Hi Garym, i don't think i have a need to keep turning the router on & off. Until you suggested it as part of a shut down/ systematic restart, it probably hadn't been turned off for months, if not years. But, doing a full, incremental restart seemed to be useful, so I'd just done it again. I feel that the need to do it (players not consistently finding the network or server) points to something going wrong. if it's not the players (and i don't think it is) then it has to be something to do with the network or router. Shutting down the PC is something I raised in the other thread, with my wife very keen on doing it, and my thoughts about moving to a quiet, fanless server (vortexbox or similar) as an alternative.
back to the current issues, I think the router is set to broadcast the SSID, so not hidden in any way. In the past, and I've been using SB stuff for quite a while, I've gone for ages - definitely years - without any issues. So recently I've added a couple of new players (SB3), and found that things have just not 'settled down'. In the normal scheme of things, there will be days when players are not used - I think when I'm away with work the rest of the family are a bit scared of using them in case they don't work - or occasionally weeks if we're away on holiday, but most of the time they'll be used quite regularly. So I'm quite sure I'll get over this, and get the whole set going properly. if proper static IP addresses are part of that solution, I'm definitely happy to learn how to achieve and administer that. I know I'm repeating myself, but i do appreciate the continued help. Cheers D 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? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ donmacn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36036 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100436 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
