Thanks for the help zig. Everything taken care of.
Russ.... will make sense of it for ya... or try to.
The instructions are not very useful for wireless users. Specifically those of us who use a wireless gaming adapter to connect our AC3 to our network, and use a computer that connects via wireless.
Basically what you have to do is:
1) Logon to web page for your router and disable DHCP on it. Remember it's IP address though.
2) Plug ethernet cable directly from AC3 to router (instead of directly into wireless adapter.
3) Plug ethernet cable from computer directly to router.
4) Configure ethernet interface on computer with an IP address such as 192.168.1.10, preferably in same network as your router. This will make things easier later on.
5) Open AC3 updater software and setup DHCP pool to start with an appropriate address such as 192.168.1.50.
6) Go through the process of power cycling AC3 and holding down reset, then selecting update flash.
That pretty much takes care of updating the firmware. The AC3 picks up DHCP address from computer. Then loads info via the boot file and retrieves new firmware.
Once that is done, I tried to enter the address my AC3 had gotten via DHCP. Then did the web pages update. I looked at network settings and AC3 had the hard set ip address. So I guess it only fetches the IP address from the AC loader temporarily until the flash update (firmware update) is done.
I figured I would just set AC3 to DHCP, then power cycle. So I could then use AC Loader to update the web pages.
Ultimately what I did was to reconnect network as it was before, then update the web pages using the ip my AC3 has always been configured with.
The rest of the process is below:
7) Make sure your computer has an ip address on same network as your router ip address.
8) Connect to the routers web page and turn dhcp back on.
9) Connect AC3 back to wireless (gaming) adapter.
10) Remove network settings entries done in step 6 earlier.
11) Fetch wireless address via dhcp again on computer form router.
12) Update web pages on AC3 by entering its ip address and credentials.
Of course the above steps involve moving router close to computer and AC3. In some cases, router is likely mounted somewhere and this is a pita.
Hopefully Neptune will make updating the firmware much easier in the future. The process is not hard, but it can be overwhelming for those without a little bit of technical expertise.
