Random household issues -- questions asked and answered here

Prags...I don't have a clue what the issue could be. Sorry!

I will download Netalyzr on my Android tablet and see what results I get.

Last night, watching something I'd downloaded. Using BubbleUPnP. Everything was fine until around 11:15, then it started stuttering every few seconds. At this point I'm just using the WiFi. Girls and my oldest were on bed, only my second oldest was watching some game videos on that site that Google just bought. He is on his laptop upstairs, I'm downstairs where the modem and router are. The TV I'm streaming to is quite into the router, so it's just Wi-Fi from the tablet to the router. Figure with better budding in the router for the external stuff and shaping the traffic to his laptop we should both be able to have glitch-free viewing. Just strange.

But usually it's the internet access.

Sorry Grammer-Lammer-Ding Dong, I forgot to download that Netalyzr app last night. Had to take the little one to soccer practice and then watched Anchorman with m'Lady. T'was a fine evening.

tim1_2 wrote:Sorry Grammer-Lammer-Ding Dong, I forgot to download that Netalyzr app last night. Had to take the little one to soccer practice and then watched Anchorman with m'Lady.  T'was a fine evening.

My day began with our first foray into tie dye. A stressful time was had by all.

Still struggling with some of this streaming business. Had downloaded The Leftovers pilot. Wouldn't play with BubbleUPnP. It was the only for over 2gb, but I couldn't find any documentation or bug report out anything to confirm this. Tried paying it to the ChromeCast (BTW, latest update to the ChromeCast app/driver includes screen mirroring) but it wouldn't do the audio (missing some transcoding stuff). Then a few days ago the Bubble app gets upgraded and, guess what, that 2gb for pays find now. Downloaded the rest of True Detective, though, and those files don't even show up in the listing. I can play them straight from the file manager but BubbleUPnP doesn't seem to see them. There's something weird about the way Android for system works.

I don't even know what BubbleUPnP is. Is this related to your wish to stream stuff from your tablet to your TV?

tim1_2 wrote:I don't even know what BubbleUPnP is.  Is this related to your wish to stream stuff from your tablet to your TV?

UPnP is a protocol derived from DLNA. BubbleUPnP is an app that uses UPnP to stream to display devices which support DLNA. One reason I like BubbleUPnP is that it can "push" media to the tv, as compared to, for example, XBMC which his just a media server, and the tv DLNA application has to go out and find it and fetch it. When using XBMC I can't get the subtitles streamed along with the video. When I use Bubble, I get the subtitles (just have to download the srt file to the same folder as the video, with the same name -- and XBMC does that for me). So I download the video, move it from the Downloads folder to Movies (and delete in utorrent), then start up XBMC and play the video, then tap to get subtitles. Most of the time the subtitle search works fine, every once in a while it gets the wrong subtitles (some videos will include the "Previously on" some don't, same for subtitles -- you have to get the right ones). Every once in a while I have to switch which subtitle site it searches first to correct for that. Works pretty well most of the time. Early on when the TV and the tablet were both on the wifi it didn't work very well; now that the TV is wired directly into the router it works great, except every once in a while it stutters repeatedly. I still think it has something to do with what my kid is doing. I really should figure out how to disable the wireless in the Bell supplied modem and put back my Cisco router. I *think* all I need to do is configure the Bell modem to be in bridge mode and disable the wireless, then plug my Cisco modem into one of the ethernet ports on the Bell modem (they are all used right now, but I'll have four more on the Cisco modem so *I think* this will actually give me an extra three ethernet ports (I wonder if there is a micro-usb ethernet adapter I could use for the tablet).

Prager's penny pinching ways have caught up with him...

Heh heh.

If you can setup the bridge mode on your Bell modem and use your old wireless router, that would be interesting to see if you still have the issue. I've done that with my Rogers router. It's in bridge mode and I use my own networking/wireless gear.

I disabled the wireless on my DSL modem from TekSavvy, and just use my own DLink wireless router in the basement. Then I have a separate Monoprice wireless router wired to the DLink router and positioned in my kitchen to provide a better wireless signal to the main floor and upstairs of my house.

#imaginethepossibilities

shabbs wrote:If you can setup the bridge mode on your Bell modem and use your old wireless router, that would be interesting to see if you still have the issue. I've done that with my Rogers router. It's in bridge mode and I use my own networking/wireless gear.

