My On Demand has suddenly stopped working since Saturday. I am connected to a network which is confirmed in settings. However, each time I try to access I get an error message saying "On Demand is not currently available". If I try to access a program through Showcase I get a message saying "Incorrect Link".
Any suggestions?
Same here. Humax and Freesat are aware of the problem - I've been in touch by twitter and email. No solution yet (in my case anyway)
We appear to have two threads relating to same issue. This one and
https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/showcase-and-on-demand-not-loading-for-over-2-days
grahamlthompson - 6 minutes ago »
We appear to have two threads relating to same issue. This one and
https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/showcase-and-on-demand-not-loading-for-over-2-days
We do - will leave as is for now as one refers to HDR and tother HB
Had a similar problem. On demand very rarely loading. Checked router, no IP address just MAC. Kept trying until connected at last then went to router settings and allocated static IP to the Humax box. All fab now, no more failures !!
Interesting outcome but whats static IP and how is it implemented?
Thanks for the resolution.
The best way of allocating a fixed ip address is via an address reservation on the router. This allocates a IP address from the DHCP pool to a MAC address.
In this way the same IP address will always be allocated.
How you do this depends on your router but is normally in advanced settings.
There are several other ways as well but then you need to know EXACTLY what you are doing.
Thanks for quick reply and explanation. Think I will leave well alone as could mess up my settings as I don't really know what I'm doing!!
REPASSAC - 26 mins ago »
The best way of allocating a fixed ip address is via an address reservation on the router. This allocates a IP address from the DHCP pool to a MAC address.
In this way the same IP address will always be allocated.
Until the router is reset or a replaced. I agree your method is the simplest but personally I prefer to set fixed IP addresses on any element of the network that needs to be accessible (servers, NAS, PVRs, printers). Yes you have to be careful not to allocate the same IP address to two pieces of equipment and you have to use IP addresses outside of the range of the DHCP pool. In my case a lot of my equipment gets moved to different locations and used with different routers.
Martin Liddle - 19 mins ago »
REPASSAC - 26 mins ago »
The best way of allocating a fixed ip address is via an address reservation on the router. This allocates a IP address from the DHCP pool to a MAC address.
In this way the same IP address will always be allocated.Until the router is reset or a replaced. I agree your method is the simplest but personally I prefer to set fixed IP addresses on any element of the network that needs to be accessible (servers, NAS, PVRs, printers). Yes you have to be careful not to allocate the same IP address to two pieces of equipment and you have to use IP addresses outside of the range of the DHCP pool. In my case a lot of my equipment gets moved to different locations and used with different routers.
I understand your viewpoint and I did mention their are other ways but you need to know what you are doing as you clearly do.
At one time I did the same and had a routable IP address split into two subnets with second router with routing between the subnets. All for the prep for a MSCE TCP/IP exam nearly 30 years ago.
Lucky not much has changed 
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