Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
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Okay, Tivo to Go...
I am having a couple of issues with it and I'd like buffistas to weigh in.
1) The picture is narrow and not good quality when I watch a program back
2) Is it possible to convert the files to .avi or .mpeg? This service is no good to me if I can't find a free way to arrange my own library.
Posting in the 1% chance that someone knows this....
Anyway, our WiFi in the hotel is fucked, in that we can't use it in our rooms. Oddly, there is a strong signal in the rooms, but DHCP doesn't seem to work there - I get an IP address from the client, not from the DHCP server. I get no gateway or DNS servers, and the nonsensical netmask of 255.255.0.0.
Other places, the signal is weaker, but DHCP works and we can connect to the internet with no some problems....
Can you try a manual setting, making the settings found in the other room static? Or a similar IP number?
Or at least add the gateway/DNS/router/netmask from the settings in the other room?
I've tried manual settings in the rooms that are based on the settings that get pulled down when this machine can connect, but no luck in the rooms.
Duh, yeah I should have mentioned that we tried that....
I wonder if there's some WiFi / DHCP diagnostic thingie....
Sounds like the hotel has multiple wifi routers, and they might need to have someone reset the one nearest you...
I know it's a dumb question, but have you reported it to the management?
Yup. They shrugged. ND was not amused.
Sounds like the hotel has multiple wifi routers, and they might need to have someone reset the one nearest you...
I agree. It sounds like the Ethernet side of the WAP is misbehaving.
The answer from management was "Oh yes, we know, WiFi works in the courtyard, we haven't worked it out in the rooms yet, so we're not letting folks do that."
This despite the fact we asked more than once about WiFi in this hotel and it was a criteria for choosing the hotel.
Sigh.
So, Mac people, I remember a few weeks ago there was some kind up update thingy that screwed everyone's torrenting up. What's the preferred OSX torrent client these days? Stil Azureus?