After over 3 hours messing about and being almost at the point of throwing the ****** thing out the window…. 😠😠😠 May I start by saying I am 43, and like most people my age, have never had any sort of training or lessons in computers. I have spent much of my time today trawling through advice from people who obviously have had training and experience in troubleshooting these **** devices. I'm sure you are all trying to be helpful, and I'm sure what you are writing makes perfect sense to you lot and is simple to understand - please try and understand that most of us - at least most of us over 30 - can't understand anything more complicated than, "plug the power chord into the hole at the back" or "Turn the bloody thing off, wait for 20 seconds then turn it on again". Think about it please - if I could understand the technical advice you lot respond with do you think I'd really be on here in the first place asking "why won't my speaker work?" When you give someone like me a response along the lines of, "Check your RDML settings in your cache I.D peripheral, and if set to automatic update settings to 118.456.972 and then re-configure data insurgence recollective value 4.2 HDMI proxy server status…." I read this, "0297igflkep9ffrruyh3o3460$@%$@!(**_)^$$$*&^*$&)(&^&%7678752$@£rfyjhoi7w9gl21jh 3yf89wteift". So please, when you're explaining about something technical to mere mortals like myself - please do it was if you're explaining something simple to a child. Most of us don't even know the difference between different cables, perhaps if you used a picture or two? Surely you experts could add a picture or two to your replies with your seemingly infinite computer knowledge?
Anyway, rant over! The mobile phone option didn't work for me, non discoverable for some reason. Tried using an ethernet cable, moving both Apple TV and my router around the room, clearing obstacles, using different passwords / ID numbers etc etc. I restarted and rebooted the ****** thing lots of times. I did work out that I was getting an internet connection so then went for the 'Turn of router firewall' option. I looked at the back of my router and copied down all the nonsense printed on the back of it. Then I typed the router number 192.168.1.1 into my browser on my computer (Mac) and pressed return. it directed me to the internet provider, who is EE and then prompted me in input more info - username and password from the back of the router - both 6 digits, all lower case letters if that helps. (not sure if that is the case with all routers!) Anyway - I got in! I then worked out how to change my settings on there and turned my Firewall settings OFF.
Then I reset and restarted my Apple TV and tried again….
Hey Presto! It bloody well worked!!!
I have now updated software on it and have now gone back into my router menu on EE and enabled the firewall again. All seems to be working fine still!
Now I can finally sit down and work out how and what the thing can actually do!
