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I live in an apartment complex. Recently, the administration switched to Wi-Fi (probably to save on costs) as opposed to wired Internet. Before, I had my own router and I could stream videos to my Blu-ray player (Sony S3500) via Windows Media Server and Serviio in Windows 10.

Now, being on that public Wi-Fi that I join with a password, I don’t see my media servers or any other peoples’ servers. Is there any way I can see my media servers on this public Wi-Fi?

P.S. I already tried creating a hotspot via the Connectify application, but it was terribly unstable, losing connection all the time.

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Probably not. Public Wi-Fi networks are often configured to do "client isolation", which makes it act like separate Internet connections for each device rather than act as a shared LAN. Multicasts and broadcasts between clients are blocked, which blocks service discovery protocols.

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How about attaching a wireless to ethernet bridge to a router that is on a different subnet?

check your ip address and notate(say it is 192.168.1.11)

Add a wireless ethernet bridge(converts wireless to ethernet)

Plug that into another router on a different subnet(say 10.0.0.1)

Make sure router is on different channel the main wireless, or even different frequency(5 ghz?)

Connect your devices to router, and thats it!

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