Hi, a few months ago I bought the SB3 because my Terratec Noxon2 sucked big time (you really don't want to know all the nifty details).
The SB3 was better but did also cost me twice that much and even this device mainly suffered from some strange wireless network issues. Let me make this clear: My IBM T42 Laptop is connected to the same WPA-Network and it resides right next to the SB3 so either my Laptop has some superman Antennas built-in or the network fallback mechanisms of the SB3 are badly designed: 1. Why is the SB3 not retrying more often after a supposed `network outage'? We are talking about lossy wireless networks -- this is not a wired LAN! 2. Why do I get only two choices after a supposed network outage -- `set up networking' and `current settings' -- when something like `retry with current settings' would make much more sense? Again: wireless networks are not offering the same stability like wired networks and one should assume that when implementing such an extension. 3. What about the behaviour after a reconnect? You reconnect to the network, the device apparently reboots (wtf?) and sets its state to `off'. With the appropriate brightness-settings (`off' -> `0'), this is a funny way to work up a sweat because you don't know what the hell is going on. The bottom line is: If you want to sell hifi-like hardware for that much money then please make it behave like a rock-solid hifi-device! Even if the device is basically working well, there are some pointers which let me assume that not everything was tested out properly. And please remember that my Laptop _never_ had any of these network problems and is connected to the _same_ WPA2 network. Thanks, finger P.S. AFAIR the device pulls firmware-upgrades automagically. Or am I wrong? -- finger ------------------------------------------------------------------------ finger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39421 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
