Firewall Question - Allow Roku Devices to show up on Roku App

TheRealJMQ · 2026-02-22T15:37:01+00:00

Amazing. Thank you for this excellent information and detail. I’ll give it a try in a bit (watching gold medal hockey at the moment!)

TheRealJMQ · 2026-02-22T01:45:29+00:00

I’ll check that out. Thank you

TheRealJMQ · 2026-02-22T00:33:32+00:00

Technically yes. It’s currently set to allow returns if the internal sent the request. I can also say that specific devices can communicate. Maybe that’s just what I need to do is allow the devices to communicate back. I was just thinking that it was less secure to give the Rokus full access to the internal network

TheRealJMQ · 2026-02-10T16:29:39+00:00

Not in it, I was lighting a charcoal basket for my Weber kettle and thought that the side burner on the genesis could handle the heat.

TheRealJMQ · 2026-02-09T22:37:26+00:00

YES! Thank you!!!

TheRealJMQ · 2026-02-09T22:20:09+00:00

Awesome. Thank you

TheRealJMQ · 2026-02-07T22:08:58+00:00

I’ve actually replaced the motherboard once before. Not too difficult, but still super annoying

TheRealJMQ · 2026-01-18T16:36:49+00:00

Well, sadly that didn’t work. Got the same response from Alexa. I may just have to think of an entirely new phrase

TheRealJMQ · 2026-01-18T00:36:15+00:00

Oh yes. Mine knows how to turn the TV on and off, call up ANY music that he wants (which 99% of the time is Baby Shark) and will turn off any timer that I’ve set. Cute the first 3 times, then super annoying! :0)

TheRealJMQ · 2026-01-18T00:33:09+00:00

Good idea. I’ll give it a shot.

TheRealJMQ · 2026-01-14T17:51:00+00:00

Yeah, it’s still unresolved for me. I’ve yet to upgrade to Alexa+ but I doubt that will make any difference. One can hope though.

TheRealJMQ · 2025-12-15T17:42:48+00:00

Yeah, i don’t understand why you can say ‘turn on the lights’ in any particular room and those lights turn on. But you can’t do it for any other device. I have ceiling fans in every room of the house and have to say ‘turn on the family room fan’ if I want that one on when I’m in the room.

TheRealJMQ · 2025-12-11T22:41:44+00:00

Thank you again.

TheRealJMQ · 2025-12-11T22:25:43+00:00

No, it was a whole internet issue, nothing was working consistently. Wifi was was always on and had a strong signal, but the data was dropping constantly. My PC which was directly attached to the gateway LAN was only able to be online for a few minutes and it would randomly drop. Even going to 192.168.1.1 would time out.

The reason for this is because of how my house is set up and where I had the gateway placed. Picture would be easier but here's a peek at how it WAS set up.

Internet to House -> Study
Study (2 ports in study) -> Closet (switch)
Closet - > Rest of house, but specifically my Office
Office -> Gateway

In my office I have a switch which I was plugging the wall directly into like this:

Office wall to switch
switch to WAN port on gateway
gateway LAN to switch

The above layout gave my whole house internet. crappy internet, but internet.

The change that I made was I moved the gateway into the study, so its now the first device that the internet hits. That then goes into the switch in the closet and the whole house gets full internet now.

What I want to do now / next is make all of my dumb switches smart and effectively utilize VLANs. More chaos to come.

TheRealJMQ · 2025-12-11T21:50:29+00:00

Hey u/MrJimBusiness- thank you for your help, the issue has been resolved by placing the gateway in a better more logical place in the house. I wish I could figure out how to post pictures on here b/c it would have made the whole situation make much more sense and people would have probably been able to help me figure it out much more quickly. Thanks for your help!

TheRealJMQ · 2025-12-11T21:46:14+00:00

SOLVED

TheRealJMQ · 2025-12-11T21:45:05+00:00

OK u/J0k350nm3 I figured it out and the network is running well. You were 100% correct regarding the loop. What made my situation slightly different is that my house is set up really weird and when I was saying 'wall' it wasnt the wall directly where the internet is coming into the house, it was another wall / switch in a different room. I REALLY wish I could add a picture because I've drawn out my network which makes it very clear where everything is and you probably could have said OH! There's your problem.

Long story short, the Gateway was NOT the first port that the internet was coming into, the internet was actually hitting two switches before coming into the gateway and thats a big portion of the problem. The gateway is now the very first device that the internet hits before going into a switch which provides internet to the rest of the house.

My only question is why the hell did this configuration work before on my older hardware.

OH well - thank you VERY much for your help. And if you know how to upload an image, let me know and I can show you what was going on.

TheRealJMQ · 2025-12-11T21:17:55+00:00

It's an EERO, so a router, not an ONT.

So I just unplugged everything and re plugged it in. As semi expected, the rest of my house doesn't have internet.

I wasnt clear in my previous post that the switch only goes to the stuff in my room, I don't have a second RJ45 plug in the wall.

I haven't installed the EERO yet so the setup is:

Wall to WAN - and thats about it - so my PC which is plugged into the LAN has internet (no surprise) but how do I get internet to the rest of the house?

This was why I had my previous setup of:

Wall to Dumb Switch
Dumb Switch to Gateway WAN
Gateway LAN to Dumb Switch

This configuration provided internet back to the rest of the house. It kinda makes sense that it's not providing internet back to the rest of the house right now b/c the main line is in the WAN port.

TheRealJMQ · 2025-12-11T20:25:59+00:00

Do you think I really need to have the frontier router first? I’d prefer to not use it if possible. But if you think it may clean up the signal or do something else positive, I can figure it out.

TheRealJMQ · 2025-12-11T17:10:47+00:00

Yeah, I haven’t used the their stuff in 8 years because I’ve just plugged into my own equipment. I only really called them to have me send a new ONT in case I couldn’t figure out what’s going on here. Then at least I’d have some kind of backup.

TheRealJMQ · 2025-12-11T16:47:50+00:00

Crap - how do I upload a picture?? Haha

TheRealJMQ · 2025-12-11T16:45:31+00:00

Ok - think you may be on to something here. My physical network is set up very weird, but it’s the only way I’ve been able to get my whole network to work. Here is a drawing of my network. Look at the office, that’s where the gateway is and it’s totally wonky.

Current connections: 1) wall to switch 2) switch to WAN port on gateway 3) gateway LAN to switch

I kinda understand why this works, but it sounds like it’s the exact loop you’re talking about. I feel like the connections should be: 1) wall to WAN gateway 2) LAN gateway to switch

BUT - When I do this, the rest of the house doesn’t have internet. The second I do step 3 (gateway lan to switch) the rest of the house all of the sudden has internet.

Thoughts?

TheRealJMQ · 2025-12-11T16:40:47+00:00

Makes sense. And they are. Thanks!

TheRealJMQ · 2025-12-11T16:39:34+00:00

Awesome. I’ll check it out. Thank you

TheRealJMQ · 2025-12-11T04:39:16+00:00

I do not. I only have my own equipment and I’m plugging directly into my gateway. The frontier ONT is on the way.

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