Blue ray to tethered iphone gateway ping failure!!!help

[n3zeex89]

Hi guys and gals,
heres the delemma i just got mynew samsung 3d blue ray player, i also have a jail broken iphone thats is acting a a wirless hot spot im trying to teather my blue ray off my phone everything goes fine except the gateway ping test because my phone does not act as a router it would not ping back to the blue ray player so i was wondering if there is a device that would allow me to attach to my iphone wirelessly and act as a gateway for my blue ray player??? i really hope there is any help would be appreciated, i should let you know the jail broken app is MYWI 4.0 wich basically is like a at@t internet card or verizon, or sprint etc. with out paying for it

[MrBoylan]

Well all I can tell you is that I just tested a Samsung BD-C6900 Blu-ray Player with a Palm Pre+ using a similar WiFi hotspot feature (Verizon) and it was able to connect successfully. The first time I tried to connect, I did get an error about being unable to connect to the Internet, but I rebooted the phone, tried again and was able to successfully connect. I tested Pandora on the player and it worked fine. Trying to load a preview in VUDU led to all kinds of buffering but that's to be expected over a low bandwidth 3G network connection.

I'd suggest trying to reboot the phone and see if it still fails, and if it does then your best bet is probably to contact Samsung support. Best case, though, even if you can connect, the connection is not really going to be suitable for streaming video, particularly not any HD video, as mobile 3G networks don't really have the bandwidth for that. Pandora is OK, and firmware updates and BD-Live content would probably be fine (for the most part), but if you try to stream high quality video, I think you'll be disappointed.

Good luck,

-Chris

[n3zeex89]

hey chris thanks for the reply, i can only guess the only difference between what your doing and what i am is im assuming you have factory tether capability that u pay for. i dont even know if that matters or not please forgive my ignorence. i di however try to reboot the phone but it seems the gateway ping test is the only thing that wont go through, and again i can only assume its because my phone would not be able to ping the blue ray player back, would a wireless hub work for me or does that also have to be wired to a LAN line first?

[MrBoylan]

I'm not too network-savvy, unfortunately. But it seems like if it is working for a laptop it should work for the player. The gateway ping portion did work for me even that first time I tested when it could not connect out to the internet. I don't see how inserting a wireless hub or wireless bridge would help, but then I'm not sure how a jailbreak'ed iPhone does its wireless hotspot. I've seen people report that the June Fabrics app (PDANet) works well to do a WiFi hotspot on jailbroken iPhones, but I don't know if that would work any better for you than the MiWi app. Did you contact the makers of the MiWi app to see if they had any suggestions?

And as for "paying for it," the Palm Pre+ is currently one of the only (if not the only) phones where you can use the wireless hotspot feature for free on Verizon as long as you have a data plan (normally the tethering charge is between $10 and $30 per month). Unfortunately there are very few apps for Pre+ (compared to Android and iPhone) but it's solid for e-mail, phone, music playback and texting. Plus the mobile Wifi hotspot is great. I used it to stay connected on a a drive from NY to Georgia. E-mail and web on my laptop were sold for pretty much the entire trip (and no, I was not driving at the time).

Good luck and let us know if you make any progress.

-CB