mobileadam;570819 Wrote: > Does it find the network name that your laptop connects to? Does it try > to connect and then give an error? > > Does it ask for a network password (regardless of whether one is > needed)? > > Is the SSID hidden by the hotel?
A lot of hotels, even with unsecured networks, will still require you to first reach a webbrowser page and tell it something (like room #, etc.) before actually getting an outside internet connection. The problem is that your squeezeradio can't easily deal with this step. I've read of folks using their laptop to get to the internet (enter info, etc.) and then connect the SB player to the laptop, with the laptop providing an IP address, etc. This is all too complicated for most folks. Just use your smartphone, connect to many of the music apps, and you're good to go (I find many hotels now have clockradios with ipod/iphone or at least AUX connections with cable). Heck, just use your laptop and the web as a player. SB Players really weren't meant to be moved around in hotel, starbucks, etc. type networks. They can, but require stuff to make it work. Seems like if I really wanted to do this, I'd get some sort of mini-router that I could connect to the hotel internet access, then connect my SB player to the router. But why bother, when I can get the same outcome with my iphone or my laptop. -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81391 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
