Hopper Transfers over VPN?

[balthisar]

I thought I had this working before I left. Anyway...

I recently upgrade from a 722 with a sling to a Hopper with Sling. Everything is working perfectly, except Hopper Transfers can't seem to see my PVR over a VPN connection. Note that DishAnywhere app still works fine and I can watch PVR recordings from the public internet with no issues. Simply, Hopper Transfers won't detect my PVR.

My VPN is a simple DD-WRT based PPTP VPN. I would consider running an OpenVPN at home as a server and on the remote router as a client, but I've not played around with it yet, and I'm not certain it will work.

Does anyone have any technical details of how Hopper Transfers communicates?

Note: I'm not trying to break encryption, be an outlaw, etc., etc. I simply want to use Hopper Transfers because I can't always get good speeds with DishAnywhere.

Thanks!

 

[Smwoodward]

I think the hopper transfers is about the same as trying to get an iPad to sync over wifi over VPN. Doesn't really work.


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[JM42]

Dish could easily layer in various checks to try and prevent this activity, but discovery is probably just broadcast based and PPTP is getting in the way. I don't have HWS, so can't look at the traffic generated.

Do both PPTP server and client pass broadcast traffic? Is the PPTP address pool in the same subnet as the Hopper? I would assume those would be the minimum requirements, if Dish isn't actively blocking it.

 

[balthisar]

Sorry I've not gotten back here. I've not made progress in getting it to work, but what JM42 says seems to be the issue. I have made progress as far as knowing that, yes, I need to pass broadcast traffic into the pipe. The address pool isn't currently in the same subnet, but I plan to do that, too.

Right now I have a dd-wrt router serving as the VPN server in the home location. As soon as I have some time, I'm going to try to experiment with software solutions using a server I have in the house. If that works, I'll see how to replicate it on the dd-wrt. Since I'm currently remote, I don't want to screw up any of the home devices.

Actually something called EoIP seems intriguing, but again, I'll look into that when I have time.
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