This thread is concerning to me. I'm about to move to a bigger house and I'm planning on setting it up with 3 or 4 Eeros. I also plan to have 7 or 8 Squeezeboxem throughout the house. I was assuming that this was just going to work. Are you saying it won't? Are you still using this "workaround"? I'm not sure I fully understand what you did, so now I'm a little nervous. Thanks for any add'l info.
-jg dbwat wrote: > 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 weve 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 sbs worked fine with eero before this firmware > update. Theyre 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 sbs 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 cant find it for a few seconds or a few minutes, or never > again without intervention. As has been covered here many times, the > dreaded cant connect to server is psychically unnverving (4am in the > bedroom sb, cant connect to server brightly, noon on saturday in the > living room cant connect to server while Im 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 sbs 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 isnt > really appeciated by anyone in the house and is particularly > unsustainable for marriage. > > Maintenance and love arent always close cousins, and Ive 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 didnt > 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, Ive 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 sbs live to fill the house with music yet another day or month or > year. Let it be years. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jg867's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21403 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105824
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