<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;" bgcolor="#f7f7f7" text="#2c2c2c" link="#0080ff" vlink="#2c2c2c"><div>On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 18:18 -0400, Tom Dexter wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>I had a REALLY odd one this week, and I'm not sure what this is all about:</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I have two HDHomeRun Connect HDHR4-2US units. They've both been</pre><pre>connected to an 8 port switch I have for a long time. I expressly had</pre><pre>them on the switch so as to avoid having them dependent on the router.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>On Monday I had several recordings fail. At that point I noticed that</pre><pre>the back of one HDHR was flashing red (no network connection). When I</pre><pre>tried to power it off and on it would get a link for a few seconds and</pre><pre>then drop it, and go to the blinking red status. I verified that the</pre><pre>switch port and cable were OK by connecting other devices and they all</pre><pre>worked OK. At that point I naturally figured that the HDHR, or the NIC</pre><pre>in it, must have died, so I ordered another. I actually ordered two</pre><pre>because 6th Ave Electronics (via Newegg) had them for $58 and free</pre><pre>shipping which is way cheaper than I generally see them.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>They arrived today and when I hooked one up...SAME issue...drops the</pre><pre>link and flashes red after a few seconds...almost went ballistic. What</pre><pre>I found was that both the new one and the old one I thought was dead,</pre><pre>work perfectly connected to my router, but fail connected to ANY port</pre><pre>on the switch.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>To make this even stranger, I now have a laptop of mine connected to</pre><pre>one of the same ports on that switch and it's working flawlessly. In</pre><pre>fact, my other (older) HDHR is working connected to the switch as it</pre><pre>always has.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I have no idea what to make of that at all. I can only think that</pre><pre>maybe the switch is going bad(?) and the requirements of the HDHR to</pre><pre>maintain a link are more restrictive than other devices?? Sort of</pre><pre>crazy. Any opinions would be welcome.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Tom</pre><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>mythtv-users mailing list</pre><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org"><pre>mythtv-users@mythtv.org</pre></a><pre><br></pre><a href="http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users"><pre>http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</pre></a><pre><br></pre><a href="http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette"><pre>http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette</pre></a><pre><br></pre><pre>MythTV Forums: </pre><a href="https://forum.mythtv.org"><pre>https://forum.mythtv.org</pre></a></blockquote><pre><br></pre><pre>i would look toward the switch as the problem. is this a managed or unmanaged switch ?. did you try different ports</pre><pre>on the switch ? i would swap ethernet cables and move the hdhomeruns to ports on switch not used before. preferably</pre><pre>1 and 2 on the switch</pre></body></html>