No LED color but F...ing RED!!!

[fisherman69]

I'm beginning to believe I has a POS! I have screwe with this thing for 2 weeks now on and off. I mess with it until I want to smash it with a f...ing hammer!

I have a netgear router WPN824

I have tried upnp and setup ports 1001 tcp and UDP also port 20235 (destination)

I have tried to manually enter the ports via port forwarding and Port triggering both

The device does get an ip etc. via dhcp as I see it attached but the f...ing light doesn't do the orage thing...JUST RED!

I even tried to do a static IP and the router saw it still won't work!

All I am trying to do it get the lights to any other color!

big question here: I am not putting the wafer board into the reciever would that make it not access the IKS server hense not give me any colors?

I don't have a reciever ready yet so I can't do that...someone who has it working please see if it still gets to green without being in the reciever.

I have tried with everything plugged in I have tried with the wafer board NOT slid into the slinger

I have tried with the phone connector hooked up and without...arghhhh..

Thanks for any possitive help guys.

I was supposed to get 2 slingers but only one showed up and I can't tell for sure if the one is Fed up!

Fish...

[mark3527]

You should be able to get an orange lite without using the wafer board. Leave it out and disconnected for now. I was able to get an orange lite just by assigning a fixed IP address, but Auto should get you there, too.

One other thing you can try is to connect the USB cable, open the slinger software, and click "diagnostics" and then "generate log". That info may help you. This helped me too:

1. Solid red - unit boots up and was programmed correctly.
2. Solid orange - unit acquired IP address from DHCP server
3. Blinking orange - unit sent and received TCP packets over the internet
4. Blinking green - unit sent and received UDP packets over the ineterned and successfully logged on to the IKS server
5. Insert into IRD. Will go solid green when communication is established with IRD.
6. If steps 1-5 work, you will get video. Otherwise, troubleshoot above.

[Mattguy]

I'm having the same problem also, nothing but red. I get flashing red 3 times then solid red. Other times I get solid red all the time. I've done port forwarding, DMZ and everything you can throw at this slinger. I'm wondering if these things get tested at the factory? I have laptops and xbox 360's connect to my router that work, why won't this slinger?

I actually took this thing apart and low and behold the led was missing a solder connection on the led!!! Great workmanship for 200 bucks. LOL

[fisherman69]

I will check the solder points as well. I do agree for 200 bux they should be tested!
Thanks for the reply. I checked diagnostic and it says everything is good. Including dhcp server connection etc. But no LED changes? Either a bad solder job, bad slinger or?

back to my forex trading
Fish...

[spirit]

Thanks for the above post on the missing solder joint. I took mine apart after getting tired of looking at a solid red and or dark LED indicator. I also found a missing solder joint on half of the dual LED assembly. Be careful if you solder yourself. I did mine under a microscope with a fine solder tip. This fix allowed me to move along to flashing green and now a freezing picture which I new was coming from my Linksys router/switch.

[1919a6]

I suspect the quality will improve as the manufacturing and software process works the bugs out of the system.

I also got mine yesterday (more than one), and since I work in very fine, detailed electronics with military ramifications, I took mine apart just to inspect them before I powered them up (they DO come through the US MAIL, you know!) and 'retouched' some places that weren't up to my standards.

This is not something I would recommend to ANYONE who is not thoroughly comfortable with surface mount soldering techniques. Meaning, if you don't do this for a living or work for NASA, don't attempt it.

That being said, mine fired right up ( I spent GOOD money on GOOD power supplies) and I was able to configure my Linksys WRT54G running SveaSoft firmware in about ten minutes from 'go' to signal.

Hope no one gets frustrated... This is more fun than j-tagging 301's!