DaveKen;612767 Wrote: > Hi Gary, > Yep, it's fair to say that I've got eclectic tastes in music but you > won't find much post 70s pop in there!! And Yep, there is a fairly > close tie-up between foobar and SBS totals, but not exact. > At this point I am again about to expose my numptieness. I know just > about enough about PCs and networks to be dangerous and most of what I > know has been found from trial and error (the hard way ;-). For > background, my home network consists of MM PC, Workstation, Laptop and > Netbook and the Netbook and Workstation have USB printers attached to > them. We also have a number of wireless iPhones etc attached > wirelessly. Occassionally I get a message saying there is an IP Address > conflict on my network but it doesn't seem to adversely affect anything > AFAIK. > To get to the point, I cannot get my Touch to connect by ethernet now > (although it has done successfully in the past). It will connect > wirelessly but internet radio stations are intermittent due to frequent > pauses whilst it rebuffers. When it did connect by ethernet there was no > rebuffering. I have tried to enter the necessary information manually > with apparent success in that I get a message confirming the ethernet > connection but attempting to access Internet Radio results in a message > that it cannot connect to 'mysqueezebox.com'. > Can you tell me an idiot-proof way of identifying my IP Address > (192.168.0.6 ??), my Subnet Mask (255.255.255.0 ??), my Gateway IP > Address (192.168.0.1 ??), and my DNS Server IP Address (192.168.0 3 ??) > - the figures in brackets are the figures I enter to get connected but > with which it refuses to connect to 'mysqueezebox.com'. Basically I have > no idea what the DNS Server is - which item of kit does the first > requirement (IP Address) refer to, which is the DNS Server and how can > I find out what their IP Addresses are? > Sorry for the numptieness :-). > Dave.
Do you have a SINGLE router? How does the internet get to your house? Cable? DSL. And do you have, for example, cable modem feeding a SINGLE router. If you are getting IP conflicts, it may be because you have more than one router on your network handing out IP addresses. -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85697 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
