Initially I had no trouble with 7.5.3 with my Duet, wireless network, but as time goes by things have gotten much worse.
Initially installed back when it went RTM and thought all was well, this was on W7 x64. Player worked fine. A couple of weeks later I did W7 SP1, had a initial connect problem, did a reset on the player/controller and reconnected and again was happy. Found that occasionally when I rebooted the PC I'd have to again reset player/controller to hook back up to my SBS server. Then about a week ago I upgraded Avast to 6.0.1000 and that's when the grief really started. I did get the controller/player to connect to SBS and initially thought all was well right up until a couple of days ago when I rebooted the PC. Tried and tried to get things to connect and I just couldn't get it to go. I could get the player to connect to the network (blue light), but that wasn't even consistent. Usually the player would hang after a reset at bright yellow. After checking out these forums I saw I wasn't alone in having trouble with 7.5.3 and after reading several posts I decided that I'd go back to 7.5.2. I wish I could say that the fallback was painless, but it wasn't. After installing 7.5.2 I still couldn't get my player to connect, it would still hang on bright yellow. I then tried connecting the player via ethernet. Got a IP from the router (blue light), but still couldn't get it to connect. I then decided I'd take more drastic action, fully uninstalled 7.5.2, deleted remaining SBS directories in both Program Files and Program Data directories and completely removed Avast. At this point I installed 7.5.2, tried a reset on the player/controller and tried to get it configured and connect wirelessly, but this was still a nogo and would hang at blue light on the player. I then connected the player via ethernet and tried again. Bingo! Player connected to my 7.5.2 server and immediately asked to go back to 7.5.1 r9009 which I did. Disconnected ethernet, did reset and was able to get things set up wirelessly. At this point I reinstalled Avast 6.0.1000 rebooted and things all hooked up great (so I thought). Went to play some music which started, but after a second or two the player dropped connection to yellow then green then back to blue, but didn't connect to the SBS. Did a reset and configure on player and got it right back to connected to SBS. Started to play music and it dropped off again just like the first time. I then went to the W7 firewall and now have 3 separate rules. One outbound to allow SBS to do what it wants with any protocol on any port. 2 inbound to let SBS do whatever it wants. 1 inbound that allows TCP on all ports local and remote and another inbound to allow UDP on all ports local and remote. With all these changes I seem to now have my stable platform back! Been running for 2 days with no issues including reboots of PC running SBS and I don't have to mess with anything. With all of this I'd say 7.5.3 has some connectivity issues. Those issues seem to go from not so bad to really bad when 7.5.3 is on W7 SP1 with Avast 6.0.1000. All seems to work just fine running SBS 7.5.2 with W7 SP1 and Avast 6.0.1000. -- w3wilkes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ w3wilkes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22973 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85474 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
