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Because they're both Eric Martinez, who I was going to give a KUDOS to for purchasing equipment just to help another Channels DVR user. He must have two or more accounts.
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Ok first. I'm assuming that you, gmartinez***** are the same person as Ericwmartinez that was gonna test out the actual router.....
And ya, thanks for testing and reporting.. but ya that's kinda the conclusion I already came to, that the only way it would be possible is if I pull a cable from the modem. But that isn't worth it for just this one thing. Cause the modem is 2 flights up from me, it's just not worth it.
That other option you mentioned, the power adaptor thing, is actually something new I haven't heard of or considered, I'll look into that and see what that is all about, and see if it could work for me.
We are in the same House, but like I said he is 2 flights above me. So it's definitely not on same fuse\circuit breaker. But on the same power line and account. Idk I'll look into that more. Thanks for that
Another option I'm considering is maybe trying to go back to my small plugin wifi Repeater I was using before this Wavlink Router. It was a small simple repeater, but it had 2 Ethernet ports at the bottom (most have 1), so I can make that work. And I saw in web page settings of that I saw a section for port forwarding. So I'm gonna try to transfer everything back to that repeater, and see if I can indeed just activate the port forwarding from that directly.
I can't recall the name of the brand that repeater is, something like TGVI. I Believe.
I'll report back if I have any luck settings it up with that.
Thanks for the help.
(Not sure what that last one was all about.... So much anger.... So sad)
EXACTLY!
I do wanna say KUDDOS! AND THANKS!
In addition to powerline ethernet, you can also use MOCA over cable wiring which I prefer.
All my previous Powerline adapters ruined my AC outlets and switches with micro-arcing.
LolâŚâŚyes I am one in the same. You know since itâs been brought up and after I posted my response did I realize I was on my other account. So first I have two accounts cause Iâve set up two different servers In two different locations. (Laughing) I had to set up a third account just to test the wavelink cause I didnât wasnât to interrupt my current server. So with all that being said here is my frustration. I use my phone for mostly everything I do. So when I allow access to a server (channels) keeps me logged in for as long as my cookies are enabled. So itâs hard for me to switch accounts cause I canât seem to locate a log out option. So therefore I have to clear all my cookies and web history to reset the token.
Ok so back to the topic. I forgot about moca. However keep in mind that if there is satellite service moca cannot run in conjunction with satellite cause they use the same frequencies. But directtv has there own moca adapters and Dishnetwork have built in moca but youâll need a special adapter to separate the coax to Ethernet.
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Ok guys. So major update for me on this subject!
So I pulled out my old little Wifi Repeater that I used before getting this Wavlink Router. I had to make adjustments to make it work, but I got it done. Mainly the Router had 6 Ethernet ports. So I was connecting my, HDHR Flex 4k, My Channel Master DVR+, and my new Tablo Quad. So changing back to the small Repeater that only had 2 ports, I had to lose one. So I googled how to connect the Tablo via WiFi, which for some reason isn't as simple as you'd think. But I got it connected via WiFi. So the 2 ports are for the HDHR, and the DVR+. As they don't have a wifi connection option.
So at first I set it all up, as I used it before. In regular repeater mode. Now the reason I tried this changing back to it, is cause I saw in the settings page this repeater does have a section for Port Forwarding. So I set it as regular repeater, and tried the port forwarding. But it didn't work. The remote viewing was still saying my report isn't visible.
So the next thing I did. I did almost by accident. I clicked in the settings page on Bridge. And it reset everything. And now I get what was mentioned here before that the web settings for the repeater now disappeared. Cant access it anymore. But now everything I connect to this repeaters wifi, was now getting IP address like from the main router!
So it's funny, the repeater has a physical switch on the side that you move between 3 positions, AP, Repeater, Router. So that switch I still have on Repeater mode. But when I click Bridge it bridges in repeater mode? That's something the WavLink was missing.
So now in Repeater mode, with Bridged setting. I went to my main cable routers settings page. And I could easily setup the Port Forwarding, cause all my devices including the PC running the Channels Server, were now there on the router page as connected devices. So I just Forwarded 8089. And walla! I got remote viewing capability!! For the first time!!!!
So thanks again for all the help here.
