there are 2 ways, and depending on what wireless solution you have you can block the i/p address via the admin process of the router or what'i've done in the past is to change the i/p address on the DirectTV DVR to some phony address of the wifi router
Thanks for the suggestions! I went the enter phony newtwork name. I can now see it wants me to Reconnect my DVR to the internet from the settings menu.
jroeder2018 wrote:Thanks for the suggestions! I went the enter phony newtwork name. I can now see it wants me to Reconnect my DVR to the internet from the settings menu.
I certainly hope your DVR doesn't drive you as nuts as mine did me. Just for the heck of it, one night I connected my Genie to HughesNet just to see what it was like with the On Demand. After I checked out a few titles, only watching the first few minutes of each, I decided to sever the connection (I think I reset the network). Well, it was no longer connected, but it constantly, and I mean constantly, reminded me to reconnect. And, to make matters worse, it would now give search results that included on demand titles and such. It was crazy. I couldn't search for anything coming up for an actor or actress without the results being filled with more on demand titles than "regular" titles.
It was driving me so crazy that I decided to perform a factory reset, knowing full well that it would wipe my DVR, which included a movie I had just recorded a few days before and which I had been waiting for years to be able to record. It hasn't played on TV since, and it's a movie I can't get on DVD or Blu-Ray, either. :( Still, it was worth it to stop the constant reconnect reminders and the way it changed the search.
I really do hope it's different now and doesn't do the same for you. Until I have unlimited service I won't connect it again, and I don't see that happening anytime soon. I could always move. :p
