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Does any body know what firewall ports need to be open for onDemand to work/

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Windows 7 & CA Firewall Help

After trying "everything", I finally got MediaShare to work on my HR21/700 by disabling my CA Firewall, and doing a "red button reset". I was able to view some photos, and play some music. Then I decided I better turn the firewall back on, and sure enough, the song stopped playing. I tried this cycl

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TV not working behind Palo Alto Firewall

I decided to buy a Palo Alto Firewall and I configured it the following way. Uverse Receiver(wan public IP address)     |(wan public IP addrsss)outside’s Firewall interface     |inside’s firewall interface(DHCP server with private IP aadresses)      |swich      |Uverse DVR ( private IP address) My P

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3800HGV-B in DMZPlus Mode with Hardware firewall and Motorola VIP2250

Hello, I am having an issue with the setup in the subject line. I will detail below. I have a 3800HGV-B in DMZPlus mode. I have a hardware firewall ( fortigate 60c), connected to the LAN side of the 3800 with the public IP address assigned to its WAN interface. This is the purpose of having the DMZP

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What about my firewall

Just installed a brand new R22 today. VOD is working but slow. It got me wondering if my router might be hampering the connection by blocking necessary ports.So does the DVR need any open ports to get the best of VOD? I really don't want to make it part of the DMZ. So what's going on.

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Subnet, wireless, and Firewall issues with Ipad - solved

After several weeks I finally got my ipad completely working. A few hints on this forum help.  Maybe this will help someone else. Symptoms:After I got all of my house on the same IP subnet I was able to get the Ipad App to control the receivers and the DVR  but not show the channels, streaming or sc

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? about firewalls

I run norton 360 and Media share works as long as I disable the firewall. There has to be a better way because when I disable the firewall the computer has to be restarted. Any suggestions?

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this usually indicates that either a windows firewall or your routers firewall is blocking access to the Nomad.  try turning firewall off.  see if that helps.

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Unable to Register DIRECTV Nomad - PC - Windows 7

I have Nomad installed on my network per the instructions (i. e., directly attached to my WiFi router) and all 3 lights are blue.  I have downloaded Nomad from the DirecTV web site.  The software sucessfully found the DIRECTV Nomad, activated the device, but will NOT register the DirecTV Nomad.  The

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And, maybe temporarily disable the firewall on the computer, making sure two aren't running.  How about the firewall in the router?

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HBO Go Login

I cannot login to HBO GO (and I am an HBO subscriber).  The screen will go gray and the SIGN IN button will be highlighted, OR I get a message if I try to sign up that I am missing the required registration token.  I have spent an hour trying to figure out a fix and cannot.  Please help!

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IP address for firewalls and routers

Hello fellow hair pullers 🙂 I am learning from earlier posts that some LAN (Local Area Network) routers and/or firewalls might be preventing the receivers from accessing the Directv servers so the TV apps can work. Does anyone know the IP address and ports associated with the service so I can enter

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I did the reset.  My ADSL modem/firewall (Actiontec M1000) is only set on NAT.  The firewall is disabled.  Directv2PC is on the PC Window's Firewall exception list.

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Application seems to work but no video

I'm running Directv2PC on a 2.4Ghz Athlon X2, 1 GB mem, Windows XP w/SP3, 160 GB hard drive, Radeon HD 4670 video card with 1GB memory and latest drivers, on a house gigabit network behind a CenturyLink/Qwest DSN modem/router.  The computer is connected to a Samsung plasma HDTV via a VGA cable.  I'v

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None of the suggestions mentioned above have resolved this issue for me, nor have 3 calls to tech support. Works fine on my iPad (using the iPhone app), so it would seem likely that it would be a firewall issue on my PC. But I've added rules to my fi

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Waiting to Download

I have read the post, Waiting to Download.  I have had the downloads  in the que for several hours.  I checked to see if they are VOD and they are not.  Are there any other reasons the shows will not download.  I have reset the Nomad, uninstalled the app and reinstalled and restarted my computer.  I

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Generally speaking if you play a song in Mediashare (so that program flow is active) and enable the firewall at the same time, the firewall will see the Mediashare as friendly and allow it.

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Media share not available anymore

Until today I have always been able to access the media files on my pc thru my DTV receivers.I would click menu and there would be a selection saying"photos,music,video"Today that selection is not available on any of my 3 HDdvr boxes.I have had the same router for a year now and it has always allowe

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You must do an AT&T version of port forwarding refered to as "Opening firewall pinholes"..... It is known as opening firewall ports or firewall port forwarding to the rest of the normal networking world.....Open Browser192.168.1.254SettingsFirewallAp

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ATT ConecTech Service rep. says I need to pay more money in order for my IP camera to work

It was free and also was easy to setup DMZ zone when we had Comcast. Now we switched over to AT&T UVerse and we can't access our Security IP cameras from work.  We did everything the tech support rep. told us to do. He asked us to factory reset the router twice and do the setup process all over agai

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Quote: Originally Posted by fragile hopefully you have no other firewall running on your PC? If you go into services on your PC, make sure Windows Media Player Network Sharing is running and also the SSDP Discovery Service. Please forgive my computer

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Trying to Setup Mediashare

I have four HD-DVRs- two HR-20 700s, a HR-23 700 and a HR-24 500.  They are all networked together with Cat 6 ethernet, and Whole Home DVR and internet connectivity are functional on all of them.  I have a home computer running Windows XP with Service Pack 3 that is also connected to the network.  T

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The modems anti virus or firewall then.

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HR54 hard-wired connection issue

Since around 2018, I've had an HR54 hard-wired to a router. A few months ago, it lost the connection and refuses to reconnect, wired or wireless. DIRECTV technician replaced the unit today with another HR54 and he could not get the new unit to connect. We tried connecting directly to the router, mul

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Have you tried disabling your firewall and virus filter during installation?

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Codec install fails after activation

So I've been searching for a solution to this problem for a while and have had no success thus far so I'm posting here.  I've done MULTIPLE things to try and get this working... First my Custom PC details:Asus P9X79 Deluxe MoboIntel Core i7 393032GB Corsair Vengence PC1600 RAMOCZ Agility3 SSD  (on t

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Make sure the firewall on your router is inactive.

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DirecTV Anywhere - cannot connect to home wifi network

On my laptop, I'm trying to use the "stream at home" option on directv.com.  The site informs me that my laptop is not conneted to my home wifi network.  I know that I am connected to my home network (the same network my DVR is connected to).  I also confirmed that both the IP address on the DVR and

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Hi all,In-case this happens to anyone else it was a windows firewall issue. I'm not sure what changed but disabling it worked perfectly. Can anyone let me know what ports this application is running on so I can let those slide for local network and r

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DIRECTV2PC is not working today.

Hi all,I feel I should preface by saying I've been using with no issue for years, and was able to use the program yesterday with no issue. Today the program starts up and says it cannot connect to the update server (brand new as of today), then after I hit continue (tried try again to no avail) it l

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Hello: Norton Security controls my firewall and I'm having a similar issue - direct tv2pc worked fined up until a couple of weeks ago and I'm wondering if it is a firewall issue. I called direct tv's customer service and they completed an escalation

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DirecTV2PC - Cannot Play Protected Content - FIXED

I've been getting the "Cannot play protected content error for a few weeks. its started out happening randomly, sometimes it would play, sometimes it wouldn't. Eventually it go to the point where I couldn't play any episodes of certain shows, others worked fine and for the last week or so I haven't

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