RonM wrote: > I have a Transporter in my what was in theory my main location, wired > via ethernet to the router. I also have a Touch in a secondary listening > location, which turns out to be used as much as the Transporter. The > Touch uses wifi. > > I've noticed absolutely no difference in reliability of the connection. > No microwave interference, which is undoubtedly at least partly because > the microwave is some distance from the touch. But i've also used wifi > for listening to the system through my mobile, just a few feet from the > microwave, and haven't noticed any problems there either. > > As to sound quality of the connection, differences in hardware aside, > bits are bits, as they say/ > > R.
Hi Ron! For many years, I used my Windows laptop (on a Wi-Fi link) as my LMS driver with my music files on a 2TB external drive plugged into one of its USB ports. I also used the Wi-Fi option on my Transporter (which admittedly is within a couple of feet on my router). I too experienced no reliability problems & no interference from my microwave or anything else. It was only when I acquired my Synology NAS (which does have Wi-Fi, & is also positioned only about 3 feet from my router) that I switched to Ethernet & thought that I might as well connect my Transporter the same way. I've used the other 2 Ethernet ports on my router for my Panasonic DMR-BWT800 Blu-Ray Disc Recorder & my 46" Sony Bravia TV both of which support 3D, an effect I find very effective & am sorry to see being abandoned in the year-on-year marketing frenzy! At least a reasonable number of 3D Blu-Ray discs are available & they are now reasonably affordable since it's no longer the current fad. Frankly the internet connection on my TV is now practically useless (the BBC have even stopped supporting its iPlayer app!) so I'm going to abandon it altogether (Wi-Fi was a typically expensive Sony add-on which I didn't buy... ) & use that port for a 2010-vintage 27" iMac which I recently acquired. My PS3 (which is also right by the router) works perfectly well on Wi-Fi & still has a working iPlayer app. Obviously the Panasonic gizmo & the PS3 are connected via HDMI to the TV. My Epson printer is rock solid on Wi-Fi also, that's about 10 feet away from the router, but still at the far end of my lounge. I suspect that the critical factors are the quality of the router (& your microwave!) & the proximity of your kit to the router & of both to potential sources of interference, taking account of any solid internal walls between. I have my supplied fibre-optic Virgin Media router switched to modem-only mode with a decent dual-band Netgear router wired into it. There is a solid breeze-block wall between my lounge & my kitchen, & my gear & my metal-cased Panasonic microwave are at the opposite ends of their respective rooms from each other, probably around 30 feet apart (with the wall in-between). Incidentally, I would strongly recommend Ralph to pay a keen young chap to do the crawling in his loft-space: the needles from the glass-fibre roof insulation get into your skin & can only be effectively removed by a prolonged cold shower. If you use warm water, they simply get further into your pores! Just saying... Dave :cool: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Golden Earring's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107045 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
