Hi there,
been on and posting more just recently in a fit of SB enthusiasm.
Tonight it's all gone a bit pear-shaped, though I suspect it's not
actually going to be an LMS or SB issue at the end of the day.

To start with I'd been listening to one of the players in the lounge,
switched off to come through to the bedroom, and literally a minute or
two later, tried to connect the player there (SB3). It wouldn't connect.
It had been working just a couple of hours before, and had successfully
done a WOL to the server, (which has been the positive achievement of
the last couple of days). I tried to get it to connect several times and
eventually power cycled and factory reset it. Still no joy, so I
rebooted the PC and the router. At this point 5 other players
disappeared leaving just one connected. I also think that the SSID might
have changed with the router re-boot, as it shows up as default
'NETGEAR' in the windows network and sharing centre... (-but.. The ipad
still has the original SSID showing...?)- The network is still working
OK to some degree as the ipad was - and still is - connecting.

The player that's still connecting is a Boom - and prior to my
harmonising all my kit with one SSID a few months back, it had been
connecting to a 'Netgear' SSID - perhaps it had retained that in its
settings somewhere and just cycled back to that? Also, one of the
players, a Touch, which is ethernet connected via 'powerline extenders',
doesn't show up on LMS; on Squeezepad; or the Logitech Squeezebox app,
but it does show up on the netgear network map utility.

It might end up being a new router. Before I factory reset that to see
if it makes any difference, I'll need to find all my ISP details and
settings, but it's too late here tonight to start messing around with
this, and I have an early flight. 

I can see a couple of potential solutions if it's the router, including
buying one that's less basic, and maybe with better range, to avoid me
having to use the powerline adapters i currently have set up. Like
others I suspect, the network was set up to do simple stuff, and as
times have moved on, with more wifi & other devices, it's maybe getting
a bit stretched. the router is a netgear DG834, probably about 5 or 6
years old.

To quite a degree, I feel that perhaps I'd be taking advantage a bit in
asking for help for generic computer questions on a platform-specific
forum. So can anyone recommend any good 'computer basic' forums where
people deal with each other as adults? I'd love to get advice here, as
it seems to me to be a valuable source of experience, but I'd quite
understand if it was too far from the "core business" of the forum.
Please don't take that the wrong way, as I do appreciate how helpful
folk here are.

Thanks

Donald



SB "user" since 2000...
2 x SB1 ; 2 x SB3 ; 2 x Boom ; 1 x Touch ; 1 x Controller
Windows 7 and LMS Version: 7.7.3 - 1375965195

Next step... a Vortexbox?
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