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Thursday, February 11th, 2010 7:02 PM

Multi Room and Linksys PowerLine/Router

I have a continuing issue with my equipment and Multi-room:

Media Room: DirecTV HR20/100 connected to home network via Linksys Powerline 4-port adapter
Family Room: DirecTV HR20/700 connected to home network via Linksys Router

Here's the problem - the media room DVR can see and play content on the family room DVR, but the family room cannot do the same. I can see the content for a second and even attempt to play it, but when it starts, the system says the DVR can no longer be located and drops, removing all media room content from the play list.

The media room DVR seems to repeatedly fail automatic connection using STB - even manual setup appears to fail connectivity testing. I have also noticed that I cannot see the media DVR using DirecTV2PC either - only the family room DVR shows.

I have opened ports to no avail - it'd be nice to be able to make this work on both DVRs. Any help would be appreciated.

ACE - Sage

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15 years ago

Sounds like a problem with your Linksys Powerline Adapter. What happens if you connect a laptop PC to that Powerline Network Adapter instead of your DVR? Can the PC access the internet or other devices on your home network?

Tutor

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15 years ago

I figured it out - Windows Firewall was running in the background behind my McAfee firewall. Once I disabled it, everything was fine. Everything else works fine with the PowerLine adapters.

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