[philzgr8]

OK I haven't had lots of time to play with the Media Centre or the Extender this week but last night I did get time to uninstall MST, reset the power options and watch a bit of TV on the extender. Unfortunately all is not especially well with it. It seems that uninstalling MST has not really made much if any difference.

Firstly I find that with WOL enabled my VMC almost never seems to be able to sleep. If I force it into standby it sometimes wakes within a few minutes (even withjout other machines on the network being awake) and it seems that it is always awake when I get up in the morning. It's a bit hard to guage thus far but I'm suspecting that WOL in the end just isn't a great option.


The other issue is this freezing the I had found with the VMC box after using the extender beyond the standby timeout and it seems that this had nothing at all to do with MST. What I have discovered though is that it is not the entire machine that is frozen, it seems to be just the MCE front end. The only way I can do anything with it when this happens is to use the keyboard to bring up the task manager and then forcibly close the app or restart the machine. This is very odd behaviour and leaves me with not many options to test short of a clean install.

The good news in all of this is that none of it appears to affect the extender at all and I believe I have actually managed to resolve the live TV issues I was noticing. I found that I had typed in the wrong subnet when configuring the fixed IP and changing this to the correct value seems to have done the trick after a quick power cycle of all devices on the network including the router and switch.