Guys, this is the most bizarre issue I have experienced and I have spent the better part of the week trying to fix it. Netflix works fine if I am directly connected to my ISP router wirelessly but acts up when wirelessly connected to any point in the connected mesh network.
My home setup is as follows: I have a Google Nest mesh setup with a single router and 2 access points. The Nest router is connected via ethernet directly to my ISP router and broadcasts the mesh network on a different SSID. All devices connect to this SSID.
Everything was fine until Netflix suddenly stopped working a week ago. I kept getting the "Unable to connect to the Netflix server" error and was unable to log in on any device. After a lot of debugging I found that this error goes away when I access Netflix through my ISP router directly. After successfully logging in through the ISP router I tried browsing the catalog back on my mesh network and the thumbnails were not loading and it was acting up again.
I narrowed it down to some backend netflix servers (.nflxso.net/) which aren't accessible through my mesh network but are through my ISP router.
This is so baffling that it happened all of a sudden. I have reset and rebooted all the devices many times and just cannot figure out what the problem is. I have tried using a regular router in place of the Nest mesh system and I still face the same issue connecting to Netflix through it.
Why is this one extra hop causing a problem? Please help!
My home setup is as follows: I have a Google Nest mesh setup with a single router and 2 access points. The Nest router is connected via ethernet directly to my ISP router and broadcasts the mesh network on a different SSID. All devices connect to this SSID.
Everything was fine until Netflix suddenly stopped working a week ago. I kept getting the "Unable to connect to the Netflix server" error and was unable to log in on any device. After a lot of debugging I found that this error goes away when I access Netflix through my ISP router directly. After successfully logging in through the ISP router I tried browsing the catalog back on my mesh network and the thumbnails were not loading and it was acting up again.
I narrowed it down to some backend netflix servers (.nflxso.net/) which aren't accessible through my mesh network but are through my ISP router.
This is so baffling that it happened all of a sudden. I have reset and rebooted all the devices many times and just cannot figure out what the problem is. I have tried using a regular router in place of the Nest mesh system and I still face the same issue connecting to Netflix through it.
Why is this one extra hop causing a problem? Please help!
