Ive been having a lot of problems getting my SBC to STAY connnected to my Wifi network.
SBC=Squeezebox controller SBR=Squeezebox receiver Here is my original setup: 1 SBC 1 SBR Squeezecenter 7.0 on a Windows XP computer with Windows Firewall ON and ports opened specifically for squeezecenter. F-secure anti-virus on with its built in firewall turned OFF. WRT54GX2 wireless G linksys wireless router with WPA-TKIP/AES turned on, no mac filtering or other special security turned on. What works: I can very reliably control the SBR with Squeezecenter. Music plays perfectly with no skipping I can set up the SBC and SBR over and over successfully, everything connects properly and succeeds. Light on SBR always indicates good connection to both music source and wifi What doesnt work: Immediately after the setup sequence after factory reset of the SBC, the SBC works reliably and can control the SBR well and the SBR plays music perfectly. Sometime between 1 and 5 minutes after setup the SBR starts having connection problems with the network/music source. The SBR continues to play music perfectly. The SBC starts showing 'blue' on the wireless strength meter and i get the 'try again' and 'choose music source' options with the message that the 'squeezebox is having problems connecting to the network. Again, the SBR continues to play music perfectly according to the last command given it by the SBC. I have plenty of signal strength on the SBC and the distance from the wireless router does not matter, i have tried setting everything up in one room and see the same problem. I have setup my unit in 'bridged mode' with everything in the same room and it works perfectly, but i dont want to run it in this mode, so i went back and re-set everything up in full wireless mode. After re-setting everything up again, I started looking at the network information on the SBC under settings>wireless networks>(my network name) to try to see if it was network connection problems. turns out that about every minute or so the IP address field turns to 'nil' and the status reads 'connecting'. This symptom was occurring with everything in the same room (SBC, SBR, and wireless router). This definitely pointed to the wireless connection as the problem. I then took a shot in the dark and disabled wireless security completely on the wireless router and did a factory reset again, going through the setup process successfully. After doing this, everything was working perfectly while the SBC was in the same room with everything else. Then i moved the SBC a couple of rooms away from the SBR and router (about 30 feet) and things are STILL working perfectly. Im going to continue to experiment with the security to see if maybe my security type is the issue or if my security key is too long for the SBC for some reason. My key was as long as you can use for WPA personal. I sooooo want this thing to just work. It is a fantastic product and i cant wait to get 'settled in' with it. I hope someone can comment/help, or that this helps someone else out there having a problem. -- poulsen11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ poulsen11's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44794 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
