I just tried my Touch with a USB stick with no ethernet cable or wifi, it works fine, I'm listening to it right now. Since I had been connected to an external server I had to go through several pages, it first told me there was no network connectivity and asked if I wanted to continue without a network. I said yes, then it tried to connect the last server it was connected to, of course it could reach that server, it then asked if I wanted to connect to a different server and gave the choice of the internal LMS. I selected that and it connected and let me start playing music.
On the stand alone network. You CAN connect a computer running an external server direct to the Touch, BUT then you have to come up with some way to assign network addresses. This is usually handled by the DHCP server in your router. You can either assign static IP addresses on both the computer and the Touch (and make sure they are on the same subnet)or you can install a DHCP server on the PC (on XP this is called internet connection sharing, I don't know what its called on Win7)If you don't do either of these the PC and the Touch choose their own address, which usually mean they are on different subnets and can't talk to teach other. A wireless router also lets you use a wifi enabled remote (Logitech controller, iPhone, iPod touch, android phone etc. These do NOT talk direct to the Touch, they talk to the server and without a wireless router they are not going to get onto the network to talk to the server. So yes it can be done but its a bit of a pain in the neck. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93520 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
