donmacn wrote: > What can I say. A bit of wandering around the vortexbox forum and > guides, and lots of switching my monitor from PC to VB, I got that > sorted. Now it's just a case of restoring the rest of the network around > the static IPs. > > On one hand, I think this is all caused by the SBs and find myself > blaming them - it's probably not. There must be some sort of network > issues behind it all. > > On the other hand, by degrees, I'm learning a lot more about home > networking and configuration; as well as being less scared of the > command line of the VB itself. > > Back to work...
Excellent that you got it working (I wasn't sure how to use command line to go back to "255.255.255.0"). Yes, SB's are certainly not blameless, but I've found over the years (in my own case and in answering other's questions) that most of the time the SB problems are just symptoms of a network problem, internet problem, or server problem. But the SB makes them noticable (because the same problem is not as apparent on surfing the web or sending email as in a continuous stream of audio data). All of this stuff is completely outside my normal knowledge, but over the years I've become a pretty good shade tree mechanic on how networks work, using a home sever with some command line stuff (vortexbox), etc. It's a nice diversion from my day job. And (knock on wood), my SB stuff tends to simply work, year after year after year. But I have a robust network and mostly ethernet cabled devices. *Location 1:* VortexBox 4TB (2.2) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Location 2:* VBA 3TB (2.2) > LMS 7.8 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.8 > SqueezePlay *Spares:* VBA 4TB, SB3, Touch (3), Radio (3), CONTROLLER *Controllers:* iPhone4S & iPad2 (iPeng7 & Squeezepad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Tagging - mp3tag, Streaming - Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101213 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
