How to solve connection issues

ONSatan · March 6, 2013, 10:06am

ONSatan:

Hilfe!
I have bought the IC Pro and have severe problems to connect to my Windows 8 PC.

My set up:
Computer

OS Windows 8 64-bit

Motherboard ASUS PT 6 SE

CPU I7 920

Latest Cubase Remote SKI
-Realtek 8111C PCIe Gigabit LAN (latest Windows 8 drivers)

Tablet

iPad 3 with iOS 6 (I have not done the last update)

I have tried the following:

Secured that Bonjour is working. I have tested to manually restart the service. Uninstall iTunes and ONLY install Bonjour

One IP for the computer (i.e. no WIFI, just an Ethernet cable connected to my WIFI router). NOTE: I do not use an ad hoc connection, I connect over a router.

Open the Windows firewall for Cubase

Disabled Bluetooth on my iPad

Disabled the firewall in my router

Changed the router to WEP from WPA (I did not like this however…).

Tried to connect the iPad to another router on my network (hidden SSID, locked MAC-address and WEP).

Notes (strange things found when trouble shooting for 24+ hours…) - I got the connection working flawlessly ONCE after the iTunes thread was killed using task manager (this worked one time only…). This worked one time only??! Now I do not even have iTunes installed any longer (only the “Bonjour Print Services for Windows v2.0.2” linked by Steinberg). NOTE: The version installed by iTunes is 3 something…

I normally “see” the iPad in Cubase but I normally do not see Cubase in my iPad (IF I see it, I can connect).

I did sometimes get the connection to work (but unstable) when fiddling with WPA/WEP.

I sometimes get the connection to work if I restart my router (starting like this will however hang Cubase after a few minutes work…). NOTE: The router has no firewall enabled. Both the PC and the iPad has full internet working.

This PC is also a “Hackintosh” running OS X Lion. When booting into OS X the connection is working flawlessly (but I do not like to run Cubase in Lion as the performance seems to be somewhat lower and I have some VST that are Windows only).

Please help! I have spent too much time and effort on this!

My guess: Apple has some undocumented “features” in the Windows version that you are not aware of…

Almost a week since I made this post and still no reply or solution from Steinberg.
Do I really have to cancel the purchase in iTunes?

EDIT: Found the following when going through my error logs.
I guess this is the reason for our problems but why and how to solve?
_Client application bug: DNSServiceResolve(Cubase\032@\032MIMAN._smtrot.tcp.local.) active for over two minutes. This places considerable burden on the network.