[verytricky]

Hi scorpion,

I got most of my knowledge from your website....


I am aware of using a crossover cable. I just did not use one. I think I said in my post I used a HUB. The router is irrelevant in this situation now, as I am not trying to connect through the internet, and have removed the router from the network and reverted to a hub.. ( in my Third set if itereations to fix the problem )
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Computer with a LAN port, connected with a standard LAN cable ( cat5 ) to a HUB. Hub connected with a standard LAN cable (CAT 5 ) to the DVR

Approximately 23 months ago ie March 2006 I had the system connected as above in my office. No router at that time. I could connect using the video Server E software, and I could connect using the IE6 browser. I later ( December 2006) moved this into the garage.

Nothing changed on the machine, except I brought it from the garage into the office. The office now had a router. When nothing worked, I dug out my old HUB, ( third iteration of problem solving )and connected it like it was from March 2006 till December 2006, and still nothing....

I have HARD and soft reset the DVR and changed the IP address to several possibilities from .1.001; .1.11; .1.111; .1.200; .1.222 and these all fail.

There is definately traffic on the hub when I try connect.

I have disabled all the windows security and antivirus and firewall software as this is now a stand alone computer, no longer internet connected.