tcutting wrote: > It would still help if you could provide some form of diagram of your > setup. > > Also, is the wifi router located in the house as near as possible to the > office/outbuilding? (to get the best chance of getting a strong enough > signal out there) > > Any way to run an ethernet cable to the office? > > I've had reasonable success running two wireless routers. Primary one > has all the main settings enabled (e.g., configured to provide the > dynamic addressing, with a range of dynamic addresses, and left a > separate range of addresses which I use form Static addressing). The > second router is at the other end of the house - the two are connected > together via wired ethernet. The second router does NOT perform the > dynamic address allocation, it is only a wifi hotspot. I did, however, > configure both wifi routers to use the same SSID and password. > Generally a device will connect to one or the other - but "roaming" > isn't handled particularly well - if I move to the other end of the > house, a device will tend to stay connected to the one it originally > connected to, even though the second device now has a much stronger > signal). If you're OK having two separate wireless networks, you could > configure the two hotspots with separate SSIDs and passwords, and then > just connect a particular device to one or the other. BUT make sure > they are not BOTH trying to provide the dynamic IP configuration.
This is exactly what I do. the 2nd wifi router has all settings to hand out IP addresses turned off. And it is connected via ethernet back to my main router (note that the "2nd wifi router" is connected to ethernet by pluging the cable into one of the "regular" ethernet slots on the "2nd router"--do not plug anything into the 2nd router's plug where one would typically route the plug coming from the modem itself; this is sometimes labeled "internet" on the router, indicating a connection to modem that provides the internet connection). I also use same SSID and password for both routers. *Home:* VortexBox 4TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* VBA 3TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win8(64) > LMS 7.9 > Squeezelite *Spares:* Touch(3), Radio(3), Boom, SB3, CONTROLLER *Controllers:* iPhone6 & iPadAir2 (iPeng8 & Squeezepad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win7(64) laptop *Files:* ripping: dbpoweramp > FLAC; post-rip: mp3tag, PerfectTunes; Streaming: Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105743 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
