RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience
I had similar problems which were solved by using 64 bit WEP instead of 128 bit. I would like to report my very recent bad wireless experience and ask a question... I just switched over from wired mode to wireless. I bought a Linksys WRT45G (v2.2, firmware 3.03.6) and used all the defaults. Using WEP 128-bit. DHCP addressing. Signal strength on the sbox a good 90%. No wireless phones in the house, and the microwave, when on, didn't seem to cause any problems. After a smooth hookup and looking like it was working fine, I immediately encountered the problem of spontaneous squeezebox reboots. I probably saw half-dozen reboots in the first two hours. I saw the problem where there were multiple back-to-back reboots, the reconnect countdown getting to 10 before stopping and rebooting again. Bummer. I read a lot of old threads about this problem, but I didn't see any sure-fire solutions. Was there a consensus on the cause/solution of this reboot problem? One thread seemed to indicate that static IP addressing helped, but another reported that that didn't solve it. What's the final upshot on this problem? I've now set the router to B-only and static addressing in the meantime, and it seemed to help, but I haven't ran it for that many hours yet. Thanks, RE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roy Owen Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:45 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Good wireless experience I too would like to report a good experience with wireless SB. I have 2 wireless SB's (mind you they are on their own WAP) and have no interference from microwave or 'phone. In fact both of my WAP's are on the default channel 6. I do not stream lossless but I do stream mps with no additional compression. I can now play my mp3's or internet radio anywhere in my house. On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:08:29 -0700, Daryle A. Tilroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stream MP3, not lossless, which obviously greatly reduces the bandwidth requirements. The wireless performance of my Squeezebox outperformed my expectations. Yes, it should probably be clarified and emphasized to the newcomers and/or lurkers on the list that the debate over wireless performance and suitability applies only to streaming lossless PCM audio. If you stream (or convert and stream) MP3 the SB has proven to be quite robust. Virtually flawless in my experience. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss -- Do meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with Tabasco. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience
Michael Peters wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:20:40 -0800, Phillip Kerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought cracking WEP was relatively easy too. It's not cake to crack - it takes collecting data for as long as a month or so in order to have enough to do it. Sure, it can be done, but it's a whole lot easier to just find one of the many unprotected networks. Given typical SB data rates and usage patterns, I don't believe it would take very long to have enough data to compromise a WEP key in this application. The cracking tools are fairly idiot-proof. That said, WEP + MAC-filtering is the best you can currently do, and it's probably worth doing. One possible alternative would be to make the SB wireless network unroutable (ie. no gateway for Internet access). That would make the network a very unattractive target. In this case, you might want a second NIC in your slimserver if that box also needs external access. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience
I would like to report my very recent bad wireless experience and ask a question... I just switched over from wired mode to wireless. I bought a Linksys WRT45G (v2.2, firmware 3.03.6) and used all the defaults. Using WEP 128-bit. DHCP addressing. Signal strength on the sbox a good 90%. No wireless phones in the house, and the microwave, when on, didn't seem to cause any problems. After a smooth hookup and looking like it was working fine, I immediately encountered the problem of spontaneous squeezebox reboots. I probably saw half-dozen reboots in the first two hours. I saw the problem where there were multiple back-to-back reboots, the reconnect countdown getting to 10 before stopping and rebooting again. Bummer. I read a lot of old threads about this problem, but I didn't see any sure-fire solutions. Was there a consensus on the cause/solution of this reboot problem? One thread seemed to indicate that static IP addressing helped, but another reported that that didn't solve it. What's the final upshot on this problem? I've now set the router to B-only and static addressing in the meantime, and it seemed to help, but I haven't ran it for that many hours yet. Thanks, RE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roy Owen Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:45 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Good wireless experience I too would like to report a good experience with wireless SB. I have 2 wireless SB's (mind you they are on their own WAP) and have no interference from microwave or 'phone. In fact both of my WAP's are on the default channel 6. I do not stream lossless but I do stream mps with no additional compression. I can now play my mp3's or internet radio anywhere in my house. On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:08:29 -0700, Daryle A. Tilroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stream MP3, not lossless, which obviously greatly reduces the bandwidth requirements. The wireless performance of my Squeezebox outperformed my expectations. Yes, it should probably be clarified and emphasized to the newcomers and/or lurkers on the list that the debate over wireless performance and suitability applies only to streaming lossless PCM audio. If you stream (or convert and stream) MP3 the SB has proven to be quite robust. Virtually flawless in my experience. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss -- Do meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with Tabasco. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience
