07-02-2023, 03:53 AM
From my recent experience:
- get a good BMW E-NET cable or make your own if you know what you are doing. The $5 ebay special I purchased had the wrong resistor fitted and poor soldering with an intermittent short (I did check it out before using given the price). Repaired it works fine.
- if the cable is OK windows will show the interface under Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections (you can check the connection status in windows). This is all you need to check connectivity.
- you may have issues getting through the windows firewall. I and other have had this issue. There is another thread on this.
- get a good BMW E-NET cable or make your own if you know what you are doing. The $5 ebay special I purchased had the wrong resistor fitted and poor soldering with an intermittent short (I did check it out before using given the price). Repaired it works fine.
- if the cable is OK windows will show the interface under Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections (you can check the connection status in windows). This is all you need to check connectivity.
- you may have issues getting through the windows firewall. I and other have had this issue. There is another thread on this.