My thoughts on the issue of wireless "robustness": I have three squeezeboxes. One of them has connection problems.
This problematic one is in a room with two receivers for wireless 2.4 ghz security cameras and my laptop. I know the security camera receivers interfere with the squeezebox, them both being on the 2.4 ghz spectrum. Ok. But....... Remember, I also have a laptop in this same room using the same 2.4 ghz spectrum. And guess what? The laptop is "robust". It is a 1 year old Dell that is 99.9% rock solid in terms of its wireless radio. It doesn't care about stinkin interference. It keeps its connection. And it does stream music. So the bottom line as far as I am concerned is that if my Dell can stream music under the "interference" conditions, why is my downtime with my squeezebox in the same room probably a loss of the connection at least once a day, with sometimes two choices and somethime three choices displayed on the squeezebox (set up networking, current settings, and sometimes connect to squeezenetwork). The squeezebox has firmware, that firmware is embedded in a processor, so let's not digress into a semantic game as to whether it is a computer or an appliance. The bottom line is that a $300 "device" made in 2007 should be able to hold onto a wireless signal as well as my Dell. I mean, the Dell was only $1k and it has a harddrive, much more ram, windows software, a 15 inch screen, a keyboard, etc, etc. I mean, come one, how much does the radio part of the squeezebox cost anyway? I don't think there are that many companies in the world who make these "radios". I don't know their technical name, but I am talking about the gizmo inside that does the sending and transmitting over wifi. You know, the wifi part. The Dell wifi part is robust. Why isn't the squeezebox wifi part. Oh yes, I have experimented with different channels, moved it around the room, rebooted, done a factory reset, updated the firmware, swapped squeezeboxes from one room to the next amongst my three, you name it. No better. However I think I have stumbled on one idea that was implied to me in a phone call to slim devices tech service. Which is as follows (and tell me if you have ever heard about this before): As background, in addition to the 3 squeezeboxes and laptop and two security camera receivers, I have of course my router and one access point, not to mention my neighbors gadgets as well, whatever they may be. Now the tech guy says to me that when I swapped a squeezebox from one room to the next for troubleshooting purposes, that the "radio" may have gotten confused as to where its connection was coming from and I go mmmmmmm, that sounds interesting. So I am thinking that I should do the following, which I did: I took the squeezebox right up next to the router, did a factory reset, and then "locked" onto the router. Then I took this squeezebox to my room of interference. Seems to have helped somewhat. So here is my question: does the "radio" in a squeezebox lock onto a particular signal source and is not as flexible to latch onto a different signal when you move the squeezebox around like a mobile laptop or (in a different context) a cellphone as you travel on the highway? Bottom line: I think the squeezebox "radio" in its innards could have been made more "robust". -- mortslim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mortslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11039 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39421 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
