Connection sharing with BluRay player??

Has anyone mastered this?
I have a brand new sony BDP-N460 bluray player - good little unit, and I have a sony hdtv with a bunch of connections, one of which I have my pc connected to. anyway, the bluray player has a rj45 cable for internet connection, but there should be a way to feed it via the PC, which has both physical and wireless connection. I'm using it Wireless back to my router.

If I simply turn on Internet Connection Sharing and then run a cable from my PC to the BDP, will that work? couldn't be that easy.... does it need a special cable?

what about ip settings etc?

 

You would need a cross-over cable, or a switch/hub in between the Bluray and PC. If you have access to crimpers, you can make this yourself. If not, you might be better off going to a local computer shop and having them make one or modify an existing patch cable of yours.

If I remember correctly, the IP settings are done automatically. Make sure your local network is using something other than 192.168.0.x. You can't change this in XP (For ICS). From what I remember, it doesn't work all that well. But for your situation, it may be passable.

 

thx mate.
this is about what I figured.
i think I'm just going to use another inexpensive wifi router as a bridge, if it will do it. if not, i'll swap my ddwrt 54gl over there and put the new one as the main. ddwrt has a client/bridge setting.
this approach will have less physical clutter than putting my spare pc over there.

if you know a better way, speak! I had hoped to find a low-cost plug & play wifi-bridge-to-cat5 thingy but I do not see. somebody is missing a market opp there.

 

I was under the impression you already had a PC near the BluRay player. I've never used it,and even through it's not being marketed/designed for this use, I would think something like this would work.

http://www.google.com/products/cata...ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDAQ8wIwAg#ps-sellers

I just did a search for wireless ethernet game adapter and this was one of the top results.

 

my pc's have newish asus dvd/rw's with some impressive features, but not bd. have standalone bd player that has usb, memory, cat5 inputs.
I had actually seen the one you ref, but I ended up buying a wifi router for about 30 bucks. not sure it can bridge, however so may have to swap them around. my current wrt can bridge