HR 44 500 wi fi problem

[larryah]

My new HR 44 500 works great except for one thing. Every couple of days I lose the wi fi connection to the internet. I have a new Apple Extreme router and I know I am getting a strong signal at the receiver because it show full bars at set up, and my PS3 is right next to it and I stream HD movies through Netflix everyday with no buffering. I can get the connection back by doing a rbr and going through the set up process again, but it will last only a couple of days or less. I have called DTV and of course they try to blame my router but like I day its brand new and all my other equipment is working great with it. Also, if it was the router, a reset wouldnt help. Anyone else having this problem?

 

[texasbrit]

This sounds like it might be an IP address lease issue at the router. Google it for an explanation. If it is that, setting a static IP address for the HR44 will solve it.

 

[Hutch1814]

My new HR 44 500 works great except for one thing. Every couple of days I lose the wi fi connection to the internet. I have a new Apple Extreme router and I know I am getting a strong signal at the receiver because it show full bars at set up, and my PS3 is right next to it and I stream HD movies through Netflix everyday with no buffering. I can get the connection back by doing a rbr and going through the set up process again, but it will last only a couple of days or less. I have called DTV and of course they try to blame my router but like I day its brand new and all my other equipment is working great with it. Also, if it was the router, a reset wouldnt help. Anyone else having this problem?

Are you sure it's not a -200?

 

[Broe67]

Check channel interference by downloading inSSIDer from http://www.metageek.net. In my neighborhood, there is around 7 different access points using Channel 11. One of them is my Netgear WN802T-200 using 7&11. My other two A/P's, I have my Trendnet TEW690 set for 1&5, and the Pace/2-Wire 3800 that I have with ATT U-Verse, set at Channel 5. I find that it also changes depending on the weather. From late Summer to Early Fall, the number of A/P's seen by my notebook fell off, then came back up to what I was seeing during Early to Mid Summer, from around Early October.

I do not see much interference in the lower channels in my area, since most people have their A/P's set up to automatically search for channels, and not set for static channels, and I do with my equipment, so that I always know that I am on the best frequencies.

 

[twizt3dsist3r]

Are you sure it's not a -200?

I second this, there was a blast facts put out that the 44-200s have defective wifi chips. The internal deca's are being disabled by directv until a fix is found.

 

[Hutch1814]

I second this, there was a blast facts put out that the 44-200s have defective wifi chips. The internal deca's are being disabled by directv until a fix is found.

fix has been found in a software download, just waiting at this point. That's all our market gets. We're considered a test market for them and Samsung got nearly 200 returned for bad card readers too