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PeterT · 01-11-2014, 02:21 PM

There do seem to be issues with current Kobo f/w and WiFi connections. I have a Glo with f/w 3.1.1 (761b066420 12/11/13) and had had no issues. Now it struck me that maybe my setup was atypical in that my router was configured to assign a static IP address to my device based on its MAC address. I removed that entry (actually just changed the MAC address on router) and then tried a sync; all worked. I waited until the connection was down and tried again. This time, no go; unable to connect to the network.

I tried several times with no luck.

I reenabled the static IP address and still had issues until I turned the Glo off and back on.

Could you maybe see if your router supports assigning static IP addresses via DHCP, and if it does, setup static addresses for both of your ereaders.

01-11-2014, 02:21 PM	#2
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,581 Karma: 79436940 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	There do seem to be issues with current Kobo f/w and WiFi connections. I have a Glo with f/w 3.1.1 (761b066420 12/11/13) and had had no issues. Now it struck me that maybe my setup was atypical in that my router was configured to assign a static IP address to my device based on its MAC address. I removed that entry (actually just changed the MAC address on router) and then tried a sync; all worked. I waited until the connection was down and tried again. This time, no go; unable to connect to the network. I tried several times with no luck. I reenabled the static IP address and still had issues until I turned the Glo off and back on. Could you maybe see if your router supports assigning static IP addresses via DHCP, and if it does, setup static addresses for both of your ereaders.