Hi all, I have what I suspect is a network cable problem but I'd be very grateful for any hints/tips from the forum (before I give up and resort to wireless, which is a fairly weak signal).
Here's what I've tried: I plug my Boom into an ethernet wall socket. The cable from the wall socket runs back to a cable cupboard where it terminates and I've patched it into a Netgear unmanaged switch. When I select wired ethernet on the SB setup it does (seemingly randomly) one of two things - (a) it says "the network cable appears to be disconnected"; or (b) it gets past that step and fails to find itself an IP. Failing to even detect the network cable made me concerned about the CAT5e cable itself. A cable test came up fine for all 8 pins (my cable tester is just a cheap 'pin' tester, it can't certify the cable for ethernet use). I also tried an 'audio over CAT5' gadget and that worked fine. So I conclude that the copper pairs are all connected but for some reason the cable is not up to scratch - maybe some crosstalk or interference or something I don't understand. Note - there's loads of other stuff in the house hooked up to the same switch and it all works well. I've also tried changing around the ports used on the switch in case of a duff switch port. Finally, the SB connects fine if I move it to the cable cupboard and plug it directly into the switch (although doesn't work so well there as an alarm clock...). My questions are: - Can I force the Boom's network interface to 10Mbps in the hope a slower speed makes the cable usable? - Can I force half duplex or some other clever setting that reduces speed but increases reliability (I'm only using for compressed audio playback)? - Can anyone see anything I'm missing?! Many thanks! Chris -- chriscc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chriscc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15011 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57915 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
