Hi, I've gone from using a Netgear wireless router that had 4 ethernet connections to using the Orange Livebox. One of the Ethernet connections on the netgear was plugged into my desktop pc and a 2nd one was plugged into a microlink dlan ethernet plug that turns your house's electrical wiring into a network. An additional plug is used downstairs where I have hooked up a small network media server (Hauppauge MVP). This used to work for me but now when I do the same thing with the Livebox I can't get the media server box to find the MVP server running on my desktop pc. Nothing appears to happen. Is there a firewall in the livebox preventing the server from broadcasting over my network? Any help would be greatly appreciated. regards Ravi
Hi, I've tried setting the firewall to low which I guess meant it was turned off. Still no joy, I get the impression that this router doesn't allow to network pc's in the way the Netgear does.
I believe the problem is with the mvp being unable to contact the dhcp server. Is there anything you need to do to enable this for the 2nd ethernet connector on the livebox? My desktop pc is hooked up to the bottom of the two connectors and can obtain an ip address. Even wireless connections get stuck on acquiring network address
Yep the wireless problem I found was fixed when I switched to WPA only. Though it did lose it's connection a number of times. How flaky is this router? I'll try swapping the ports as you suggested. I did find that using a crossover cable in the 2nd port caused the laptop to intermitantly lose the network cable connection even though it was physically connected the whole time?!?
I swapped the ports and the desktop pc internet connection still worked. Though the 1st wired port appeared to be giving problems now with the laptop connection to the internet. Therefore the problem must be with the laptop which worked fine with the netgear? As far as the media server I uninstalled the software and re-installed the same software and it appears to be working now.
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