Re: [slim] Not all is rosey in Squeeze Box land

2007-03-24 Thread Mark Lanctot
bobschneider;189842 Wrote: > It just so happened that evening was the first bad thunderstorm we've > had since I got the SB3. Just as Raid kills bugs dead, thunderstorms kills wireless networks dead. At least for me. My wireless network is extremely unstable and more or less unusable if there'

Re: [slim] Not all is rosey in Squeeze Box land

2007-03-23 Thread bobschneider
thesil;188043 Wrote: > When I first got my SB3 back in Nov. of '06, I thought it was the > greatest thing since sliced bread. Now, it is becoming very frustrating > to deal with. This is what I am experiencing latley: Player stops for no > apparent reason, screen goes blank, and then after a few

Re: [slim] Not all is rosey in Squeeze Box land

2007-03-18 Thread Zten
>From an old post of mine when I was seeing "random dropouts". I root caused much of my trouble to the microwave oven: avoiding Microwave oven and adjacent WLAN Interference So I looked into things tonight. My Mic

Re: [slim] Not all is rosey in Squeeze Box land

2007-03-17 Thread Mark Lanctot
azinck3;188114 Wrote: > Finding a good channel is largely a matter of trial and error. If you use NetStumbler you can graph signal strength. It's a little tricky to do, basically you filter out everything but your own network using the filters on the left, then you double-click it. It'll give

Re: [slim] Not all is rosey in Squeeze Box land

2007-03-15 Thread agentsmith
The above posters are right, this kind of problems usually are network connection related or server computer locking up. Did you try the Network test plugin? I had similar problems when I placed my Slimserver WiFi in another room away from the wireless access point. When I move the machine cl

Re: [slim] Not all is rosey in Squeeze Box land

2007-03-15 Thread Anne
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31566 See this thread also -- Anne Anne's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=3363

Re: [slim] Not all is rosey in Squeeze Box land

2007-03-15 Thread egd
bpa;188115 Wrote: > If you can get the Mac onto a wired connection it would be better. This > is especially true if you are formats which have a higher bandwidth > requirement such as WAV or Flac. I second this. When I first received my Squeezeboxen I set things up for wireless and found the pe

Re: [slim] Not all is rosey in Squeeze Box land

2007-03-15 Thread bpa
Channels go from 1 to 11 or 13 depending on region but they overlap so initially choose 1 or 6 or 11/13 (depending on region) as this will minimise overlap. If you can get the Mac onto a wired connection it would be better. This is especially true if you are formats which have a higher bandwidth

Re: [slim] Not all is rosey in Squeeze Box land

2007-03-15 Thread azinck3
I'll second the notion that it's likely a wireless interference problem. thesil;188106 Wrote: > I am wireless and my MAC is as well. How would I go about changing > channels? > > Thanks, guys Via your access point's interface. You likely have a combination access point/router so it can probab

Re: [slim] Not all is rosey in Squeeze Box land

2007-03-15 Thread ceejay
With both server and SB wireless, that's a lot of wireless hops for the data, especially at high data rates. Depending on what you are driving with it, you might want to consider setting the server to transcode to MP3 at say 320kbit/s - this will sound nearly as good as lossless with a much lower

Re: [slim] Not all is rosey in Squeeze Box land

2007-03-15 Thread snarlydwarf
It should be a setting on your router. (The clients sort of sweep the channels when they start, looking for a friendly router to connect to... so changing the routers channel should be picked up by the clients.) -- snarlydwarf ---

Re: [slim] Not all is rosey in Squeeze Box land

2007-03-15 Thread thesil
I am wireless and my MAC is as well. How would I go about changing channels? Thanks, guys -- thesil Gerry. "When you ain't got nuthin', you've got nuthin' to lose" thesil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.

Re: [slim] Not all is rosey in Squeeze Box land

2007-03-15 Thread hunta
thesil;188043 Wrote: > I am running iTunes on a MAC OSX with a wireless SB3 v. 6.5.1. Any one > care to comment or comiserate? I can commiserate, but I bet the wireless is to blame not the SB. I had issues recently and thought it couldn't possibly be anything to do with the network since I was s

Re: [slim] Not all is rosey in Squeeze Box land

2007-03-15 Thread bpa
Are you wired or wireless ? If wireless have you tried changing channels ? If wired have looked at network stats to see if there are any network errors ? -- bpa bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?useri

[slim] Not all is rosey in Squeeze Box land

2007-03-15 Thread thesil
When I first got my SB3 back in Nov. of '06, I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Now, it is becoming very frustrating to deal with. This is what I am experiencing latley: Player stops for no apparent reason, screen goes blank, and then after a few minutes, starts up again. It w