How exactly do Pocket WiFi devices work?

DLNA over LAN and WIFI problems?

• I am having trouble getting DLNA working over LAN & WIFI at the same time. For example, My Samsung TV has DLNA support for DMP and DMR, I am able to access my media servers and use the "Play To" feature in Windows 7 without problem on my LAN, however if I try over WIFI with my laptop or cellphone they don't pick up the TV and the TV can't pick them up, my phone picks up my laptop and visa versa over wifi, so its as if the WIFI network is seperate from the LAN somehow? This makes no sense because I have a DSL LAN/WIFI router which is being used and the networks are not separate on it, I am able to access all machines via network shares etc. The only thing that wont work is DLNA! So to sum it up, DLNA works over LAN, DLNA works over WIFI but wont work between LAN devices & WIFI devices. The router is pretty much on the default settings, I made sure subnets and all are the same but cant get it to work. If anybody has any idea what could be wrong any suggestion would be appreciated.

• Answer:

  You need to address the possibility that the wifi network is indeed separate. Wirelessly connect to the wifi with a laptop. Open a command line (start->run->cmd) type IP Config to learn your address. You will also learn the routers IP Address. You also need to learn the IP addresses of various media resources on the network. One way is to ping it. I have a NAS that I called Warehouse. Here is my query C:\Users\username>ping warehouse Pinging warehouse [192.168.0.195] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.0.195: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.0.195: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.0.195: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.0.195: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 Ping statistics for 192.168.0.195: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 0ms C:\Users\username> I did this from a wireless laptop to a wired Raid 5 nas. What you want to know is, "can I ping wireless resources from wired ones and vise versa?" Most things will respond to a ping. You may have to go into the box to learn its address If you can't then you need to concentrate on fixing your network. In general, if you can ping it, you should be able to send DLNA data between them. I have a boxee box that also responds to a ping and it also uses SMB or sharing or peer (real name, netbios/netbeui). All of this requires that everybody be on the same network segment. And that sounds to me like the problem you have.