID for the router to identify itself by). Otherwise it could be a simple login with password to the router. Don't know if your radio has that or the ability to enter a pwrd.

    I'm not terribly experienced with this since Kindles and PCs and Linksys are pretty easy.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,651
    edited December 1969

    RAMWolff said:
    I've set up a wireless with wire capability internet radio Tuner from GraceDigital on the bedroom. Router is in the old bedrooms walk in closet that's now my computer room. I was thinking that the routers wireless capability should be about 30 feet or so. It's about 20 feet from the new bedroom location so shouldn't be an issue but there is some spotty activity.

    So started researching and it seems that on the Motorola router from AT&T for UVerse there is a config tab called IP Passthrough. There are a couple of options but they confuse me. This is not my forte so asking advice on how to set this up.

    One option is the Default Server and under that is a box to put the routers IP address in. But not sure if that's what I want
    Second option is the Passthrough and then a bunch of other options become selectable.

    I've got the routers settings up as high as they will go for signal strength but the Passthrough was mentioned on a few forums out there as something that the routers built in Firewall sometimes blocks packets from devices like the Tuner from getting through properly. This is an issue with my Blu-Ray player that has built in wireless connectivity to access NetFlix and other on line media resources. But playing a movie all the way through is a total joke. So I just watch Netflix on my computer monitor, which is a 27" monitor so no big deal there. But I'd really like to get the Tuner in the bedroom stable and getting a solid signal if possible.

    Keep in mind this is not an area I'm well read on so please instruct me with easy to understand info.

    Thanks so much

    Richard

    Arghhh... I'm sooo confused. Can you draw a diagram of the system showing all the relevant network boxes, cables, and wireless devices?

    If you can completely turn off the firewall or disable all it's blocking temporarily then that will simplify the process of establishing proper routing connectivity. Then when you turn on the firewall you'll immediately know if that is an issue that needs to be addressed.

    Can you identify the manufacturer and model of the router so that we can research the configuration documents on the internet?

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,231
    edited December 1969

    Thanks for posting, the both of you.

    @ Spit, yes, I have given the radio, blu-ray and my other internet radio permission through the computer to connect wirelessly to my router so it's not a permissions issue.

    @LD. Not turned off the firewall to see if that was indeed the issue or not. Got a long day at work today so probably won't have time to test that out until tomorrow.

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,997
    edited December 1969

    Having just setup a wireless printer I can feel your pain! Ignore the fact that I was an IT SysAdmin for over 20 years, it took me 2 to 3 hours of hair-pulling, wailing and gnashing of teeth to get it to work over the wifi.

    I suspect, much like the printer, there is no way for you to enter relevant network details on the radio. Therefore it very likely uses a process called WPS to connect. This requires your router to support that feature. It also, as I found out, requires you to metaphorically drop your security trousers to start with! In effect you poke buttons on the device to get it into a 'I wanna join in' mode, and do something similar with your router to make it listen for such connection requests. If all goes well they share a key which means they remember each other and will connect automatically when they start up. Hindrances involve having to use the lower/lowest form of encryption and having to enable broadcast of SSID before the initial connection will happen. After you have them paired up you can disable SSID again, but the encryption level has to stay low.

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,231
    edited December 1969

    SimonJM said:
    Having just setup a wireless printer I can feel your pain! Ignore the fact that I was an IT SysAdmin for over 20 years, it took me 2 to 3 hours of hair-pulling, wailing and gnashing of teeth to get it to work over the wifi.

    I suspect, much like the printer, there is no way for you to enter relevant network details on the radio. Therefore it very likely uses a process called WPS to connect. This requires your router to support that feature. It also, as I found out, requires you to metaphorically drop your security trousers to start with! In effect you poke buttons on the device to get it into a 'I wanna join in' mode, and do something similar with your router to make it listen for such connection requests. If all goes well they share a key which means they remember each other and will connect automatically when they start up. Hindrances involve having to use the lower/lowest form of encryption and having to enable broadcast of SSID before the initial connection will happen. After you have them paired up you can disable SSID again, but the encryption level has to stay low.

    So you know the frustration! lol

    Yea, Windows does provide a security key to connect, wondering if that's the key I should try rather than the default key for the router?? But then the devices would, if it worked, run only when Windows was running is my thinking behind that idea. No, I think the router password key is the way to go so then it probably is something to do with the built in firewall. SIGH.

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