Uniti - Wired or WiFi
Posted by: Moriarty107 on 03 July 2010
As someone about to venture into the streaming world, can I ask you knowledgeable types a question ...
If I go ahead with my planned system of a Uniti partnered with a Ripnas, which connections must be hardwired and which can be WiFi?
e.g. The Ripnas must be hardwired to my router but the Uniti can then access the stored music via wifi?
(The question stems from the fact that my broadband router is not situated in my listening room)
Posted on: 03 July 2010 by Redboxfile
I use a Uniti wirelessly connected to my Netgear Readynas NAS drive which is in a different room and all works fine. In your case the Ripnas would connect via cable to your router and stream via the router to the Uniti which will pick up wirelessly, so the router and ripnas need to be in the same room. I am assuming the Ripnas is a NAS drive like the Netgear? If you have problems you can always go for a Netgear or belkin kit which transfers the signal via your ring mains, this will cost about £90ish. hope this helps.
Posted on: 03 July 2010 by Moriarty107
Great - thanks for that!
I'm actually thinking of going for the "Ripnas" NAS drive, which seems to get plenty of good reviews and is Naim tested.
Posted on: 04 July 2010 by Alamanka
Hello,
I am also using NaimUniti wirelessly.
The NetGear router is located in another room. The NAS (Qnap 219P) is connected with a wire to the router.
It works, with the following reservations, as I indicated in other posts:
- wireless signal is interrupted when someone uses microwave in the kitchen (music stops)
- the router needs to be set-up to broadcast the SSID
- sometimes, the NaimUniti, although connected to the router and able to access Internet radio, does not "find" the UPNP servers.
For the last point, the workaround is to restart the Uniti, or force the reconnection by going into the setup menu with the remote control (Settings, Network settings, IPadress, OK)
Note: I have not yet upgraded the Uniti firmware to the 2.0 version
In my setup I am using static IP addresses that I define on the router for each machine (not dynamic addresses). In my personal experience it seems to work better overall.
Posted on: 04 July 2010 by Paul Hannan
Wired all the way. I tried wireless however kept getting signal interuptions and drop-outs. with wired cat6 its been perfect. For a bit of effort up front its definitely worth it
Posted on: 05 July 2010 by Tom_W
I tried wireless, but gave up because there was too much interference from other wireless networks in the vicinity, which caused lots of connection problems.
I now use Netgear powerline adapters, and it all works well.
Posted on: 05 July 2010 by 0rangutan
The wired/wireless decison has been debated a number of times.
Consistent advice has been to avoid trusting the performance of many £1000's of hifi equipment to the cheap plastic router that came free with your ISP (particularly if BT).
I use an Apple Airport Extreme and never have any wireless downtime.
Ethernet over powerline adapters can work well for connectivity, but, by their nature, add noise to your mains so far from ideal for sound quality.
John
Posted on: 05 July 2010 by rich46
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Originally posted by Moriarty107:
Great - thanks for that!
I'm actually thinking of going for the "Ripnas" NAS drive, which seems to get plenty of good reviews and is Naim tested.
great unit rips tiptop .just clean cd first 2900 rips no failures
