Computers & Tablets

[ucrshaw]

I have a home theatre set up upstairs at my house.  My verizon router is downstairs.  With my home theatre setup is an XBOX 360, a Networking Bluray player, and a WD Live TV Hub (1 TB).  The way I distribute internet to these devices is through a wireless bridge (takes wireless connection from the router and bridges to ethernet ports).  The problem that I need a solution for is my WD Live TV Hub also acts as a 1 TB network attached storage (NAS).  If I use my laptop (connected to the router) I am unable to connect to the NAS, currently the only way to connect to it, is to plug in an ethernet to the bridge.

connection that does not work:

laptop (wireless) -> router -> (wireless) bridge -> NAS

My question is: What's preventing me from connecting to the NAS from my laptop? If I am able to get internet on the NAS, why wouldn't it be able to connect to another device in my LAN?

My suspicion is the bridge somehow will not allow the connection. And I was thinking a powerline ethernet adapter might solve my problem.  I want all my devices to have internet connections and I want to be able to access my NAS from my laptop, without having to be hard connected. What is the best way to achieve this?

[MichaelHWG]

keep your current set up

and add an extender too it for the wireless.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_dynSessConf=-8206887138712605288&id=...

[ucrshaw]

I don't need an extender, my wireless bridge picks up my wifi just fine.  I am able to play xbox live with no problems.  The issue is I can not connect to my NAS that is also connected to the bridge.

[MichaelHWG]

How does your wireless bridge get its internet? Is it similar to what I linked to above?

Or is it wired?

[ucrshaw]

Its basically the exact opposite as the extender.  It takes in wifi from the router and outputs it to the ethernet ports.  Here is a link to the manufacturer desciption:

http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=663

[MichaelHWG]

so it basically works as an access point. you could have an ip conflict between your notebook and the WDTV.

In your routers settings see if you can force an IP for each and see if that helps.

It could be a number of things really. Have you tried resetting the settings on the WDTV?

when you connect your laptop wirelessly to the network are you connecitng to the router or the wireless bridge created the the dlink duo?

[ucrshaw]

alright ill try resetting everything. My laptop is connected wirelessly to the router, not the bridge. All my devices have there own ip addresses.

Laptop - 192.168.1.2

WDTV - 192.168.1.7

XBOX - 192.168.1.6

I'll try forcing the ip addresses, thanks

[MichaelHWG · Accepted solution]

can anything connected to the router , see whats connected to the bridge.
If they can't it could be that your access point is set up incorrectly. Never used the duo you have so grasping at straws.

On a wired configuration like this, if I were having this problem, I would just disable the DHCP server on the access point and remove the internet in from the internet port and stick it into 1 of the 4 ethernet ports.

[ucrshaw]

yeah that may be the problem, I cannot view any devices connected to the bridge from my router's "My Network" screen. I'll try reconfiguring the bridge.  Nice find!

[ucrshaw]

Awesome! that fixed the problem.  I think all my devices were sharing the same IP as the Bridge, so resetting the bridge fixed it. Thank You!!