Araestel wrote:My Roku Ultra is connected via Ethernet to a CISCO router in my dorm room, connected to dorm internet. My phone should be connected to the same router...
I'm confused or maybe you didn't understand what I was trying to say. I assume your phone is connected to your Cisco router via Wi-Fi. Connect the Ultra to the Cisco router via Wi-Fi and see if the phone can communicate with it.
I understand you. I can't connect my Roku to the router via WiFi because it doesn't understand the login process, and ends up loading forever then giving me error 014. That's the whole reason I got the Ethernet cable.
Araestel, I'm sorry. I guess I misunderstood. I thought the Cisco router was yours and that you were trying to use it to give you a wired connection and to bridge the connection between your devices and the school's network. I still don't quite understand the setup (everyone has a Cisco router in their room?), but if everyone in your school/dorm is connecting to the same network, then if you could connect your phone to your Roku, so could everyone else.
No worries, and you're right- there's one main network that spans all of campus, and everyone has their own router that boosts the network and has Ethernet ports, so nobody has a better or worse connection. Through Airplay you can view any Airplay-enabled devices that are wirelessly connected to the same router, and which router you connect to seems to be at least somewhat random, (except for, of course, the aspect of proximity) because I'm not connecting to the router in my room, and that's part of the problem I'm having. I'm going to try what you were saying next; getting my own router and hooking it up to the one in my room, then connecting to the signal that broadcasts. It worked fine when I was using my laptop as the middleman, so my hope is that it'll work with an actual router.
