aubuti wrote: 
> Sorry if you've already explained this in one of your earlier threads,
> but are _any_ of your SBs on a wired ethernet connection? If so, do they
> suffer from the same connection problems, or is it only wifi? .
Ta. It’s powerline Ethernet. I have a Touch that struggles to connect on
that, but manages wireless. I have a Classic that’s quite happy on
powerline. It’s the only one on Ethernet at this stage. Whether they
suffer the same? I’m not sure. Having just gone for fixed IPs all round,
I hope I won’t need to find out for a while! But if I do, I’ll try and
remember to focus on that as a factor.
aubuti wrote: 
> And, if you start doing some building work, running power spurs,
> opening/removing walls, etc then you should definitely look into running
> Cat5e or Cat6 cable to as many SB locations as you can as part of that
> job.
Removing walls! Yikes! I think I was careless with my language. I guess
by building work I mean running cables up through stud walls. I have
really easy access underfloor to half of the house, so what I meant was
that I could probably drill through the floor and the bottom studding
and run Network cable; ADSL; and mains power up to a new location for
the router. 
But I agree – getting Cat5e into as many spots as possible makes sense.
A longer term thing maybe, or ‘as and when’ the opportunity arises.
garym wrote: 
> 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.  

Thanks again Gary. Sounds like the same sort of journey. I got all the
players fixed to static, then turned DCHP back on for the router.
Fingers crossed it’s all ‘stuck’ and I’ll get a longer period of
stability.
Cheers

D



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
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