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Can't stream on LAN when internet goes out
Hi guys. Whenever my internet goes out I am unable to stream to my dune media player. The Dune can't find the network share. The files reside on my ReadyNAS so it should not require internet acces...
Thanks! So I'll a little bit confused. Screen shots below. Are you saying that I should put the address of #2 into #3?
Blanker-2, no, your router is set correctly.
It is the DEVICE that is not right. I thought I saw somewhere else you had shown the W10 IPCONFIG output and there was NO Gateway IP Address on it? That means you are NOT using the AUTO part for the Network Properties and MANUALLY set it, but did not put in a Gateway IP Address.
On my wired W10 PC the shortened cmd output:
Ethernet adapter Ethernet:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::58bf:9e27:bf45:87e8%7
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.30
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
That last line on the one you posted, Default Gateway was BLANK... Needs to have the router IP Address in it.
IrvSp, is absolutely right. Without a default gateway (your local router's ip address) specified in the client's config it will definitely not work.
Thanks and regards
IrvSp wrote:
Blanker-2, no, your router is set correctly.
It is the DEVICE that is not right. I thought I saw somewhere else you had shown the W10 IPCONFIG output and there was NO Gateway IP Address on it? That means you are NOT using the AUTO part for the Network Properties and MANUALLY set it, but did not put in a Gateway IP Address.
I am not seeing the ipconfig screen shot on this thread, but I agree that the router is set up correctly.
Any truly static IP address (not reserved in the router) does need to have the subnet mask set to 255.255.255.0 and the gateway address set to 192.168.1.1. If you do that, then the streaming should work even if the internet is off.
If you are connecting to the NAS via it's hostname, then try connecting with it's IP address instead. Also, if ipv6 is enabled on the NAS, I suggest disabling it.
If the issue still happens after you've done all the things above, then please try disconnecting the router from the internet, and see if you can still access the NAS from the W10 PC. If you can, then the issue is specific to the Dune player.
IrvSp wrote:
@RolandWausE, ... A moderator has to approve the included picture. ... Some users have special rights and bypass the approval process.
Yes, all images need to be approved.
I can approve images also, so if you run into a situation where you can't see an image you can PM me with a link to the post. I might not realize that you can't see it, since the forum software always shows me the images (which no hint that they aren't approved).
ipconfig via cmd on my wired win10 machine:
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.51
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1My dune is congured to access the share via ip address. The dune is set to optabin ip address automatically, I will try to assign a static ip to it (in the dune itself) now that I know what gateway and subnet mask to put in there. Should I also remove it from the static assignment from within my router, or it doesn't matter?
I still don't understand why this would work. Why would losing internet cause any of this to not work? Getting this to work is paramount to understanding it and I don't expect people here to spell it out for me when there's tons of info on the web.
Thanks again for the help. I'll report back to see if it worked.
There are two types of IP Addresses, actually 3:
- DHCP ones handed out by the router that can/will change on each device power up...
- Fixed IP Address set in the device to always get that IP Address.
- Reserved IP Addresses set in the Router by device MAC Address.
The 2nd one can cause a problem is that requested IP Address is within the range the router's DHCP server will hand out (although in your case this wouldn't happen.
The main reason for having a fixed IP address is to know what device is where. I used it so I can tell in the router LOG (which only shows IP Address and MAC addresses :
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.30)] to MAC address F8:B1:56:DD:6A:5B, Thursday, Dec 06,2018 06:28:06
[DHCP IP: (192.168.1.4)] to MAC address 10:AE:60:57:25:06, Thursday, Dec 06,2018 06:24:23This allows me to know for the ones I'm interested in what is going on. In the above the first is my wired PC with the IP Address of 192.168.1.30 assigned in the Advanced LAN Setup screen. The 2nd I really don't care about and it is set by the DHCP server's pool (.1 - .29 in my case).
I used the set known ones so I can easily connect to the device I want to without having to try and figure out where they are at that specific time each time I want to connect to them.
Usually though the NETBIOS name is enough, but with the latest W10, that isn't always the case.
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