tcutting;433217 Wrote: > Some of your descriptions of your setup are a little hard to > understand. > When you say: "The music is on a separate physical HDD than where the > SqueezeCenter software is locate" is this on a NAS, or just a separate > hard disk directly connected to the computer running Squeezecenter? If > on a NAS, is this connected to your network wireless? You also say: > "The SqueezeBox is now wired to a a wireless bridged router (so the > wireless communication is handled by the two Linksys routers and not the > SqueezeBox)" - is the Squeezebox connected to the router by wires? Does > this router somehow connect to the rest of your network wireless? > One thing I'm trying to understand is how many wireless "hops" your > audio files need to go through to get to your Squeezebox player. Can > you be more specific on your setup - what your server is running on, > where your files are located, how everything is connected together on > your network. As the previous poster mentions, there may be some issues > with your wireless network which may be fixable... there may be a better > way for you to string everything together to make the setup more robust. > I like to avoid wireless where possible because it's susceptible to > interference and signal strength issues, but it's often not possible to > get rid of wireless altogether.
"The music is on a separate physical HDD than where the SqueezeCenter software is located" This means that inside of 1 single computer case (that contains one CPU and multiple HDD) there is one HDD that has all .flac and .mp3 music on it. There is another HDD (C:\, the one the computer boots to and has Windows XP SP2) that has SqueezeCenter on it. No NAS at all. The C: drive is a completely different HDD than the one with the music, this is not just differnt partitions. "The SqueezeBox is now wired to a a wireless bridged router (so the wireless communication is handled by the two Linksys routers and not the SqueezeBox)" This means that I have one router (A) and a second router (B). The second router is bridged to the first router (wirelessly). So anything physically plugged in to the LAN ports on B (with an ethernet cable) is exactly like being plugged in to the LAN ports on router A. But A and B are connected wirelessly. I used to let the SqueezeBox connect to router A via WIFI, but I have found these SqueezeBox devices don't do a great job of WIFI. Wher it was located I was getting only 15% signal. However the router B is getting 45% signal. The SqueezeBox used to barly be able to play FLAC files and now they play fine. The computer with SqueezeCenter on it is plugged in to router A with an ethernet cable. So I have a total of 1 wireless connection (from router A to bridged router B). I have had this setup only 1 month. For 1 month before that the SqueezeBox was connected to A (via WIFI), but for 2 years before that, it was still connected to A via WIFI, but it was in the same room 4 feet from the router. Also, I was using a completely different router then (US Robotics). So for 2 years I had problems with it pausing...in the same room with the US Robotics router that was wired to the SqueezCenter computer. I then moved it far away and it was almost unplayable (this was just a signal level problem, not the pausing problem I am discussing). Then since I have switched to router A a linksys (with dd-wrt) and router B (linksys with dd-wrt) I have had no problems with the Squeezebox, But I haven't listened enough to prove it is fixed. It doesn't do it every time I use it. Other devices plugged in to router B work flawlessly. The Boom is connected via WIFI to router A (which earlier was US Robotics and is now Linksys with dd-wrt). It is a moderate distance from the router A and has 40%-60% signal. It has had much fewer pausing problems than the squeezebox, but the other day it started doing it bad. I checked the signal strength and it was at 62%. My network name is not the same name as any other near me, but I am on channel 11. I know the nearest WIFI network to me is on channel 6, I am not sure of any others. I only pick up two others and not sure of the channel. -- lemmy999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ lemmy999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9284 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64554 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
