Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?

2008-11-26 Thread Peter
Mark Lanctot wrote: > peter;363991 Wrote: > >> I want N because my laptop is N and now connected at 130 Mbit. >> > > This is great for a laptop, but what would an audio player do with all > that bandwidth? > One, not much. But several at the same time... Or an audio player sharing its

Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?

2008-11-26 Thread Mark Lanctot
peter;363991 Wrote: > I want N because my laptop is N and now connected at 130 Mbit. This is great for a laptop, but what would an audio player do with all that bandwidth? > Also my upstairs controller seems to have a slightly better connection. Good, but this isn't due to the controller's wir

Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?

2008-11-26 Thread Peter
Mark Lanctot wrote: > DeVerm;362391 Wrote: > >> The only reason I can think of would be so that the SB uses less time on >> the air, leaving more bandwidth for other users of the router. >> > > OK, that's a good one, but a lot of people want 'n' just because it's > the latest and greatest.

Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?

2008-11-24 Thread Mark Lanctot
DeVerm;362391 Wrote: > The only reason I can think of would be so that the SB uses less time on > the air, leaving more bandwidth for other users of the router. OK, that's a good one, but a lot of people want 'n' just because it's the latest and greatest. n's increased bandwidth isn't useful on

Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?

2008-11-22 Thread ncarver
DIR-655 has also worked great for me, though I did replace one of the 3 antennas with a directional unit due to long distance and many walls. That actually is one of the nice things about the DLink units, that it is easy to replace their low gain omnidirectional antennas. Our access point sits a

Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?

2008-11-21 Thread DeVerm
Mark Lanctot;362219 Wrote: > Why? The only reason I can think of would be so that the SB uses less time on the air, leaving more bandwidth for other users of the router. When one disables support for 11 Mbps "b" devices on the router it shouldn't be an issue until you get a lot of SB's playing a

Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?

2008-11-21 Thread Mark Lanctot
mikel51;362153 Wrote: > now if only our squeezeboxes could be upgraded to wireless-N. Why? (extra text to avoid overly short post) -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta) Stored: Boom (PQP1 - early beta), SBC (beta - no battery) Sold: SB3, Duet ---

Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?

2008-11-21 Thread mikel51
I'm also a happy DIR655 usersigh, now if only our squeezeboxes could be upgraded to wireless-N. -- mikel51 mikel51's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16688 View this thread: http://forums.slimde

Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?

2008-11-21 Thread petemac
+1 DIR-655 has worked 100% with Duet, Controller and SB3 for me as well -- petemac petemac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18630 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=5

Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?

2008-11-21 Thread Peter
coma wrote: > Do those of you using either the D-Link DIR-655 or the Airport Extreme > have problems with your connection to the Duet Controller? And for > those of you that have a Duet and one of those two routers and no > problems please chime in as well. > DIR-655 has worked flawlessly here.

Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?

2008-11-21 Thread amcluesent
+1 DIR-655 has worked 100% with Boom, Duet, Controller, SB3 and Transporter -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10286 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthre

Re: [slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?

2008-11-20 Thread JadeMonkee
I don't have a duet, but the DIR655 has performed flawlessly for me. -- JadeMonkee 2x squeezebox classics {1x wired, 1x wifi} | squeezecentre v7.2.1 | readynas duo { raidiator 4.14 | 1gb hynix hymd512m646cfp8-j | 2x 1tb samsung hd103uj } | d-link dir-655 ---

[slim] DIR-655 or Airport Extreme for Duet Controller?

2008-11-20 Thread coma
I'm running SqueezeCenter on a Mac Mini (as well as on a new MacBook Pro) and I've noticed that my Duet Controller seems to lose connection to my network. My current router is a tiny Linksys Compact WRT54GC and although this isn't the case, I feel that if I opened it up I'd find a bent paperclip i