Even if you don't have any offending devices in your own home, a neighbor 100 feet away could easily be causing some of these problems.
One of the things you should do is try a different frequency on the access point and see if it has an impact on the problem. Also static addressing should help if your DHCP server has too short of a lease time to the squeezebox. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Ralph Edington > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:38 PM > To: Slim Devices Discussion > Subject: RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience > > > I would like to report my very recent bad wireless experience > and ask a question... > > I just switched over from wired mode to wireless. I bought a > Linksys WRT45G (v2.2, firmware 3.03.6) and used all the > defaults. Using WEP 128-bit. DHCP addressing. Signal > strength on the sbox a good 90%. No wireless phones in the > house, and the microwave, when on, didn't seem to cause any problems. > > After a smooth hookup and looking like it was working fine, I > immediately encountered the problem of spontaneous squeezebox > reboots. I probably saw half-dozen reboots in the first two > hours. I saw the problem where there were multiple > back-to-back reboots, the reconnect countdown getting to 10 > before stopping and rebooting again. > > Bummer. > > I read a lot of old threads about this problem, but I didn't > see any sure-fire solutions. Was there a consensus on the > cause/solution of this reboot problem? One thread seemed to > indicate that static IP addressing helped, but another > reported that that didn't solve it. > > What's the final upshot on this problem? > > I've now set the router to B-only and static addressing in > the meantime, and it seemed to help, but I haven't ran it for > that many hours yet. > > Thanks, > > RE > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roy Owen > > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:45 AM > > To: Slim Devices Discussion > > Subject: Re: [slim] Good wireless experience > > > > > > I too would like to report a good experience with wireless > SB. I have > > 2 wireless SB's (mind you they are on their own WAP) and have no > > interference from microwave or 'phone. In fact both of my WAP's are > > on the default channel 6. I do not stream lossless but I do stream > > mps with no additional compression. I can now play my mp3's or > > internet radio anywhere in my house. > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:08:29 -0700, Daryle A. Tilroe > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > I stream MP3, not lossless, which obviously greatly reduces > > the bandwidth > > > > requirements. The wireless performance of my Squeezebox > > outperformed my > > > > expectations. > > > > > > Yes, it should probably be clarified and emphasized to > the newcomers > > > and/or lurkers on the list that the debate over wireless > performance > > > and suitability applies only to streaming lossless PCM audio. If > > > you stream (or convert and stream) MP3 the SB has proven > to be quite > > > robust. Virtually flawless in my experience. > > > > > > -- > > > Daryle A. Tilroe > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Discuss mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > > > > > > > > > -- > > Do meddle in the affairs of Dragons, > > for you are crunchy and good with Tabasco. > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
