Cisco responds to media center extender down time
updated 05:40 pm EST, Wed November 10, 2010
Cisco fixes downed media center extenders
Last weekend, Cisco's discontinued DMA2100 and DMA2200 Media Center Extenders went down for an unknown reason, and the company today has provided an explanation. While many feared Cisco had remotely disabled the boxes after they attempted to contact a non-existent server, Engadget was told that Cisco had rebooted the server for maintenance and then realized there was an issue with a certificate server. The issue is now fixed, and those who tried workarounds such as configuring routers to block any traffic from the extender or assigning an invalid gateway can now return to the base settings.
Cisco apologized for the mistake.
The Media Center Extenders, introduced in 2007, were meant to compete with hubs like the Apple TV and stream Internet content and local video and multimedia files from desktops to a user's TV set.
