LG BD300 NETFLIX connection

I got a lg bd300 player for christmas and I want to connect it to netflix.
The problem is, i need to hook it to ethernet. I don't want to see the wire
and I don't want to pay to have the wire hidden. The only option i have seen
is to buy netgear powerline ethernet adapters.

My question is, does anyone have a less expensive solution?

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I have that bluray player as well. Got it for xmas from work.

I would buy a linksys WRT54GS or similar off ebay or craigslist, flash it w/ dd-wrt and set it up as a wireless bridge. This is of course assuming you have wireless in your home. If not, you'd have to buy 2 wireless routers. The wiki I linked should pretty much spell out how you can do this. dd-wrt in my experience is MUCH more stable than the OEM firmware, and it has a ton of features. It's great stuff, and totally free.

There seems to be literally thousands of the WRT54GS routers floating around looking for a home, so you can probably find one for $20-$30. A lot of people poo-poo the ver 4+ routers because linksys gimped the RAM and flash mem on these later versions, but I have a WRT54GS ver 6.0 w/ dd-wrt micro as my main router and it works fine. You just have to flash the micro version of dd-wrt, which is missing a few features you probably don't need anyway (especially if you just need a wireless bridge).

If you don't have the LG bd300 hooked up to internet yet you may not know that there is a firmware upgrade available now that also lets you watch Youtube. The netflix functionality is pretty slick, we use it all the time. My only complaint is that it only lets you watch things already in your instant queue, you still need a PC to search & add content to your queue. Maybe a future furmware upgrade (cross fingers).

Good luck!

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sfryman wrote :

I have that bluray player as well. Got it for xmas from work.

I would buy a linksys WRT54GS or similar off ebay or craigslist, flash it w/ dd-wrt and set it up as a wireless bridge. This is of course assuming you have wireless in your home. If not, you'd have to buy 2 wireless routers. The wiki I linked should pretty much spell out how you can do this. dd-wrt in my experience is MUCH more stable than the OEM firmware, and it has a ton of features. It's great stuff, and totally free.

There seems to be literally thousands of the WRT54GS routers floating around looking for a home, so you can probably find one for $20-$30. A lot of people poo-poo the ver 4+ routers because linksys gimped the RAM and flash mem on these later versions, but I have a WRT54GS ver 6.0 w/ dd-wrt micro as my main router and it works fine. You just have to flash the micro version of dd-wrt, which is missing a few features you probably don't need anyway (especially if you just need a wireless bridge).

If you don't have the LG bd300 hooked up to internet yet you may not know that there is a firmware upgrade available now that also lets you watch Youtube. The netflix functionality is pretty slick, we use it all the time. My only complaint is that it only lets you watch things already in your instant queue, you still need a PC to search & add content to your queue. Maybe a future furmware upgrade (cross fingers).

Good luck!

Thank you very much for your knowledge, it is much appreciated and sounds tons less than buying that powerline adapter kit. I went to best buy lastnight to look for solutions. I saw the newer versions of blu-ray and they all connect wirelessly. I was a month or two too early. Disappointed but i am anxious to try your method out and finally stream netflix. My internet speed is 54Mbps, is that fast enough?
Thanks again for your help

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