Mac peripherals forum: Connecting Apple TV to Uverse Wireless??

Do you have a support person to help you set it all up?

The reason I ask is that networking is still too hard for most of us. This is why the various books and services are out there.
Bob

At the top of the networking forum at http://forums.cnet.com/5204-7589_102-0.html?forumID=62%20&tag=forums06;breadc we have our sticky posts which discuss preferred settings for wifi and routers.

But here's the grim news. Unless you want to learn a great deal more about networking we have to let others maintain our stuff.

There is not enough detail and I can't possible write a step by step for each network since each differs in some way. This is why I have friends that roam about town setting things up.
Bob

I just got all set up with U-Verse and I can not access my airport through Airport Utility as before. The light on the front of the base-station is flashing yellow no mater what I do.

I would like to continue using my airport base-station and express as print servers despite the internet coming from the Gateway router provided by ATT.

Is there a way to configure the Airport in this way?

I am not sure how to turn of the routing and DHCP, can you please elaborate?

P, thanks for your advice, while useful, it seems, either I am missing something or there is no way to turn off DHCP. Have you been able to do this? If so how?

J

For the past several weeks I've been grappling with connecting my Apple TV to the U-Verse Wireless gateway. I've tried almost everything I've seen in the forums and help sites -- opening up ports in the firewall, putting a $ in front of the password, assigning full access to the Apple TV MAC address in the router configuration settings, contacting AT&T support, etc. -- and nothing worked.

I've discovered a work-around that, while not perfect, will suffice until Apple and/or AT&T and/or 2Wire figure out why these devices don't play nice together.

If you have the full U-Verse service, you probably have one or more set-top-boxes that connect with your TVs. The set-tops I have, the VIP1200 series, have an Ethernet port in the back.

If you plug your Apple TV directly into the Ethernet port on the set-top-box, the U-Verse gateway will recognize it as a node on the local network, with full access to iTunes and the Internet.

Ok, so it's not a fix -- Apple TV isn't operating wirelessly, but it works. The only requirement is that your Apple TV is located where the set-top-box is.

I'm posting this in the hopes that it will help one of the poor souls like me who have spent countless hours banging their heads against the wall trying to figure out how to make this work.

Best of luck!
Geo2

Plugged the ethernet cable in and it worked in seconds!!

Thanks

especially when it takes you to the solution




P

Am such a novice that I posted the title only when trying to get help! The A T & T guys come Monday and I hope to have U-Verse hooked up when they leave plus Apple TV. Do I understand that I need an ethernet cable from the Apple TV unit to the set-top box, as described in the messages, PLUS a HDMI (?) cable from the Apple TV to the TV set itself? Is the Apple TV accessed thru iTunes and can that be done by any computer that is on the wifi in the house? Would be most appreciative for any help! Phineas Gage

is the preferred, and faster method of connecting. WiFi has less bandwidth. Wired also seems to handshake better than WiFi in most of these instances.

I have a Verizon FIOS subscription and I ran cable down to it, and I get superior results and throughput in streaming.