Access a HD behind RT-N66U, behind 2WIRE 3800?

[RazorbackFan]

Hello everyone, This is my first post on SNB.

First off I just want to thank all the members here as it was your posts and comments that led me to purchase the ASUS RT-N66U over all other options.

Secondly, this is my first post. Hopefully I'm providing enough information in the attached picture.

In my living room I have a SmartTV, an AT&T 2WIRE 3800 RG, and a BluRay Player. Both TV and Bluray are connected to RG via wired. The TV has wifi, the Bluray player does not. RG wireless is disabled.

In a separate room in the middle of the house, I have the N66U which is "behind" the RG via wired connection. And I have an external HD attached to the N66U which has all my movies on it.

Is it possible for the Bluray Player to access the USB-Connected HD even though it has to pass through the RG to reach the N66U?

Also, I have a tendancy to unknowingly make things harder than they need to be. By all means I'm open to alternate suggestions. Just trying to figure at the best way to allow Bluray player to access movies on the External HD.



Thanks
Matt

 

[fistv]

I'd move the TV and Blue ray player off the 3800 box and put them into the RT-n66. The way it is now it looks like you have two separate networks.

 

[RazorbackFan]

The RT-n66 is currently in another room which is roughly a 50ft run of cable 2x if I were to connect TV and Bluray player to it. Yes the obvious solution seems to be moving the n66 to the same room as the TV,RG, & BR Player but then I'm left connecting my office computer and xbox via wireless...which are in a room two walls away. I'll give it a shot. Was just hoping there was same kind of "passthrough" that would let my bluray player see the n66 through the RG.

Thanks for the reco

I'd move the TV and Blue ray player off the 3800 box and put them into the RT-n66. The way it is now it looks like you have two separate networks.

 

[fistv]

Ethernet over power, http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Description=ethernet over power&Submit=ENE
plus a 4 port switch.

 

[RazorbackFan]

So I moved the ASUS RT-N66U into the living room and moved the TV and BR Player off the 2Wire 3800 and onto the N66U. While my TV and BR Player can see the N66U and even pull up the media library vial DLNA - neither of them will play the MP4 files on my server (I've tried PLEX, SERVIIO and Win Homegroup). Of course, that's probably a transcode/client issue so I'm waiting on a reply from Vizio to confirm my E500i-a1 acceptable vid formats.

Thx for the help!

 

[fistv]

If you now have an ethernet cable that goes from the living room to the office I would plug that into the N66u port 4 and put a 4 port switch in your office for whatever you want in your office.

 

[binarydad]

Was the N66U in AP mode? If so, it should all be on the same network and there might not have been a need to move the N66U.

 

[Razor512]

If it has an AP mode, then definitely use that, it completely avoids the double NAT and everything connected to the second router continues to work fine.

PS, keep in mind that with some routers, when in AP mode, LAN performance can sometimes be reduced further than the WAN performance of the router so it can be an issue if you have a high end NAS on your network that is able to saturate a gigabit connection. (in those cases, you may have to avoid the routers built in AP mode, and instead change its IP to something else, then disable the DHCP server, then connect the second router to the main one via a LAN to LAN connection)