garym;612093 Wrote: > No, I think you are misunderstanding how this works. You're making this > harder than it needs to be: > > you have an internet connection coming into your house via a modem. > 1. from modem, connect a short ethernet cable connecting to the input > of a router (the WAN port). This feeds the internet to your router. > 2. Place your VBA next to your router and connect the VBA with ethernet > cable to one of the routers other ports (doesn't have to be a VBA, could > be any computer, netbook, etc.....just something that runs SbS and has > access to your music files) > 3. If you don't want WIFI in the house, just turn off the WIFI part of > the router. > 4. now, in a separate room, you have your stereo setup. Connect your > TOUCH to this via analog out or digital out to your DAC. But somehow > the TOUCH needs to talk to your network (router). You can do this via > WIFI or you can do this with ethernet. Because you don't have ethernet > at the stereo location, you can get it there by HOMEPLUGS (ethernet > over powerline). That is, you connect one homeplug by your router. Run > ethernet from the homeplug to your router. Connect another homeplug > near your stereo. Run ethernet from that homeplug to your TOUCH. Setup > touch to work with ethernet connection and your done. The TOUCH will > access your own music (the music sitting on your computer running SbS, > which could be the VBA) or internet radio. Even the internet radio will > be via the SbS running on your system. > > Bottom line: You need a home network. Not having ethernet near your > stereo is NOT a reason to avoid having a home network. And a home > network does NOT have to include WIFI if you don't want it to. But not > sure why you wouldn't want WIFI too, for other devices (iphones, > itouch, other smart phones, laptops, etc.). Use WPA for wifi security > and you don't have any security problems anyhow.
I've tried ethernet over powerline and I feel the sound quality degrades significantly over a direct ethernet connection. WIFI is fine in my home for other purposes but I don't want to stream my music via wifi. As I was trying to indicate earlier, *why* I don't want to is a whole 'nother debate that I'm not really trying to get started right now. :) Bottom line is this -- I know I can do what I want to do via a netbook connected directly to the Touch. It's already worked. I want to find a way to use a VBA or similar appliance in the same fashion that I have already done with the netbook. How do I do it? :P If I can just buy a $10-$40 device to stick in between them, I'll gladly do it. -- Howard Turkster ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Howard Turkster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39563 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85420 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
