Re: Giving up on making HD1000 work...

This sounds like flakey hardware to me  It could be the HD1000 but my 
instinct is that it's one of the Netgear units.  (I have no connection 
to Roku other than being a satisfied HD1000 customer)  In other 
situations I've had network hardware  with intermitant failures drive me 
crazy. If the Netgear units are new, try returning them for replacments. 
If not, you have to find a way to borrow replacements for testing 
purposes.  Good luck.

Motasim Najeeb wrote:

>I have been unsuccessful to make the HD1000 work reliably since I
>bought the unit a couple of weeks back. I thought I will seek help
>from this forum as a last resort before I return the unit.
>
>My setup is as follows:
>
>- DSL from Comcast
>- Netgear WGT624 Wi-Fi router 
>- Netgear MA101 USB adapter attached to the HD1000
>- iMac 
>
>Configuring the wireless setup was relatively painless. The HD1000
>does get assigned an IP address from the DHCP server - the only issue
>I am facing is after the wireless setup is completed, I get a message
>to reboot the HD1000 and when I do, the HD1000 does not boot and hangs
>with the "Loading Roku OS..." message. The workaround for this issue
>is to unhook the Netgear adapter before rebooting.
>
>Next I added my iMac account in the Setup->Network Shares screen and
>this step completes after a few minutes. The bahavior of the unit from
>this point has been inconsistent, sometimes the network shares show up
>and I am able to navigate to the images/music and view/play them but
>most other times they do not.
>
>I do not have WEP enabled and turned Windows sharing on in the iMac
>Sharing preferences. I should mention that a couple of times when Roku
>is not able to access the shares, I checked the Sharing preferences
>and the Windows sharing somehow got turned off and I had to turn it on
>back again. This happened a couple of times and I have not figured out
>why this happens.
>
>In summary, I have been able to make the unit access and play/display
>tunes/images stored on the iMac over a wireless network for a few
>hours but have not been successful to make it work consistently
>without going through the entire setup process every time I try to
>access the media files on the iMac.
>
>I do have the latest version of the firmware and I have read every
>document/fac on the Roku website to get this unit to work. Customer
>service was unresponsive except for the first time when I contacted
>them to report the initial issues that I was facing.
>
>
>Any insight from members of this forum with a similar setup will be appreciated.
>Motasim
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