I made a switch recently with wireless in the house from airport expresses to eero. The eeros give us benefit over the airport expresses with whole house coverage, and higher throughput in the home with all the streaming video we’ve got going.
All was good for a while, but my four squeezeboxes (sb2, sb3, boom, transporter) recently starting hating the eeros as of a new firmware release. Blammo there goes my music. For the most part, the sb’s worked fine with eero before this firmware update. They’re a new product and they update/improve the product frequently, and I doubt squeezebox health is part of their regression testing, so I expect this to happen again. As of the eero firmware update, the sb’s intermittently lose connection to the squeezebox server, a mac mini. During these episodes, the mini is connected to the internet, and reachable on the house network, but that particular sb can’t find it for a few seconds or a few minutes, or never again without intervention. As has been covered here many times, the dreaded “can’t connect to server” is psychically unnverving (4am in the bedroom sb, “can’t connect to server” brightly, noon on saturday in the living room “can’t connect to server” while I’m watching something, aaaaargh). The sb wireless hardware is inferior to the airports in getting through my walls, which the airports can do, so three of the sb’s are each sitting behind an airport express acting as a wireless client to the eero network. The fourth sb (boom) is in a good spot and is happy with wireless. This was the case before eero with no troubles. If I reset the entire network from the cable modem to the eeros to the airports to the mini, then I get love for a little while, but not long. The bad comes back in a day, maybe two. Resetting the network isn’t really appeciated by anyone in the house and is particularly unsustainable for marriage. Maintenance and love aren’t always close cousins, and I’ve wrestled with how long to keep these squeezeboxes, if ever short of forever. I baby them so. One last idea. Back when life was simple and my walls didn’t have chicken wire in them and netflix mailed us dvds, I needed a lone linksys wrt54g to make the whole house happy. I dusted the linksys off, connected it to the eero on the cable modem, set up a new wireless network, and joined it from the airport expresses, the boom, and the mac mini, isolating all of the squeezeboxes and the mini to the second network. Yes, I’ve double-natted and tsk tsk. But guess what? Success! No squeezebox drops in a week and counting. The eero network proper seems untroubled. The squeezeboxes are happy, the rest of the house is happy. The sb’s live to fill the house with music yet another day or month or year. Let it be years. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dbwat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10294 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105824 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
