toby10 wrote: > Garage have the foil covered insulation in the walls? I've never owned > a Duet but I can see where by it's design the WiFi antenna is probably > more horizontal oriented? Can you try the Receiver standing on it's > side, possibly giving it's antenna a better vertical orientation?
The house wall had foil back foam applied before the vinyl siding (previous owner) presumably for a flat surface and a few extra R's. I am pretty sure the garage is the same way. It doesn't make sense for an unheated space, but they had a wood burner in there that I replaced with an old little stand alone fuel oil heater salvaged from an old farm house (for situational heating, i.e. something is broken). So, perhaps that's why they did it. I'm also not sure what part the foil adds to the normal signal attenuation of the walls as it's not grounded. I'll try both the ideas in the link, and yours as well. When I have done this in the past it seems hard to determine if you have done any improvement. If the signal as seen by the receiver in the "settings->advanced->squeezebox information" is a snapshot value, and if it's varying normally at, say 35 - 42% each time you do a check, unless you really hit on something to pop it past, say 50%, it's hard to tell if you have done anything. Appreciate the help. There is a pull conduit that runs from the basement to the garage, so I can always resort to pulling a 100' ethernet cable, which might be the smart move, but I'll certainly try the ideas above first. Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Redrum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105597 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
