DVD Player on Network

[olds]

I have a stand alone DVD player on my network. It can't connect to the internet to get updates. I imagine it's because I have security enabled on the router. Is there a way to tell the router to give the player full access? There is no way to enter the pass phrase in the player that I can find.

Router: ASUS WL-520GU
DVD: Toshiba HD-A3

TIA

 

[Engineer]

Unless you have "access restrictions" set in your router for particular IP address / MAC address, it should not matter as that DVD has an ethernet jack, not wireless. Maybe there's a setting in the DVD player that needs to be set to get an IP address or something like that.

 

[Jamsan]

Is the DVD player hard wired or working over wireless? Everything I can tell, it only connects hardwired, so I'm not sure which passphrase you're referring to (wireless key?).

If you are hard-wiring and it's not working, go into the setup menu and ensure DNS and DHCP are on, take any discs out and reboot the unit. If it still doesn't work at that point, try going back into the ethernet settings and hardcoding the IP, subnet, gateway and DNS information.

If it still doesn't work at that point, throw it away and go get a blu ray player.

 

[JackMDS]

How to update your HD DVD Player using a firmware update file downloaded to a PC.

http://tacp.toshiba.com/tacpas...-updateingfirmware.asp

 

[olds]

It's hard wired.
I do want to get a Blu Ray but have been holding out.
Toshiba sends me a disk when there is new firmware but the lag time between the firmware coming out and me getting the disk is huge.

 

[JackMDS]

Download the firmware burn it onto a CD and update the Device.