Gary, Thanks very much. I've had to come in to work (can't sit at home all day trying to get my SBs to play - though it's very tempting!)
I'll have another run at it this evening. garym wrote: > Make sure your router wifi channel setting is set to an actual channel > and NOT automatic. Don't use a channel > 11, even if available in your > part of the world. Use channel 1, 6, or 11 if possible. Also use a > channel that doesn't have any nearby users. Something like vistumbler or > inSSIDer will allow you to see nearby wifi networks. On your router, > make sure that you haven't selected to "hide" SSID. This is not ANY > security anyhow and can cause problems (you'll know that hiding SSID is > not any security when you run vistumber!). Because of where I live - semi-rural; detached property; no other networks detectable nearby - I know seen this advice about network channels and never really felt it was a big issue. That said, I think I've set the channel to 6 - but I'll need to check. I delve into these things whenever I have 'squeeze-issues' and then when they work fine for a period, there's no doubt I forget some of the answers and need to dig back into old threads. If I haven't done it, I'll do it this time. I know I haven't set SSID to hide for more or less the same reasons. The neighbours are too far away to get any signal from our network, even if they were that way inclined. garym wrote: > Another tip, sometimes LMS starts up before the PC has a full internet > connection. Some devices will retry to get DNS,etc. until it works but > my understanding is that the LMS and players will not keep trying. So > after you've done the full restart (router, then PC, then LMS, then > start players), go back to PC and only stop then restart LMS (do not > reboot PC). This way you can be sure that LMS sees the internet > properly. OK, thanks. I'm going to 'cut and paste' this and add it to my checklist. The VB is still relatively new to me, and rather than power it down again this morning, I would have had it (and LMS) running when I powered down the router. That said, from power-up, one of the Booms connected and began playing within literally 5-10 seconds; the other hangs at the 'looking for IP address' and then says it can't find the DHCP server, so presumably LMS must actually be there and working. garym wrote: > In LMS webGUI, go into SETTINGS > ADVANCED > Logging. on the "server" > logging, set this to debug. Also tick "save logging preferences for next > restart" at top of that page. Once you've restarted, etc. you can go > into settings, information, bottom of page and select the server log and > see what's there.... If these are 'default' settings(?) I suspect they'll be like that anyway, but I'll check and do this. I'm also starting to wonder about getting into some 'building' work and further strengthening the network by relocating the router into the hallway and connecting it to the PC via a switch. It means running new power spurs; moving the ADSL master socket; a new shelf; etc but it will remove a couple of walls from the average wifi signal path. I don't think this is actually a big deal - most of the upstairs players, when they're working, report a signal strength of +80%. The worst, downstairs, maybe 58-65%. But it might take another potential factor away. I do still wish I had an inkling of why this might happen out of the blue. I thought maybe a night time power supply glitch, but I checked a mains-powered bedside clock which persists with a flashing display if the power drops, and it wasn't that. Thanks again. SB "user" since 2000... 2 x SB1 ; 2 x SB3 ; 2 x Boom ; 1 x Touch ; 1 x Controller (and two spare SB3) Vortexbox appliance running LMS version 7.8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ donmacn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36036 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101213 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