Yeah its a shame that every device doesn't support that type of feature where you can use wireless as a backbone back to the router. But glad you were able to find a wireless option. I tried this with a few netgear products that had a 4 port swtich similar to your device. But after a few days each device that was connected with a network cable would fall off until I restarted the netgear device again. I ended up giving up and hardwiring it. I know that really isn't an option for you.
But I have used this repeater before. With the HDHR connected to it via cable. And it worked fine.
So I'm hoping I won't run into issues with this setup.
For now it seems to work just fine.
And no. Hard wiring isn't really a option for me. I think of first hey my own cable account rather than pull a cable 3 flights up.
Just remember that OTA streaming is FAR more bandwidth intensive than internet streaming, and plan accordingly.
(There is a reason that any pro-adjacent form of video production hardwires their equipment ... wireless is crap for (high-bandwidth) video.)
Seems to work flawlessly for me.
I've been using it via WiFi on both this little repeater and the WavLink router.
I never really had the video freeze or stutter, or anything like that.
If that was the case. I wouldn't be using it this way.
But so far. I've been using my HDHR a year and a half now like this. Works just fine for me
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I have 2 Primes and 3 connects connected Wirelessly to my channels DVR server with ASUS AIMesh System and have no problems recording or playing and I record all Primetimes shows. I do not run any Ethernet between the AiMesh systems all wireless backhaul. My tuners are all in the Northside of the house best OTA reception and my server is in the Southside Garage.
You're obviously a member of a small and elite group of DVR users. Count yourself lucky that you don't have to deal with the slew of issues that less fortunate individuals do.
Ya I've had ZERO issue with the HDHR Flex 4k.
One thing I was a little worried. At least the HDHR is always connected via cable to the router, then goes wifi from there out. Cause the HDHR doesn't have a wifi connect option.
So when I setup my Tablo Quad recently, (I bought one used from eBay) I set it up with a cable as well. But like I mentioned in previous post, now when I switched back to the small Repeater I couldn't connect the Tablo via cable, so I connected it via WiFi, I was very concerned about that, I thought it would mess it up. But I honestly can't tell a difference between now and before. It plays perfectly stable, loads just as fast. Everything works just as good.
And THAT'S fully fully wireless! It sends it to the router via WiFi, then to the clients via WiFi again! And it really is working flawlessly!
WiFi has come a long way.
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Hmmm .....
This new bridge repeater setup isn't working that well.
The issue I seem to have here is, the HDHR Flex keeps getting reassigned a new IP address every hour or so. So every time I lose my channels feed and have refresh everything with the HDHR IP address....
This is way too annoying.
Anyone have an idea how to stop this?
Problem is, in this bridge mode I can't access the repeater settings anymore at all...
Idk.
The real problem is that you are using a network you can't control.
If you want to manage it; you can do it as a double-NAT (with all of those issues), or you can get your own internet/POP.
That would be assigned by the router you're connecting to upstairs. It's assigning your HDHR and everything else connected to it a dynamic IP address using its DHCP server.
You would need to setup a DHCP reserved IP address for your HDHR (and anything else you want to have a fixed IP address) on that router.
But the problem is, the optimum router has no dhcp settings.
It seems there is always one little thing holding back perfection.
Idk, I'll keep trying to see if i can somehow get the hdhr to stay on the same IP address. If i can't get it to, I'll just go back to how it was. Meaning not bridged, just regular repeater mode, and i guess no Remote Viewing option.
It's sad, i really wanted the remote viewing feature. But it's not enough to make me pay monthly for internet service just for this. Remote viewing isn't worth $40 a month to me i guess.
Ok, I found a kinda sorta solution. That is far from perfect. But might just work..
I connected the HDHR to my PC Ethernet port, instead of into the repeater. my PC gets Internet via WiFi, so I share the wifi connection with the port.
So now the PC sets the IP address for the HDHR, and it seems at least not to be changing now every hour
But the problem with this is. That the up address assigned my the PC isn't the same the router and bridged repeater. So the only way to connect to the HDHR directly is via the PC. Cause if the wifi connected devices see it now as it isn't on the same network now.
But since my Channels Server is running on this same PC, it reads it perfectly.
And so far it works perfectly fine.
I just can't use the original HDHR app, and I can't access it's web settings page from my phones.
But no biggy, cause Channels replaced the original anyway, and I can still check it's tuners etc etc from my PC.
So with this setup I gained remote viewing, and lost access to the HDHR via my WiFi network.
I think I'm good with this
Let's see how it holds up
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