wups I meant wrt54g not wrt45g of course -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ralph Edington Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:38 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience I would like to report my very recent bad wireless experience and ask a question... I just switched over from wired mode to wireless. I bought a Linksys WRT45G (v2.2, firmware 3.03.6) and used all the defaults. Using WEP 128-bit. DHCP addressing. Signal strength on the sbox a good 90%. No wireless phones in the house, and the microwave, when on, didn't seem to cause any problems. After a smooth hookup and looking like it was working fine, I immediately encountered the problem of spontaneous squeezebox reboots. I probably saw half-dozen reboots in the first two hours. I saw the problem where there were multiple back-to-back reboots, the reconnect countdown getting to 10 before stopping and rebooting again. Bummer. I read a lot of old threads about this problem, but I didn't see any sure-fire solutions. Was there a consensus on the cause/solution of this reboot problem? One thread seemed to indicate that static IP addressing helped, but another reported that that didn't solve it. What's the final upshot on this problem? I've now set the router to B-only and static addressing in the meantime, and it seemed to help, but I haven't ran it for that many hours yet. Thanks, RE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roy Owen Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:45 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Good wireless experience I too would like to report a good experience with wireless SB. I have 2 wireless SB's (mind you they are on their own WAP) and have no interference from microwave or 'phone. In fact both of my WAP's are on the default channel 6. I do not stream lossless but I do stream mps with no additional compression. I can now play my mp3's or internet radio anywhere in my house. On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:08:29 -0700, Daryle A. Tilroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stream MP3, not lossless, which obviously greatly reduces the bandwidth requirements. The wireless performance of my Squeezebox outperformed my expectations. Yes, it should probably be clarified and emphasized to the newcomers and/or lurkers on the list that the debate over wireless performance and suitability applies only to streaming lossless PCM audio. If you stream (or convert and stream) MP3 the SB has proven to be quite robust. Virtually flawless in my experience. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss -- Do meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with Tabasco. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience
Even if you don't have any offending devices in your own home, a neighbor 100 feet away could easily be causing some of these problems. One of the things you should do is try a different frequency on the access point and see if it has an impact on the problem. Also static addressing should help if your DHCP server has too short of a lease time to the squeezebox. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph Edington Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:38 PM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience I would like to report my very recent bad wireless experience and ask a question... I just switched over from wired mode to wireless. I bought a Linksys WRT45G (v2.2, firmware 3.03.6) and used all the defaults. Using WEP 128-bit. DHCP addressing. Signal strength on the sbox a good 90%. No wireless phones in the house, and the microwave, when on, didn't seem to cause any problems. After a smooth hookup and looking like it was working fine, I immediately encountered the problem of spontaneous squeezebox reboots. I probably saw half-dozen reboots in the first two hours. I saw the problem where there were multiple back-to-back reboots, the reconnect countdown getting to 10 before stopping and rebooting again. Bummer. I read a lot of old threads about this problem, but I didn't see any sure-fire solutions. Was there a consensus on the cause/solution of this reboot problem? One thread seemed to indicate that static IP addressing helped, but another reported that that didn't solve it. What's the final upshot on this problem? I've now set the router to B-only and static addressing in the meantime, and it seemed to help, but I haven't ran it for that many hours yet. Thanks, RE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roy Owen Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:45 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Good