Hello old friends! I haven't popped in in ages. Busy, busy. Also because I was perfectly happy in my squeezebox bubble... up until around last September. That was when my husband and I each got new Microsoft Surface Pro tablet computers. Nice machines... We like them. But this has wrecked havoc on our network.
The problem started because my husband's "office" is in a separate outbuilding about 30 steps from the main house. With his old laptop he always got enough of a signal out there to do his work, but with the SP3, he could not maintain a stable connection. Everything always worked great with our old Buffalo router with an upgraded antenna and tomato firmware. But we took the plunge and got a new 5g AC router thinking it would give us better range. It didn't. :( Long story short, we took the old Buffalo router and set up both routers using WDS with the new Alfa router as the primary, and the Buffalo as the client. Unfortunately it only works with 2 different SSIDs and no security on the extension node (Buffalo). Since then it has been trouble trouble trouble. I hate the firmware on the Alfa (based on OpenWRT, I think). If I set static IPs for the devices thru the router, they can't get internet. Any large uploads send the network into a tizzy, even causing rebuffering in the squeezeboxes playing local music. I am constantly having to reboot the router, the modem, players, and LMS. Every time I turn on a Squeezebox there's a 50% chance it won't play anything until I go through the whole rebooting rigmarole. Sometimes one of the players will be happily playing along for 20 or 30 minutes and then just stop. Then I find out it has randomly latched on to the unsecured extension SSID, or disappeared off the network altogether. I tried swapping the primary and extension routers and that didn't work out either. Then I found a used buffalo router just like our old one with tomato already installed on it. I thought, "perfect! WDS should work with both routers identical!" I snatched it up, but no joy. The only way I can get WDS Working between them is with no security at all. So that's no good. Im losing my mind here! I hate silence! But I've reached my limit on what to do. I'm not a networking wiz. Piled on top of that is my husband is a cheapskate who doesn't give two hoots about the squeezeboxes. As far as he's concerned I should just use a Bluetooth speaker with my phone or iPad. What can I do? The squeezeboxes were rock solid before we got this crap router. *Sue* -"If you're happy and you know it turn the volume up and 'blow it out' (http://www.last.fm/music/The+Features/Exhibit+A/Blow+It+Out)."- In Use: 1 Touch | 1 Booms | 6 Radios (Sold: 1 Boom | 1 Duet | 1 SB2) HP Proliant N54G | Logitech Media Server 7.9 | iPhone & iPad w/ iPeng Find me on 'Last.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/MeSue) | 'Twitter' (http://twitter.com/suechastain) | 'Rhapsody' (http://www.rhapsody.com/members/mesue) 'My Journey to Musical Bliss' (http://www.geekintheforest.com/musical-bliss/) | 'Squeezebox is Dead. Long Live Squeezebox.' (http://www.geekintheforest.com/long-live-squeezebox/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MeSue's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=985 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105743 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
