I wired the 'whole' house as it was being built but once we were in I realized that I had not thought things through quite enough and I needed to put a WiFi solution in for an SB1 in the kitchen.
Because I already had an ADSL router installed I decided to simply add a wireless access point in a convenient location. I used a Dlink DWL-2000AP+ which worked faultlessly out of the box, (I use WEP here). Upgrading to an SB2 wireless fixed any dropout issues (I found that keeping everything 'G' worked best) and now we use a Laptop and the SB2 - no problems. I even use an old PDA with a 'b' wifi card for slimserver control (handheld skin) and that works fine too. I recently set up an SB3 wireless for a colleague who already had a Dlink DSL-G604T ADSL router with WiFi - had loads of trouble getting it to work with any encryption - replaced it with standard ADSL router and put in a more recent Dlink WAP - no problems at all. Another colleague has a newly built office outside his house which runs a small MAC network connected to ADSL via an old Dlink DSL-504 router - adding a Dlink WAP there failed initially. No Signal in the house at all. I suggested that it seemed like the whole office was behaving like a 'Faraday cage' - my colleague replied - 'it is! - the whole building was insulated using foil coated 'cellotex' which is an insulation material clad in aluminum! - we poked the WAP outside a window and it worked fine. The eventual solution was to run Cat5 from the office to the house and then install the Dlink WAP. SB3 and powerbook work well all over the house. The net result of all of this seems to be that I have had total repeatable success with WAP's and have avoided the WiFi router issues (which I only experienced once and swiftly resolved using the WAP). Does that help? Richard -----Original Message----- From: wickedbob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 April 2006 03:35 To: [email protected] Subject: [slim] Best wireless router for Squeezebox? Does anyone know of the best wireless router to use with a Squeezebox3? At the moment, I run a netgear dg834 ADSL Modem/Router that cannot handle the sheer volume of data being pushed backwards and forwards through my wifi network. I experience this as consistent audio dropouts when playing back any FLAC or MP3 file locally. I'm guessing its low wireless throughput is contributing to this (http://www.adslguide.org.uk/hardware/reviews/2004/q3/netgear-dg834g.asp). I thought the squeezebox could be used with any wireless router, but I can say from experience that this appears to not be the case. I am currently looking for another model of wireless router to upgrade to. Do you have a squeezebox working flawlessly in your house? What type of wireless router do you use? -- wickedbob ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wickedbob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3739 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23134 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
