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You know what...this is an awesome product...I too had problems when my iMac was hooked up wirelessly...but they say they recommend wiring your Squeezecenter and soonce i did it...everything worked real well. I also opened the ports they suggested (don't know why since not necessarily communicating outside to play my music) but the combination of the two things (wired PC and open ports) and this baby sings. I now have a second classic version I bought used and have it hooked up wirelessly and it works super perfect...2 minute install just plugged it inkids and wife can even use itawesome. Just wire PC and it will be all good... -- G-dude G-dude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19167 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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Are we to assume the *silence* in this thread means the OP finally got this sorted out (cuz he finally did as asked by SD support)? Or am I to assume that all forum members within 50 miles the OP are going through his trash? -- toby10 toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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Anoop M.;320765 Wrote: To the customers credit, he already had the player down in the other room when I called him. That's good. He badly needs some credit. MC -- ModelCitizen On average people have fewer than two feet. http://www.last.fm/user/ModelCitizen ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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Anoop M.;320731 Wrote: I talked to the user on the phone today and the unit works perfectly fine from the same room as the router (wirelessly). My conclusion is that he is getting allot of wireless interference. I asked him to do a test with his wireless broadcasting channels and see if one channel works better than another. That's what I had suspected.I'm guessing the SB3 WiFi card is much more sensitive to rogue signals than a more robust laptop WiFi card would be. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=320379postcount=24 -- toby10 toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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toby10;320894 Wrote: That's what I had suspected.I'm guessing the SB3 WiFi card is much more sensitive to rogue signals than a more robust laptop WiFi card would be. I thought it was a bog-standard laptop wifi card included with the SB3. It certainly looks like one. MC -- ModelCitizen On average people have fewer than two feet. http://www.last.fm/user/ModelCitizen ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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WPBerryman39, fight the strong fight brother. It's your right to get things fixed your way, you shouldn't have to rip apart your setup. You definitely have put enough effort into fixing someone else's problem in this case and it's time to move on. Please contact me via PM and I will gladly take that SB3 off your hands for $100. I have a 100' Ethernet cable and portable amplifiers and speakers to test it with. Once it's up and working properly it can live a long life on my network and you can be free of this infernal headache. -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com)* MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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MelonMonkey;320994 Wrote: Please contact me via PM and I will gladly take that SB3 off your hands for $100. I'd take his offer. If you can't test it then you can't really list it on e-bay as working can you? Not much good for anything other than parts, I suppose. Yes sir, $100 is a mighty generous offer for something that nearly ended up in your trash can. p.s. - If the deal with MonkeyMan doesn't work out then let me know. I'd be willing to straight up trade your SB3 for something out of my trash can. -- jsprag jsprag's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14437 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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I feel your pain. I have a similar situation. My car began playing up recently and the mechanic asked me if i could drive it to the local garage. No freaking way! what makes is double impossible is that its currently hooked up to my trailer. Rubbish mechanic, he should have been able to fix it by simply sending me an email. Stupid thing is that it should work because the fuel tank is 70% full and my other car works just fine. Simply unacceptable. later on today im going to drive it into the ocean. That will teach it. Life's so unfair. -- autopilot *Server:* SC7.1b (Windows Vista 64) *Players:* Squeezebox 3 (main room) / Squeezebox Receiver (bedroom) / Softsqueeze (office). *Amps:* Cambridge Audio 640a (main room) / Trends TA10.1 Class-T / Logitech 5.1. *Speakers:* Mission 701's (living room) / Kef Cresta 1's (bedroom) / Logitech 5.1's. *Remotes:* Harmony One (IR) / 1 Beta SB Controller / 1 Official SB Controller. 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/domrevans/) autopilot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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ROFL!! Nice one! -- Sike Sike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2458 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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WPBerryman39;320330 Wrote: but as soon as I light the slimserver up, the music starts to slow down and degrade. It sounds like you probably lit something else up too. Take a few more tokes and the slowness of the music will seem natural. WPBerryman39;320330 Wrote: Please help before the trash man comes on monday! I'll personally come by and pick up your trash. As Bugs Bunny used to say, what a maroon!. -- maggior maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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WPBerryman39;320356 Wrote: the unit is plugged into a stereo that is in my upstairs living room, where all of the power cables, speakers, and wiring is tightly routed behind a wall. To hard wire it to the router, I have to removes all of this, take it down to the office, and then reassemble, a fairly significant effort. So its just not a refusal to do what they are asking, its a virtual impossibility. I guess my opinion is that the company should give other options than that. If it could be the device itself, send me a new one. If it could be something else, lets try that. I guess you're the master of your own destiny with your opinion. -- SilverRS8 Author of -'AlbumCatalogCreator' (http://www.vanholt.nl/acc/acc.htm)- for SqueezeCenter SlimServer SilverRS8's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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If the office is in the same house, a 50 or 100 foot ethernet cable should reach. WPBerryman39;320356 Wrote: the unit is plugged into a stereo that is in my upstairs living room, where all of the power cables, speakers, and wiring is tightly routed behind a wall. To hard wire it to the router, I have to removes all of this, take it down to the office, and then reassemble, a fairly significant effort. So its just not a refusal to do what they are asking, its a virtual impossibility. I guess my opinion is that the company should give other options than that. If it could be the device itself, send me a new one. If it could be something else, lets try that. