I’m sorry I can’t moan about a bad experience I just don’t have, don’t know how that could be offensive to anyone. The suggestions I made were done at a time when I expected it to be the usual percentage of complainers we always get after a firmware update, many of which report everything working fine once the device has been reset (or set to static IPs, etc.).
As it turned out, there seems to be more to this firmware but so far noone has come up with anything conclusive (and none of the complainers bothered to accept Tony’s generous offer to get to the bottom of this! Really?). The fact that rolling back to 1.16.13 would not solve the problem either, suggests its not the new firmware but a general problem with people’s network setup the WDTV (that may or may not be too picky) can’t stomach.