Series 2 / Tivo Wireless G / DHCP stopped working, connecting wirelessy

[cab1024]

Unexpectedly after a couple of years my stock Series 2 w/ Tivo Wireless G adapter has stopped being able to get an IP address via DHCP from my Apple Airport Extreme. The last time it connected was 8 days ago and I just noticed and have tried to fix it.

It may have last connected around the time my unit rebooted itself 4 or 5 times one night and we received no messages saying any updates were installed. It has never done that before, and it has never been unable to connect before, to my knowledge.

Any help would be appreciated. The odd thing is if you go to network settings it shows that it is connected to the correct network and has a 76% signal strength, but if I do the Network Test it fails saying: A DHCP server could not be located on the network. (N02)

The Tivo is still recording everything fine but the To-Do list is supposed to run out on Oct 31 if I don't connect again. Then I suspect the Tivo will be useless.

Any ideas? Has anyone seen this described before in the forums?

Thanks.

[tbriggs]

Did you try rebooting your Tivo?

The same thing happened to me a few weeks ago and rebooting fixed it. My cable company is currently switching from Suscom to Comcast, so my best guess is that Comcast applied some network setting that caused my problem.

[cab1024]

Did you try rebooting your Tivo?

The same thing happened to me a few weeks ago and rebooting fixed it. My cable company is currently switching from Suscom to Comcast, so my best guess is that Comcast applied some network setting that caused my problem.

I rebooted the Tivo twice, the Airport once, and reinput the settings close to a dozen times and attempted to reconnect a couple of dozen times. I know, doing the exact same thing over and over again hoping for a different outcome is a sign of insanity. However, it eventually worked.

The only thing that I can come up with that may have been different on the last attempt was that the Tivo was recording something during earlier attempts. When it finally worked the red recording light was off.

Nothing said I could not perform the functions I was attempting to perform while recording. If you can't change the Network Settings and Connect to Tivo while it's recording something, Tivo would have saved me hours of grief, worry, and cursing, if it had just said at some point that it would do that while recording.

Or it could have been pure coincidence. At any rate, now it's working and I have one less day of life.

Thanks for the reply.