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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: LLckfan on June 02, 2014, 09:48:56 PM
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I have a Magnavox MBP 5120 Blu-ray player that I am trying to get to hook up to my wifi everytime I try. Sometimes it will go though but most of the time I get DHCP cannot be acquired. I have moved the blu-ray player and it took four times to get it to connect without that error so I know where it is is not the issue. Connects just fine though the cable
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Have you tried setting a static IP address manually as suggested in this link? (http://www.pchelpforum.com/threads/cannot-connect-magnavox-blu-ray-player-to-the-internet.127850/)
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Yes
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If I set the internet type from automatic configuration-DHCP to Static IP it will connect no issue.
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I had the Blu-ray connected to the wifi on March 8th (after trying 4 times) I was able to connect once after that but in the m9iddle of a movie got a network error. The router is a Linksys WRT120N. I have changed nothing except for what I said in the post about the Static IP and that was done after
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Does it happen on both manual and static IP and DHCP/Auto? The only remaining suggestions are updating the router's firmware, move the access point where there is less interferences . Not sure if the Linksys router supports DD-WRT though...
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The outer is maybe at the most ten feet away from the blu-ray player. I am not sure what you are aski9ng
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Just to be clear on wifi issues is distance and interference or poor router signal broadcast. See last post previous suggestions also just in case.
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The router is in the same room