Since you don't like reading the bug report, I can offer a summary.
Some players are having a problem reconnecting to the server after
detecting a loss of connection to the server. A few people have
offered packet traces that show some questionable activity, but nothing
yet difinitive. the firmware engineer responsible for SB stuff has
asked for more details, but is not yet able to reproduce in order to
debug it himself.
the current workaround is as you have already noticed, press power a
few times to force the player to reconnect. Unplugging and plugging
back in also helps. Where possible, avoid restarting the server so
that you don't have the reconnect issue.
Speaking for myself, I have not run into this issue. As a contributor,
I restart often and sometimes leave the server off for a long time
before another start. All players reconnect fine, aside from one SB1
which sometimes doesn't realise the bridge from the SB2 it's wired to
is back online.
While Jim is being rather short about it, he is right. The choice is
up to you. If you can accept that you are in an unfortunate minority
and live with the extra power button pressing until it's fixed, you'll
get to enjoy the SB when it works, and when it's fixed. If you believe
that people like me are lying, others saying nothing, and the product
itself is utterly useless for all and will never be fixed, then you
might want to consider looking elsewhere. As a so-called insider i
know just how much of a priority it is to avoid server crashes, and a
lot of what is going into 7.0 is to avoid crashes even at the cost of
the occasional unstable feature. At the very least, this will mean
that you can restart less. As for firmware fixes, there is someone on
it, but there are sometimes things in private life that matter
more...so you will need to have some patience on this matter.
sorry for the aggravation that you are suffering. I offer only what I
know.
-kdf
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