Can anyone suggest a blue ray player that is compatible with the 4G Jet Pack? My one year old Sony will not work and Sony Support won't give me any help. All they say is their products have not been tested to determine compatibility
Why does a blu-ray player need an internet connection?
In order to stream videos from Amazon Instant Videos, Netflix or even music
crankydave wrote:In order to stream videos from Amazon Instant Videos, Netflix or even music
crankydave wrote:
You are NOT going to want to do that. First of all if you'e on 3G the video streaming quality will stink. If you're on 4G those video streaming services can use up to 2 GB per HOUR. So one movie can be 3.5 GB - 4 GB or more. Even on 3G they can use 650 MB per hour. Even with the music streaming, 1 hour a day of that every day can use up 1.5 GB - 2 GB per month. Mobile internet is not made for streaming services with the current caps and pricing.
That would be a VERY expensive way to watch a movie.
Thank you. I understand the usage and I am not concerned. Can someone answer my original question. I need a Blue Ray player that connect to the internet via the 4G Verizon Jet Pack.
make sure you have security cipher type set to TKIP and not AES that might help your issue, by default veriozon ships out the hotspots with cipher type AES
Thanks for trying. I changed the hotspot to TKIP with no success. Still telling me the connection timed out and the network might not be set up correctly. Even though diagnostics shows everything is OK
Try setting a security of WEP 64bit Open access, or no security.
@CrankyDave, Have you had any recent luck troubleshooting. I have the same issue. My Sony BRplayer works fine w/ Sprint 3G hotspot, does not work with Verizon 4g. Same as you, authentication is fine, but Pandora and Netflix blow-up.
No luck. No one seems to have a solution. Not Verizon and Sony does not seem to even care.
You need to update software on the blueray from time to time as new features become available
Accurate statement on the posted firmware posts : My Panasonic blu-ray, recommended by the manufacturer of the player to go to a specific website and download newer firmware to upload to the player make more wi-fi devices compatible. Panasonic even sent me a warning card with the instruction manual telling users this is important if wishing to use with internet purpose. This may sort of counter-intuitive and one would think it all should work regardless.. however..... If Sony is worth anything on supporting their existing products they should be doing the same and posting for users available firmware updates which SHOULD take care of the problem accessing these newer devices. Good luck and hope you get there!
P.S. My Verizon 4G LTE Home Broadband fusion router (just another broadband access device like your jetpack) works flawlessly through my Panasonic BDT220 blu-ray player and did not require anything more then entering into the blu-ray player the wireless WPA2 security password key ID from the router and was instantly connected thereafter.
