I'm still none the wiser about the debugging and the log upload.  I'm
reasonably IT savvy so I could probably work it out, but I'm not going
to bother - life's too short. 

Heaven only knows how the average consumer views the Squeezebox
experience, especially at upgrade time.  Mine never worked out of the
box as I had to reconfigure my firewall to make even the basics happen. 
Now that it works with Squeezecenter, or whatever it's called now under
7.4, I'm leaving well alone.  Under wireless, the SB3 would experience
drop-outs and re-buffering, that was solved by going to Powerplugs. 
When the thing is working, it is an awesome piece of kit.  But the whole
thing has cost me both time and money.  

I changed my router from the standard device that came with my
broadband package to a Belkin Vision N1, thinking it would cure my wi-fi
issues.  I bought new cordless phones to keep them off the same
frequency as the router.  I went out and purchased Powerplugs and a 5m
Ethernet cable.  None of this stuff is cheap here in the UK, so whilst I
bought the SB3 at a reasonable price of about £160, I must have spent in
the region of £300 to get it to work reliably, not including all the
time required to invest in finding a workable solution.  I could have
bought a Sonos single room solution at that consolidated price of £460
and have had it working out of the box with no further financial or time
investment.

When support solutions involve debugging and uploading log files, I do
wonder how commercially feasible the Squeezebox is, as most people
simply won't accept this.


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