As one of those who tested the fix last night, I just wanted to provide some feedback on my experience. Also as one of those who was pretty critical of Progressive's communication during the delays in delivery, I'd like to thank Paul for his superb efforts in resolving this problem so quickly and effectively. I know Progressive are a relatively small company and don't have a massive technical support resource to throw at issues like this and I suspect much midnight oil has been burned by Paul personally managing the implementation of this fix. Thanks Paul.
Ok. Downloading and installing the new firmware was very straight forward, with the web front end stepping me through the process. I suspect download and installation took no more than 10 or 15 minutes. As advised, I killed previously mapped drives, rebooted the server, remapped the public directory on the Qnap and then went straight to drag and drop copying of my existing music library from the PC to the Qnap. I don't have a Gigabit network, so used a hardwired 100MB Ethernet connection and it took 5 hours to copy 3500 FLAC tracks (about 75GB). The copy was very straight-forward with no glitches. That took until about 11pm, so I started rescanning music on the Slimserver, switched off the PC and went to bed. This morning, I got up, checked that the rescan had finished, moved the Qnap connection from the PC to my wireless router/modem, rebooted the Qnap, router and PC then started up my Squeezebox. I restarted network setup on the Squeezebox and it found my old and new Slimservers. Choosing the new Slimserver, I was listening to music within an hour of getting up (which included showering, feeding the cat and making some toast). Painless. The Qnap itself is a very impressive little box and has a very solid, weighty feel to it. I'll be having an intensive listening session tonight to put the Qnap through its paces and I'll report on performance tomorrow, but initial impressions are very favourable. Tomorrow, I need to run a telephone connection into my study and move the Qnap and router into the same room as my PC setup so I can use the print server facility on the Qnap too. I have a feeling this is going to be a very useful little box. :) -- Fifer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fifer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=639 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20393 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
