BDP7600/12 - WiFi Infrastructure (Manual) Settings

[EricT]

Dear All,

Further to my purchase of a BDP7600/12 Player, I attempted to install it, including the WiFi feature (adding it to my local Network).

As my Network is setup as "infrastructure", meaning that I don't take advantage of the router's DHCP feature, nor do I allow it to broadcast the network's (SSID) name, I have to manually enter all relevant connection data (SSID, password, gateway address, mask, fixed IP address, DNS-es, ...) into each component that is to adhere to the Network, the BDP7600/12 included.

Regretfully, I failed to find a way for manual setup of the Network data for this Player (only a "wizard" that attempts to discover by itself the Network, attempt that will always fail, as the Network does not broadcast its name! And even if I were to allow it to broadcast the SSID, it would fail at getting an IP address ...)

Could you advise?
(incidentally: I had no trouble at all adding my 46PFL9704H/12 TV to the WiFi Network, by manually setting up all relevant data)

Thanks in advance for any support you may provide,

Sincerely,

Eric Trattner

[lucas1970]

Hi,

If you try the wireless settings there should be the option after it scanned to do a manual entry of the SSID.

Once you do this and entered the password there should be an opion, auto or manual. Select manual and here you will find the options of entering your IP Adress, Netmask, gateway, DNS 1&2....

Hope this helps

[EricT]

Dear Lucas,

Thank you so much for your input.

Actually, I did get as far as entering the SSID & Password; after that however the Player attempts to locate the Network, and -- if for any reason (weak signal ...) it fails to do so -- it does NOT offer the Manual option you suggested, but rather asks one to Retry (which means to re-enter the SSID & Password; a VERY unpleasant task for those of us who prefer PassPHRASES to PassWORDS ...)

Any idea as to how this issue can be worked-around (i.e., to enter the relevant parms irrespective of the Network being accessible at the time the Setup is performed)?

Thanks again,

Eric

[lucas1970]

Hi Eric,

Please note that the network scan should come first before entering Manual, then SSID, then password. I think the sequence you describe is not correct, please confirm.

Also make sure your wifi signal is strong enough...

Rgds

[EricT]

Dear Lucas,

Thanks for the comeback

Indeed, there is a first scan, after which SSID & Password, and after that ... a SECOND scan!

Should the latter fail, it loops back to the beginning (through RETRY), rather than providing an option for further manual entry

As I said: it seems that unless the Network 1. is active and 2. has strong enough a signal, the Player won't allow for the WiFi configuration to succeed ...

Should you have an idea how to work-around this, I'd surely love to know it.

Thanks again,

Eric

[Philips - Remko]

Hi EricT,

Can you take a video of the issue that you are facing? This will help us a lot.

Kind regards,