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Hi all, I cannot get TV on my laptop away from my home network.

I have set up my Cable box with static 192.168.1.4, My Netgear router is a DHCP server 192.168.1.1 assigning this IP and others. However DYNDNS shows my (virgin assigned) Ip as 82.2.4.***

So when I access my cable box web interface locally using 192.168.1.4 I can see all my channlls and my TV through VLC great.

When I access it locally using 82.2.4.*** I can see it great no problem.
When I access it locally using my dyndsn alias I can see it great no problem.

When I leave my network and try to access 82.2.4.** from my laptop or try to access my dyndns alias I have attached to it I can see my cable box web page menu and change channels etc, however VLC wont fire up. I can see the address in the status bar of VLC is 192.16.1.4 and I think maybe it should be 82.2.4.** or my DYNDNS alias.

Not sure if Virgin will allow me to assign a static IP to my connection. So my laptop has the Ip assingned dynamically in IP4 network connections, however I have my router assigning a static IP to my laptop of 192.168.1.3.

This IP malarky is really complicated to me, its taken me a year to get to this point. I need help. Thanks

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Over a month since the originator last updated the question. Closing to stop the forum bot bumping it. – Cry Havok♦ Apr 4 at 21:20

closed as no longer relevant by Cry Havok♦ Apr 4 at 21:22

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A common problem that you'll find in a number of other DVR tagged threads such as this one. You'll need to contact the manufacturer of your "cable box" for assistance since that's the device that's telling VLC to use the LAN IP instead of the IP it needs to use - your WAN IP address.

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Mmm...yes but surely the cable box (device) is being allocated the correct IP by my router which is allocating Ips throughout my lan with DHCP. So it has the correct Ip of 192.168.1.4 and that is the IP I have reserved for it. The IP Vurgin Scum have allocated to my connection is 82*****. This is all corresy, as far as I understand, so the issue is why is VLC picking up the lan Ip and not the wan ip. Surely this is not in the cable box settings but somewhere in VLC settings or DYNDNS or both. So the cable box can be set to have the same IP as the WAN? surely there would be a conflict? – damixa Mar 4 at 7:48
Because your cable box is telling VLC the LAN IP address it is configured with. The problem is nothing to do with VLC and entirely to do with your cable box. As I said, you need to talk to the manufacturer. – Cry Havok♦ Mar 16 at 12:37

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