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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How about trying this: 1) Load squeezecenter on one of your laptops. Be sure to emulate the same sort of setup you have on your current server on your laptop - e.g. if your music is stored on a separate server or NAS, have the laptop get the music from the same place. 2) Plug it into the router and see if the problem still occurs. It probably will. 3) Now take the router and the laptop to where the SB is and see if the problem still occurs. 4) If the problem still occurs in that configuration, hardwire the router the SB and see if the problem still occurs. 5) Once you have it debugged on the laptop, copy the same fixes to the normal server and see if that fixes the problem. Mitch -- Mitch G Mitch G's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=548 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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WPBerryman39;320330 Wrote: * MAC address: 00 14 a5 9d fb 32 Is that hardware address from the player or the last connected server? The player should have 00:04:20 prefix. -- EFP EFP's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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I have two wireless routers. One is line-of-sight to the SB3 and the other is a few rooms away. I cannot connect to the line-of-sight router and when I do, the connection is bad and I get choppy music. When I connect to the other (and better router) I get good music quality even though my signal strength never gets over 70% (with the cheap close router I can get 90% from time to time but that's rare). I've also done testing at another friend's house. He had a Duet which he was having issues with. We replaced some network hardware and it worked better, though not perfect. I tried the same device at my house and it worked great. You may have a lot of interference causing issues as well, you can change the wireless channel in the router config. -- ik632 ik632's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13780 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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I think wifi in general is a bit of a nightmare. At work we had big problems with wifi IP phones (Cisco 7920). Even if the phones just require a mere 100 kbps bandwidth we got choppy audio and lost connections. To make it work at a reasonable level we ended up with no more than 16 AP's, and that's in a 300 sq meter 3 storey building, running on three different channels to avoid overlap between AP's. We also had situations where we had no signal just 2 meters from an AP. At home, all my Sqeezeboxen are wired. There is a reason for that! -- StigErik StigErik's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16340 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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I talked to the user on the phone today and the unit works perfectly fine from the same room as the router (wirelessly). My conclusion is that he is getting allot of wireless interference. I asked him to do a test with his wireless broadcasting channels and see if one channel works better than another. -- Anoop M. SlimDevices/Logitech Support Mountain View California Anoop M.'s Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8996 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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Anoop M.;320731 Wrote: I asked him to do a test with his wireless broadcasting channels and see if one channel works better than another. Well, I wonder if he'll do that. MC -- ModelCitizen On average people have fewer than two feet. http://www.last.fm/user/ModelCitizen ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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ModelCitizen;320753 Wrote: Well, I wonder if he'll do that. I'm still wondering how Anoop managed to persuade him to get the router and the SB in the same room -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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aubuti;320754 Wrote: I'm still wondering how Anoop managed to persuade him to get the router and the SB in the same room To the customers credit, he already had it down there when I called him. -- Anoop M. SlimDevices/Logitech Support Mountain View California Anoop M.'s Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8996 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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WPBerryman39;320330 Wrote: ...snip... Is there anything else I should try before i toss it in the trash can for good? I have great wireless connections all over my house, but as soon as I light the slimserver up, the music starts to slow down and degrade. Please help before the trash man comes on monday! You might want to try following the troubleshooting steps suggested by the technician... he's trying to help you. Barring that, SB3's do sell well on eBay or at least send the product to an electronics recycling center rather than a landfill. Also, please do not cross-post in our forums. I've merged your threads this time, but I will delete them if you cross-post again. Please note that I AM NOT CENSORING YOU--your message stands as posted--but I am asking you not to span our forums with multiple posts. -= 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=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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LOL. Why are we even feeding these trolls? IMHO, we've had a load of uber-numpties recently who deserve to be kicked and banned. -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10286 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49911 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
