Before I go to bed, I turn off the SB3 (well, put it into standby, with the Big Red Button). Then I power-down the PC, and turn off the cable modem and wireless router.
So far, I'm not in the habit of unplugging the SB3 as well. Though I've set it to show the time (dimly) in standby, once the network's gone, the screen goes blank. Sometimes when I start everything else up, the SB3 wakes up as well, and is ready for use by the time I come downstairs. Sometimes it stays blank, and I have to hit the Red Button; and sometimes it goes blank after "Connecting..." and I have to hit the Red Button several times (e.g. once to get it to start "Waking...", then again when it reaches "Connecting...", which makes it cycle back to "Waking...", which might work this time...) However, after turning everything else on yesterday (and making sure SlimServer was running), the SB3 had trouble connecting to SS. When I looked more closely, I noticed that the SB3 was still trying to use the previous day's IP address for the PC, which was different from yesterday's. Presumably - and not unreasonably - the SB3 didn't treat the loss of network as a reason to re-quiz the router/DNS for the server's IP address. Pressing the Red Button during the "Connecting..." phase, or using the left arrow to go back one step, didn't fix it. Going back a couple of steps and re-running the network connection bits from scratch did the trick. (Thankfully it didn't ask for my WPA password again.) But that got me wondering whether I'm not quite doing things the right way. Given that I will definitely not be leaving the PC, nor even the network, running overnight, should I *definitely* be unplugging the SB3 as well? Or is this likely to shorten its lifespan somehow? OTOH, could my present behaviour have helped to wear out the poor thing's wireless card (which was replaced recently)? Does the SB3 go mad if it can't find the network? -- Brian -- Brian Ritchie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Ritchie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2319 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35792 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
