FreeAgent Theater and GoFlexTV

[usermac]

About five times in a row I get a red light on the first of four "tests" saying "connecting to your local network" yet even though this reports failed with the red button it still passes the next three tests which require an internet connection!!!! Anyone have any thoughts? I suspect it may be a wi-fi issue. Wi-Fi is working by-the-way with everything else I've tested on the FAT+. It has the firmware 1.55 ( I don't and will not be connecting via a hardwire as I do everything wirelessly via wireless-n. I don't even had a router with ethernet ports. ) Thanks in advance. 

P.S. At least the grammar is better in the error message. Re: "cannot". 

[hobartrus]

I had the same problem.  The only way I was able to get around it was to hook my FAT+ up with an ethernet cable.  Once I got Netflix activated I was able use it over the wireless.

I don't know why it would need to have a "local network" connection to begin with, or why it couldn't get a "local network" connection with the wifi adaptor, but for whatever reason it does and it can't.

Anyway, once it was wired up activation took less than a minute.  I was back to wireless and enjoying my instant queue in less than five.

[donaldo]

Short answer: turn the firewall OFF during activation, back on when done.

I had the same problem on Mac 10.6, over USB wireless (Airlink101). Connected the FAT+ to Ethernet 2 and turned on internet sharing.  Still got red light on the first status line and green on the last 3 lines, and the same error message. Then I went into Security preferences, and turned off the firewall, and activation worked fine. I turned the firewall back on and went back to wireless, and all is OK.

I don't think connecting via ethernet was necessary. I think that turning the firewall off should enable activation over wireless, if the only problem is seeing the "Cannot Connect to Your Home Network" error. YMMV don

[NetGuy]

I'm sorry to break this to you, but apparently turning off the routers firewall is not the answer, at least in my situation,  as I contiue to get the "Cannot Connect to your home network" when trying to activate netflix.  To avoid all the issues I've read on this forum regarding the type of WiFi dongle to get to ensure compatibility, I bought the Seagate WiFi specifically for the FAT+ ($49) so not a huge investiment. I opened my router up to the point of nervousness and still could not get Netflix to connect.  I have a Linksys WRT54G and the WiFI sees my network just fine.  As a matter fo fact, I can get out to the internet as I selected the video feeds icon and accessed vidoes from the Discovery network.  Next I'm going to try the hard wired option to see if that yields any postivie results.  I really like the FAT+ as I have lots of stored movies, pictures, etc. Its a great product for the $$, but so far, pretty disappointed with the WiFi option and think Seagate engineers should put more of an effort into this aspect of the product.   Just my humble opinion! 

[AlanF51]

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NetGuy wrote:

I'm sorry to break this to you, but apparently turning off the routers firewall is not the answer, at least in my situation,  as I contiue to get the "Cannot Connect to your home network" when trying to activate netflix.  To avoid all the issues I've read on this forum regarding the type of WiFi dongle to get to ensure compatibility, I bought the Seagate WiFi specifically for the FAT+ ($49) so not a huge investiment. I opened my router up to the point of nervousness and still could not get Netflix to connect.  I have a Linksys WRT54G and the WiFI sees my network just fine.  As a matter fo fact, I can get out to the internet as I selected the video feeds icon and accessed vidoes from the Discovery network.  Next I'm going to try the hard wired option to see if that yields any postivie results.  I really like the FAT+ as I have lots of stored movies, pictures, etc. Its a great product for the $$, but so far, pretty disappointed with the WiFi option and think Seagate engineers should put more of an effort into this aspect of the product.   Just my humble opinion! 

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I also did the hard wire, now it works fine via a  wireless bridge so its still hardwired but the contnet is wireless and at 4 dots. I also have the Seagate wireless dongle as I was trying to avoid the same issues.

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[donaldo]

I don't think I have a router firewall to turn off. I doubt that my DSL modem with wireless access is even considered a router.  It allows multiple devices to connect to the internet, but not to each other. 

I was talking about disabling the Mac OS firewall in the System Prefs/Security menu.  If you also have a separate router firewall, I'd guess you'd need to turn both off.   Anyway as I said, it worked for me, but YMMV.

Now that I've gotten it set up, my Airlink 101 wireless adapter (cost: $10 w/coupon at meritline.com) works fine.  No need to pay the extra $ for the Seagate one.

Don

[NetGuy]

I ultimately did have to hardwire it to my router to get it to authenticate to Netflix. Once that was finshed, I reconnected via wireless and it now sees my Queue just fine. I still have a wireless b/g router, but plan to upgrade to the Buffalo "N" router. These will be shipping with dd-wrt firmware standard and should improve download speeds.

[speegee]

I tried the trick with hardwiring the FAT+ to set up Netflix and then replacing the wire with my Wifi adapter.  It worked great!  Thanks for the solution.