I've just got a Superuniti. I have it wired with Ethernet cable to the Netgear router, with a Western Digital mybooklive NAS drive wired to the router also. Nothing else is wired to the router.
When I first turn the Uniti on it seems to struggle to find the NAS drive and states 'press list to try again'. after a handful of tries however it finds the NAS drive and once connected it can play seamlessly for hours. How could I help it to connect first time around. Would a switch help?
Posted on: 10 October 2012 by McGhie
Hi Richy
A couple of suggestions:
1. Don't turn your SU off (this should aid SQ as it'll never be playing from cold and arguably will prolong its life as its components will have less heating up and cooling down to suffer, but it also reduces the frequency at which it'll have to reconnect to the network)
2. Make its IP address static (there's more than one way to do this - I've done it via the router, so that the router always assigns the same IP address to each device on my network)
The second suggestion may not help your SU to connect to the network but it might stop it from dropping off (I have a NU that used to drop off the network occasionally but neither it nor my SU ever drop off now and that is what cured it).
I suspect that a switch may not help here but you may wish to use one anyway. I use one for my PC, server and SU. It reduces the amount of network traffic that they are exposed to, provides a fairly direct link between server and SU, and provides a fairly direct gigabit link between PC and server (my router isn't gigabit).
I very rarely turn my SU off but my recollection is that sometimes it reconnects at once and other times it takes a few cycles of "network starting" or whatever it says.
Cheers
Ian
Cheers
Ian
Posted on: 10 October 2012 by Bart
Richy, good advice above. Don't shut down your SuperUniti unless you go out of the house for a week or two of vacation. If you keep everything running, I suspect that you'll not have this problem.
But if at all possible, assign static IP addresses to your SuperUniti and NAS on your home network.