Thanks for that.
For my part its good that people are bothering to review equipment, I do
it myself <smile> but I generally make a point of reading manuals and
looking at FAQ and there are a lot of people who just expect things to
work by default as soon as they're plugged in and switched on, if only
life itself were that simple <smile>.
Supposing I had a Bowers And Wilkins A7 and supposing I had airPlay
problems, well that alone wouldn't deter me, there could be many reasons
for those, Wireless Congestion in your area being one and its quite
possible that the user may not be able to do anything about that,
thankfully I'm in an area where tere are no more than 4 networks
including mine and I'm able to check this with my router which can do a
scan but then again, not all routers can.
So Wi-fi won't work and what do I do, put it back in the box and send it
back? Certainly not! time to examine other options are here a a few off
the top of my head which will make sure I get good use out of the unit.
Firstly, the Bowers And Wilkins A7 has a Ethernet port on the back of so
the easiest thing to do would be to connect it to the router but I do
appreciate that this is not always practical but on the other hand we're
not dealing with a portable piece of equipment here so its most likely
that once you've put the A7 into position then that's where its likely
to stay.
Another option is to use a Power Line connection, you can get devices
that use your power wiring in your house as your home network, you buy
these units in pairs I.E. you plug one into your router and one into the
Bowers And Wilkins A7, switch on and the devices start communicating.
I have other options but there just a few.
On 25/02/2014 4:12 AM, Mary Otten wrote:
Those reviewers who went in to detail did talk about having the unit
close to the router and/or trying other units in the same position with
no problems and/or mentioned the quality of the connection in terms of
the speed. Not all did that. Some did all those things. It seemed to be
enough different people, some of whom did go in to some detail to make
me suppose that there really is a problem with B&W's implementation of
airplay. Of course, the only way to know is to have one in your own
setting. Oh, and they also mentioned different routers, some Apple,
some not.
Mary
