Connecting to Panasonic Viera Cast via AEBS Ethernet

The IP address to assign to your TV needs to be in the same address range that is being distributed by your base station. By default, the AirPort will provide IP addresses in the 10.0.1.2 - 10.0.1.200 range. I suggest that you use 10.0.1.201 to be just outside of the DHCP server's range but still in the same address space.

The other IP addresses would be: Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0, Router IP: 10.0.1.1. The DNS IP addresses would be the same that is assigned to any of your other network clients.

FWIW, I don't have this exact Panasonic model, but a 42" version instead and about the same age as yours. I have had no difficulties gaining Internet access from my AirPort Extreme using either a wired or wireless connection to the HDTV.

The DHCP warning may be related to making sure your HDTV is not configured to use DHCP instead of a static IP address. To double-check, go to your HDTV's menu > Setup > Network settings > IP address / DNS settings page. Both the "IP setting mode" and "DNS setting mode" should be set to "Automatic." If they are, check the IP addresses being provided. Do they match those you would expect for your network?

The 169.254.XXX.XXX IP address is indicating that the HDTV is not "finding" the base station's DHCP server. This address is known as a "self-assigned" address. As you can imagine, this type of address is why your HDTV is not gaining Internet access.

I would recommend that you first try your suggestion to assign static local IP addresses on your HDTV. This may or may not resolve the problem. If it doesn't my next recommendation would be to perform a complete power recycle of your networking equipment, including your HDTV. Please post back your results.

Yes, you can try using 10.0.1.1 for the DNS setting as well.

Did you try the complete power recycle as I recommended earlier?

Avoid wireless, that would just complicate things. Ethernet is much simpler.

Can you "ping" the TV from your Mac?

Open Terminal - it is in your Mac's Utilities folder - and type

ping 10.0.1.201

You should get output like the following

Johns-iMac:~ john$ ping 10.0.1.201

PING 10.0.1.201 (10.0.1.201): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=143.913 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=2.587 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=2.536 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.1.201: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=3.389 ms

^C

--- 10.0.1.201 ping statistics ---

4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 2.536/38.106/143.913/61.088 ms

Johns-iMac:~ john$

Johns-iMac:~ john$

Press control c to stop the ping requests.

In this case, the Default Gateway = 10.0.1.1; the DNS address would be what your other computers are using. You can use one of the major DNS service offerings address instead: 208.67.222.222

You can ignore the Proxy settings.

ofs1, when did you first notice this problem?

Has Viera Cast ever worked for you, if so, when did it stop?

The reason I am asking is that Panasonic prompted me for a firmware update for a Blu-Ray player several months ago, which resulted in it being unable to connect with symptoms very similar to yours. Since the firmware update broke its ability to connect to the Internet, there was no way to recover from this. The solution was to send it back to Panasonic. They exhanged it for another, which worked.

I hope this is not the case for you - contacting Panasonic customer service is h*ll.

You shouldn't need to reset any of the base station nor lose their configurations settings just performing the power recycle.