SuperUniti - nStream cannot find

I have typed in the IP adress of SU under select device in n-stream , turned of auto connection and turned on stay connected.

The ND5XS always auto connected.

Hi Brian

Did you ever get to the bottom of this? My UnitiQute has just started doing the same - dropping the network that is. I have tried giving it it's own IP address (not in the DHCP pool) but the problem persists. I says no network and re-connects when i ask it to. Then it's ok until the next day. 

thanks

Hi Hector,I do have the same problem with my superuniti. Each two or three days, it loses the network untill I restart it or reset it although it's connected directly with the router and with a fixed ip.

But I did not get it, that is, how could you switch on/off the SU with your remote? That is impossible.

Another thing, the n-stream is a solid programme. So the defaulter is SU. Well I think so.

What router are you using

I'm using a BT home Hub 3 (the latest one i believe)

You got me thinking and I and had another look at the router - it was set to automatic channel selection, so i have changed it to a specific channel. - lets see it that helps

p.s. also changed it from b/g/n to b/g only

Home hubs are nasty. I recommend you replace it with something decent.

At the end of the day home hubs are free, well ok you are paying for it one way or the other but they really are not very good products and it will be your issue not the su.

If you choose get an adsl 2+ router. The settings for bt are straight forward you will have a user name and i dont think you need a password or use bt.

They wont support you though, hense why i dont use them. I reccomend ukfsn for standard adsl.

Although I agree that the home hub is not the best, I would not describe them as nasty. I have had past problems with both netgear and dlink routers. Even cisco routers sometimes have problems (depending on the make of the dslam in the exchange!)

You don't need a password because it identifies you by your phone number.

Is it possible that the Uniti doesn't monitor the wifi when it's not being used? Therefore a drop out or channel change is not recognised? I have a WII on the network and in the router logs you can see that it re-associates itself every hour.

I just find it amusing that people are happy to pay upwards of 3k for a piece of hifi that relies on the network, then settle for the cheapest possible device to deliver that network.

But hey good luck, its your problem.

I do use a D-link DIR-855 in a wired config but the symptoms are same.

The home hub is rubbish ian, its lucky you are having luck with it. But a proper router will work wonders. Perhaps the threeis better than the two that preceeded it, wouldnt be hard.

I am not being unconstructive, the fact is, these devices need a robust home network. And thats not a homehub. They are rubbish.

Indeed switches help in my experience not that i own a super uniti.

Infact even if the router is turned off everything will keep going for a while, as they have their ips and a way to talk.

Well, after changing the parameters in the HH3 and after nearly 4 days i have not had the probelm re-appear. Consequently it appears that the problem probably was due to the HH auto changing channels to get the best operation due to other nearby wirless networks. Devices like the WII and PCs cope with this by re-checking the connection every now and then.  In my location there are 6+ other wireless networks, some of these come and go (as people turn then on/off) and some of them are relatively strong. To solve he problem you need to analyse and understand the problem, and to dismiss a device on cost is just naive, as is to throw money at the problem. The best solution would of course be a wired one - which i will get round to later in the year. 

As for switches, these work by having a MAC address table (the serial number of the network card) and associating the MAC address with a port. That way when a packet comes in on one port it can forward it out of the correct port. If it doesn't know the desination MAC address, it forwards it out all ports. Switches work at layer 2 (MAC Layer), routers work at layer 3 (IP Layer). you do not need a router if all your devices are on the same IP subnet (as described by the subnet mask e.g. 255.255.255.0).

Actually switches are really only a newer and higher port version of a fast bridge. Originally a bridge would typically only have 2/3 ports and take a whole packet in, and check the contents before forwarding it - this was called store and forward. Faster ones were developed that would 'switch' the packet immediately it had the destination MAC address - these were originally called cut through bridges. With advances in hardware port density increased and much of the switching was done not in software but in asics, also facilities such as VLANs added (basically grouping ports together) and the switch was born!