Hello, i got RB951 and AirPlay does not work through it via ethernet cable. It works via Wi-fi (both AppleTV and iPAD wireless). When i connect AppleTV via ethernet cable to 951, the most it gets is 500kbps. This worked fine with RB751, what is going on? Is there some limit set in the default AP configuration? Does AirPlay need UDP Multicast? How do i turn that on?
Please help.
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First off, this is in the wrong thread.
Second, you did not read your Airplay manual, did you? You can not connect the Airplay directly to your network with either cable.
Per the manual and the Apply web site, the Airplay connects to any Apple OS device wirelessly.
Go and reread the manual.
You are a rude and un-informed individual. Please do not reply to my thread because you have nothing to offer.
First you said that it doesn’t work, then you said you get 500Kbit, so it is working then? what speed did you get with the other router? Did you use the same ethernet ports, and same configuration?
Did I hurt your feelings/ego?
Sorry about that.
I was not being rude. I stated facts.
First, this is posted in the RouterOS Beta thread, this post as stated, has nothing to do
with OS Beta or testing.
I would think post in the General thread.
Second, I read the manual for the Airplay and I also have a friend with it and looked at his system. And yes, it is also on a Mikrotik system. Been working fine for 5 years.
Both my apple TVs are connected via Ethernet. As long as your Ethernet and WiFi networks are bridged airplay from iOS devices to the apple TV just works as you would expect it to.
From http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2822 “Apple TV prioritizes a wired Ethernet connection”.
Why on earth would they do this if one of the core features didn’t work in this configuration?
Howdy, I’m certainly no MikroTik expert but I’m getting my bearings, in researching this issue (because the constant re-buffering is absolutely unacceptable), I found setting the multicast-helper option to full on the wireless interface fixes the problem.
You can read the docs on the MikroTik wiki here; the option is disabled by default, and I couldn’t find it at all in the webfig GUI in RouterOS v6.15-6.19 , though my search wasn’t extensive.
Happy to have AirPlay video streaming via AppleTV finally working perfectly on an otherwise flawless home CPE. (I’m running RB951-2HnD).