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Tuesday, October 1st, 2024 4:15 PM

Xfinity Stream keeps saying not on home network

I am trying to access live TV channels on the  Xfinity Stream app and keep getting this message:

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This device can only access xfinity stream on you in-home xfinity WiFi. Use the app on your smartphone, tablet, or laptop to watch on the go, anytime you like.  

I am using the latest AppleTV device on tvOS 18.0.

I am on my home network. I have deregistered the AppleTV device and readded, signed out of the xfinity stream app and resigned in, deleted the xfinity stream app and resinstalled, forgot the wifi and reconnected, all with no improvement.

This all worked fine until a couple days ago.

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3 months ago

I am having the same issue and error message on our Roku. Widespread problem?

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It’s all working now! Must have been an Xfinity issue. 

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@MatJV Thanks for letting us know that everything is resolved with your Xfinity Stream app and the error message is gone.  Just to confirm after you completed the troubleshooting steps you mentioned above it resolved itself is that correct? 

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Mine has been doing this for about a week.  I have always streamed Xfinity from my laptop in my home, thus home wifi.  How do I resolve this?  

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You've reached the right place for help, lh30! Is your laptop the only device impacted? Are you connected using a VPN?

 

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@XfinityThomasA​ Thank you for your response.  It was the VPN, which I turned on in my McAfee settings a couple of weeks ago.  What threw me was that even though I temporarily turned off the VPN I still couldn't access live streaming from my laptop.  The darn VPN was so annoying because I had to keep shutting it off to access many of my favorite websites that I finally went in to my settings and permanently shut it off last night.  Everything works now.  Thank you.

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2 months ago

I'm having the same issue on Roku TV, and then this morning my phone gave me the same error.  I'm on my home network, albiet not using Xfinity hardware; using my own cable modem and mesh router.  But shouldn't it just query the external IP and confirm that it is my home IP?

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Hello @user_eu08li, thank you for taking the time to reach out on social media.  I understand your concern with the error, and I'd like the opportunity to check into that for you.

 

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