Delaney was having issues with his Xbox adapter, so I gave him the one from our DVR. We don't really use the on-demand feature, so I thought this would work out fine. He took it down, plugged it in, got lights, and came back to give me a hug.
And then came back to say it wasn't working.
So I went to try and get it to connect, but it seemed to be flaking and I decided to reconfigure it. I hooked it to my laptop, and it seemed to be detected, but when I tried to enter the admin password, it didn't work.
Short answer to fix it: disconnect from other networks.
I looked around, searching a bit, but no one had a great answer. I did try a few things, but nothing seemed to work until I disconnected my laptop from the other network. I have a wireless network switch on the laptop and turned it off. Before that, I entered the password I thought it was, and that didn't work. I then searched around, saw notes that said I had to press the reset switch for 5 sec, for 30 sec, stop and start. Nothing seemed to work. I held the switch and once the lights started to alternate red and green, I stopped and pulled the power and reset it. That, along with disconnecting from my network, allowed the default administrative password of "admin" to log into setup.
From there, it detected my Wireless-N router, which is secured by WEP, but I couldn't get connected. Finally I powered up another network, disabled security, and it connected fine. Since I'm far enough away from other houses (1000+ft), I left it like that.
From there I saw the Internet on my laptop, so I moved the adapter to the XBOX, plugged it in, and it worked. A smile on my kid's face.
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