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ing as I'm interested
in the Qnap TS-101 NAS but that still states 'long lead time' too. Any
news on both Paul?
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I should have read my PMs before posting. The TS-101 is expected around
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> Considering that Audio-T is one of the main high street av retailers in
> the UK
Didn't you mean to say 'one of the main high street av retailers in
-the south of England-'? Although the BBC often make the same mistake,
it's not -quite- the
'Now playing - hold menu place'?
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umping the cost of the product. Paul
probably doesn't use DHL bit it may be that Stuart gets a good UK
shipping deal from DHL where most of his customers are.
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Then Stuart maybe needs to talk to DHL to find out why an individual can
negotiate better shipping terms to Ireland for heavy items than a
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I ordered one yesterday. Indicated delivery date is first week in
December. Now is that next week or the week after? I also ordered a
Nokia 770 which won't ship till December either. I'm getting impatient
already ...
plete week in December. We'll see ...
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as been added
to the remote control too. There might be more, but I don't recall right
now.
Are SD exploiting their most loyal customers? I doubt you'd get much
support for that statement around here. The new model launched a year
after the first and retails at the same launch price. That d
any owners advise on whether screen-protectors are necessary and if
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> It does support wep and WPA even. The security level is not a function
> of the wireless speed.
My double bad; I meant to say -only- supports 'WEP', not -doesn't'- as
I (wrongly) believed WEP to be part of the 'b' spec and WPA to be part
of the 'g
I placed my order with Nokia UK on 21st November and they were
indicating December shipment. I called them this morning and they are
still promising December, but cannot/will not be more specific.
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> Dammit, Adams, instead of pestering him about his version of mail (you
> coulda used pine after all) couldn't you get him to fix his iTunes so
> that it'd work properly with the squeezebox?
Perhaps he did and was just lying about the Mail bin
I ordered one a few weeks back and the last delivery promise was that
they ship this week. Fingers crossed ...
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Surely not. It's been November, then w/b 5th December, then
(confidentally) w/b 12th December. I'll try to get confirmation from
Cooltopia. I'll be back ...
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ng toys to order. Still, Nokia have emailed to say they expect stock
next week and will ship same day so I might have one toy to play with
over the holidays ...
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Ah, for some reason I lost track of that thread. Fingers crossed I'll
get it during the holidays then.
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I think I remember reading somewhere that the Roku only 'works' with an
older release of Slimserver.
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> Can anyone get these tars to open on an XP machine? I'm using WinAce and
> I don't see any contents.
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customers with issues as well as Sean
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I've got it working. It looks really good.
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more communication might help ease the frustration of waiting.
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il the screen saver kicks in but the
only way I can get the box to uncheck (other than through the menu
obviously) is to power off. I don't know about anyone else, but I never
seem to power my 770 down. The standby battery performance is so good,
it doesn't seem necessary.
Unles
Hover over the word 'this'. Perhaps the blue doesn't show well on your
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> as for this thread, post #100! woohoo! do i win something?
Our eternal gratitude ... ;)
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Same from Cooltopia. Delivery expected 21st January and they hope to
clear all back orders by the end of the month.
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out of your chair. ;)
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Even more regular posts here would help keep customers and potential
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How sure can we be Paul? It was less than 24 hours ago that Gareth (from
Progressive/Cooltopia) told me that delivery had been confirmed for 26th
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That's good then; it should require no ongoing support. Thanks.
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Paul, who is responsible for preparing the Qnap version and making it
available and will it be downloaded from your site, Qnap's or
slimdevices.com?
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n begun to explore using it as a media player (that's next).
To answer the original question, no regrets whatsoever. It massively
exceeded my expectations already.
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It's not available yet. I've had one on order since November. Latest of
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igher-margin,
less-competitive sectors than the mass market and attract a customer
base with higher than average disposable income/discretionary
expenditure funding who tend to be brand loyal in their field of
interest.
Slim Devices might want to become more mass-market, but it's by
l
in business is to cater for the mass market. In some sectors, that
would be the worst way to go and would be akin to committing commercial
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"Order now for Feb '06 delivery".
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is week as per the latest promise. I've been disappointed before
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cheaper than the SOnos.
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Does the SB3 have a different remote? I've got two remotes (SB1 and
SB2), both heavily used and both look as good as new.
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They are. Google 'Nokia 770'. ;)
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> week.
Has anyone recieved their's yet?
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No. I received an email from Progressive promising deliveries would
start on Tuesday of last week. Heard br all since. Still, it's only
four months late ...
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ultra238a Wrote:
> Orders for 300Gb & 400Gb TS-101's will ship first followed by 500Gb,
> 160Gb & 200Gb orders.
I just knew that the 200GBs would be last ...
