Networking equipment without an internet connection?

[Chew Toy McCoy]

I ran into this issue trying to airplay a downloaded video from my iPhone to a TV, but no, you need to be connected to the internet for some fucked up reason.

A friend of mine has some audio gear that communicates through wifi that he wants to be able to use in bumfuck with a wifi router, no internet. Is that possible or is there always some need to connect to the internet bullshit?

 

[Cmaier]

I ran into this issue trying to airplay a downloaded video from my iPhone to a TV, but no, you need to be connected to the internet for some fucked up reason.

A friend of mine has some audio gear that communicates through wifi that he wants to be able to use in bumfuck with a wifi router, no internet. Is that possible or is there always some need to connect to the internet bullshit?

when my WAN connection is down in my house, airplay seems to work.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

when my WAN connection is down in my house, airplay seems to work.

Hm. I've never gotten airplay to work without an internet connection.

However, that response was indirectly helpful because it reminded me to put "WAN" in the search. I can be somewhat tech stupid. I thought wifi routers would be plug and play beyond setting a network name and password but it seems in this situation you need to connect directly to it with an ethernet cable to configure it to not require an internet connection. Why it doesn't just work that way out of the box is beyond me. Maybe it's to cut back on tech support calls from people who can't get it to work because they didn't bother to plug it into their modem.

 

[Nycturne]

A lot of consumer grade stuff might assume different things about the use case. Over the last ~15 years, my equipment has been either an Airport Extreme, or step-up equipment from Ubiquiti, so I'm a bit out of touch, but most routers I've used before then still worked over the LAN if the WAN is disconnected or down.

When you are testing this disconnected from the internet, how are you disconnecting?

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

A lot of consumer grade stuff might assume different things about the use case. Over the last ~15 years, my equipment has been either an Airport Extreme, or step-up equipment from Ubiquiti, so I'm a bit out of touch, but most routers I've used before then still worked over the LAN if the WAN is disconnected or down.

When you are testing this disconnected from the internet, how are you disconnecting?

The router was never connected to the internet. It would be a totally wireless system. He has a mixer you can also control with iPads or iPhones connected on the same wifi network. So the wireless router is just being used as the hub between everything, no internet required.