I have Private Internet Access as a VPN service, and I wanted to use that for my FireTV alone. So I have a second router in my LAN, which basically serves as a VPN filter for my FireTV. Everything else on my network goes through the first router. So it looks like this:
192.168.1.1 = main router
192.168.1.12 = my Macbook
192.168.1.111 = second (VPN) router's address on main network (I can connect to this from my Macbook and administer the VPN router)
10.0.0.1 = LAN address of VPN router
10.0.0.50 = FireTV IP address
So! My question is...how can I ADB connect to my FireTV from my Macbook using adbFire?
You could opt to disable firewall functionality on your VPN router, unless your main router has static routes to your VPN and open for certain ports from the WAN side. That should be the easiest option.
Or you can open specific ports used by ADB on your VPN router to allow inbound traffic to your FTV along with static route to the FTV. In this case, you will connect to FTV using the WAN IP of your VPN router and forward traffic at the designated port(s) to FTV
Or you can run a local hotspot on your FTV using an application like WiFI Tether Router (or even ES File Explorer) and connect your MAC to the router (that is FTV) and work like that. Note, this only works if your FTV is wired and thereby freeing up your wireless so that it can be used for client connections to it. And also, your MAC has to go wireless in this case. But it is a convoluted way to go that way.
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i noticed under connections a VPN area. i added my pptp connection for my work server but how do i dial it so i have a connection? ideally, i'd like to dial the vpn then use tsmobile to connect to my pc's local ip. is this possible? i can connect to the server via tsmobile but that has static outside ip.
i would also like to know how to do this!
For some odd reason I am unable to use WIFI at work on our 3COM wireless routers. I can connect to all the access points fine, but it never routes. I can ping other internal IP addresses, but I am not able to ping public IP addresses outside of our network.
I started looking through logcat and found that it is setting the gateway to 120.123.1.0 when it should obviously be 192.168.1.1. I looked everywhere in the router settings and the gateway is specified as 192.168.1.1. This is obviously a problem! Why in the world is it picking up this bogus gateway IP address from these routers?
I've had no problems with any other routers and an office neighbor is able to get wifi just fine on his iPhone. Any clues?
Well it is definitely just a gateway issue. I opened a shell with adb and set the gateway to 192.168.1.1 manually and I was able to to access the internet via wifi on the 3COM wireless router.
Does anyone have any idea why the EVO would not obtain the correct gateway? Every other system on the wireless network gets the right data from the DHCP server. I don't care how much of a long shot your suggestions or ideas are, I am looking for any leads to investigate. I've already double checked everything in the wireless router and DHCP server and the mysterious gateway IP (120.123.1.0) is nowhere to be found.
IP, netmask, DNS, DHCP server, and lease time are all coming in fine.
I have my wireless router set up to use MAC Address filtering, where as it will only let recognized MAC Addresses onto my network. When I have the router's internal firewall turned off my KF will connect np. But when I enable the router's internal firewall it just loops thru the WiFi scanning and obtaining ip address, but never connects. So something in the built in firewall is blocking the KF. Any ideas how I can make the KF connect after the firewall is enabled? I have 3 cell phones that connect just fine behind the firewall. Its a Belkin N-150 Model Number F6D4230-4 Version 3
So, I was having some strange issues maintaining a connection to my tv and after exhausting options device side, I began looking at the networking side and after some serious tuning of the router settings, I believe I may have found a recipe for success:
Make sure upnp is on.
Ensure DNS IP addresses are being filled in under Setup/Internet/Manual.
Turn off ALL QoS (DIR only) GameFuel (DGL only and if ON.) options. Advanced/QoS or Gamefuel.
Turn off Advanced DNS Services if you have this option under Setup/Internet/Manual.
Turn on DNS Relay under Setup/Networking.Setup DHCP reserved IP addresses for all devices on the router.
Ensure devices are set to auto obtain an IP address.
Set Firewall settings to Endpoint Independent for TCP and UDP
I also have my wireless set to wpa and aes in case the encryption was causing the problem.
Hope this helps
What do you mean you were having trouble staying connected to your tv? It would just disconnect or you had trouble connecting to your router?
w7excursion said:
What do you mean you were having trouble staying connected to your tv? It would just disconnect or you had trouble connecting to your router?
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Either it would time out after connecting, or would not see the tv. I have two wireless routers too so I i had too make sure it was done on both.
Hi all, first post so sorry if it's in the wrong place! I seem to have an issue connecting to my Fire Stick via adbfire. Adbfire won't connect to my Stick (Followed all steps required) and I have a feeling that it could be because I'm connected to my university Halls of Residence WiFi which is a shared network; is it possible that because of this the IP Address on my laptop won't match the one with the Stick? If so, is there any possible workaround to be able to get Kodi on the device?
Many thanks!
John
Hi,
Most universities employ Layer 2 client isolation, so that one wireless client is not able to communicate with another client. You will likely need to bring in your own router and use your own wireless SSID (against most university network AUP) in order to connect and push things via ADB.
Easiest workaround I can think of is to create your own wifi network, either by using your own router (even without an active internet connection, there are cheap ones available) or you could try a laptop/desktop or a smartphone.
If you have a wired ethernet connection or get a router which can connect to another wifi network, you may be able to get away with your own router all the time, but it's a gamble depending on your uni (mine apparently claimed that they would ban people, but I've been using a cable router without any problems so far (touch wood)).
If you go the path of your own router, be sure you hide the SSID.
The Cisco APs we used, at the university I used to work at, had a dubious "feature" that would actively search out "rogue" SSIDs and would continuously associate/deassociate with them in order to overload the AP and cause them to lock up. They didn't want students using other public available SSIDs for fear of privacy concerns.