Mede8er only accessible via NAS once and a while

[flouzje]

Hi,

My mede8er is connected to my network at home (a switch)
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. ("mede8er is not accessible")
Today it was working ok, and suddenly out the blue I lost the connection, while the mede8er wasn't turned off.
Anybody experienced the same problems ?
I have installed the latest firmware version.

Thanks

[pc 37]

i have the same problem, please help

pc 37

[tachita]

For now the most simple way is to toggle NAS from on to off and back to on

[flouzje]

Will this be taken care of with the next firmware release ?
This is very annoying, and apparently lots of people are having this problem.

[tachita]

Will this be taken care of with the next firmware release ?
This is very annoying, and apparently lots of people are having this problem.

I hope so...

[jer1956]

You say your using  a switch. Is this on all the time, or powered up and down with other equipment? Most users may well bw using a full blown firewall/router which may make the difference. These mediaplyer chips seem very particluer and operate best in a typical home configuration. Use a PC monitor, or a lan switch etc, and things stop working as they should.

[Domino1999]

I really hope they fix this in the next FW. I've read and participated in many of the other threads where this issue has been discussed, so tried all suggestions etc., but I still have this issue and just toggle NAS off/on to sort it out when the problem happens.

I still haven't been able to nail the exact circumstances under which the Mede8er becomes inaccessible over the network, although it does seem to be after a period of time, rather than to do with anything I'm actually doing. Maybe it's a period of inactivity of the Mede8er, where it's switched on but not doing anything, or maybe it's MS Windows that's the culprit...who knows!

[tachita]

I really hope they fix this in the next FW. I've read and participated in many of the other threads where this issue has been discussed, so tried all suggestions etc., but I still have this issue and just toggle NAS off/on to sort it out when the problem happens.

I still haven't been able to nail the exact circumstances under which the Mede8er becomes inaccessible over the network, although it does seem to be after a period of time, rather than to do with anything I'm actually doing. Maybe it's a period of inactivity of the Mede8er, where it's switched on but not doing anything, or maybe it's MS Windows that's the culprit...who knows!

most of time is the target machine fault, in our case M8R NAS, but this is happen when the sender machine lost his connection for a while and try to reconnect..... it is a sort of chain : computer + M8R server faults.
to keep connection alive, i think , you could keep open a ping response from M8R ip (ping mede8er ip -t).
i dont know if will work for you , cause dont know the particular problem of your system and most of time it is very hard to identifiy them.   i was not forgot about M8R server fault , he is the big problem here : he cant be wake up after connection lost. so, a ping should keep alive 

 

[mark.m.moran]

Hi all,
Does anyone have issues with a connected USB HDD and it suddenly not working like the NAS? When I copy a file from the network (my laptop) say to an attached HDD and after this you try to browse\access the file on the HDD it can't read anything from the drive?? Its like the drive has gone to sleep? I have a 1TB WD Elements and it does this. Does this drive have a sleep mode??

You have to power off and back on the Mede8er and as soon as you do I can hear the HDD coming back to life???

Cheers,
M

[chicken-]

I own 2 mede8ers, one of which never had a problem showing up on the network.  The other I've always had to toggle nas mode for it to show up.  After upgrading to the latest firmware 2 weeks ago, I've only gotten it to show up on the network ONCE.  They have yet to address this in any of the firmware updates in the 8 months I've had this product and I'm quite disappointed.

The funny thing is that since the newest firmware I've been able to access other workgroup computers from the mede8er which never worked before, but still can't do anything other than FTP files from PC to mede8er.

[mover]

Even if the Med8er doesn't show up when browsing your network, you should still be able to access it by typing its host name (\\mede8er) or IP address (\\a.b.c.d).

[riccardoz]

try "\\1.2.3.4\hdd1"  and set static IPs, it worked out the issue for me.

[tachita]

try "\\1.2.3.4\hdd1"  and set static IPs, it worked out the issue for me.

 

can you explain more?