Historically squeezeboxes DHCP implementation has been somewhat fragile . And many routers has bugs in this to, so DHCP -can fail- so a solution that don't use DHCP is -less likely to fail- . And you shave off some 10 seconds in reconnecting time as it does not have negotiate for an ip .
That said things seems to have got better, Touch copes fine with dhcp too, and there is 3rd party router firmware to replace the stock fw that should sort out that end. But the overwhelmingly most common problems seems to be that some users have more than one DCHP running and other configuration mistakes. And the receiver for example have no gui so you cant figure whats going on . The Touch onnthe other hand can tell you whats going on. But there is no shortcut here even if you use DHCP and it works flawlessly, to operate a home network you must learn some basics about networking and learn something about how your router works and so on. I don't think networking can be a totally transparent "just works" thing ever, you must eventually learn something about it. For Many SB users this is the first time they really have a "network" previously it only was the PC connected to a mystery box provided by the ISP. And now it's time to network multiple clients and run a simple server and -stream continuously- this puts higher demands than websurfing with a laptop for example. It's can also be a learning curve re firewalls now you suddenly sending out stuff. I think the Squeeboxes get unnecessary trashing for this sometimes, you will get the same problems with other stuff that relies on you network such as it is to work. When I got my first SB3 i know absolutely nothing about networks and servers, but I learned, first i had no router then a hideous shoddy netgear router that i replaced with an WRT54GL running Tomato. Then I brigded my dsl modem (to avoid many problems including dual DHCP and dual NAT and dual port-forwarding problems) then I chucked dsl and got real networking instead. Also I think they should disable the TinySC server, it's very rarely meets customer expectations , It is good idea to try to market a standalone server imho Touch is not there it's simply to limited. I'm perfectly happy with that a standalone server should be somewhat limited, you cant compete with an 8 core server, but Touch aimed to low imho. For example everyone knows that bus powered USB drives cheats with the power specs, practically all of them, so to design the product to power USB exactly to spec but not much more is a recipe for predictable failure, this is not rocket science. And 128mB ram ? NAS boxes with that spec is routinely mocked on this forum ;) Maybe TinySC could be kept for USB stick only as a guest music playback system ? but refuse to mount harddrives or large libraries -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH and assorted amps SiriuS, Classe' Primare and Dynadio speakers, Contour 4 Contour Center, and Contour 1.3SE rear ch. Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) PLEASE FIX BUG 112 http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=112 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83424 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
