Excitement of receiving my Duet quickly faded two days ago after playing with it for about half an hour. This device still needs lots of stability work. The consumer side of me wants to rip Slim Devices a new one. The Product Manager side of me understands the complexity of releasing a device like this. So I will try to be constructive...
I had many of the issues listed in this 7 page posting. I initially connected to my home's wifi router. It is an Actiontec MI424-WR Rev C with the latest firmware from Verizon (FIOS). I now have 7.01 with the latest remote firmware and it did not seem to help things much. After reading the posts here, I wired my Duet receiver to my router and setup an adhoc connection to the Duet with the remote. Once the remote is setup for a wifi network, there is no way to go back and tell it to connect via adhoc unless you factory reset the remote and then *also* press and hold the button on the receiver to reset it. The option to do an adhoc connection never appeared for me until I reset the receiver. Things worked well for most of the evening. I could connect to all of my songs on my Mac Pro upstairs. Then my wife turned off the Mac. I couldn't access the music so I tried to connect to Squeeze Network. No matter what I tried, I could not connect to SN. I had a blue wifi signal on the remote and receiver. Finally, I turned off the remote and reset the receiver and was able to connect to Squeeze Network. I would recommend you do lots of testing with the above scenario - where the PC or Mac in the home gets turned off - the Duet should be able to gracefully change networks. This device has a lot of promise. It's too bad I feel like I am still beta testing this $432 device. -- davidmac27 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ davidmac27's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11117 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45031 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
