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Why does wifi connection work for Wii, but not Pana bluray?

Dec 7, 2011 5:49AM PST

Recently purchased the Panasonic bdt210 blu-ray player with built-in wireless. I frequently am unable to maintain any type of connection with the br player. I have a Wii in the basement that seldom has a problem connecting to and streaming Netflix through the wifi connection. Centurylink is my provider. ZyXEL PK5000z is the modem/router. I have 1.5mps service. Is the problem with my service or with the bluray player? Is there a way to boost the network (powerline to direct ethernet bluray connection)? Any suggestions would be appreciated
Thank you.

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What most people discover is
Dec 7, 2011 6:07AM PST

That HDTV and such players don't have as good a wifi system as the Wii and laptops.

But first I suggest the router be setup as the defaults, a simple short alphanumeric SSID and then move to WPA2 AES for security.

Try channels 3 then 9 before you add more gear.
Bob

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I don't know what all that means, but...
Dec 7, 2011 10:55AM PST

I'm pretty sure I was able to make the recommended changes. The modem configuration page is pretty straightforward. I restored the default wireless and firewall settings, and set WPA - Personal and AES security. Also, set to channel 3.

Thank you for taking the time to answer.

Now, about that gear....

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Since you didn't use the advice.
Dec 8, 2011 12:50AM PST

You may not be getting all you can from your router.

As to other gear I just received my powerline network bridge to boost the speed and connection to the HDTV.
Bob

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Please elaborate...
Dec 9, 2011 12:40AM PST

what part of your advice did I not use? Is there something I am missing? After making the changes mentioned above, I was able to connect and watch Netflix, however Vudu would not connect. Last night, the player would not connect to the internet at all. I'll contact centurylink and panasonic before I send it back.

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For example.
Dec 9, 2011 1:35AM PST

I noted WPA2 and you replied with WPA. It's your choice to not try this but when this happens I have to note it and move forward to other solutions.
Bob

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My mistake...
Dec 9, 2011 5:15AM PST

my modem has 2 WPA options: WPA, and WPA2-Personal. I left off the 2 in my reply above, but did set it to WPA2. All of these wireless settings are completely new to me as , until now, I have never had to make any adjustments to the original technician-installed settings.

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WPA2 Personal can be either.
Dec 9, 2011 5:27AM PST
http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/cs-025806.htm

Some devices do better on one or the other and it's a shame we have to become networking gurus to get this working today. But it's the choice the industry made as we bought more TCP/IP products than the others.

If the move works, that's great but wired beats WiFi over and over on too many points. For example WiFi is half duplex so we lose a little time here and there. And it's always open to the odd interference.

I've lost track of the times the neighbor has some old cordless at 2.4GHz and it's game over.
Bob
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FYI
Dec 21, 2011 11:45PM PST

I bought a dual band wireless 'n' router, got a deal from Centurylink to upgrade my dsl speed and now streaming video is smooth and glitch free. We can watch vudu HDX video with no buffering issues at all. Thanks for the info you provided.

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Dec 26, 2011 11:57AM PST

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