I made a switch recently with wireless in the house from airport
expresses to eero. The eeros give us benefit over the airport expresses
with whole house coverage, and higher throughput in the home with all
the streaming video weve got going.
All was good for a while, but my four squeezeboxes (sb2, sb3, boom,
transporter) recently starting hating the eeros as of a new firmware
release. Blammo there goes my music.
For the most part, the sbs worked fine with eero before this
firmware update. Theyre a new product and they update/improve the
product frequently, and I doubt squeezebox health is part of their
regression testing, so I expect this to happen again.
As of the eero firmware update, the sbs intermittently lose
connection to the squeezebox server, a mac mini. During these episodes,
the mini is connected to the internet, and reachable on the house
network, but that particular sb cant find it for a few seconds or
a few minutes, or never again without intervention. As has been covered
here many times, the dreaded cant connect to server
is psychically unnverving (4am in the bedroom sb, cant
connect to server brightly, noon on saturday in the living room
cant connect to server while Im watching
something, argh).
The sb wireless hardware is inferior to the airports in getting through
my walls, which the airports can do, so three of the sbs are each
sitting behind an airport express acting as a wireless client to the
eero network. The fourth sb (boom) is in a good spot and is happy with
wireless. This was the case before eero with no troubles.
If I reset the entire network from the cable modem to the eeros to the
airports to the mini, then I get love for a little while, but not long.
The bad comes back in a day, maybe two. Resetting the network
isnt really appeciated by anyone in the house and is particularly
unsustainable for marriage.
Maintenance and love arent always close cousins, and Ive
wrestled with how long to keep these squeezeboxes, if ever short of
forever. I baby them so. One last idea. Back when life was simple and my
walls didnt have chicken wire in them and netflix mailed us dvds,
I needed a lone linksys wrt54g to make the whole house happy.
I dusted the linksys off, connected it to the eero on the cable modem,
set up a new wireless network, and joined it from the airport expresses,
the boom, and the mac mini, isolating all of the squeezeboxes and the
mini to the second network. Yes, Ive double-natted and tsk tsk.
But guess what? Success! No squeezebox drops in a week and counting. The
eero network proper seems untroubled. The squeezeboxes are happy, the
rest of the house is happy.
The sbs live to fill the house with music yet another day or
month or year. Let it be years.
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