Hi there, While the nettop makes its way to my end of the world, I decided to check on the forum and to let you know what improvements I managed to achieve so far.
Thanks Mnyb for your interest. As you said I "should be able to manage with one good quality router". The Touch was supposed to work without much fuzz and look how messy it has been for us gullible owners when tried to use the Tiny SOB. "how do you get internet phone line ,cable , USB dongle conected to the PC. Do your ISP provide a modem or router of some sort, wonder how this one is setup to work ? " Telefonica is one of the worse provider you can ever encounter. But it is the only provider available. (Third-world stuff you don't really need to know about.) The telephone line gets in my house and gets plugged directly into a Huawei "EchoLife Home Gateway", a wireless router. I get the phone and the Internet access then sorted out. At this very moment I'm hearing a superb Talking Heads vinyl rip using a temporary setup as follows: My laptop computer streams wireless to the router, which is connected to the Touch via Ethernet. So I made a major improvement, I'm very glad. I know it seems basic for you forum folks, but I wasn't looking forward to do much tweaking before buying the Touch. In partial compliance to Soundcheck's advice, I'm now streaming PCM to the router, by using my laptop both for running the server software and to decode the flacs. I applied the rest of his recommended tweaks (but the screen off one) and guess what: This sounds so much better than before it is incredible! For those who aren't fans of modding: Please remember I bought the darn thing to hear music directly from a powered USB HDD and from a 32GB SD card (the last I purchased exclusively for that purpose). That said, as soon as the second computer arrives, I'm preparing myself to keep spending money on my setup. I'll buy a second wireless router and apply again Soundcheck's toolbox. I'll use a second router because the Internet access used to fail and now the added traffic sometimes interrupts both the music playback AND my downloads. To me, the Touch is a very deceitful and deceptive marketing mashup. I wouldn't ever recommend anyone to spend any money on it without having in mind that this purchase would require to (at least) double the investment to make it work properly. Let alone the money you need to make it work and the time most of us had to spend in trying to get a decent performance out of it, it is almost unbelievable that the modding done by users works! Seriously, add to that the faulty updates and what do we get? An Apple product designed and developed by the Spanish Inquisition. And nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! I guess I'll write one more time when I get everything sorted out or to ask the valuable members of this forum for some more help. -- Solrac ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Solrac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=49107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89674 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
