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Barix Instreamer Problem

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We are having a problem with our Barix units from one particular remote location. We have a public IP address at our studios and our Instreamer has been connecting just fine from various locations. We have one location, however, that is not working. The Instreamer shows layer one on the ethernet connection. It flashes the LEDs on the front for an unusually long time, then appears to be locked in, but the flashing green LED flashes at a slower than normal rate, according to our person who does these remotes. Back at the studio, the Exstreamer is showing no signs of being connected.

We are using MP3 audio and a quality of 5, if I remember correctly. Any ideas?
 
It could be any number of issues. But obviously your internet connection at that particular site has issues. Are you connecting through a business network (a school, or large business)? They could be blocking your traffic on a particular port or throttling your bandwidth.

I think we need more info on your internet connection to help you out more.
 
I would first do a PING test between the 2 sites - verify connectivity. I would then verify that the port/s were open on the router and being passed to the correct local IP address. Lastly, I would try a replacement Barix unit.
 
How are you setting the link up? Are you pushing from the Enstreamer or pulling from the Exstreamer? RTP? BRTP? IR configuration? Are you assigning static IPs or running one (or both) on DHCP? Are you running "Instreamer / Exstreamer" configuration or are the units set up with STL firmware?

All of this makes a difference if the problem can be tracked down here.

Internet connection quality is a factor, but usually after you get the units to actually talk to each other.
 
Our studio Exstreamer has the static public IP address. The Instreamer units are simply set up to stream to that address. I don't remember off the top of my head if that is RTP or BRTP. The Instreamer is set up for DHCP.

There have been no problems at other remote locations. I tried both of our Instreamer units, which were set up the same. I also tried a laptop to see if I could ping the Exstreamer from the remote site. I could not only ping, but could connect to the Exstreamer's web page from the WiFi at the remote site with no problem. If I connected my laptop to their wired network at the remote site, I got confirmation of connecting to the network, but no internet connectivity. Since I am on vacation the rest of this week, we decided to just use a Marti RPU, at least for now.

I appreciate the advice. I'll address this again when I'm not on vacation. It is my understanding that we can use a laptop as a bridge to connect the Barix to WiFi, but I've never experimented with that. My personal laptop, which I had with me this morning, won't bridge networks. I think the station's laptop will, but I haven't verified it.
 
Has anyone found a nifty way to connect a Barix up to a wi-fi network? I'm sure there are a lot of wi-fi to Ethernet adapters out there. Any good ones?
 
grab a mikrotik rb951-2u or 751, setup as wireless client. can also be used as a router in a pinch if needed, AP, anything you can think of.

I'm considering setting one up for the field that makes an SSL VPN connection back to the studio router and will come up on any connection its plugged into, eliminating the problems of various networks as our audio traffic would go over the tunnel to the studio network.

We went to a school last year that blocked everything but 80 and 443 outbound, that was fun to get figured out, and had to talk the guys calling the game through changing the audio port to 80.
 
stephend2 said:
grab a mikrotik rb951-2u or 751, setup as wireless client. can also be used as a router in a pinch if needed, AP, anything you can think of.

I'm considering setting one up for the field that makes an SSL VPN connection back to the studio router and will come up on any connection its plugged into, eliminating the problems of various networks as our audio traffic would go over the tunnel to the studio network.

We went to a school last year that blocked everything but 80 and 443 outbound, that was fun to get figured out, and had to talk the guys calling the game through changing the audio port to 80.
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I have run into this problem at our "home" coverage school. They had everything locked down except port 80 and maybe 443, and our Comrex would not connect as it couldn't even get to the traversal server. We wound up just using our Verizon 4G or a Marti there. Reporters using the connection couldn't even file their stories because they could not VPN to the paper office. I have no idea why they even bothered to install the connection in a press box for media use and then set it up to the point that no one could use it.

I'm tempted to try this. Can one set up openVPN on a Linux machine to be the endpoint at the studio side? We don't have a fancy router, just the one that came with our small biz DSL service, which doesn't have a built in VPN endpoint.
 
No particular reason NOT to use PORT 80 fpr the audio.

Been there, done that. It worked!

I assume that Telos and Comrex allow setting the port, I know APT does.
 
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