Mark Lanctot;163186 Wrote: > This is actually a partially-broken setup that involves more than > profiles - when you connect the Squeezebox to the PC, bridging will be > disabled. You should find that the PC loses Internet access when the > LAN option is on. When you turn the LAN function on, the Squeezebox > turns the wireless card off. > > At any rate, it's a very, very rare setup. Yours is the first mention > of such an arrangement. You can file an enhancement request at > http://bugs.slimdevices.com (you'll have to create a new account) - > it's the only way the firmware developers can track it. > > However, and I don't mean any offence here, it would not benefit many > people and firmware space is tight enough as it is. Only the > developers can say for sure whether it will be worthwhile for other > issues though, and unless you put in an enhancement request, you'll > never know and it will never get done. > > As a workaround, connect the PC to your router either using a cable or > a wireless bridge. The cable is preferred because that will only make > it one wireless hop to your Squeezebox. I understand that's part of > the reason you have the Squeezebox in the first place, but if you have > the Squeezebox close enough to the PC to wire it (and the Squeezebox > close to your stereo), why not use a long audio cable out of the PC to > the stereo and use the Squeezebox elsewhere? This way the Squeezebox > will always be in communication over wireless for both SqueezeNetwork > and SlimServer. Plus the PC will always have Internet access.
Thanks for the comments. I appreciate them. Do you mean that even if I have wireless ON and LAN bridged, Squeezebox has to access the server in the LAN via wireless connection? So the music files have to be transferred from LAN=>Squeezebox=>WLAN=>WLAN-AP=>WLAN=>Squeezebox in order to be able to play them? If there is a switch or router inside Squeezebox, connecting to LAN would be easy if the WLAN is down. I guess I will have to do some arrangements to have WLAN always ON. Connecting audio from PC to amplifier is not an option because that was the point of getting the Squeezebox :-) I already tried having different connections from the PC and Squeezebox but wanted to upgrade my old 11Mbit/s USB stick to 54Mbit/s you have in Squeezebox. Thanks Marko -- torwinen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ torwinen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30709 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