So this bridge mode works as an extender? I have an extender but I'm curious because I may need more range if I want to get WiFi in the basement.

For a modem, bridge mode just makes it act like a pass-thru device and let's an external device do all the networking/routing stuff instead. Not really a range extender as you mentioned.

If you need more range, try and re-locate your wireless router or look at adding another wireless AP somewhere else, or get a range extender.

Or get a more powerful router with better range.

tim1_2 wrote:I disabled the wireless on my DSL modem from TekSavvy, and just use my own DLink wireless router in the basement. Then I have a separate Monoprice wireless router wired to the DLink router and positioned in my kitchen to provide a better wireless signal to the main floor and upstairs of my house.

#imaginethepossibilities

Same here.

Cable in --> Rogers Modem (bridge mode) --> Asus RT-N56U Router (wired mode only) --> Asus RT-N66U (wireless mode only).

The Rogers Modem and Asus RT-N56U router are in my basement office with all my other gear (massive mess of wires, devices and crap). Got a long Ethernet cable that runs up to the main floor where I have my Asus RT-N66U wireless router providing nice coverage everywhere in the house all the way upstairs, backyard, front yard and even all the way to my mailbox around the corner.

I did try to add a second AP to the mix but that was a mess and created more issues than it solved.

shabbs wrote:For a modem, bridge mode just makes it act like a pass-thru device and let's an external device do all the networking/routing stuff instead. Not really a range extender as you mentioned.

If you need more range, try and re-locate your wireless router or look at adding another wireless AP somewhere else, or get a range extender.

Or get a more powerful router with better range.

I move in tomorrow so I'll see by the end of the weekend how things go.

Can you use a modem as a network adapter?

SeawaySensFan wrote:

shabbs wrote:For a modem, bridge mode just makes it act like a pass-thru device and let's an external device do all the networking/routing stuff instead. Not really a range extender as you mentioned.

If you need more range, try and re-locate your wireless router or look at adding another wireless AP somewhere else, or get a range extender.

Or get a more powerful router with better range.

I move in tomorrow so I'll see by the end of the weekend how things go.

Can you use a modem as a network adapter?

Yeah, usually you can connect a device directly to the modem as it has built in router functions. Most modern modems do that. In the old days, a modem was only a modem. Heh heh.

Bridge mode disables all that though. Which is what I wanted. Just gimme the internet, I'll take care of the rest.

SSF, your best bet for getting more wireless range in your house is, as Shabbs mentioned, relocating your existing wireless router, or adding a second wireless access point.

The second wireless access point is what I did. My router and modem are in my basement. I wanted better wifi speed in my top floor of my house, so I ran an ethernet cable from my basement router to a new wireless router on the mainfloor of my house (literally about 8 feet higher, just through the floor into an existing kitchen cabinet). Getting that router on the main floor has provided a WAAAAAAAAAAY better wireless signal than I used to get.

A wireless router like this is a good cheap option: http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=105&cp_id=10521&cs_id=1052102&p_id=10926&seq=1&format=2

shabbs wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

shabbs wrote:For a modem, bridge mode just makes it act like a pass-thru device and let's an external device do all the networking/routing stuff instead. Not really a range extender as you mentioned.

If you need more range, try and re-locate your wireless router or look at adding another wireless AP somewhere else, or get a range extender.

Or get a more powerful router with better range.

I move in tomorrow so I'll see by the end of the weekend how things go.

Can you use a modem as a network adapter?

Yeah, usually you can connect a device directly to the modem as it has built in router functions. Most modern modems do that. In the old days, a modem was only a modem. Heh heh.

Bridge mode disables all that though. Which is what I wanted. Just gimme the internet, I'll take care of the rest.

I'm going "cheap" on a Pentium 4 that I will use as a Linux machine running Lubuntu. I need a wireless connection but I don't want to spend much. Or anything.

While I'm here... I'm thinking of going with a VBox for my tv viewing. Anyone ever have one (some)?

LOL! The old Linux box router setup. Man, that takes me back. Dual NICs and setting up ipchains rules and what not. Good times, good times. That was back in the 90's and I had a Bell RADSL 2.2Mbps setup, Blazing fast for it's time. HA HA!

#BackInTheDay

I, too, once had a linux box act as my router.

SSF, do you know what modem you'll be getting from your internet provider? It might be able to handle the routing capability just fine (mine has 4 wired ports in addition to wireless capability).