Just wanted to let you know, that I am experiencing the same problems already mentioned here before, but with some other hardware on the network/computer side:
I have to different networks - one contains an AVM Fritzbox 3170 (Firmware 49.04.57) running in 802.11b/g compatible mode with a WPA 2 encryption and a second one running an Apple TimeCapsule 1TB (Firmware 7.3.2) also WPA2 encryption. I used the Timecapsule only to negotiate if it makes the same problems like the AVM Fritzbox, as I am normally running TC as a 5GHz 802.11n only device, but I can approve that the same problems appear with the TC instead of the Fritzbox. On the computers side it is an Apple iMac running Mac OS X 10.5.4 (Built 9E17) using the iTunes library (iTunes 7.7.1). As the Fritzbox (which ist quite popular in Germany as it is supplied with several DSL line contracts by many telcos) has a better webinterface to figure out the problem, let me tell you what happens. If I take a look into the webinterface I can see that the controller as well as the player have been assigned an IP adresse. The iMac has a fixed IP address. When I try to configure the Squeezebox it connects to the WLAN supplied by the Fritzbox and when it comes to the point to connect to the music library the SB controller says something like "Squeezebox (169.168...) can not connect..." - that means that the SB has got an invalid IP adresse while the router (Fritzbox) still states an valid one for the squeezebox controller and says that it is connected. A bit strange in my oppinion. So I reseted the SB again and now it detects the network again, I can enter the password and the the controller says that the network connection can not be established. Doing the same procedure again a few times it worked after serveral tries but only for a few minutes. After that the connection dropped again and I experienced either the problem, that the commands I gave with controller was only executed after a few seconds or even minutes (while the music started/stopped playing in between several times) or even says again, that there is no connection. On the Mac I tried Squeezecenter 7.0.1, 7.1 and at last the nightly build of 7.2 -no difference. As I am running several other devices on the network (an Apple TV, a Sonos system, an HP WLAN Printer, a Sony PS3 etc.) and no one has got connection problems with the WLAN that definately seems to be a problem between the SB and the Fritzbox or WLAN in general. It does not even matter if there are about 3-4 meters between the WLAN base and the SB or about 12-13 meters (last one would be the usual setup for me). As a last note from my side, I gave a second SB Duet to a friend of mine, running also a Fritzbox but with an QNAP209 as the server and he experienced similar problems. In the company I am working for we also set up a SB Duet and treid to connect it to a WLAN and an Mac as the server - not sucess running Apple Airport Base stations as WLAN access points. Last try was to give another SB Duett to another friend using a Netgear WLAN router as well as a ReadyNas as the server - that works flawlessly (as you see sometimes it is quite usefull to have access to several Squeezeboxes ;). >From my point of view, after all those tries the SB Duett controller seems to have problems with some kind of WLAN hardware and maybe a hugher ammount of other WLAN devices in the network (interferencies?). So for me I am going on to use my Sonos system that works flawlessly and will try to use the Duett from time to time again while hopeing that it will work some day. Oliver -- ollymbln ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ollymbln's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19426 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45031 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
