As the Humax box was the only thing connected to the Netgear switch at position 4), last night I connected it directly to the Netgear switch at position 3).
This afternoon I checked and there was no netwok activity from the Humax box in standby mode (remember that I had unlinked the Humax with the Freesat Android app several days ago) so I pressed the power button on the remote and this caused the Panasonic TV to power on from standby.
However, the Humax then locked up with the Freetime showing on its LCD screen.
A few minutes later there were shouts from wife upstairs saying she could no longer access the Internet! My PC at position 3) downstairs had also lost its access to the Internet!
I pulled out the power lead from the back of the Humax box and within a few minutes both PCs were able to access the Internet again.
I think this must be some network abnormality, that the Humax picks up.
But if there is a network abnormality why does everything work fine until the Humax box is powered on?
Also, in our front room [position 2), Netgear 8 port switch (see post #14)] there is a BT OpenView (Humax) box connected and it has worked flawlessly since I got it 3 years years ago (BTW, it works brilliantly with the YouView Android app!). It has never complained about any network issues.
BTW, at the very start of trying to solve my network locking up issue I swapped out the BT Hub5 for the old BT Hub3 (plus the Openreach white box) but it made no difference with the network still locking up and so I put the Hub5 back again.
Paul
| Wed 6 Apr 2016 21:21:13
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