Try this :

http://cyrilblanc.fr/site_principal/slave_mac.html

What is your configuration ?

Hi Cyril,

thank you for your prompt reply. Actually my setup is PC-based and I use Steinberg software (both Cubase 6 and Nuendo 5.5).

Nonetheless I will try the procedure you suggested, which should work even in a PC or Hybrid environment.

I would really appreciate if somebody from VSL could share their experience about that, considering that in my circle of colleagues I have at least 4 people struggling with the same issue.

Thanks, Cyril.

I would suggest that you contact support@vsl.co.at as this seems a very specific problem. What make of router are you now using? I have heard of problems with so-called green routers.

DG

Hi DG,

thanks for your reply.

My new router (from Time Warner Cable) is a Motorola SBG6580.

Besides the fact that I set all the machines in my network to static IPs, the router comes with a IP reservation function, so you can activate the automatic IP assignment on all your computer, but tell the router to always assign the same IP address to a certain MAC address.

The same feature was present in my previous router, but in that case, both in static and in dinamic IP assignment, the connections between the Host and the Slave was light-speed fast.

I will contact VSL at the email address you suggested.

Thank you so much.

Luigi.

 You aren't connecting via a wireless network by mistake, are you?

DG

Of course I am not... ;)

My host and my slave computers don't even have a wireless adapter. They are both hard-wired to a switch, that is hard-wired to the router.

Thank you anyway for your advice.

Luigi.

 I didn't think so, but always as well to check the obvious.

DG

@Gemini said:

Hi Cyril,

thank you for your prompt reply. Actually my setup is PC-based and I use Steinberg software (both Cubase 6 and Nuendo 5.5).

Nonetheless I will try the procedure you suggested, which should work even in a PC or Hybrid environment.

When you set your connection with "USING DHCP" it is giving you the right numbers !

Did it work ?

If you have 2 x Ethernet port on your Master PC you can connect one directly to the slave (on our Macpro we have 2 x Ethernet port and  you can use a strait Ethernet cable

On PC you better check with a PC guru, you may still need a "crossed cable" (1) (in French "cable croisé"))

You will connect the second port to the switch or to the router

Best 

Cyril

(1) my experience with PC is dating of WIN 3.11 !! 

Hi Cyril,

thank you again for your advices. My network adapters are bridgeable under Windows, so I bridged them in order to double the bandwidth. This way, both the cables from both the computers are connected to the same switch as they were one and only connection.

I must remind you that this was the same configuration I used to have before changing the router and that before that change my instances connected instantaneously. There is something to do with the modem/router for sure, because that is the only thing that has changed.

PS: I am a PC guru, but I cannot solve something that is not well documented anywhere. ;)

did you do the "using DHCP"

Hi Cyril,

of course I did. I experimented with several different configurations:

- IP manually assigned

- IP automatically assigned by the DHCP server

- IP automatically assigned by the DHCP server, but using an address manually reserved into the router

Furthermore, I want to underline again that usign my previous modem/router, all the instances connected instantaneously in all the three situations described above. This is why I am saying that there should be some features in the new router that stop the instances to connect instantaneously. Or some kind of configuration that could sort out this situation.

try with removing the router