I bought a Chromecast – and I didn’t look at the list of routers that are incompatible with Chromecast. Mine is one of them – the Netgear R6300. I only found out when the simple sounding steps from Google didn’t get me going – I couldn’t configure it as it seems that it just won’t connect to my wifi.
Finally, I managed to. I did several things (not sure which one worked, perhaps it was a combination of them all). Here they are – all of them, maybe one of these works for you as well:
- First of all, I disabled the 5GHz (a/n/ac) option on my router leaving only the 2.4GHz (b/g/n) option.
- I set all the flags that various blogs on the Internet suggested (but that didn’t work).
- Then after an hour of tinkering with various settings, I realized that the computer I was using to setup the Chromecast had some strange networking setup itself – due to the fact that I run Hyper-V to run VMs, I had bridge connections setup. I deleted those (which broke my networking setup on my computer and I had to re-setup everything). Anyway, after cleaning up the bridge connections, I gave it another try – and bam, it worked.
Now, I have not had the courage to go and try turning on the various things I turned off on my router – too much time wasted on this already – so, I continue to operate this. I think I can safely configure Hyper-V again because now that the Chromecast device knows how to connect to the router, it doesn’t need my computer anymore.
Oh yeah, I am already loving the convenience and simplicity of Chromecast. Maybe, I will write an app for it now that the SDK is open.