Hey cosmicvoid,

Sorry to hear you are having difficulties. Installing PEP2 can be a real PITA!

The extender discovery tool may be broadcasting a udp packet to get the extenders to report. Check your router and see if udp is turned off. If you don't want to leave it on, you can turn it off after running the tool. You can just add the extenders manually, you don't have to use the tool.

The Pronto Data Service may just need to be restarted. Open Task Manager/ More Details and go to the Services tab. Scroll down to ProntoDataService and start it. Hopefully this will help with errors you are experiencing. You may have to restart PEP2.

I got curious about PEP1 yesterday, so I downloaded and installed it. The interface is a real blast from the past! The biggest difference I noticed is that more things have a defined location in PEP2. You could close some of them to make it look more like PEP1. You can always go to View/Reset View Layout. One thing that is good about PEP1 is the big window for pages. I can see it would be handy to have several pages visible at once.

One last thing. On the System Properties and elsewhere there is an easy to miss Use Master Project Properties Checkbox in the upper right corner. When checked, it doesn't allow you to make changes. That has tripped me up several times!

Mike

P.S. PEP2 does add WPA/WPA2 encryption in Network Settings, so that's a good thing.