wire Wireless Gaming Adapter With Dish Network 211k Receiver
With all of the ways to connect you Dish Network receiver to the internet, from Dishcom to ethernet. What about connecting your receiver utilizing a gaming adapter. I will be using the 2wire wi-fi gaming adapter from the 1022 At&t Homezone on a Vip 211k receiver. What I am showing to you will also work with all the Vip and K series Dish Network receivers. This 2wire gaming adapter may work in your Xbox, PS3, Pc, laptop etc.
To setup you 2wire gaming adapter together with your Dish Network receiver you will want the next:
* Laptop
* 2Wire Wi-fi Gaming Adapter
* Wireless Router “I am utilizing a 2wire 2700 HG-B
* Vip, K series or receiver with ethernet
The very first thing that it’s essential to do to setup your dish network receiver with the wi-fi gaming adapter is to configure the gaming adapter to be able to speak along with your wireless router. So what you have to to do is plug the gaming adapter immediately into your router and power the wireless adapter on. Then point a web browser to your routers default gateway. This will normally be 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.1.254.
As soon as your net browser open up your wi-fi router’s default gateway screen search for a possibility that will help you see the ip tackle of 2wire wi-fi gaming adapter. As soon as you discover the wi-fi located in the listing, click on view particulars to see the ip address. Now that you have the ip deal with of the gaming adapter, you will now must type this tackle into your net browser. You should now see a screen that resembles the image beneath, which can will let you change setting on the 2wire gaming adapter.
Open up the wireless setting choice from the record on the left facet of the screen. Within screen now you can see a listing of all the native wi-fi networks within vary of the adapter. Decide your wireless community from the record and fill in the element for you security encryption. The one downside is that 2wire gaming adapter does not work WPA2, however works with WEP and WPA.
After you have got configured you wireless adapter, unplug it from you router and now plug it into your Dish Network receiver. Once you plug within the energy twine, press the menu button in your dish network remote. Then press:
* 6 for system setup
* 1 for set up
* eight for broadband setup
* 1 for Network Setup
Now all it’s a must to do is reset your connection to aquire the ip tackle from the gaming adapter for the dish community receiver. In the event you see a 0.0.0.zero then there is a problem. Your Dish Network receiver is now online and able to begin downloading content from Dish On Demand. Simply press the DVR button and press 5 for DishONLINE. If in case you have any issues just be sure you have setup port forwarding for the port vary of 2200 – 2299.