[slim] Hybrid vs Wireless setups
I have a choice to make, and that is whether to use a hybrid setup (my original intent) or a pure wireless setup. My house is wired with ethernet jacks available in various places. I also have a D-Link (g) wireless router. My computer is hard-wired to the router, so music will be passed via ethernet to the router, and then on to the SD apparatus. We have a couple of cordless phones (2.4g and 900m), and, of course, a microwave. Signal strength on the wireless is high in most locations in the house (full bars). I live in the country; there are no other wireless devices remotely in range, and hence I haven't even bothered to set security on the wireless. As there are no other choices, my high speed internet connection is via a line-of-sight microwave service (from an antenna on my roof, to an antenna a few miles away on top of a ski hill). It's not as fast as I'd like, but fast enough for most music services, and I could upgrade speed if I wanted to. But that all has nothing to do with my setup decision. So, the question is, if I can do either, am I better off going all-wireless, or a hybrid setup? I had thought the latter, but am now not so sure. Ron -- RonM RonM's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17029 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46898 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Hybrid vs Wireless setups
RonM wrote: So, the question is, if I can do either, am I better off going all-wireless, or a hybrid setup? I had thought the latter, but am now not so sure. I would recommend doing the easiest one first. Try it, see if you like it. If it works great, you are done, and can listen to music and drink beer. If there are problems, then work to eliminate them. In my house, my Transporter is connected to Ethernet to a switch that is connected with Ethernet to my SqueezeCenter. My SqueezeBoxen and Duet are wireless. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Hybrid vs Wireless setups
RonM;296123 Wrote: So, the question is, if I can do either, am I better off going all-wireless, or a hybrid setup? I had thought the latter, but am now not so sure. Ron You should have enough bandwidth to work wirelessly, but if I had wire everywhere, I'd use the hybrid mode. As the professionals say: use wire whenever you can. -= Jim -- JimC well, she wasn't all of that, but she sure was some of that. -- BKlaas' college buddy JimC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46898 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Hybrid vs Wireless setups
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:14:52 -0700, RonM [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have a choice to make, and that is whether to use a hybrid setup (my original intent) or a pure wireless setup. My house is wired with ethernet jacks available in various places. I also have a D-Link (g) wireless router. My computer is hard-wired to the router, so music will be passed via ethernet to the router, and then on to the SD apparatus. We have a couple of cordless phones (2.4g and 900m), and, of course, a microwave. Signal strength on the wireless is high in most locations in the house (full bars). I live in the country; there are no other wireless devices remotely in range, and hence I haven't even bothered to set security on the wireless. As there are no other choices, my high speed internet connection is via a line-of-sight microwave service (from an antenna on my roof, to an antenna a few miles away on top of a ski hill). It's not as fast as I'd like, but fast enough for most music services, and I could upgrade speed if I wanted to. But that all has nothing to do with my setup decision. So, the question is, if I can do either, am I better off going all-wireless, or a hybrid setup? I had thought the latter, but am now not so sure. I have a similar situation. The house has ethernet in many places but the wifi signal is not strong enough to cover the whole house. Even if it was, I'd prefer to use wired where I can. Using wired where possible takes the load of your wireless network. If you can, go wired all the way. That's always best. Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
