No. You can use Ethernet, including Ethernet over mains, otherwise known as Homeplug. Ethernet avoids issues of signal strength/drop out/bandwidth (not that the latter three should happen if the first is OK) that you might get if your walls are substantial or you have problems with wireless interference. But while it's cheap to run exposed Ethernet cables all round the house, you then have to put up with the cables; and Homeplug is more expensive to buy the Ethernet over power adapters and hubs than it is to buy a wireless router (or an Airport wireless base station and a non-wireless router, for that matter). A Homeplug four port, six mains plug adapter like this
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Desktop-LAN-200AV-mains-sockets/dp/B001NP5MAY/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1264460888&sr=8-7> is about £75, individual mains adapters which allow you to plug in both a mains plug and an Ethernet plug are about half that each, and you need at least two adapters, or either type. But they do work extremely well, even for pretty ropy wiring, provided you get the latest (and therefore fastest) 200 Mbps iteration. That's how one of my SBs is set up, and it's flawless. The other, though, is on an Ethernet bridge connected to an Airport Express in an Airport network. That works OK now, too. On 25 Jan 2010, at 04:37, gdg wrote: > > I'm just about to buy an new iMac. I have a Squezebox 3 and am wondering > if I can use it wirelessly directly with the iMac or do I need a > wireless router? > > > -- > gdg > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > gdg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1122 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74461 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
