Same problem here. My Duet system is terribly flaky. Here are some of the problems:
- The controller frequently decides that it can't get a DHCP lease, so it spontaneously assigns itself a 169.x.x.x address. My home wifi network is pretty good and no other device has this problem. - If the controller can get a real lease, it often loses connectivity with the SB. Sometimes it blames the SB, saying that the SB can't connect to the SC server. However, that's false; not only is the SB connected by wired Ethernet to the SC, but I can fire up SC from a web browser and happily control the SB from it, at the very same moment that the controller insists that the SB can't communicate with the SC. - Like yours, my controller always thinks it needs a software update. Unfortunately, it is rarely able to get past the "Copying Update" phase. Most of the time it just hangs there (sometimes displaying the "Try Again..." option faintly in the background), sometimes it starts displaying the x% indicator that advances a percentage point every few seconds, but it almost never reaches 100%, and even if it does, it's a Sisyphean victory, because after the update it still thinks it needs an update. - Menu operations randomly hang or come up blank. - Browsing the library is sometimes quite quick but often astonishingly slow, as in minutes before the next screen appears. - Extra data point: the controller frequently says that it's dropped down to a 2MB or 1MB transfer rate on the 802.11g connection, even when I've placed the controller right next to my AP. - Extra data point: if I ping the wired SB, travel time is sub-millisecond. But the controller's ping times are spiky, often in the high hundreds of milliseconds. - Extra data point: ssh'ing to the controller sometimes takes many minutes (or forever) to negotiate the SSH handshake. My diagnosis is that the remote has trouble with wireless. I don't know whether this is a design defect, a sample defect, or a fixable software problem. I'd consider doing an A/B test at someone else's house to see whether it's a problem with my network, but to be honest I bought this system as a consumer electronics purchase. I didn't intend for it to turn into an exciting hobby; I just wanted a turnkey system that would let me listen to music in different rooms in my house. -- fireupthegrill ------------------------------------------------------------------------ fireupthegrill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16176 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45031 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
