Peanut wrote: > Dear all, > > I have been using Squeezebox for years and remain impressed with the > product. Used to have it connected to my wireless network in our > previous house, and it worked flawlessly. However, our new house has 4 > floors, and due to a 4 floor high metal stair case, setting up a > wireless network has proven to be next to impossible. Because of this, > I have had to connect my iMac and Modem via ethernet using my > electrical circuit with Devolo Homeplugs. I have also connected my > Squeezebox via ethernet and a Homeplug. This works very well for > receiving internet radio. >
Excellent, so your squeezebox is connected to the network. > However, I am not able to access my iTunes as the Squeezebox does not > find the slimserver. I was told this is because the Squeezebox can't > access iTunes via Homeplugs, but only when directly plugged into a > modem/router via an ethernet cable (or wireless network of course). I > can't do this because there are two floors between the router and the > Squeezebox. > If your SB can play internet radio via SqueezeNetwork and your server (the imac I presume) is connected to the network everything should work. There's no reason this shouldn't work over homeplugs. It's just networking. The problem must be somewhere else. Do yourself a favor and put a nice ethernet backbone in your house. There must be some way to pull a cat5 cable from floor to floor. There's no reason the powerline stuff shouldn't work, but it will never work well. The value of a decent cat5 network can't really be overstated as you will find out again and again. I just added a HDX-1000 (similar to popcorn hour) to my TV set. Streams excellent quality HD movies over 100 mbit ethernet. I don't think this would've worked so well over wireless/powerline. Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
