Philips manual Check whether the SL50i can connect to your PC

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Problem

Possible cause

Solution

No display information after pressing the INTERNET button.

Check whether the SL50i can connect to your PC.

First, check whether the SL50i can connect to a PC by pressing the PC LINK button. If not, see above.

No broadband Internet connection

Broadband Internet means at least a 128 kbps always-on

available.

Internet connection. Dial-up ISDN/ telephone

 

connections will not work.

 

 

Not enough broadband Internet

If you share the broadband bandwidth with other users,

bandwidth available.

it may fall below the minimum requirements.

Network host (PC) or wireless base station is switched off.

Make sure your home network is operational before you try to contact a networked computer with the SL50i.

Internet access not working.

Make sure you can access the Internet from your

 

computer.

Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) is not working.

In this manual, read the chapters on networking. Go to Windows Help. Alternatively, visit www.microsoft.com, click Support, and search on ‘ICS’.

Internet or network problems.

See ‘Advanced network problem solving’ on page 43 of

 

the extended User Manual on CD-ROM.

New features as advertised on the Internet are not available.

You are using an older software version that does not have those features.

Upgrade the SL50i and the software.

Upgrade the SL50i by pressing the MENU button. Then select Online Upgrade.

Go to www.philips.com/streamium for the latest version of the Philips Media Manager software.

Internet radio services are slow or do not respond.

Your Internet bandwidth might be (temporarily) too low.

Check for Internet congestion. Do not download (large) files while listening to Internet radio.

Firewall software and Anti-Virus software may diminish the bandwidth effectively available to your PC.You may test whether this is the case by disabling the software temporarily.

It says ‘System Recovery’ on the content screen on the display, and I am asked to press 'Continue'.What's wrong?

The internal memory of the SL50i has been corrupted e.g. during dowloading new software from the Internet and it needs to start the emergency bootloader program that connects to the Internet

to restore the SL50i to a working state automatically.

Press the OK button on the remote control to start the emergency bootloader.

1.It will try to recover as many of the existing settings as possible for your wireless network and the Internet.

2.It will ask you for any additional settings it needs to connect to the Internet. See the chapter about the System menu on page 27 for reference.

3.Once the emergency bootloader has been able to connect to the Internet and has downloaded a valid software version, it will display ‘Restarting system...’. The SL50i should be working again.

If not, check your settings by pressing the MENU button.

No PC content is found on the SL50i or it takes

Windows® prevents the network

Use the ‘Auto IP Network Utility’ tool on the

at least. 90 seconds before content is found.

from automatic configuration.

CD-ROM, accessible via the Setup menu or in the

(In a point-to-point set-up, consisting of a Wireless

 

‘Tools’ directory.

USB adapter, connected to a PC and the SL50i.)

 

Note: Do not use the ‘Auto IP Network Utility’ tool

if you use a wireless base station or router in your network or if you have ‘Internet Connection Sharing’ (ICS) enabled.

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