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in "My Network Places" but whenever I try to navigate, it hangs the "My
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Has anyone got a Qnap working properly yet. Has anyone seen similar
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No, I didn't get any emailed instruction. I mapped the drives when I was
connected by wireless, but not again since I connected by ethernet
(different address). I'll try that, thanks.
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Thanks for that. I'm just about to remap the drive (I had to clear 6
inches of snow from the drive first ;)).
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I mapped the drive. I started the copy. It crashed after 3 minutes. :(
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That's possibly a significant step forward. I'd convinced myself it
couldn't be the firewall as it didn't fail immediately, copying fine
for up to five minutes. It will be good if it is something as basic as
port forwarding needing to
Mine is a 200GB. Trumper, did you have a hardware or software firewall
enabled when copying? If so, do you have any ports forwarded?
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Can someone please post here if an update email is sent out? Given that
I didn't get the original email, I'd hate to miss any update too.
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Trumper, you are one of the 'lucky' ones with a 400GB. Most of us
haven't even got as far as you yet. ;)
Could you copy over some mp3 or FLAC files and see if they play (just
to eliminate the WM lossless theor
Trumper, I've never worked with WMA lossless, but given that it's
lossless, there must be something that will batch convert them all to
FLAC. I use Easy CD-DA Converter (http://www.poikosoft.com/) for all
my ripping and format conversion.
Bump. Any clues from Qnap yet?
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Thanks for the update Paul. I do feel for you. The relief after shipping
at long last can't have lasted for long. Fingers crossed for a firmware
solution (which presumably we can download and install without
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The something humming and whispering is likely to be the Hard Drive I'd
have thought. Does Slimserver poll the Squeezebox peiodically? If so,
the LAN traffic caused by that is possibly preventing the Qnap from
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Good news Paul. Does this mean we will not have to return units to you?
I'm happy to be a guinea pig if you need any 'beta' testers for the
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plugged into the Ethernet port on my wireless router/modem so it
becomes part of my wireless network which includes my wireless SB2.
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and forth for file transfers. The alternative is a long ethernet cable
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and router into the same room as my PC setup so I can use the
print server facility on the Qnap too. I have a feeling this is going
to be a very useful little box. :)
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> Fifer,
> You said that you "moved the Qnap connection from the PC to my wireless
> router/modem". Does that mean that when you copied over your music that
> you connected the qnap directly to your PC, or via the router?
When I copied over my music,
I don't think so. You can run the install update utility from the web
front end. I think it's best to use the quick install wizard to map
Qnap drives though.
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misleadingly named. It's more of a configuration utility. All I've used
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I'm only using one SB2 at the moment, but the remote response using the
Qnap is indistinguishable from that of my PC set-up. Both are virtually
instantaneous. I might set up my SB1 at the weekend and try both running
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Cooltopia are the UK distributor. They are a small company and the
website availability (long lead time) hasn't been updated since
November (!) but they are shipping. Perhaps you could drop them an
email asking about current delivery or PM Paul (Ultra) from this forum?
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espect. Paul is discussing
the issue with Slim so hopefully we'll see a fix. It's fairly minor
though and is the only issue I've noted. I'm very pleased with the
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> I am finally starting to feel the love ;)
>
We expect a long courtship. We don't want people to think that we are
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What's the slimserver performance like when you are not downloading
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dd secs to load up the SlimServer
> home is just too long, and 4-5 seconds for every other click, e.g.
> Browse Artists).
> The remote control is really laggy when even doing things like pausing
> and playing, or even power on/off.
I wonder if there might be something wrong other than the Qnap?
', 'Browse Years' and 'Search
Music'; all were practically instantaneous using the remote and took
between four and six seconds using the web interface.
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> when it launches next week (or when I have finished it).
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> Haha my gf and I split up for the exact same reason "all you want is to
> play with the damned box!"
>
> Oh wait... this may have been a gross misunderstanding on my part.
> :)
... but no
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been dealt with, I trust that Progressive will fix this too. I can
understand Mark's frustration, but his email above doesn't give much
detail and I wouldn't want anyone to go away with the idea that the
Qnap as a Slimserver solution fundamentally doesn't work. It does and
very
since November. I'm
happy to take the risk as (a) Progressive's incentive will be the same
as SD's (who also provide free upgrades) - building a reputation and a
satisfied customer base and (b) even if support does stop at some
future date, the firmware at it's curre
use a heavy enough
gauge of low voltage cable to ensure that not too much voltage is
dropped over the extended run. Problem solved. Alternatively, batteries
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I don't know how widespread the problem is, but mine is fine (apart from
the crack between USB and headpone sockets, but I think that's fairly
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Slightly OT, but what speakers are folk here using with the Sonic Impact
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