pi-star setup

[2e0rwk]

I know this is not the PC thing to say, but why is setting up an internet connection between a jumbo spot and my home internet so incredibly problematic? It really shouldn't be but it is. I have spent more hours than I would like to count try to get the thing to work as it should and it constantly tells me there is a problem.

I have set hotspots up before - as recently as only a year ago, admittedly with some difficulty but in the end got there. But looking at it again now it seems to have become such a nightmare that one has got to wonder if hotspots are really worth the hassle?

Added to this there doesn't seem to be anyone who really understands the full picture - lots of experts on bits of the process (the same is true of DMR), so it makes it difficult to find any reliable answers. Sadly I might have to give this up before it send me completely crazy.