Aside from the occasional factory lemon (they're bound to happen in any mass production), I think most WiFi connectivity problems are environmental. Competing network overlap, cordless phones, baby monitors, microwave ovens, building materials and many other things are all potential sources of connectivity problems, not to mention brand and age of router, antenna orientation and the like. I don't claim that the internal antennas in the various SBs can't be the culprit, but my experience has been great. I have two SBRs, a Boom, a Touch, and two Controllers, all wireless, on three different stories of the house, and have never, ever had problems with connectivity or buffering with any of them. My router is five years old (Belkin Wireless G) and the house is about 4200 square feet. The house is 1950s construction with walls of heavy plaster over metal lath, which I thought might cause me a problem, but every SB device has worked perfectly from the moment I took it out of the box. I use the Boom in different parts of the house from time to time, and take it outside, and even 100 feet or more from the router, with brick walls in between, it works without fail. However, I'm fortunate in that houses in the neighborhood are not very close together, so I have almost no overlap with neighboring network signals or other sources of in-house interference; inSSider has detected a couple of other networks, but always extremely weak.
I'm not saying it doesn't suck when people have WiFi connectivity problems with SB devices, but since I (and many others) don't have problems it doesn't appear to be a universal failing of SB construction or design. From responses here in the forums over the past few years, it seems that a different router (more powerful or with better antennas) or adding an access point often resolves the problems. I sympathize with those who have trouble with their SBs on WiFi; the main reason I went with the Squeeze line of products was because I didn't want to have to string cable all over the house. If I couldn't get them to work wirelessly I'd be pretty upset. And I know it can be very difficult to track down problems with a wireless network. But the root of most WiFi problems is in the router, the setup, or the environment, not in the SB architecture itself. -- Dogberry2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dogberry2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85778 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
