Mark Lanctot Wrote: 
> Well based on my experience with the 
> SMC2804WBRP-G, I would suspect the router.
> 
> There was nothing I could do to get an SB2 to 
> connect.  MAC filtering disabled, encryption 
> disabled, SSID broadcast enabled, nothing.  I 
> could see the SSID when I enabled broadcast but it 
> still couldn't connect.
> 
> The firmware for the 2804 is a horror show.  There 
> are ~12 versions.  Each one disabled something 
> different in the network.  Based on the radically 
> different performance and problems I experienced 
> with each firmware version, I strongly suspected 
> it was poor firmware that just wouldn't allow the 
> 2804 to connect.
> 
> Some firmware disabled fundamental networking 
> features like DHCP, DNS resolution, wired ports etc.
> 
> I swapped it out for a Linksys WRT54G.  Worked 
> from first try with both stock firmware and DD-WRT 
> 3rd party firmware.  Unfortunately it doesn't have 
> the wireless speed the SMC did, but I'm willing to 
> give that up for the SB.
> 
> So try the latest firmware with the SMC, or play 
> whack-a-mole with the prior firmware versions, or 
> get another router.
> 
> stoobie-doo wrote:
> > SMCWBR14-G
> > 
> > There seems to be plenty of weirdness going on with
> this router.
> > 
> > I fixed the first issue of not connecting, it was a
> MAC address mess.
> > However, I am having problems acquiring an IP
> address via DHCP (may
> > take 2-3 SB3 resets) and am having problems
> maintaining connection to
> > the SlimServer (Web interface reports Control
> Connection Fail at some
> > point after streaming had been working).
> > 
> > Does these both sound like router problems, or
> something else?
> > 
> > The PC with the SlimServer has a BlackIce firewall,
> 3483 TCP/UDP and
> > 9000 UDP have been configured on BlackIce (but not
> the SMC) to always
> > be open.
> > 
> > 
> 
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> ___________________________________
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Lanctot
> ___________________________________

My experience so far has been different. The DHCP problems are
intermittent, but 2-4 resets later I can get an address (and it always
is the same address). Losing connection to the SlimServer though is
harder to ascribe fault to, I have no idea if it is the PC that I have
the sevrer on, or the router that would cause it to lose connection to
the server and then regain it some 15-45 minutes later.


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