mvalera;310992 Wrote: > I just talked to QA... the only way you see the "Wireless", Static or > Fixed IP" screen is when, during setup, the controller cannot find a > DHCP server at all. > > What exactly are you using for a DHCP server? Our QA team would really > like to know what you are using. > > *My* 2 second diagnosis, is that your router has basically given up the > ghost. > > The other extreme possibility is that your DHCP server may be out of > DHCP lease slots, but that would not explain why your receiver just > stopped working... again I personally think you have a bad router. > > Mike
Hi Mike, When forced to, I let the Linksys router hand out DHCP. As I mentioned, I don't really like to use DHCP for ease of use reasons. We have 22 devices on our home network and it's just easier to hand out (static) IP's. At some point I did turn DHCP on because I could not get the choice of putting in an address. When I did, I "reserved" ip addresses for the three MAC address of the SB devices. Some of the Linksys routers allow you to associate MAC addresses with IP addresses. Thinking back I may have turned it off again after I got off the phone with tech support and that may be why I finally got the option to statically address the receivers. When I bought the DUET I wasn't sure how to get the PIN number. Almost the first thing tech support has you do is use DHCP to address the controller. Then, when I received the second receiver and wanted to use the receivers as access points, I called to try and get help on that. Again, the support guy insisted I turn DHCP on. Now that I know that if no DHCP service is available that it will ask for a staic address, then that should make things easier. Looking back the entire DHCP mess started with the fact that you can't statically address the controller, which is not what the instructions say and the way I wanted to do it. On my first call to support I was told that that was a mistake and that I could not assign an address to the controller. Hence DHCP got involved. I hope this helps. Howard -- Howard Passman Sorry slow to respond. I don't spend that much time online. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Howard Passman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16674 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48750 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
