Having trouble with my new Dreambox

[Filoofo]

My old Dreambox suddenly stopped working and i went to a few satellite shops who had no idea of how to repair it, so i decided to buy a new one. This one worked completely fine with no issues except for one. Whenever I plugged in my ethernet cable to my old Dreambox, I would just restart it and bam its connected and working fine, now with my new Dreambox I connect it and I see the yellow light from the Dreambox which assures me that the cable is connected but when I go to Expert Setup, Communication setup the IP is still 10.0.0.97. I am wondering why this is happening now I cant move my old bouquet, etc. to my new Dreambox. I really need your help.

PS: I have tried different ethernet cables and all to no avall

[lincsat]

Firstly, check that DHCP is set to ON in the communication menu, you could also try setting the IP manually to what it was before.

Another thing to try is to reboot the box from the remote, depending on image it's something like - Menu-Shutdown-restart

I've seen a couple of boxes where the Ethernet port doesn't work until you do this.

[Filoofo]

I have done all this but its still not working, please help!

[kerrywez]

What do you expect from a cheap copy? There is no DB 500 any more they are all copies so you have not got a proper dreambox, I should think that the price you paid for it will reflect what your problem is. you might think I am being too blunt, but that is how things are, you pay for &h!t and that is what you will get.

Regards Wez

[lambo]

I disagree I've just setup 2 db500-s clones and the both work fine, there not hd quality but then again the box doesnt support it, do as lincsat says enable dhcp or give it a static ip, just make sure its on the same subnet.