The Source: Centrios Hi-Fi Internet Radio / CD Micro System $99.98

[herc]

This could potentially be an issue. I assume you upgraded the firmware, as the original firmware didn't support WPA. Also, perhaps the MAC address is for the ethernet port? The wireless dongle should have its own MAC address.

You are probably correct about the wireless dongle MAC address. I wonder how I can find that one out. Any ideas? I'm going to try it without the MAC filtering and see if it works. Thanks for the info!

[mrbernsca]

What I don't like about this "deal" is the fact that TSCC posted it as a circuit breaker months ago and then they had tons of returns (I talked to a local store manager) and no one wants it .. $30 I may consider it for a stereo on the garage.

[PaulieG]

You are probably correct about the wireless dongle MAC address. I wonder how I can find that one out. Any ideas? I'm going to try it without the MAC filtering and see if it works. Thanks for the info!

One of the relevant TSCC reviews for the product mention that SSID broadcast has to be enabled. After you disable MAC filter and enable SSID broadcast, you should be able to see the MAC address in the DHCP lease info pages of your router provided the radio connects successfully. Then you can re-enable the MAC filtering as you wish.

[herc]

One of the relevant TSCC reviews for the product mention that SSID broadcast has to be enabled. After you disable MAC filter and enable SSID broadcast, you should be able to see the MAC address in the DHCP lease info pages of your router provided the radio connects successfully. Then you can re-enable the MAC filtering as you wish.

I tried this and it did see the network. So I tried to connect and the router showed there was a connection but the radio didn't look like it was connected so I rescanned and it couldn't see the network anymore. I tried everything and it wouldn't work so I give up and it is going back tomorrow. At least I have my faithful Sanyo R227 internet radio to listen to.

[PaulieG]

I tried this and it did see the network. So I tried to connect and the router showed there was a connection but the radio didn't look like it was connected so I rescanned and it couldn't see the network anymore. I tried everything and it wouldn't work so I give up and it is going back tomorrow. At least I have my faithful Sanyo R227 internet radio to listen to.

My main wireless network has a strong password of 63 random printable ASCII chars and I don't think I could type it into the radio, so I set up another wifi gateway last night exposing a separate subnet for the radio specifically. I actually experienced similar issues - it didn't want to connect initially. I didn't know what the problem was so I played around with all the different encryptions and DHCP/static IP configurations. In the end, I'm not sure what it was. I think power cycling the unit helped. Now, the radio works fine over WPA2 wifi with MAC address restriction and DHCP, even though packets pass through two routers and get NAT'ed twice.

[Penbex]

For those who are interested, I have put a firmware for the centrios online.
info: http://penbex.wordpress.com
database portal: http://penbex.mine.nu

[Penbex]

I have released firmware version 2.0.0.15 for the Centrios that makes use of the listenlive.nl database. You can find it at the download page of listenlive.nl.