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This has come up a few times with people that have their Vulkano hard wired to their router.
If you have updated to the latest Vulkano firmware you may not know it, but you can now turn off the Wireless radio, if not needed.
To do this you run the Setup Wizard, go to advanced mode and the Network WiFi settings. Click on turn off and then apply.
This will completely turn off your Vulkano's wireless radio.
You won't hurt or have any problems with it being on and hard-wired but if you wish to turn it off you can now do so.
Just be sure that you have a wired connection to your Vulkano before doing so or you could lose connection completely and have to reset and reconfigure your box!
Thanks for this post.
Actually I do that otherwise I would get hundreds of wireless signals in the office and all of my Vulkanos are hard wired anyway.
Never thought to post about it.
Can you make this a sticky. 
Important to note that the advanced mode option for disabling the radio is NOT available on the latest Mac player / setup client – version 1.0.153. After bumbling around for awhile I ended up installing the latest Windows version and found the setting option there.
vlkn0 said
Important to note that the advanced mode option for disabling the radio is NOT available on the latest Mac player / setup client – version 1.0.153. After bumbling around for awhile I ended up installing the latest Windows version and found the setting option there.
Good to know. I don't use a Mac and have always used the Windows version to turn off wireless. Hoplelly they will add that to the Mac setup.
I turned off the wireless off as shown (using radio off). Before turning it off it had an IP address 192.168.0.8 from my wireless network and this showed up on the check vulkano connection page http://vulkanocommunity.com/check-to-see-if-vulkano-is-up-and-connecting/
After turning the wifi off it now has a new different IP address (192.168.123.45) in the address box even though you can not access it as WiFi is now greyed out.
I now get 2 different IP addresses the hard wired one I know is correct – 192.168.0.5 and the another IP address – the greyed out wifi one 192.168.123.45 (this is not my subnet) on the check page http://vulkanocommunity.com/check-to-see-if-vulkano-is-up-and-connecting/
The streaming speed seems to have slowed and I'm not sure if it is related to this IP address or some other factor.
Any suggestions?
No thanks to the help from Monsoon (do they even read these posts?) I worked out the problem which was just due to the available bandwidth. I tried on a different connection and it steamed 2000Kbps+ no probs.
Wait, you blame monsoon because you didnt have enough upload bandwdith?
DSTVASIA said
Wait, you blame monsoon because you didnt have enough upload bandwdith?
No! and no need to be sarcastic for a legit question. If you read the post you would see it was still showing 2 IP addresses when I turned off the wifi. I would assume you should only see one address once the wireless is off. Hence, I was wondering if it was affecting the streaming speed.
I tried it at a different location with a faster speed and it seemed ok as far as streaming speed goes. However, it still shows up with 2 IP addresses when you do a check. I would have thought that with only the wired enabled it would show only 1 ip address.
Well I typed in the address for DSTV ASIA ( one of my hundreds of vulkanos ) and got the IP address that it streams from and the routers static IP address that the Vulkano was setup on for port forwarding. All my Wifi settings are at the OFF mode and I checked on several systems I never see any greyed out area for the wifi settings.
We checked the Vulkano Name: DSTV ASIA
Your Vulkano device was found at Internet Ip Address 114.32.163.93
Local Ip Address 192.168.1.110
theslydog said
DSTVASIA said
Wait, you blame monsoon because you didnt have enough upload bandwdith?
No! and no need to be sarcastic for a legit question. If you read the post you would see it was still showing 2 IP addresses when I turned off the wifi. I would assume you should only see one address once the wireless is off. Hence, I was wondering if it was affecting the streaming speed.
I tried it at a different location with a faster speed and it seemed ok as far as streaming speed goes. However, it still shows up with 2 IP addresses when you do a check. I would have thought that with only the wired enabled it would show only 1 ip address.
"After turning the wifi off it now has a new different IP address (192.168.123.45) in the address box even though you can not access it as WiFi is now greyed out."
My guess is that this is an adhoc IP assigned by the OS to the wifi adapter when it's not connected to a network (xxx.xxx.123.45? 12345? really?).
theslydog said
I turned off the wireless off as shown (using radio off). Before turning it off it had an IP address 192.168.0.8 from my wireless network and this showed up on the check vulkano connection page http://vulkanocommunity.com/check-to-see-if-vulkano-is-up-and-connecting/
After turning the wifi off it now has a new different IP address (192.168.123.45) in the address box even though you can not access it as WiFi is now greyed out.
I now get 2 different IP addresses the hard wired one I know is correct – 192.168.0.5 and the another IP address – the greyed out wifi one 192.168.123.45 (this is not my subnet) on the check page http://vulkanocommunity.com/check-to-see-if-vulkano-is-up-and-connecting/
I see that you resolved your issue but as a heads up. The info you see at http://vulkanocommunity.com/check-to-see-if-vulkano-is-up-and-connecting/ comes from Monsoon Multimedia's finder service. I don't know how they use the info on the backend to determine if wireless is off or not or how they determine which one to use.
The main thing with that tool is to determine if your Vulkano is sending info to Monsoon and if it is the correct info. If you enter your Vulkano's name and it comes back not found then you know that it can't contact their finder service. So you can for example make sure nothing is blocking your Vulkano from sending the info.
If it comes back with the IP address you can check and make sure it is correct.
The main thing is that if your Vulkano is being found and streams, even though not to your satisfaction, it is being found and the port(s) must be open or it wouldn't stream at all.
Brandon C said
The main thing is that if your Vulkano is being found and streams, even though not to your satisfaction, it is being found and the port(s) must be open or it wouldn't stream at all.
Yeah, I have the vulkano situated in another country and it is actually streaming, changing channels and remotely recording on its HDD quite well. If I want to watch something in the best PQ I just record it in the 720x480 and then download it after and watch it.
PQ largely depends on the connection speed. I have found that if a connection drops below about 350kbps it starts to get unwatchable. But if it stays above 5-600kbps or so it is ok. If it sits above 1000kbps it is pretty good PQ. Above about 1600kbps it is similar to what is recorded remotely on the HDD.
