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More => Old Versions => Media Center 16 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: HTPC4ME on August 26, 2011, 02:15:34 am
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gizmo was really flacky today, tonight now i been trying to connect for over 1/2 hour, all pc's clients were seeing jriver, all windows network connections/shares were working, all printers were working, my phone's internet was working, data, but gizmo could not find the server via wifi or via 4G.
I then went to server, and chose test connection to jriver server, immediately it said i was registered, then i went back to gizmo and instantly it connected me.
I'm not sure how gizmo works, but im taking a shot in the dark... is gizmo like cellphones how one should always power down a cell phone every few weeks in order to be picked up "fresh" (as Tmobile/Att & T have mentioned) again.. so one can be on top of the network?
am i maybe getting lost in the servers registration? i've been pushed down so far, that connection isnt as good?
Dunno i may be shooting the dark, But it fixed it immediately.
Thanks for any opinions
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My guess the problem was not at the Gizmo end but at the MC16 server PC end. Specifically WAN/LAN IP address change of the MC16 server PC.
I suspect that your external WAN IP address must have changed and/or local IP address must have changed since starting MC16. If this happens, then the association between the MC16 key (the one that is 6 characters long with upper-lower case letters) and your WAN/LAN IP address is broken. Restarting MC16 or testing the connection to JRiver server "re-registers" this association. Gizmo will work then.
This is not perfect system but work fairly well. I am not sure how often MC16 re-registers WAN/LAN IP address changes. But, I believe that it always does that when starting MC16. Matt/Jim can tell us for sure.
Osho