Hi all, Here are my experiences, in case theyre of any interest.
I have had my duet for a couple of weeks, having owned an SB3 for about a year, which has worked perfectly since I bought it. I have a Draytek Vigor 2600+ router and am running SC 7.2. All wireless, using WPA. Seems to me there are several issues with the duet. First, I found that I was losing wireless connectivity on the controller after sleep. However, on waking the controller, my wireless network frequently dropped completely. All other devices (non-squeezebox) lost connectivity too. The only way to resolve this was to restart my router. I turned off wireless power saving mode on the controller, and this problem has gone away. Admittedly my router is about 3 years old, and the last firmware update was 2006, but it seems to me the SBC must be doing something out of the ordinary to cause a router crash. Second, my duet seems to be much more sensitive to weak wireless signals than the SB3.. and when its lost connection to the network, it is often unable to reconnect. Similarly, the controller cant see it. The only way around this is to reset both the duet and the controller (sometimes several times) until the controller could see the duet and reconnect to the network. At present I have a second WAP with the same SSID, and the Duet seems to be occasionally switching between the two, and for the moment network connectivity appears to be stable. Third, my controller loses contact with SC. It is still connected to the network (Blue icon), but cant connect to SC. This is reproducible, just by accessing something that takes a long time for SC to respond.. for instance, if I browse by genre and choose Rock, or Alternative, there are so many albums (70,000 songs in my collection) that SC takes too long, and the controller seems to time out. Cant reconnect without switching the controller on and off, sometimes twice. Also, when getting up in the morning, I usually find that the controller has lost contact and needs to be restarted. I leave music playing overnight, and the controller shows the track that was playing when it lost contact, and usually shows that the track is several hours long. By deduction, I can work out roughly what time the controller lost contact. It may be coincidence, but it seems to be losing contact during the nightly rescan I cant say for sure which phase, It's hard to do the calculations exactly, but I suspect the optimise phase. Hope this is of use to somebody, and hope also that some or all of these issues are fixed soon. I adore the SB Controller, when its working. But much as I would love to, I honestly cant recommend it to my friends right now its far too much hassle at present. Thanks Andy -- Hangleton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hangleton's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13119 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52702
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