wireless experience I too would like to report a good experience with wireless SB. I have 2 wireless SB's (mind you they are on their own WAP) and have no interference from microwave or 'phone. In fact both of my WAP's are on the default channel 6. I do not stream lossless but I do stream mps with no additional compression. I can now play my mp3's or internet radio anywhere in my house. On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:08:29 -0700, Daryle A. Tilroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stream MP3, not lossless, which obviously greatly reduces the bandwidth requirements. The wireless performance of my Squeezebox outperformed my expectations. Yes, it should probably be clarified and emphasized to the newcomers and/or lurkers on the list that the debate over wireless performance and suitability applies only to streaming lossless PCM audio. If you stream (or convert and stream) MP3 the SB has proven to be quite robust. Virtually flawless in my experience. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss -- Do meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with Tabasco. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience
Thanks. Still rebooting at random. My DHCP lease time is the standard Linksys 1 day. Shouldn't be a factor, one would think. It just happened again -- rebooted. Even though IP is fixed and network is hardwired to B only. -d_protocol log shows: 2005-02-24 13:30:00.8762 Got discovery request, deviceid = 2, revision = 2.8, MAC = 00:04:20:05:87:b3 2005-02-24 13:30:00.8763 It's a squeezebox 2005-02-24 13:30:00.8763 calculated rehomelength: 17 2005-02-24 13:30:00.8765 sent discovery response Any other debugging I could set that will help? I will try different channels and see if that helps. Any help is still appreciated. RE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jason Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:57 PM To: 'Slim Devices Discussion' Subject: RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience Even if you don't have any offending devices in your own home, a neighbor 100 feet away could easily be causing some of these problems. One of the things you should do is try a different frequency on the access point and see if it has an impact on the problem. Also static addressing should help if your DHCP server has too short of a lease time to the squeezebox. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph Edington Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:38 PM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience I would like to report my very recent bad wireless experience and ask a question... I just switched over from wired mode to wireless. I bought a Linksys WRT45G (v2.2, firmware 3.03.6) and used all the defaults. Using WEP 128-bit. DHCP addressing. Signal strength on the sbox a good 90%. No wireless phones in the house, and the microwave, when on, didn't seem to cause any problems. After a smooth hookup and looking like it was working fine, I immediately encountered the problem of spontaneous squeezebox reboots. I probably saw half-dozen reboots in the first two hours. I saw the problem where there were multiple back-to-back reboots, the reconnect countdown getting to 10 before stopping and rebooting again. Bummer. I read a lot of old threads about this problem, but I didn't see any sure-fire solutions. Was there a consensus on the cause/solution of this reboot problem? One thread seemed to indicate that static IP addressing helped, but another reported that that didn't solve it. What's the final upshot on this problem? I've now set the router to B-only and static addressing in the meantime, and it seemed to help, but I haven't ran it for that many hours yet. Thanks, RE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roy Owen Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:45 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Good wireless experience I too would like to report a good experience with wireless SB. I have 2 wireless SB's (mind you they are on their own WAP) and have no interference from microwave or 'phone. In fact both of my WAP's are on the default channel 6. I do not stream lossless but I do stream mps with no additional compression. I can now play my mp3's or internet radio anywhere in my house. On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:08:29 -0700, Daryle A. Tilroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stream MP3, not lossless, which obviously greatly reduces the bandwidth requirements. The wireless performance of my Squeezebox outperformed my expectations. Yes, it should probably be clarified and emphasized to the newcomers and/or lurkers on the list that the debate over wireless performance and suitability applies only to streaming lossless PCM audio. If you stream (or convert and stream) MP3 the SB has proven to be quite robust. Virtually flawless in my experience. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss -- Do meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with Tabasco. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience
On 24/2/05 at 11:37 am -0800, Ralph Edington wrote I saw the problem where there were multiple back-to-back reboots, the reconnect countdown getting to 10 before stopping and rebooting again. I don't know anything about spontaneous reboots - has never happened with me, except when my computer has been asleep for a long time - or multiple ones, if multiple means more than two. But the double reboot with countdown to 10 (I've never understood why it doesn't countdown to 0) is common, there is a specific reason for it, I'm not quite sure what but it isn't a bug. It's something to do with the Squeezebox trying one method of connecting, failing to connect, and then using a different method that does work. -- Daniel Cohen ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience
ralph, just a thought, and i'm vague on the details, but i've seen situations where two 802.11 products will not talk reliably to each other hence the non-profit www.wi-fi.org, which created the Wi-fi certification mark for the subset of 802.11 products that have been tested as interoperable. if both ends of the network (perhaps all devices on it?) are not wi-fi certified, you may have incompatible devices hopefully others with better knowledge can cut in at this point... -ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph Edington Sent: 24 February 2005 21:34 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience Thanks. Still rebooting at random. My DHCP lease time is the standard Linksys 1 day. Shouldn't be a factor, one would think. It just happened again -- rebooted. Even though IP is fixed and network is hardwired to B only. -d_protocol log shows: 2005-02-24 13:30:00.8762 Got discovery request, deviceid = 2, revision = 2.8, MAC = 00:04:20:05:87:b3 2005-02-24 13:30:00.8763 It's a squeezebox 2005-02-24 13:30:00.8763 calculated rehomelength: 17 2005-02-24 13:30:00.8765 sent discovery response Any other debugging I could set that will help? I will try different channels and see if that helps. Any help is still appreciated. RE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jason Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:57 PM To: 'Slim Devices Discussion' Subject: RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience Even if you don't have any offending devices in your own home, a neighbor 100 feet away could easily be causing some of these problems. One of the things you should do is try a different frequency on the access point and see if it has an impact on the problem. Also static addressing should help if your DHCP server has too short of a lease time to the squeezebox. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph Edington Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:38 PM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience I would like to report my very recent bad wireless experience and ask a question... I just switched over from wired mode to wireless. I bought a Linksys WRT45G (v2.2, firmware 3.03.6) and used all the defaults. Using WEP 128-bit. DHCP addressing. Signal strength on the sbox a good 90%. No wireless phones in the house, and the microwave, when on, didn't seem to cause any problems. After a smooth hookup and looking like it was working fine, I immediately encountered the problem of spontaneous squeezebox reboots. I probably saw half-dozen reboots in the first two hours. I saw the problem where there were multiple back-to-back reboots, the reconnect countdown getting to 10 before stopping and rebooting again. Bummer. I read a lot of old threads about this problem, but I didn't see any sure-fire solutions. Was there a consensus on the cause/solution of this reboot problem? One thread seemed to indicate that static IP addressing helped, but another reported that that didn't solve it. What's the final upshot on this problem? I've now set the router to B-only and static addressing in the meantime, and it seemed to help, but I haven't ran it for that many hours yet. Thanks, RE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roy Owen Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:45 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Good wireless experience I too would like to report a good experience with wireless SB. I have 2 wireless SB's (mind you they are on their own WAP) and have no interference from microwave or 'phone. In fact both of my WAP's are on the default channel 6. I do not stream lossless but I do stream mps with no additional compression. I can now play my mp3's or internet radio anywhere in my house. On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:08:29 -0700, Daryle A. Tilroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stream MP3, not lossless, which obviously greatly reduces the bandwidth requirements. The wireless performance of my Squeezebox outperformed my expectations. Yes, it should probably be clarified and emphasized to the newcomers and/or lurkers on the list that the debate over wireless performance and suitability applies only to streaming lossless PCM audio. If you stream (or convert and stream) MP3 the SB has proven to be quite robust. Virtually flawless in my experience. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss -- Do
Re: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience
