I've found a way to connect my Touch to my network in a way that replaces the functionality of the SB3's wireless bridge (at least how I've been using it), and I am describing it here in case it is of help to anyone else.
My goal is to run a wired connection between the Touch and my music library for reliable streaming, and still have a web interface to the server. If I connect the Touch directly to a USB drive, I don't have the web interface. And both the Touch and the Windows 7 computer running the Squeezebox Server software are located too far from my router to run Ethernet cables to them from the router (although the computer and Touch are close together). My solution is to use both the Ethernet and the wireless connections on my Windows 7 computer at the same time. The computer connects wirelessly to my home network router in the normal way, giving it full internet connectivity. And then the Touch is wired directly into the computer's Ethernet LAN Adapter with a crossover Ethernet cable, in effect creating a separate router-less two-device network consisting of the Touch and the computer. And finally, the computer is set to share its (wireless) internet connection with the 'other computers on its network' e.g. the Touch. To do this, first connect the Windows 7 computer to the wireless home network in the usual way. The router uses DHCP to assign a LAN address to the computer's wireless adapter. Second, share the computer's wireless internet connection: In Windows 7 go to the Network and Sharing Center and in the upper left corner click on 'change adapter settings'. Then right-click on Wireless Network Connection, left-click 'Properties', click the 'Sharing' tab, and select 'Allow other network users to share this computer's internet connection'. [For safety's sake, I also de-select 'Allow other network users to control or disable the shared internet connection.'] Click OK. An informational message appears notifying you that the LAN adapter will automatically be set to a LAN address of 192.168.137.1. [The actual value may be dependent on your LAN address range.] Third, you need to set the Touch to connect via Ethernet to the computer. This will involve manually assigning an IP address to the Touch [I reserved one for this purpose on the router so that nothing else conflicts with it] and then telling the Touch to look for the computer's ethernet LAN address that was just set: >From the Touch's main menu select Settings, Advanced, Networking, Choose Network, Connect to Ethernet network. It will try to connect and be unable to do so, since there is no DHCP involved in the connection. On the error screen, instead of selecting Try Again, select "Enter IP information manually". An information screen comes up - select Continue. You can then enter the IP address you have reserved for the Touch. Then press '>' and the default subnet mask 255.255.255.0 appears - there is no need to change this. Next it will ask you to set the Default Gateway address. This may come up initially as your router's address, but change it to the computer's ethernet LAN address that was automatically set earlier when the internet connection was shared [i.e. 192.168.137.1]. Then the DNS Server also needs to be set to this same address. The Touch will then try again to connect via Ethernet to the computer, and it should be successful this time. The Touch then returns to the Networking screen where you have to instruct it to find the library at the Ethernet connection you have just set up: select Remote Libraries, Add New Library, and then enter the computer's ethernet LAN address [e.g. 192.168.137.001]. Then select 'Connect to this Library'. Voila! Everything should work now: The Touch can find the computer's Squeezebox Server on the ethernet connection and stream the library over it, and it can find the internet by going through the ethernet connection to the computer's shared wireless connection so that all the radio functions can work. Maybe someone finds this useful... Swimmer -- Swimmerbird123 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Swimmerbird123's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17285 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77470 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
