With the Stalker Client NFPS, you will need to start with a NEW mac, as an internal, non-configurable serial number will be sent on initial connection to the server. To get the epg to work, you will also need to enter your donation number that you had linked your MAC as well. If those settings are correct, you can adjust the connection time out to see if you can get it to work. "0" may actually turn off the connection timeout, so you may eventually connect using that setting, vs. using a high fixed value... I could be mistaken about that, but that's my interpretation of what dvbken wrote.