As a datapoint, you may try turning off WEP. I'm not suggesting this as a good long-term solution, but you might consider something like MAC filtering if WEP is indeed the problem with your particular setup. Ben Gladstone wrote: ralph, just a thought, and i'm vague on the details, but i've seen situations where two 802.11 products will not talk reliably to each other hence the non-profit www.wi-fi.org, which created the Wi-fi certification mark for the subset of 802.11 products that have been tested as interoperable. if both ends of the network (perhaps all devices on it?) are not wi-fi certified, you may have incompatible devices hopefully others with better knowledge can cut in at this point... -ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph Edington Sent: 24 February 2005 21:34 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience Thanks. Still rebooting at random. My DHCP lease time is the standard Linksys 1 day. Shouldn't be a factor, one would think. It just happened again -- rebooted. Even though IP is fixed and network is hardwired to B only. -d_protocol log shows: 2005-02-24 13:30:00.8762 Got discovery request, deviceid = 2, revision = 2.8, MAC = 00:04:20:05:87:b3 2005-02-24 13:30:00.8763 It's a squeezebox 2005-02-24 13:30:00.8763 calculated rehomelength: 17 2005-02-24 13:30:00.8765 sent discovery response Any other debugging I could set that will help? I will try different channels and see if that helps. Any help is still appreciated. RE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jason Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:57 PM To: 'Slim Devices Discussion' Subject: RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience Even if you don't have any offending devices in your own home, a neighbor 100 feet away could easily be causing some of these problems. One of the things you should do is try a different frequency on the access point and see if it has an impact on the problem. Also static addressing should help if your DHCP server has too short of a lease time to the squeezebox. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph Edington Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:38 PM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience I would like to report my very recent bad wireless experience and ask a question... I just switched over from wired mode to wireless. I bought a Linksys WRT45G (v2.2, firmware 3.03.6) and used all the defaults. Using WEP 128-bit. DHCP addressing. Signal strength on the sbox a good 90%. No wireless phones in the house, and the microwave, when on, didn't seem to cause any problems. After a smooth hookup and looking like it was working fine, I immediately encountered the problem of spontaneous squeezebox reboots. I probably saw half-dozen reboots in the first two hours. I saw the problem where there were multiple back-to-back reboots, the reconnect countdown getting to 10 before stopping and rebooting again. Bummer. I read a lot of old threads about this problem, but I didn't see any sure-fire solutions. Was there a consensus on the cause/solution of this reboot problem? One thread seemed to indicate that static IP addressing helped, but another reported that that didn't solve it. What's the final upshot on this problem? I've now set the router to B-only and static addressing in the meantime, and it seemed to help, but I haven't ran it for that many hours yet. Thanks, RE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roy Owen Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:45 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: Re: [slim] Good wireless experience I too would like to report a good experience with wireless SB. I have 2 wireless SB's (mind you they are on their own WAP) and have no interference from microwave or 'phone. In fact both of my WAP's are on the default channel 6. I do not stream lossless but I do stream mps with no additional compression. I can now play my mp3's or internet radio anywhere in my house. On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:08:29 -0700, Daryle A. Tilroe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stream MP3, not lossless, which obviously greatly reduces the bandwidth requirements. The wireless performance of my Squeezebox outperformed my expectations. Yes, it should probably be clarified and emphasized to the newcomers and/or lurkers on the list that the debate over wireless performance and suitability applies only to streaming lossless PCM audio. If you stream (or convert and stream) MP3 the SB has proven to be quite robust. Virtually flawless in my experience. -- Daryle A. Tilroe ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss -- Do meddle in the affairs
RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:26:03 -0700, John Hernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a datapoint, you may try turning off WEP. I'm not suggesting this as a good long-term solution, but you might consider something like MAC filtering if WEP is indeed the problem with your particular setup. I don't have my squeezebox yet and I'm getting the wired version (though slimserver is on a wireless box) - I would like to note that it is rather trivial to sniff both MAC address and SSID key even if SSID is not broadcast and MAC filtering is on. That may not be a concern - I don't have WEP on myself, I'm not worried about people using my connection for illegal stuff etc. but there are tools specifically designed to take advantage of non encryption protected networks, if you live where there are a lot of people going buy, etc. or in an apartment, you may not want to disable WEP, last thing you want is your IP associated with a child porn sting. Turning WEP off might help diagnose the problem though, maybe you should try 64 instead of 128? I thought cracking WEP was relatively easy too. I can't make my SB wireless work if I have WEP turned on. Thanks, Phillip ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
