torwinen;163426 Wrote: > 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?
Yes, but it likely won't work: - wireless on, Squeezebox can operate as a SqueezeNetwork player and also as a bridge for the server PC. Server PC gains Internet access through Squeezebox bridged connection but SlimServer will not work - Squeezebox is currently connected to SqueezeNetwork. If you log out of SqueezeNetwork, the Squeezebox might be able to find the SlimServer, but it's a convoluted path - it will contact the router, who will say "Yup, I know where it is, it's a bridged device attached to you!", pass it back to the Squeezebox, the Squeezebox now acts as a bridge and passes the traffic to the server which then -might- respond, but the traffic would have to go through the same circuitous route. It would be very slow and unreliable if it ever worked at all. See http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?NetworkDesign, last section, second-last paragraph. - LAN on: when you tell the Squeezebox that the server is on a wired connection, it deactivates the wireless card, thus stopping bridging. The connection to SlimServer will be great (can't beat good old copper) but the server will have no Internet access and the player will have no access to online content, nor could you switch to SqueezeNetwork because there's no way to get to the router and from there to the Internet. > So the music files have to be transferred from > LAN=>Squeezebox=>WLAN=>WLAN-AP=>WLAN=>Squeezebox in order to be able to > play them? Yup, that's the "circuitous route" I was talking about. You'd be lucky if it works at all. > If there is a switch or router inside Squeezebox, connecting to LAN > would be easy if the WLAN is down. I suppose so - but again, you have a very unusual arrangement. In almost every other usage pattern, this functionality wouldn't help at all. For example, my Squeezebox is wirelessly connected with no wired LAN connection. I suppose 80-90% of users are like this. If on connection failure, the Squeezebox reverted to its LAN connection, there'd be nothing there. For users on Ethernet, they either have no wireless network at all or one which SlimServer isn't connected to - again, an automatic switchover from Ethernet to wireless would not find their SlimServer. > 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 :-) Yeah, the "long audio cable" is pretty limiting. :-) > 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. Hmm, if you installed an 802.11g wireless card (PCI card or USB dongle) in the PC, it could be connected to the router wirelessly. The Squeezebox would then see it through the router, though this would be a 2-hop wireless arragement, again see http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?NetworkDesign. It would be better to wire the server to the router. However, a 2-hop wireless arrangement would be preferable to that "circuitous route" since 2-hop arrangements do work for some people, even with high-bandwidth FLAC and WAV files. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30709 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
