The Skippa was apparently working OK, but then it locked up and did not respond to the remote. I did the usual thing and disconnected the power for a minute and reconnected. The reboot got as far as connecting to IceTV and stopped with an error. Looking at the network page, it said that the network was disconnected.
The Skippa is on a cabled connection, I have tried replacing the cable, and switching ports on the hub with known good ones with no result. Looking at the Ethernet socket, the amber connection state light comes on early in the boot process, and the activity light flashes, but after a few seconds they both go out and do not come on again. I have power cycled the unit several times always with the same result.
The Skippa works OK in offline mode, but obviously that is undesirable.
Any ideas?