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    Help Wired to Wireless -> Great. Wireless to Wireless -> Screwed. WTF is going on?

    I'm having some problems with my Home network and I'm not sure why.
    Here is how it's setup -

    Netgear Router -
    192.168.0.1

    Windows 7 PC,
    192.168.0.2 - WIRED

    Acer Revo -
    192.168.0.3 - WIRED

    Apple ATV2 -
    192.168.0.4 - WIRED

    ICONIA Tab W500 -
    192.168.0.5 - WIRELESS

    iPhone4 -
    192.168.0.6 - WIRELESS

    Western Digital My Book World Ed -
    192.168.0.7 - WIRED

    HTC Desire -
    192.168.0.8 - WIRELESS

    All devices connect to Windows PC fine and the Windows PC can connect/see everything too.
    I now want to use my iPhone4 as a remote to control Revo/ATV2 & Iconia.

    Should'nt be a problem, right? Wrong.
    iPhone4 can see the Revo & ATV2 (Wired), but refuses to connect to the Iconia Wirelessly.

    I have SabNZBd & Sickbeard running on the Iconia, but going to http://192.168.0.5:8081 from the iPhone4 or HTC Desire refuses to load - whereas my Windows PC loads it no problem.

    Any ideas where I'm going wrong. Does a setting need changing on my router?
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    Default Re: Wired to Wireless -> Great. Wireless to Wireless -> Screwed. WTF is going on?

    No network nerds on here anymore?


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    Default Re: Wired to Wireless -> Great. Wireless to Wireless -> Screwed. WTF is going on?

    That problem is weird - my first hunch was firewall settings on the iconia, but your test from the windows pc should have eliminated that.

    Only thing I can think of is that some routers allow you to isolate devices connected via wifi from the rest of your lan, but I haven't seen a netgear that supports that feature.

    Is it possible to plug the iconia in to see if you get any joy then?

    Also can you ping from the iconia to your wifi devices or other way round?

    Just to make sure it's the wifi causing it, can you get a laptop with wifi to test?

    Also if you have manually set the ip's up on each device, ensure you have correct subnet mask - probably 255.255.255.0 unless you intentionally are doing something funny.

    Sorry I'm stumped what the actual problem is, but that is where I would start off checking.

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    Default Re: Wired to Wireless -> Great. Wireless to Wireless -> Screwed. WTF is going on?

    Cheers for the suggestions OC.
    The Iconia has no Firewall installed, it's a Commandline linux install running OpenElec and has Samba installed as standard and as far as I can tell has it's pants pulled down on the network.

    Every wired machine can connect to it without a problem by IP Address, it's running SabNZBd on it at http://192.168.0.10:8080.
    No Wireless device can.

    There is no way of Wiring the Iconia as it is, it would need the Dock, which I dont really want to have to buy.

    Pinging it from a Wireless laptop does this
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    Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
    
    
    C:\Users\DejaVu>ping 192.168.0.10
    
    
    Pinging 192.168.0.10 with 32 bytes of data:
    Reply from 192.168.0.12: Destination host unreachable.
    Reply from 192.168.0.12: Destination host unreachable.
    Reply from 192.168.0.12: Destination host unreachable.
    Reply from 192.168.0.12: Destination host unreachable.
    
    
    Ping statistics for 192.168.0.10:
        Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
    
    
    C:\Users\DejaVu>


    All IP's are on the same subnet too - 255.255.255.0
    The only way I can tell remotely that this Iconia is on the network from a Wired device is by logging into the router page and viewing the attached devices. Very odd (and dam right frustrating) indeed.

    Admittedly, it's a standard Sky Router, but surely it should support this? File sharing between laptops is also not happening!!
    Last edited by DejaVu; 21st December 2011 at 03:43 AM.


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    Default Re: Wired to Wireless -> Great. Wireless to Wireless -> Screwed. WTF is going on?

    Defo sounds like you need to disable wireless isolation... It's on the wireless settings page:

    http://documentation.netgear.com/dg8...eless.4.3.html

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