rrweather wrote: > One additional question (for now)... > > How does it work having two duets hooked up with two remotes?
Each "Controller" has a way to set which device it is controlling. So you can have a Controller that sometimes controlls the Receiver in the Library, sometimes the Transporter in the living room, and sometimes the Radio upstairs. > Hopefully I understand this properly (correct me if I am wrong) If I > were to use two powerline adapters, one where each duet would be > located, that would hopefully take the bad WiFi in my house out of the > equation. With this setup, only the remotes would be using the WiFi to > control the receivers? So as long as each remote had a good WiFi signal, > I should theoretically have fewer problems...It sounds too good to be > true. Yes, here we usually use the parts names, a Duet consists of one Controller and one Receiver. You can buy them separately if you want, they were just bundled to make it easy to start. The Receiver can use WiFi, hardwired Ethernet or anything that looks like hardwired Ethernet, which is how Powerline Ethernet is presented -- the Powerline Ethernet uses powerlines, but presents itself with normal wire and RJ45 connections > With the powerline adapters, do these eat up bandwidth within your > network or simply eat up the connection of your entire network to the > internet. Powerline is its own network, no interference with WiFi. Its usually too slow to impact a modern switch which these days are nearly all 100baseT, and some are 1000 base T > One more question (sorry for so many), how well do NAS work with the > duet? Another goal of mine is to not have to leave all our music on our > laptops and not having to leave the laptops on to listen to the MP3s. Is > it difficult hooking up the NAS and the duet? Some NAS work well, but some are too underpowered. The usual recommendation is to get an old PC that someone thinks is too slow to be useful, and use that as your music server. Anything will work, you should be able to get a suitable system for well under $100 on craigslist, and with a little time, you can usually pick them up for free. In my years of using SqueezeBoxen, I've always just used an old PC that was too slow to use as a desktop. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
