Technicolour router... uPnP & workgroup issues
npr - many thanks for the guidance. I tried it but it didn't work, though now my uPnP devices can't see the router (as a uPnP media server), so it did do what was expected. Good idea, thank you.
Chris - many thanks for your response. I'm not hugely keen on a master reset since the router was only installed about 10 days ago, and I then had to spend the evening reconfiguring everything on our LAN because the router won't let me chose the IP addresses I allocate. I'm assuming if I master reset then I will have to set that all back up again?
Although the uPnP issue has only worked once I thought I was going somewhere with the windows XP machine using shares on the NAS as network drives. It was working so long as I restarted the XP machine (if I hibernated it, as I normally do, it couldn't reconnect to the shares when it woke up). I have a short script the machine runs on startup to connect to the shares. I tried running this script after waking the XP machine up, but it couldn't connect (which I thought was a little strange, but I guess something else must be being reset/configured on startup that doesn't happen when it's woken from hibernation).
However although it booted up and connected to the shares it has subsequently lost access to them and even after restarting the XP machine 3 times it still won't reconnect. So it isn't as simple as works on restart, doesn't work after hibernating.
It looks like the router is not "handling" the NAS on the network correctly (or consistently) - other devices can't see the uPnP server on it, and one of the machines can't access the shares. The only change to the network that has caused this is the inclusion of the technicolour router. Do I need to use the "Assign a game or application to a local area network device" within the router setup? I'm a bit confused as what this does and why you need to do it, as I've never seen it in routers before (except for in the Thomson one, if I recall correctly). I have no idea what of the options I would choose if this is applicable.
What else should I be looking for? The network drive issue is only seen on the XP machine, my Ubuntu, Windows & and android devices can access them ok. The uPnP issue is seen by all machines.
Failing that, what alternative routers should I look into? I assume I'm looking for a standalone router without integral DSL modem, wireless N, but other than that there's nothing specific I need to look for to find a router that will work within the fibre modem? I don't have a lot of confidence in the technicolour router, so if I'm going to have to mess about reseting and re-configuring it, I'm tempted to get something else and spend the time configuring that once instead*
*And yes, I'm hoping that this will tempt fate and the router will start working to prove me wrong. Got to be worth a try!
Chris - many thanks for your response. I'm not hugely keen on a master reset since the router was only installed about 10 days ago, and I then had to spend the evening reconfiguring everything on our LAN because the router won't let me chose the IP addresses I allocate. I'm assuming if I master reset then I will have to set that all back up again?
Although the uPnP issue has only worked once I thought I was going somewhere with the windows XP machine using shares on the NAS as network drives. It was working so long as I restarted the XP machine (if I hibernated it, as I normally do, it couldn't reconnect to the shares when it woke up). I have a short script the machine runs on startup to connect to the shares. I tried running this script after waking the XP machine up, but it couldn't connect (which I thought was a little strange, but I guess something else must be being reset/configured on startup that doesn't happen when it's woken from hibernation).
However although it booted up and connected to the shares it has subsequently lost access to them and even after restarting the XP machine 3 times it still won't reconnect. So it isn't as simple as works on restart, doesn't work after hibernating.
It looks like the router is not "handling" the NAS on the network correctly (or consistently) - other devices can't see the uPnP server on it, and one of the machines can't access the shares. The only change to the network that has caused this is the inclusion of the technicolour router. Do I need to use the "Assign a game or application to a local area network device" within the router setup? I'm a bit confused as what this does and why you need to do it, as I've never seen it in routers before (except for in the Thomson one, if I recall correctly). I have no idea what of the options I would choose if this is applicable.
What else should I be looking for? The network drive issue is only seen on the XP machine, my Ubuntu, Windows & and android devices can access them ok. The uPnP issue is seen by all machines.
Failing that, what alternative routers should I look into? I assume I'm looking for a standalone router without integral DSL modem, wireless N, but other than that there's nothing specific I need to look for to find a router that will work within the fibre modem? I don't have a lot of confidence in the technicolour router, so if I'm going to have to mess about reseting and re-configuring it, I'm tempted to get something else and spend the time configuring that once instead*
*And yes, I'm hoping that this will tempt fate and the router will start working to prove me wrong. Got to be worth a try!