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Mora
07-12-09, 12:55
I have a popcorn hour, the original one.. and used it well, over a network using Devolo Powerline (85 mb) connectors.

It worked well for over 9 months, or more.. then.. one day, the unit would not work.

switch on. some screen scramble.. then black screen nothing else..

So.. i removed the hard drive. Then it would power up ok.

however, it won't now connect to my network, and i've forgotten if i need to do anything to the popcorn to make it work over a network.

If i go into the network, option, in the popcorn. its set to find auto ip, etc. but the bit at the bottom just says ' Mac Address ' 00 00 00 00 ' etc. and the ip address is blank.

So.. i then reflashed the popcorn to the latest version of the software, and i still have the same problem.

Do i need to do anything to the popcorn to make it see my network? or.. has something blown in the device?

tia.
Steve

Sunblock
16-12-09, 07:19
Having such a MAC address is a bad sign because this address is unique to the device and most likely the ethernet portion of the Popcorn is defective.

You may want to try connecting hard-wired from the popcorn to the router and see if there is a MAC address as well as IP address for the Popcorn