Phil Leigh wrote: > Mark Lanctot;258891 Wrote: > >> Yes. >> >> >> >> Why would you want to? >> >> With the SB3 the answer is yes, simply press and hold left to get back >> to network setup, skip everything but the "select music source" step >> and specify a different server/IP. However with the SBR you might have >> to go through setup again using the Controller. >> >> >> >> Thinking about this - it might be! In my situation, I have a static IP >> network. If I get an SBR and turn it on, how can I tell it what its IP >> address will be? It can't get on the network. Chicken-and-egg? >> >> DHCP makes things a little easier but as many posts on this forum show, >> DHCP is far from foolproof. >> > > Sadly DHCP is as far away from foolproof as anything can be IMHO. I > honestly wouldn't dream of using it with an SB - it was nothing but > trouble, whereas static IP has been fine. DHCP always worked fine for > my laptops. >
Yeah, right. thousands and thousands of PC at my place of work use DHCP exclusively. Never a problem. If you have DHCP related problems it's not because of th eprotocol, but some implementation. I never had DHCP problems with my home router and several SB3's, neither with fixed or dynamic addresses. Regards, Peter > I can't help thinking this MAY be connected to the strange issue with > MAC address corruption/cloning...but I have no evidence. > > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
