Thread: HAVA Player Beta Program
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2008-06-03 , 02:42
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#113
Originally Posted by madman999 View Post
as far as I can figure, the Hava/N800 connection is a remote connection hence you bump into the 1 remote connection limit. your N800 is going out over the internet and contacting their P2P server. this would affect any "non local subnet" viewing of your hava. there might be some hack way around this but I think maybe they hard coded their P2P address into the client.

according to their website, local discovery of the unit is being done as a udp broadcast. they don;t do things the "slingbox way". with slingbox, they seem to use the IP address for remote connections and you can directly connect to it even over the internet using DynDns.

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I believe you're right on with assessing how their "Locator/Finder Service" works. I'm an owner of the original Slingbox and thought it was nice that they provided a service like this for those with dynamic IP addresses.

However, one of my ISP accounts provides me with a static IP, so I configured my Slingbox to disable using their finder and provided my own static IP address and specified my own port number. I believe this method is inherently more secure and reliable.

I've discussed this issue with tech support at Hava and I guess they've at least filed it as a feature request (no response yet). I'd really like to be able to specify my own IP address and port number, rather than depend on a 3rd party (Hava's P2P service). As was mentioned earlier in this thread, a big concern should be that they go out of business and/or their P2P server blows up, leaving us all with useless Hava clients...