nice post! I ALSO have not seen any WD employees post and give us an update of whats going on with it? Whats the point of these forums if they are not going to post?
If I can help I will, maybe implement a debug LOG in the next firmware so we can enable it and submit these somewhere on the WD site?
Hopefully the two changes you list will fix problems for a number of people.
I am running Vista Home Premium, XP Pro, and Windows 2000 on three computers. Vista is the only one giving me network share disconnection problems now. I do not see the two services you named in “Services” under Administration Tools in the Control Panel. Do you know whether they can be accessed in Vista?
Meanwhile, I just read about a new competitor to the WDTV Live, the Seagate FreeAgent Theater+™ HD media player. Sounds like it does everything the WDTV Live does, and doesn’t do some things we would like the WD to do, like connect to Netflix. A review I read says the unit does connect to the network shares, and doesn’t mention dropping the connection. We’ll have to wait to see how responsive Seagate is to the other issues expressed in the reviews. Let’s hope it’s better than WD has been.
I’ve tried disabling those two homegroup services and so far so good. The problem is spuratic, so i’ll monitor it for a few days and update with how it’s doing.
OK, so i think i’m totally fed up with this thing. I tried watching a movie today and now it wont even connect to my network shares. I click network shares and it just sits there. I tried unsharing folders and re-sharing them, i rebooted my pc, rebooted wd.
It seems to me like this thing is more trouble than it’s worth. I shouldn’t have to tinker with it everytime i want to use it.
If WD wants to curry favor with the early adopters, who bought the WDTV Live before it could support Netflix streaming and have put up with its never-ending problems, they should offer us a rebate on a “Plus” unit by turning in the ones we bought earlier. Otherwise, we’re going to post negative reviews of the old units on every site offering the “Plus” as a warning to potential buyers. Right?
This really is a slap in the face to those of us who have put up with the antics and incompetence of WD for all these months.